WHY DO WE NEED FRIENDS?

Thank you Cee, for this. Quite appropriate in this time of "life-decluttering." :)

We need Friends for many reasons,
all throughout the season.
We need Friends to comfort us when we are sad,
and to have fun with us when we are glad.
We need Friends to give us good advice,
We need someone we can count on,
and treat us nice.
We need Friends to remember us
one we have passed sharing memories
that will always last.

Spread the Poem of Friendship. 1. Everyday Life 2. Words of Love 3. Sheng's Simple Thoughts . . . 4. good thoughts, good trades 5. Ours and Our Kids 6. Jengspeaks 7. Jacque 8. Snippets of My Mind 9. Melisse's Domain 10. Seize The Day 11. Living A' La Mode 12. Gossip Gehl 13. Maver's Most Wanted 14. YOU!

I am now sharing this with my plurkmates led by Cez, Che, Haze, Meeya, Mel, Munchkin Mommy, Myk, Steph and Toni.

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IT'S MY TURN

A few weeks ago, blogging buddy, Haze, was nominated for Filipino Blog of the week. And now yours truly has been nominated! Yeyyy...Thank you to the anonymous, gentle soul who nominated me. Dear friends, would you be so kind enough to vote for me here? Please?

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THE FLAME OF FRIENDSHIP

Thank you dear Joey for this!

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A symbol of spirit of unity. The burning icon of love. Undying picture of hope. The hot symbol of oneness. And now, it's your turn to flame yourself! Meet new friends. Discover friendship. Make bonds.Copy this post starting from the PICTURE ABOVE to the end and add your blog on the list below.

Let's start FLAMING!

Tiklaton: We are the witness
Janeth's Vicy's Life Journey
My Precious
Pitstop
Thea is Blogger Happy
Thea is Berry Scrappy Too
Scribbles of My Life
In This Game of Life
Shimumsy's Republic of A
Princess Vien
Our Journey To Life
Life. Love. Family. Work. Travel.
Practical Tips and More
The Working Mom
Joey M.D.
Tsinay
Gossip Gehl

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I am now flaming my most recent visitors--Cez, Che, Em, Hazel, Jammy, Jen and Jen :D, Juliana, N!ce, Meeya, Steph and Toni!

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A HUG FOR HALIGI

I was struck by yesterday's homily...

God made fathers with broad shoulders to carry their children;
With large hands to cup a child's face;
With big feet to lead us or walk with us;
And tears, to show us that they care.

Thank you Lord, for the gift of Fathers...

Happy Fathers Day ulit, Dada!

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There are no words to express how much this man means to me, to us. All we know is that, it is in his corner, that we’ll always find the safest place in the world.

Rules

1) Copy from {Start Copy Here} to {End Copy Here}.
2) Blog Brag about your husband - yes, the father of your child/ren. As I’ve said singles may also join by bragging about their own fathers, or even grandfathers. It doesn’t matter! Of course, Daddy bloggers themselves may also join, but you have to blog about your fathers and not about yourselves, deal? Okay. Good.
3) Add your blog in the list below linking to the post that you just made. Or if you wish, do it as how I’ve done it in my other blog by adding a new page.4) Leave some love here. Yup. Here. Thanks!
5) Let’s not forget Peppermint Creative for the corner border I used for the badge.

Participants

When Silence Speaks; Everything About Deye: Etc Atbp; Pinay Mommy Online; Coffee Cup Princess; Garden of Moments; Aeirin’s Collection; Never Dainty; The Long Journey Of My Life; A Mother Of Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow; Everything That Has Breathe Praise The Lord; Can Of Thoughts; Anything And Everything In Between; No Place Like Home; Pinay WAHM; Only In Silence; Bisdak Footprints; Simply Me, Simple Life; Fun Fierce Fab; Confessions Of A Supermodel Wannabe; Embracing Health For Life; Raptured Dreams; Jona Thinks; Uncomplicated; Points Of View; Beauty Of Life; Hue And Hysteria; Leaf In Deforest; Just Me Eds; Momie’s Space At Momie’s Pace; Juliana’s Site; Purpled Sky; In Love For Life; All About Mye Life; Cookie Jar Of Entertainment; Faery Dancing; The Nambiars; CC’s Online; Precious Moments; Me And Mine; Little Peanut; A FilAm Journey; Walk2Remember; A Message From My Heart; Rhodilee; MrsWorkingGirl; Gossip Gehl

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THE PLEASURE IS MINE

Thank you, dear Em and Che for this....

Now for the next step--I need to pick five other blogs to get this award.

For those of you receiving this Award, here are the rules:

1) Pick 5 other blogs that you believe deserve this award for creativity, design, interesting material, and valuable contribution to the blogging community, in whatever language possible;

2) Each award must indicate the name of the author and must also contain a link to his or her blog;

3) Each award winner has to display the award and put the name and link to the blog that nominated him/her;

4) The "award-winner/s" and "award-giver/s" must also show the the origin of the "Arte y Pico" award--http://arteypico.blogspot.com/

It is indeed my pride and pleasure to be handpicked by Em, given my very short "tenure" in bloggerspace. Since some of my favorities have already been cited, I would thus like to recognize some of my other prized bloghops (aside from my daily doze of chuvaness, the baghag, bryan boy, and litratong pinoy that is :D):

ABIE C's Still a Wedding Blog
CATA's Simply Muah
GELO's Where to Now, UP Boy?
JOEY's The Working Mom
PAZETTE's Turning Points

How about you--any blog faves?

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MILESTONES

I have made a habit out of documenting Haligilet's precious firsts. Aside from his 1st Birthday, special milestones have been whisked off safely into our special memory bank...

First Smile

First Turnover

First Summer

First Yuletide

First Meal

First Pearly WhiteS (Yes, he had 3 at the same time!)

And so, it is but fitting to mark yet another first--this time, a first for ME. My FIRST TAG. Hahaha, ok ba sa intro?

If you still keep your baby’s first 3 days photos, we would love to see them. Label them as 1st, 2nd or 3rd day. After that, please post the most recent one, one photo will do. You can post as much as you want though. I’m sure you will realize and tell yourself "seems like yesterday".

Here they are...

Day 1 photo was taken by Haligi the minute Haligilet got out of his Maver's tummy; the second (taken of course, on Day 2), on my first time to nurse him; the third photo, on his first day at home. Incidentally, he is wearing Dada's own ANCIENT Haligilet onesie on that third photo. The fourth and final one is Haligilet's latest. It is also proof of his significant contribution to his Maver's 2008 Starbucks planner. Hehehe. Thank you Yagie for this tag.

I also received my FIRST AWARDS from Em and Abie. Muchas Gracias!

Do keep them comin' guys. And I do hope, I can keep them goin'. At the moment, I'd like to give to all those who've made my site-o-meter go gaga today. You know who you guys are :)

Calling it a day (just in case Haligi is reading this blog, hehehe!).

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