TO MY FATHER'S DAY

This will be a simple tribute for my papa this fathers day. I was thinking then, what could be the great things to exemplify my father among other daddies out there. Maybe there are no words to make them exceptional, but deep in my heart and my soul, papa is the most exceptional one!

I wish i have all the words be spoken in my lips to tell you papa how much I love you. You've been so great by providing us what we need and what we want. You were able to worked hard to make sure we would have a good life and finished our studies and pursue our dream career. You were not often here in Philippines to spend more time with your family, and I believe it was too much of a sacrifice on your part. Thinking you wanted to stay for longer time whenever you would come home and had a vacation. How much you want to see and witness our maturity, how much you want to protect us from getting hurt.. you know physically and emotionally. We've been through a lot of misunderstandings and arguments as a father and a daughter. Sometimes, you were so hard and harsh to push me to become the person you once dreamed of me to be, and sometimes I felt you don't love me since you were very strict, and most of times you scold at me. But as I age, I realized how deeply you have loved me and my siblings. You chose to be alone for many years in the middle of deep, dark ocean to keep your promise of a good life for your family. You have tried your best to love us, be sweet and expressive of your love for us, at the same time, keeping you're stand as a disciplinarian father. I love you and I will always love you. Nobody can replace you as my father, because you are the only one. God  blesses me of a father like you because he knew from the very beginning, you were the one I would be needing into my life's' milestone.

Happy father's day papa. I missed you so much, and I know you were sad now that you are not here to hug and kiss us. I know you were longing of our love and care. I know you were longing for your family. I promise to take care of you now that you are getting old. And please forgive for the moments I had not been a good daughter to you. I know there will come a time that we will make it up as father and daughter. I am excited to see you again this year. Just a few more months and you will be here already. 

If I have prayers and wish for you this father's day? It's this; I want our almighty God to always look out for you. I want him to fill your heart and mind of peace. I want to also pray to him that you will have more courage and hope. That he will protect you from anything that's hurting you now. I keep on praying that you would soon find the peace and love of God for you. That above all, he's the most important part of your life. I am glad to see you having a good times even once in your dreadful, working life. I am who I am now because of you. And I am thankful for that. I love you so much papa :)

my papa as frustrated photoeditor (something i inherited hehe)

my papa as frustrated driver (haha he would defend himself knowing only the big ship  is he could drive lol)

my papa who loves motorcycling :) i love it too!

my papa as a traveler! oh look! it's the Eiffel tower in Paris homygas!!! (how envious papa)

His four kiddos! A super old picture taken in province. We're all biggie now!

My papa and I :)

"I will always be your little Queenie"

Romans :31-32

“What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all – how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?”

Luke 10: 22

‘All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.’

MY MYLOVES

myloves thank you for the day..it had been a long idle time before we have met again..and I am glad to have you for the weekend! I hope our plans for another meet up will happen soonest! I've missed you so much! we're both have lots of dreams and plans for our lives and yet.. . its a whole lot different from each other. And I'm really very excited for the day to come and see both of us achieve our goals. I will pray for you and please pray for me too ;) i love you and you will always be my forever love <3 nbsp="" p="">

VENEZUELA MEETS PARAGILE

When the right moment comes, nobody can stop it :) And so, when Jp and I decided that this is it!, we want to settle down and we want to make it right even before we live in one roof, we have made a major decision for us. We prayed everything to God and ask for his guidance and did not let anyone else's opinion affect our plans. Now we are ready to tie the knot in a very simple and solemn way we know :). It was not the one we planned at first and yet, we know that the formal grand celebration can be made when our means of living is enough so we don't have to depend on our family and relatives to make it happen. We will be doing a simple celebration with our closest family and a few of our dear spiritual sponsors.

So maybe you would ask, where am I going with this, simple! Jp's mother and sister went to our home and asked for my parents' approval to have their son take my hand. They supported us since the beginning and they were giving us helpful advises but never that they decide for us. I love how our parents' both sides respect our decision and let us choose the path we want to take. I could just feel how much they treasure us and how much they want to be a part of this love saga! 

And as most of you know, we already rented a flat! But we don't yet live in that house unless we make our vows this year. The only reason we got that already was because it's a beautiful, simple tiny corner in which we both love to become our shelter as we begin the committed life together. And of course, one more thing was the rental bill for a month is very salary friendly wahahahaha! The main reason to be precise :D I am really excited to decorate and be my own interior designer for my new and first home. Jp was very supportive and well trusted my taste when it comes to anything about life style courses, so he lets me decide of what to put in our house hehe. And I am so glad because my mother will give us stuffs we can use as a starters at having a home. like a rice cooker, a curtains, a wall frames, some of kitchen and dining stuff and a lot of things she sees and don't use anymore, yet looks pleasant and can be used for a few more years. Jp's parents were also giving a hand to help us have better, comfortable start, so we can focus our adjustment phase to each other emotionally and spiritually rather than focusing our mind to material things we still need to invest on.

I am really grateful that it went well for both our mothers! They talked about a lot of things. Of course the pleasantries for one another was there, the food discussions, of course the things that we (Jp and I) can do and can't do by ourselves, discussions about their health status, age status and many more! But of course the high light of the story was our tying the knot planning and what are the plans to make it. When would it be and how it would be celebrated. We have the date scheduled, but let me just keep it to myself hihi, and the venue in which we thought was very homey lol. Instead of holy!!!! That would have been too religious you wouldn't believe me at all! 

The paragile met my sister and brother as well. I am looking forward for a big extended family bonding of the venezuela and paragile in the coming weeks! My sister of course was the cook! We prepared Grilled Bangus and Tilapia, kare- kare, pancit, grilled liempo and vegetable salad with tuna cream dressing oh wooooow! Really all are amazingly delicious! It's a hit! For desserts werefruit salad and special biko :) oh sweets!

Over all, I love how my sunday unfolded. I am so blessed I can't thank God enough.

Our soon crib of togetherness. How lovely does it sound!

“Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank Him for all He has done.” -Phil 4:6