Welcome, 2024!!

 Welcome, 2024!! 

It's been a while since the last time I actually posted anything here on the blog. Would you believe I only had one post last year! Lol! Just so you know, I started vlogging last year. It was fun definitely but iba pa rin talaga ang old school blogging like this. Hindi pa rin kasi ganon ka kapal ang mukha ko to vlog in front of people, haha! 

Anyway, I'd like to share here some of the highlights of our 2023. I didn't even feel like we had a lot of things happen but looking back, I realized that we received a lot of blessings too! 

Here are some of the highlights of our life in 2023 from a monthly perspective. 

January 2023

I attended my cousin/sister from another mother. She actually got married a year before. Because of COVID-19 cases rising, she has to do plan B of having a civil wedding even though ready na talaga ang lahat for their church wedding. Same-same, naiyak na naman ako sa walking down the aisle na yan, haha! I am so happy for her!! 

February 2023

Daryl and I's passports expired in 2022. I was contemplating if we had to renew last year kasi hindi rin naman biro ang expense to get a passport pero syempre I wanted us to go out of the country din so I have decided to renew both our passports. Later on, I got the kids' passports, too. I was surprised na ang bilis lang when I took the courier service for the kids versus when I picked it up (for me and Daryl's passports). 

Later that month, I decided to start our own YouTube channel. I realized na masaya din yung meron kang video remembrance of all the fun things that we do as a family versus mga pictures lang. :) 

March 2023

We discovered that there's a Kidzoona in SM Sucat. It was Vince's first time going to the playground like this so it was a very exciting time for him. He loves slides so much kaya sulit na sulit ang bayad namin. Lol!

April 2023

For Daddy's birthday, we stayed at Hotel 101 for a night. I did a review of the hotel on our YouTube channel here. 

May 2023 

We moved into our own home!!! It was such a huge milestone for our family. We started buying this house in 2020, during the pandemic. It was on a preselling status at the time and it took 3 years for us to finally move in. We got the keys in October 2022 but it was too late for us to move in because Dwyane's already enrolled in a school in Las Pinas so we opted to finish the school year before moving in. 

June 2023

For Vince's birthday, we went to Wetpark Adventure Lagoon in Venice Grand Canal Mall in Taguig. I vlogged about our experience here, including some tips and total expenses. 

July 2023 

Daryl and I celebrated our jowa-anniversary with a couple massages in Banahaw Heals Spa and capped it off with a dinner at Ippon Yari. We tried their ramen and for us, it's a so-so, lol! 

August 2023

We enrolled Kuya Dwyane in a school 5 km away from our house. Our house is more or less 1km away from the highway so we bought an electric bike as our service. 

September 2023

Daryl and I went to our high school alma mater for an alumni basketball game. It was so much fun watching and seeing some familiar faces and reminiscing about my high school life, lol! Nakakakilig pa kasi it's actually the first time and I went there with Daryl and honestly, we never saw each other when we were in school kahit pa sobrang lapit lang namin sa isa't isa. Never kaming nagkakilala, haha! 

October 2023

For Kuya Dwyane's birthday, we opted to arrange loot bags for all of his classmates. Happy naman sya giving it away to his classmates. 

November 2023

We went to Taiwan!!! I didn't expect that I would enjoy Taiwan so much and it instantly became my favorite country to go so far. As if kala mo ang dami ko ng napuntahan, haha! Mas favorite ko sya kesa sa Hong Kong. I vlogged about our trip on our Youtube channel. You can watch the full playlist here  and let me know what you think. :)

December 2023

It's our first New Year's Eve in our new home. I prepared food just enough for us compared to previous years. Maybe because I am getting older so I started to appreciate that we have enough food to last us overnight or even the next day versus having lots of food in the ref na kailangan mong pilitin ubusin. It was less stressful preparing, less stressful in thinking sino ang kakain or saan dadalhin ang food. So I guess this will now be our new norm. 

Overall, we had a great year! Kung hindi dahil sa mga review na ito, maiisip kong hindi naging maganda ang 2023 namin, pero hindi pala. Ang ganda, ang kulay at ang saya. Above all, we are all healthy, thriving and complete. Here's to hoping I will be blogging and vlogging more this 2024. :) 

Have a blessed New Year everyone!!