Come join us in our nesting place.

 Thanks Annie!

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As part of their marketing strategy, some companies include freebies to their product. For instance, milk companies. But I am the last one to complain with this strategy. Why would I? I’m such a sucker for freebies.

But really, the best things in life are given for free, so they say. And I so believe. Air. Water. Love.

Now, speaking of love, the Love Is contest poll is already up over at WriteFromKaren. I’ve joined this contest and you can see my entry photo down below. Can you spare Mama Meji a little love, a little time - all for free? Please vote for me by clicking here. Please, pretty please.

Love is a strong yet peaceful feeling; overpowering yet calming. Love knows no depth. Nor height. Nor end. Nor period. Everything is always a beginning.

Taken during our island getaway to celebrate our 1st wedding anniversary.  This was 9 months or so before I learned the art of breastfeeding and changing poopy diapers (among other things). I really didn’t think I should post this again (as I have already posted this in my other blog, incidentally with the same title) but while I was browsing through my files and this was on the screen, my sister asked my son if who were in this picture. It’s his first time to see it but he quickly replied “Mama and Papa.” So there goes my “go” signal. And with that, I say love is knowing it’s true even when one doesn’t REALLY know.

I know I fall short in my definition but the Bible says it all.

1 Corinthians 13:4-13

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails…

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Often called in the country as Kamias (Averrhoa bilimbi). These sour fruits have medicinal value to some.

But to my family, these kamias are used as food flavoring, especially to add zing in soups we referred as sinigang. Despite the availability of instant mixes these days, my mother loves to prepare meals the old-fashioned way. And I just love to eat meals prepared her way.

Traditional sinigang may also be flavored using young tamarind fruit (unripened pods), but since we have kamias tree at home, we use these instead. For more of kamias, read here or here.