What's Up with Apples & Dumplings....

Wow, it's been more than a month since my last blog entry! I took a mini break from all the stress that has been piling up from my work-at-home job. I took a break from that job and I'm lucky my boss is very understanding. It's also getting busier at Paper Chic as well, it's always this time of the year when everything is all about the holidays. It's less than 40 days away from Christmas! You can feel at the malls with all the decors and TRAFFIC at the parking as well... so I'm trying to finish all my shopping online and before November ends so I can focus on Paper Chic Studio.

I have so many ideas for products and I never really got to execute them or really develop my ideas into something tangible. I always have reasons and excuses for delaying them: kids, no yaya, house chores, my job... then I ended up seeing regretting not doing it before and now others are doing it as well. Nauna na sana ako diba? Kulang pa ako sa push! Now, I have a few products in line and I really have to push myself to finish it before this week so I can put it out on my shelves for Christmas. I have so much hope for Paper Chic every year and I really hope and wish 2018 will be the year I can get to revive the brand.

As for the future of this blog... hmm... I have a lot of entries lined up and I haven't written all about them yet. Our trip to Cebu, Hong Kong.. brands Biolane and Bobble Art... I hope I get to find the time to sit down and write. The no helper situation isn't really helping! While this blog is an on-and-off hiatus, I made a new IG account just for my current skincare obsession... I made a promise a few years ago to take care of my skin because I'm not getting younger and so I guess the obsession went full force this year after I fell in love with Korean skincare and now skincare in shapes and forms!

Follow me at @glowbycai

That's it for now! It's the kids' exam week as well so I will be really busy for the next few weeks! For now, hope to see you at my new IG!

Backlog

Just got our internet back. I have lots of backlog, still on Y's Birthday Series! I still haven't got the pictures from our photographers. I hope I get them soon so I can post more about Y's birthday! :) I'm making a page for all my birthday preps.. I hope I find the time to do that this weekend.


Baby G is here with us again, that means busy days! I have my peer lactation counselor interview tomorrow. Excited for that! I've been busy making business and market plans for this business prospect. It's like writing for a business subject again like in college except this one is REAL! Haha! It's nice doing something not I.T. related!


Please check back again in a few days for more of Y's birthday series!

Quick Update...

I got 2 posts on queue but one entry won't save.. Sucks!


Met with our new party planner, and it's looking good!


My yaya slipped in our laundry area. I don't know if it's serious so I told her to get an x-ray tomorrow. She has to rest, while me and hubby will have a family time with Y.


Not so much to be blogged about. But please do visit the blog carnival for this month! Check my post below!

Updates.

This week has been a busy week at work, busiest and most productive I think from the one year two months that I've been working there. It was tiring. I'm not complaining because it is exactly what I've been waiting for. And I'm learning. I think that's the most important. Next week will also be busy!


At home, I've got more responsibility now. I woke up early today to go to palengke. I don't do this before while I was living with my parents. I go to the grocery to buy my meats and vegetables while we were still living in a condo near a mall, before we move to the place where we are currently staying. Everything is at my expense. And it was hard for me to budget because we moved thrice in a year span! The expenses were different. I hope by next month or two. I'll be able to do our budget at home.


There's still a lot of things we need to buy for the house. Small things for the kitchen, like containers for the utensils, organizing racks for the drawers. Need to go to SM soon! I have to call Sharp's service center to have our TV wall mounted. Our phone line is pending approval. And it will take a week before installation.


My helper will go on a day off later tonight and will be back on Monday. That means I have to cook tonight's dinner and tomorrow's food. I'm not ready with recipes. Yeah I'm like that. I need to follow a recipe.


My younger sister is due to give birth anytime soon. We're all very excited! Y's going to have a cousin, I'm going to be an aunt, and it's a boy! So we get to have a girl and boy! I hope Y and G will be close when they grow up.


Y's sleeping pattern has changed. She now wakes up at around five to five thirty in the morning! She has become my alarm clock! I usually wake up past six o'clock. Five is too early! Oh well. No worries I like waking up beside her, and smiles when she sees me.


That's all for now. Y will wake up soon from her nap!