Todos los Santos is known in English as All Saints Day. In Filipino this is called Undas.
This is a day when the saints are being remembered. This is mostly a Catholic celebration because other religious denominations do not have saints.
Saturday 6pm we attended the anticipated mass. Then we had dinner here. The priest specifically stressed [...]
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As we cap the celebration of All Saints Day and All Souls Day, the Weekly Question will focus on our departed loved ones. No, I am not asking you to play favorites with the question.
Who among your dearly departed hold(s) a special place in your heart?
My Answer:
I can not really say who among my [...]
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Families take vacations during breaks in schedules. They either spend time at the beach or go up to places where the air is cool and clean. Some even go abroad.
As a family, we love going to out-of-town trips. We wish to spend a night or two when we do so but sadly, we haven’t [...]
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I participate in the Food Friday food photo meme every Friday in my other GreenBucks blog which I feature food that we have had, either bought and eaten in a restaurant or prepared and cooked at home.
If I have enough time, I would prefer trying new recipes for my family instead of the usual food [...]
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The norm in most homes in the urban places here in the Philippines is to have a maid or a house helper.
We don’t have one. We have been without a maid for what, five years now, almost six years.
People ask me always, how do we cope?
It takes a lot of time management to be able [...]
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