inigo joined the kiddo-prenuer bazaar

inigo had been bugging me for the longest time that we hold a garage sale in our... uhm, garage. :) and for the longest time i've been planning to organize one together with my friends but for many reasons it didn't materialize. that's why when i saw the facebook ad of the organizer of kiddo-prenuer bazaar calling for participants i immediately inquired for a slot. luckily i was able to get one. inigo was so excited when he found out about this and told others that he will have a garage sale. lol

this bazaar is a first of its kind in the country as it's participants should be kids and the target market are also kids. inigo was one of the youngest participants at age five. but he was so excited and prepared for this event. prior to the bazaar day, he made his own flyer and paraphernalia which i directed him to do. he also helped me prepare the products he's going to sell, which are some of his and theo's pre-loved things and brand new and second-hand books.

he was also a good salesman during the actual activity. he was so eager to make a sale that he approached his customers with a plastic bag in his hands and asked them to already put whatever they're looking at in it. hehe.

we ended the day happy (and tired for me) as we're able to exceed our sales target. inigo had a good start as an enterprenuer that's why we're joining again this march 2012 - yihee!

by the way, the bazaar happened last 5 december 2011 in rockwell, makati.

our hopes for 2012

...is that we can transfer to a new house, and this is what we're going to do tomorrow :)

...travel to more places in the philippines, preferably in batanes and bicol, boracay trip is already booked

...have jude's old trooper replaced *fingers-crossed*

...save more for the kids' college education

...spend more time at home and catch up with our reading

...exercise more often and commit to our health and fitness regime

...for mommy to have a business (though im wondering now if i can still manage this as am already helper-less and i don't intend to get a replacement soon, and i also plan to formally homeschool inigo by june)

...and 'give back' more than what we used to in terms of resources and time.

...and probably to have another bundle of joy? let's see. :)

2011: another year full of blessings

another year has passed and i have to do another review of the year went by, which is 2011.

it was a good year for us, a very good one in fact. if i can ask God if He can pattern the following years to 2011, i would. there were challenges and problems of course but nothing major nor serious as what 2010 had given us. the whole family (except for inigo during the last quarter of the year as he was confined because of pneumonia) was healthy. we were also good financially. we traveled a lot. and best of all jude and i fortified our marriage by attending a marriage encounter seminar. we were also happy parents as both inigo and theo were growing up well.

we had three major trips and traveled to three countries and one local destination last year. one of these trips was unplanned but God probably really wanted us to be complete when inigo celebrates his fifth birthday so he gave jude a surprise bonus which covers our expenses. this was in malaysia where jude went for a business trip last july and we--moi, inigo, and theo--followed. since singapore was only a hundred or more kilometers away we decided to see for the first time this country.



prior to malaysia and singapore, we've also flown to hongkong last february.

lastly, we went to the island of camiguin for our sixth wedding anniversary last october. it was a grand vacation (we did nothing but sleep and swim in the island!) except for the 'grand' travel we did going there and back to manila--oh boy, it was tedious!

it's also in 2011 when we started some family activities like kite-flying and fishing. jude was complaining that we're spending too much time in the malls every weekend so we thought of activities which we can all do together but the kids, especially inigo, will also enjoy.

we also did few day trips to nasugbu batangas...

we're also happy and grateful that the kids accomplished many things and reached important milestones in 2011. inigo was able to overcome his fears and learned to ditch the diaper when doing #2. he also learned to swim and be more aggresive in playing soccer. while theo was able to catch up with his milestones and now amazes us with his skills and expanded vocabulary.

but what we're so happy about is we're able to give more time for our faith and serve God in 2011. it was truly a blessing for us since we felt that our marriage has another purpose aside from raising our kids, and we hope that this will continue until we grow old. amen.