OSJ: Nap

* Happiness is a restful nap.

OSJ: Trinoma

* Happiness is the few minutes I schlepped around Trinoma. On my own. On a Sunday. Haha. I miss Trinoma Tuesdays.

OSJ: Slow Clap for Chocolate

* Happiness is seeing Pio's slow clap after bites of Crisp on the 28th's triple chocolate mousse. Too bad we didn't catch it on video. Or maybe it's good we didn't catch it on video. Hehe.

OSJ: Ramen

* Happiness is a solo lunch-out with a bowl of Ramen Nagi ramen. Yum.

OSJ: H&M

* Happiness is a quick trip to H&M even if I had to shop for Pio and not for me. Bonus: I still came home earlier than usual.

One-Sentence Journal

I really really really want to blog but I can't, i.e., no time, too tired, crappy Internet connection. In the meantime, I will try doing the One-Sentence Journal here. I'll try to sum up what made me happy in one sentence, or two, or three.

Let's start with:

* Happiness (and fatness) is a tub of Potato Corner cheese fries.

* Happiness is coming home to a still-awake Pio and playing with him before bedtime.

Pio turns 1!

I keep echoing Gretchen Rubin's line “The days are long, but the years are short.” Felt it especially when baby turned 1 last December. ONE YEAR! In hindsight, the first three months felt like the longest and the slowest and it just sped up from there.

We celebrated with a party at the clubhouse. The theme was outer space care of the daddy. Planning a party in December is harder than usual because the prices jack up and the demand is higher than the supply. Of course, there is the Christmas rush to contend with. Hence, Mommy OC started planning – and booking suppliers – as early as August. My sister and I bought the contents of the loot bags in Divisoria in October to evade the crowds. But even with the early preps, there were still a few snafus – my order with Nestle Ice Cream was doubled hence there was a LOT of ice cream; the fishballs arrived late; the candy buffet did not come with a choco fountain so were stuck with a ton of marshmallows; the print on the loot bags had a typo (which I discovered just recently haha). Di bale his next big party will be when he turns 7 so I guess I can “rest” from party stress until then.