Thursday, May 28

Our Family's First Homestead

Posted by Grace , wife to Rolly; mother to Amir & Ace



"After getting married, we decided to buy this set of dining table as our first "conjugal" pieces of furniture (July 2006). Since younger days I always dreamed of a family whose happily dine together even it just a plain salt and rice at the middle of the table. Sad to say, I raised in the family we're we eat in different parts of the house at no particular time, unlike my husband's family, eating together is an important family affair. During the times we're we are not married yet- Rol, insisted to eat w/ me in one plate, even if were are in a party or formal gathering. Until now, nothings changed even we have already our own separate chairs in this dining table, this eating practice is a treasured moments for us of our younger years."

"A House is a Home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul...."


But for us, our humble home is love I didn't have
to chase because the love is in every place.
Home is where l can see my love one's faces,
Home is where l can see my dogs and trashes and just embrace,
Home is where l can say I love you & take care.
Home is where you know love in in the air.
Home is where we can sit and cry out loud.
Home is where l will never tell you a lie.
Home, is where l feel blessed to look my love ones in the eye.
Home, is where we can communicate when I'm with you and it feels great.
Home, is where are children are going to be.
Home is were you will say you will never miss me.
But I missed our first home were we build our dreams.
Time goes bye setting priorities may begin,
I pray that one day we'll get back soon.
Promise you will wait and hoping for you to embrace us in full.




Memorable places inside the house
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Our Bedroom
- Amir & his Tita Elen while babysitting


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Our Bedroom
- Tita Elen on her break, watching tv


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Our Kitchen
- Amir & his Tita Elen while babysitting

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Our Living Room
- Looks messy with the hanging duyans

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Our Living Room
- During a chat with our first maid

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Baby Dressing Area
- Amir while being diaper changed



" A day after our wedding, we're totally fortunate to find our first residence in Caloocan.
Luckily enough, the house was very near (walking takes 5 minutes) to the school
where I worked as a teacher. "


- HOME -

Home is where all striving cease,
Home is the place your heart resides
Home is the womb that holds the soul
Home is the place one is whole
Home is the glow you hold in your eye
Home is the emotion that makes you cry
Home is safe and a place of peace
Home is where all striving cease
Home is protective against the others
Home is full of sisters and brothers
Home is where you find your rest
Home is where you feel your best
Home is a memory that follows your being
Home is a dream for those agreeing
Home is the place where reserves fall
Home is the place you yearn to call
Home is where the family meets
Home is a place of restful retreats
Home is the place you know you’ll be heard
Home is the pace where nothing blurs
Home is all these wonderful things
Home is the place you develop wings
Home is the place that you’ll find one day
Home is the place where your heart will stay

"Sadly, we said goodbye three months after I gave birth to my twins to our first home
on summer of 2007. We would surely miss this house."


MARIE ANN' GARDEN in Malabon

Posted by Grace , wife to Rolly; mother to Amir & Ace

A fitting venue for a filipiniana fairytale wedding

...Boredom is the source of inventiveness. As people got tired of the usual hotel wedding receptions that prove to be very costly, try to search for friendlier alternatives. Here is the place brought about the emergence of garden and theme wedding and dawning of the new garden-venue rentals. not only it is more economical but it allows the bride to live out a one-in-lifetime fancy of flora and fauna this is
the perfect place for the perfect moment...



Timeless romance of a filipiniana wedding is still closest to the hearts of many brides in our country, and here I discovered Marie Ann's Garden, a fitting venue for filipiniana fairytale wedding to be possible...

Entrance Venue



Marie Ann's Gardens landscape is dominated by a turn of the century house with 21th century convenience. This building houses an office, utility area, and bridal suite which also has period of interiors similar to Intramuros' Casa Manila. A stone staircase complete with a fog and bubble machine provides the bride a mystical moment, as she walk down to the garden reception.

The famous stone-staircase


Steps for love...


View from window


.........We believe that beautiful weddings need not to bee costly, It is indeed the value for money alternative..... Here there's no need for a hotel reservation for an extravagant photo-shoot for wedding preparation, its all here.


...It also offer an in-house photographer, but if because of a tight budget i might also try there horse-drawn carriage similar to that used by e Princess Diana, it give a feeling of being a local royalty for short meaningful time.

.............Marie Ann's Garden develop a tradition of asking willing brides to pose in a nude or semi-nude in a tasteful wedding related pictorials before they put on their traje de boda. It is a celebration of the Filipino woman, which intends to capture the last moments of maidenhood. I'm a little bit nervous at the same time excited to try this new adventure .

What seems to me at first prove to see my self is a humor and logic behind of it. After eventual motherhood, my alluring figures may be but a memory at all or maybe when infidelity occurs on the part of my husband, I might show these photos to remind him how pure and how beautiful I was when I married him.


THE EVENT...





















Surprisingly the venue rental is cheap at around P12-17 ,000 (year 2006)
which includes the assistance of a very nice wedding coordinator up to the very end of the event.

Dinner time at the gazebo..............


...High standard accredited caterers offer packages for as low as P250 pesos per head.












GUEST WHILE WAITING...


Address: 387 Gen. Luna St. Malabon