2007 was something big; 2008 is bigger

I haven't been posting anything up here since September last year. I didn't notice that until I checked up on this today. I never failed updating another blog actually, and that gave me the impression that I am updating this one at the same time all along.

Whoa! There's a lot of catching up to do! Honestly, all I can remember is that I've been very busy during the last quarter. Save for one homecoming I had with my Dad in Iloilo last November.

Cake looks fake but it sure is real!

Since I started blogging in 2005, I usually say something about what happened to me in a nutshell at the end of every year and what I look forward to in the New Year. It's the 7th day of the brand new year and usually by this time, as in the previous new years, I've already got loads of recapping stories to tell. Yet, of all the remarkable events, I can only think of my wedding day that happened later in the year. Yep, I'M MARRIED! I'm Mrs. Christine Manglal-lan Abrigo now. It keeps on replaying in my mind ;-) Gano'n pala 'yon (that's how it is). I've been keeping quiet about it for quite sometime. I'm not really a spotlight fan; I never wanted to be the center of attention. But whether I get the attention or not, I couldn't care less now. I'M SO HAPPY!

2007 was a challenging year yet again, a trying time for my family. I guess it was even tougher than 2006. And again, I am grateful to God that we were able to overcome as a family. Where there are challenges, there is also an overflow of blessings. I look at my nephew now and realized how much he's grown (he can chase me with his tubby feet!) last year, when in 2006, I was a struggling “Tita-Yaya”. It's so 2 years ago now...I looked at the stove this morning (and oh, how I panicked cooking eggs and hotdogs for breakfast, I used up two frying pans!), gave Vincent a guilty I-messed-up-this-early-Good Morning! smile, and realized that he's my husband now. Big challenges, big changes, all the more that I am grateful realizing how blessed I am with so much.

There is definitely a lot to look forward to this new year.