Life is great here, couldn’t be better. I haven’t been near any stove lately but I am eating on time regularly with the kinds of food that I really love: fish, shrimps, crabs and anything else cooked in coconut milk. If I don’t watch it, I’d swell like a balloon in no time. I haven’t done any laundry either for I immediately found a laundrywoman: not my mother but twice as cheap as what I’d pay in LB. All i needed to do is work…errr, blog some 4-5 hours a day (as long as there are no internet and power outages!) which leaves me enough time to talk and be with Raine.

Raine who doesn’t care much these days whether I’m home or not. He’s just too busy playing under the sun in my mother’s yard with the kids in the neighborhood. Gosh, he smells like sun already! Anyway, Raine is just too happy playing ball and car, climbing trees (at least trying to!), collecting dry leaves and insects, picking fresh flowers, bantering the dogs and chickens and incessantly complaining that the pigs smell. Thank God, he doesn’t smell like pig yet!

Raine has got his hands full, I only have to watch that he doesn’t get spoiled rotten with doting grandmother, great-grandmother, and uncles, lolos and cousins abound. But I think he already is when I am not looking. ;-)

Life may be great here but that doesn’t mean we’ve forgotten those friends that we truly love in LB. We miss you guys… everyday.