I don't like not blogging in November. Which explains why I'm here now, thinking about November on the first day of December, waxing poetic about my most favorite month that has just gone by. I don't know when November started to become a favorite. It must have been in 2008 ...
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Busy October, sweet November, and 3 beautiful years
A wave of long-overdue blog posts are coming out of my drafts within the next two weeks. But before that happens, I thought I'd say something about the (almost) 2-month gap in my posts. This blog has always been like a timeline of sorts for ...
Sweet Novembers
And so the past month ended with us attending a beautiful garden wedding, and I knew we couldn't have said goodbye to November any better. My husband and I doubled as dessert buffet suppliers and invited guests to a friend's wedding, and we have loved the excuse to take out ...
Week 40: Sweet November
It's been one month since we took Dawn and Rain home, 5 weeks since I delivered them via emergency c-section, 40 months since they were conceived. This week would have been the week they're due had they been normal, full-term babies. But maybe that's just it.. these babies are ...
Day 29: Hey, it’s November 13!
29/30: Self-portrait. Yay, it's a photograph of us taking a photograph of us beside a cake-topper that looks like us. (: The days feel like getting longer. David has started going to school and we're once again adjusting to some schedule changes. For one, he has classes on ...
Counting the Days, and Making the Days Count
It's the first day of November and day 231 of this lockdown. Most of you probably stopped counting the days but, as someone who can count on one hand all the times she left the house in the past 8 months, I might as well just keep counting. And so it has been 231 days ...
The Best of Chasing Dreams: A Look Back at the Past 10 Years Blogging
It's hard to believe I've been blogging for a decade now here at Chasing Dreams; blogging for two decades if we count those early years hopping around various blogging platforms before settling down on this one. Back then I didn't have any concrete plan for this website, except ...
What’s Better than a Good Cup of Coffee?
Talk to me about coffee and dreams, you bet, I am so there. Launched just this November, The Dream Coffee is a single origin coffee locally sourced from the farmers of TBoli, South Cotabato. "Wake up to the dream in your cup," they like to say. The ultimate dream? To produce ...
Currently 05: Work, 6 Years, and Blogging Like the Olden Days
Sometimes I wonder when I would get out of this perpetual state of busy. I am working on it, and I am fully aware how ironic it is that I've been working so hard so that I won't have to be working so hard, you know what I'm saying? But that's just the way it is around here ...
How to Balance Your Family, Career, and Creative Passions
Being a mother is a balancing act. You walk a tight rope—shaping lives of little humans while doing house chores, cooking meals, managing the family budget, keeping tabs of everyone’s schedule, doing the laundry. Now add working from home and being a creative into the mix and ...