Prompt #27: iCelebrate
Celebrations are some of the most joyful times of our lives. Why do you celebrate? What does that word mean to you? What do you do to celebrate YOU?

Journaling:  We celebrate special occasions like birthdays, anniversaries, graduations and other events.  We celebrate birthdays to remember the day we were born and to be thankful to God that we have been given another year!  It’s not always possible to have a big party.  But even a small party with family, I now realize, can be just as meaningful.  The celebration could be as simple as making dinner or ordering it out and blowing a birthday cake.   Having said that, kids do often expect something bigger.  For example, my daughter wants to invite her friends.  But that’s okay too!  My son, however, is still a baby and has no friends to invite yet!   As far as our Anniversary, sometimes we have a larger celebration, and sometimes we don’t. This year it’s going to be our 10^th year anniversary so I imagine we will be making a larger celebration!

Prompt #28: Traditions
Celebrations can be one-time only events, but often they are annual, semi-annual, monthly, or weekly traditions. Share some of your favorite traditions from when you were a child, or traditions you’ve carried over into your family.

Journaling: One tradition that I have tried to start with my family is to celebrate Christmas Eve.  But it hasn’t been that successful yet.  It’s hard to maintain because of conflicts with extended families.  I suppose it might not be a tradition anymore because we just do it whenever we have available date and time.

Another tradition I’m trying to start in our family is to treat my kids to a special day to celebrate the end of the school year.   This year we went to Canada’s Wonderland.  My daughter loved it and had a lot of fun.  Last year we went to Marineland.  My daughter enjoyed that time so much that she still talks about it.  She especially enjoyed the dolphins!

My son he is still too young to appreciate trips like that as he’s still at the stage of exploring his immediate world around him.  However the day we went to Marineland – when we visited with the dolphins – was when he did his first clap!  I’m really glad we have started these traditions.

Prompt #29: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Often we focus our celebrations on the happy events in our lives — birthdays, marriages, anniversaries, graduations, new arrivals. Let’s flip that and celebrate a not-so-pleasant event that made you stronger. Our experiences may seem ugly on the surface, but they’re beautiful schools for our learning. What have you learned from these experiences in your life? How can you celebrate what happened to you?

Journaling: I grew up without many of the materialistic things that most people take for granted here in North America but everything was okay for me!  When I began to pursue my dream, I started to be exposed to much more materialistic things and realised that life could be even better.  So now I have those so called materialistic things in my life, all those things I thought I needed.

Life to me is miracle and each of us has different unique abilities that I believe God has given us.  My life has not been all good.  Bad things have happened to me even though I had not done anything bad to other people.  But when you are in great pain, you feel you have to find somebody to blame.

I once asked God when something particular painful and bad happened to me,  “Why did you do this to me?  I didn’t do anything wrong!”   But of course I realized that it wasn’t really God’s fault.

Through all the bad things that have happened to me I have learned to accept certain things and to become a forgiving and a strong woman.  I’m not perfect but I know how take care of my family and love them.  And I guarantee you that I am capable of love.  Love conquers all!  And for that I will CELEBRATE me for LOVE and for being JUST ME!

Prompt #30: Celebrating YOU
It’s important to not only celebrate life’s grand events, but also the day-to-day experiences, however small. What would you like to start celebrating in your life? Are there any new traditions you want to try? What can you do to celebrate YOU every week?

Journaling: My passion is for re-creating memories for my family – especially for my kids – with my camera.  One day I realized that I hadn’t been keeping up to date pictures of myself for my kids.  So I decided to celebrate ‘me’ once a week by taking portraits of myself and scrapping them, and ultimately preserving them for my kids.  When the time comes that my kids begin to ask questions and search old memories of their early lives and of their MOMMY, I will be ready!

Credits: All pictures are mine, using iCelebrate kits for July, font is the blue cabin by Amanda!

These is the kits for July! It’s called iCelbrate!

I’m so late with this project but I’m catching up!
What were your dreams when you were younger? What did you used to dream about — whether it came true or not? What was important to you when you were growing up? Where did you think your life would take you?
Focus on one specific dream, or share several. Pick a specific time period — childhood, teenager, young adult, etc. — or share a dream from each.
First of all my precious children I want you to know where I came from and what my roots are? So here it is… When I was a little girl I used to dream about going abroad. I called it my ambition really! I’m not sure why I would think that at such a young age but every time I signed an autobiography I would sign it with “going abroad” where it asks about my ambition. Autobiographies were very popular in my school then.
Anyway after I graduated from Midwifery I was working at the hospital. It used to be called Clinica Rudinas and Hospital. It was while working there that I decided to apply to go abroad.
I applied to work in Singapore as a nanny! Yes nanny is a noble job and there’s nothing wrong about that! I was 19 years old when I left the Philippines a very shy girl and vulnerable but also strong. I cried everyday because I missed my family but I was able to adapt and move on.
While I was there I dream of coming to Canada. From there I applied to work in Canada and landed here in the winter of 1990. It was actually the day after my birthday. I remember there was lots of snow! Anyway Canada is my home now where I live together with you my new family. Someday I will take you to see where I grew up and show you the world where I used to live. And that’s another dream to be fulfilled!

Credits: cluster, papers and elements from IDream kit available here!

Font used: Smiley monster

Here’s a quote that I like!
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate accomplishments. (Napoleon Hill)
iDream
Your dreams and hopes can tell you so much about who you are and what is important to you. This week we will focus on your current dream(s). It can be anything- big or small. Tell us why it’s your dream: Is it because it will make your life easier and give you more time? Is it something you always wanted to do? Or will it help you be the person you want to be? Or is it just because it will fulfill you? Have you taken any steps to realize your dream?

As I was putting my layout together I can’t help thinking about you my precious children – as you are such an important part of my dreams. This book is about getting you to know me better so here in this first page I want you to know my current dreams.

I wish to upgrade my camera and learn more about photography you know!  As you already know my dear Abby, I love taking pictures – especially of you and your little brother.  I wish and hope and dream of becoming a professional photographer someday.   But for now I just love taking pictures of you and Noah… to keep track of every milestone in your development and to make and create good memories!

Credits: cluster, papers and elements from IDream kit available here!

Font used: Segoe Script

Oh boy! Was it hard! Because I have so many hopes and dreams in life…

So why are you completing the project? Is it for you, or for someone else, or both? What do you hope to gain from the project at the end of the 52 weeks? Do you think it will make a difference in your life? How?

This book is for you Abigail and Noah. You are both still very young and unaware of who I was before so this book will help you understand that I wasn’t a perfect person but that I love you very much. In my journey of life I have stumbled, fallen down – but have also been successful. And so with that I decided to put it in a book so you can REMEMBER ME – who I really was! One of those successes is having you both in my life and you are both my inspirations and my reasons to HOPE and DREAM!

Credits: Template, cluster, papers and elements from IDream kit available here!

Font used: Segoe Print

This would be the cover of my book !

Here is the iDream kit for January

The kit is available here and here!

This one is Freebie so hurry up now before it’s too late!

I have decided to subscribe for the project love me digital kits. That way will be able to download the kits free every month since I have already paid it one time.