Monthly Archives: October 2013

The Embassy threw a Halloween party this past Saturday and Adam once again donned his pumpkin costume and we headed over.  It was at Seafront which was nice because it was a totally contained and safe place to trick or treat.  This time Adam was even more into Halloween and the games.  Adam loved trickContinue reading “More Happy Halloween!”

My friend Kate is going to have a baby boy in just a couple weeks.  I decided to take a trip over there to see her and to talk all things baby and to celebrate Kate before we both have little newborns. Kate is 14 weeks more pregnant than me and still has more energyContinue reading “Hong Kong with Kate and babies to be”

Adam had two Halloween parties to go to and since he’s been obsessed with pumpkins we decided the best costume for him is a pumpkin! His first party was at school and the theme was hats so he made a special hat just for the party to wear with his costume. I’ve never seen aContinue reading “Happy Halloween!”

When Randy and I first moved in together we found this chair.  My neighbour was moving and throwing it away so I decided to take it with grand plans of having it reupholstered. Here it is in our apartment in London. We even bought some pretty fabric in Egypt to use when we reupholstered theContinue reading “A free chair”

Adam has been obsessed with pumpkins.  Aunt Sandra sent him some pumpkin pajamas and it’s been love ever since.  He wants to wear them every night!  So we decided to try pumpkin carving with him. He loved it! He was so excited and thought the whole thing was a blast.  It’s going to be so muchContinue reading “The Great Pumpkin”

I decided to tackle a frame wall.  I think for my first time it turned out ok.  I think my main mistake was having a carpenter from the building hang them thinking he would be better at it than me….I think I would have done a better job.  But I still like the pictures andContinue reading “Pictures on the wall”

This morning Adam woke up really early.  We were laying in bed and I asked him why he woke up so early.  He looked me right in the eye and in his serious voice said ice.   I asked him to elaborate but he just repeated himself.  Maybe the boy really wanted some ice. I love thisContinue reading “Conversations with Adam”

For Randy’s birthday I got him a night at The Farm at San Benito.  We’ve been hearing about this place since we moved to Manila so we were excited to head out there.  In typical fashion a typhoon was slated to hit Manila that same weekend.  We were worried but our luck held out.  ItContinue reading “The Farm”

Randy turned 33 last weekend! We celebrated in style.  I managed to surprise him on Friday with a yummy meal at a restaurant called Masseto.  Randy had never heard of it, which is pretty impressive on my part because he knows his restaurants! It was delicious and by far the nicest restaurant we’ve been toContinue reading “Randy's 33rd birthday weekend”

I wanted to make Randy a special birthday cake since he deserves it! I found a recipe in Ottolenghi’s cookbook for a chocolate fudge tart and I knew it was perfect for Randy. It was the first time I made a meringue so I was a little nervous but it was DELICIOUS! Very, very richContinue reading “Lots of chocolate in one cake.”