From Aggie:

Anyway, for this week, I want to SEE you. Post your most recent pictures. It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t look great. I want to see more than what is a normal avatar. Take note that it needs to be RECENT. Can you believe I can use an avatar dated 2 years ago? Time for things to change

Secondly, I want to KNOW you. Just YOU. Sans kids, the husband, just YOU. I have a lot of ME tags in my blog – you can use that. What do I want to read: You – Now. It can be as simple as “I love Coke.” or as complex as “I am the crossroads of my life.”

Truth be told I almost didn’t want to post this entry. I didn’t want to post a latest picture of me (this was taken last Friday by the way). Well since I was chatting with Aggie yesterday (and she told me to just post my entry) here am I.

So about me…

If you will ask me about the best years of my life, my college years would make the top three. I met some of my greatest friends in college. We had lots of fun memories and we also shared the got through the bad ones. We loved watching movies every Friday and going to bars as well. We can stay out until 4am and still make the 9:00am class. We partied a lot, spent a lot of time at each other’s houses ordering pizza and playing Mario Kart and Dance Revo ( wasn’t very good at them). We would go swimming in Laguna and we even went hiking once.

I married the guy I met nine years ago. He wasn’t my first but I’m glad that I’ll be spending forever with him. I dated a lot back then. I had a lot of suitors but I had three serious relationships in my dating years. All of them were older than me. I always thought that guys my age were too immature and full of themselves to commit to a relationship. It didn’t stop me from dating them though (lol). I always knew I will marry at a young age. I just never saw myself in my thirties and still enjoying being single. What I didn’t know back then is that I will choose to be a stay at home mom over having a career. I thought I would be a corporate slave but giving up my job to take care of my daughter is the best decision I’ve ever made.

I was never close to my parents (my siblings weren’t either). It’s not because we don’t like each other or anything like that, it’s just that we’re not close to them. Let’s just say that I never shared any of my secrets (crushes, likes, etc) to my mom as a kid and a teenager. This is why I want to do things differently with my own kids. I want to have a relationship with my children, I want them to trust me with their secrets, I want them to come to me when they need help. I know it won’t be easy, heck come teenage years I know we’ll encounter difficulties but I want them to know me and me to know them. I want and I will be involved in my children’s lives.

My oldest friend is Adel. We were classmates in second grade and we’ve been friends since then. We know each other very well. She was my maid of honor.

I’m 26, I’m a wife, a mom, a sister, a daughter, a friend, a scrapbooker and I have faith. I am happy because I have the love of the most important people in my life. I’m blessed and I’m grateful for the life I have.