Now I'm asking hubby... LOL!!! I can't think of any particular place we like to go to..

He answered, SM. Well yeah, SM is one of our favorite places when we were still living in the Philippines and every time we go back. Most specially when the weather's too hot. We stay there almost the whole day, to window shop, do the grocery, watch movies and dine in. It's basically I think is the common fave spot for every Filipino. Why? Because as the slogan says, "We've got it all for you!" =)

Taken at SM Mall of Asia (April 2007)

Where else? Oh, golly!!! NON really!!! We love our home so much that when we're at home, we barely go out. We just love bonding inside and going out is something that all of us feel so lazy about. It seems like it's really a big effort to get dressed-up - simply put - WE'RE ALL HOME BUDDIES TO THE BONES!!! =)

Oh yes! I'm too late... Good thing CC's Mr. MckLinky is till open... I really can't let a week pass without joining Ate Liz's Couples Corner.

Dear Ate Liz,

I think this is the best time for me to let you know how thankful I am that our paths crossed even just here in blogosphere, but hopefully we can also meet in person, soon. I want you to know that all your comments and opinions are the most precious because I know they all come from the heart. You're so beautiful inside and out. You've got sparkling personality that I at once felt comfortable conversing and confiding with.

Thanks Ate Liz for all the time and effort you've given me. I hope someday, somehow, I can give back the favor.

Enjoy your special day and I wish and pray that may all your dreams be granted as to how you imagine it or even better. God Bless you and your super lovely and sweet family.

I love you ate Liz!!! And as always... YOU ROCK!!!

Happy Birthday!!!

Lots of love,

                                                                                                                      AC

For couples, it's common to have sweet and unique gestures. Sometime's it's a language only them can understand. Showing sweet gestures of the other half is a sense of comfort to the other. It can be visible to the public, but to most, these sweet gestures are best when done in private.

Personally, I like both public and private sweet gestures. But I believe, sweet gestures in private are the most intimate and meaningful. I've known some who's been very sweet, but it's only a way of "show-off" and the partners tend to change colours when others are not around, if you know what I mean. 

Well, in our case, we show sweet gestures both in public and private. When we're in public, we know that people like seeing us that way. Deep inside of me, I feel proud not because other people are commenting on it, but because I know for myself that even though we've been married for almost 5 years already, we are still able to keep the love in our relationship burning. If there's an audience who we want to witness those sweet gestures of ours, it would be our kid/s. They'll surely be the proudest of us. 

But those public sweet gestures are only a little of what we can show when it's only the two of us or when we're at home. 

To give you an idea of the sweet gestures that we exchange to each other, read on...

• When we're walking, most of the time, we do HHWW (Holding Hands While Walking).
• When we're sitting in a train, car, sofa, airplane, etc., we do HHWS (Holding Hands While Sitting)
• When hubby's having breakfast (I don't, but I join him on the table), he'll request for a hug. I'll go and hug him from behind.
• When I wash the dishes, he'll hug and kiss me. (Yeah... It's disturbing! But I love it! LOL)
• We will just hug tight when we are both standing at the kitchen.
• When I ask for a kiss, he will grant it. Then I ask again and bring my tongue out so it touches his lips (he hates it! LOL). When I ask for another, I will then have to use force to get it... =)
• I rarely give him massage, it's not sweet for me... LOL! It's tiring!!!
• He carries all the heavy bags when we do the grocery. (That's sweet, right?)
• I just say I love you with a kiss and he does the same, that happens any time. 
• He brings my drink inside the room when I don't feel like standing up. (Yeah... Lazy me!!!)

And there's a lot lot more!!! Reading back, I just realised, hubby's sweeter than me, huh? =)

Come and join us again for this week's Couple's Corner.

Yeah!!! It's his last year on the 20s roll and he isn't liking it! wahahaha!!!

Of course, the little girl is Dad's helper in candle blowing...

Friends came over to celebrate with us and it was much fun... as always...

(The boys are happy to have bought San Miguel Beer... They missed it! LOL)

Here's our menu... I managed to cook everything... except the cake! =)

Once again, Happy Happy Birthday My One and Only LOVE...

 I love you soooooo much, Dad!!! 

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This week's theme in Couple's Corner is about "Sacrifices for Loved Ones". I'll try my very best not to get too emotional about his post. =) *hope so*

Oh well, I believe sacrifices are my best friends since birth. LOL... I think I have sacrificed sooooooo much!!! as in SOOOOO MUCH!!! for my family (I'm talking about my being a daughter). I have to sacrifice not having a whole and happy family for the sake of my parents. I don't think they ever tried so hard to keep our family whole and happy. They just wanted to enjoy their lives (oh, that I know is true and they can't contest!). Being a mom and wife now, I know for myself that this responsibility has been given to me by God and I can't just let any circumstance break it up. I just hope my parents handled their responsibilities better then, but of course, everything happened for a good reason. But looking back, I just can't help but feel the pain on everything I've been through (dark childhood indeed) because I don't have my biological mom to guide me, but I was blessed by having all the love of my father, lola, aunts and uncles. 

Let's jump to my family now. I had my family even before I earn my degree, so I guess I'm lucky that I don't have a career to sacrifice. The only thing I have now is my degree which others would think is now going to waste, but is actually not. God has been so good that he opened new opportunities for me where I can use it and earn while still being a full-time mom and wife. 

Looking back and comparing all my sacrifices then and now, I believe what it did was to mold me and get me ready to who I should be now. I won't be where I am and I won't have what I have now if not for everything that had happened to me. All I can say now is "THANK YOU, LORD" because He blessed me with a very wonderful family that I can call "My Own". I may not have it before, but I already have it now. Though it's painful to think of the past, it's always much joy to think of the present and the future and I guess, that's how we learn.

I think my post is outside the couple's sacrifices part, but we haven't sacrificed so much for the sake of both of us aside from hubby being away from us for about 6 months so I can finish my studies and he can have a better career here. But since we were able to live together again after that, I guess it erases the fact that for once in our lives we actually lived a million miles away.

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