Life’s Lessons

When was the last time we dined out during Valentine’s Day? I can’t really remember. Based on experience, restaurants, even fast food chains are packed with people during this day so we don’t usually go out and dine. Besides, we’re busy with work (errr…only the husband) so we have another excuse not to go out.

Heart’s Day for us seems like an ordinary day. No love letters, no romantic dinner, no gifts, no flowers from the husband. That used to be an issue years ago but I learned to live with it. So I don’t expect too much during this day because such gestures are not really important. That’s one of the Life’s Lessons that I learned after marrying my husband. Hubby loves to surprise me anytime he wants to – but not during special occasions so I don’t need to sulk in the corner and get mad at him for not planning for special occasions.

But this year’s celebration is a lot different. I have planned what to cook for dinner a day before. Hubby got a bottle of Welch’s Sparkling White Wine during our trip to the grocery prior to Heart’s Day. I thought he just bought me white wine that I could use in cooking because I don’t like the taste of our available white wine here at home. But when the table was set, he brought out the bottle of white wine – sosyal ang dinner namin!

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Ace turned 34 on January 17. We have no definite plan what to do that day because it’s a work day and they have a weekly meeting first hour in the morning CST so we need to be home before 8PM should we decide to go out. We’re planning to dine out on weekend instead. But after lunch, we have decided to have early dinner instead. MIL is cooking something – to have dinner here at home since we can’t just go out – but to save Mama from the inconvenience of going here at home and me on straightening up the house and the after dinner concerns, we decided to have an early dinner instead – some place else but not here at home. 

We haven’t decided where to eat when we arrived in Abreeza Mall. First option is Ranchero’s. But Ace celebrated his birthday in Ranchero’s when he turned 33 so we opted to try something we haven’t tried before and we ended in the place of HUGE chairs and menu – Grab A Crab. Look at the photos below! The high back chairs are really huge with a super large menu!

After a few moments of waiting, the troop arrived – straight from Digos City. Then MIL got to the place not long after.

While waiting for the food, I asked the restaurant personnel to take a photo of us and she was very much willing to oblige.

We had Chicken Tinola, Mixed Vegetables, Garlic Fried Chicken, Shanghai Szechuan Crab, and Garlic Noodles (as the restaurant staff suggested for long life. ). Yummy! Two thumbs up to their mixed vegetables and Shanghai Szechuan Crab

Before we finished our dinner, the restaurant staffs sang a birthday song and gave their sweet treat to the birthday guy – his favorite Buko Pandan! Ace shared his Buko Pandan to us and we liked it! They used macapuno instead of the usual buko. Yummy!!!!

So we had to rush home because of the meeting but lest not forget the traditional picture taking with the resto’s name in the background.

It was one simple dinner with the family. Good food. Good company. Good times! We arrived home before the call time for the meeting and we had a few minutes to spare for some photo.

Happy birthday to my knight in shining armor!

It’s 2012 and I wanted to make a year-in-review of how our life went last year. It will take time compiling all the photos but I am positive I can make it. When? Maybe next year!LOL.

Our 2011 has been great despite all the challenges we’ve gone through. It was a financially challenging year and we learned a lot from it. We were able to travel more and got to see places that we are dreaming of for years. We also had the chance to travel as a family (with my siblings and their husbands + the kids). 2011 was great as we get to meet new people, and we were able connect with old friends that we haven’t seen for a long time.

Work-wise, it’s good for me and Ace though Ace quit his regular day job on the first quarter of the year. We’ve been praying for him to find an online job and after months of praying and waiting, he got a word that he qualified for the position he applied for in the same company I am working with. He will start to work anytime this or next week. So that was the great BANG as we ended 2011. Life’s really good! There are lots of job postings in the net for Web Development Jobs, Healthcare Support Jobs, Hospitality Jobs, Construction Jobs, and others but Ace’ qualifications doesn’t fit in any of those. Besides, we are considering for a work-at-home job so that we will both work at the comfort of our home.

So many things to be thankful for in 2011 and I can’t list them all in one sitting. I need to take time so I must make a separate post for that (soon!).