Things, issues, and happenings I rave and rant about.
I was not always a good girl so when the heavens saw that I have a daughter, the Supreme Being decided to teach me a lesson. He made my daughter Antoinette Elena just like me. I am not talking about the physical makeup. She does not look like me at …
This post was written on Sunday (October 8, 2017) onboard M/V Filipinas Cebu of Cokaliong Shipping Lines sailing from Surigao City to Cebu. In the last three months, it had been impossible to find time for outside-of-the house date nights. Jeff and I have been quite lazy to drag our …
I promised last week to continue my potty training 101 rant. This time, I am going to share the lessons I learned in potty training Nicholas and Antoinette. Let it be know that I am not doing this alone. I get a lot of help from Ate Joy who, one …
I badly wanted to write a review of a book on potty training; the kind that helped me go through this stage which many child psychologists describe as the “initial road to independence” and “knowing thy body. But the truth is… there is none. There is no book that helped …
Cooking is a life skill that Jeff and I agreed to teach our children. We both know how to cook and when we are in the kitchen, the entire house smells like a restaurant with a full crew cooking up a feast. Our children know that they are in for …
JAKARTA – I’m writing this inside Gate E4 of Soekarno-Hatta International Airport as I await my flight to Singapore. It’s September 10 and I am down to the last leg of this three-country trip. Seven days with my backpack has been another adventure for this 31-year-old wanderlust but… I cannot …
Aside from being multicultural, the Ruffolo family is also a minute version of an interfaith council. Jeff is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon), I am Roman Catholic and our dependable Ate Joy is a Seventh-Day Adventist.
I have written extensively about Jeff in this blog and yet I feel that I haven’t really done justice in describing the man, who loves and adores the crazy woman that I am. Jeff will turn 60 tomorrow. While he cringes at the thought of the number, I, on the …
I turned 31 yesterday. My son, Nicholas, has his own analysis of this number: there are three of them (my children) and one “me” (the mother). I modified his analysis a bit and told him that in my life there are three mutants (Nick, Toni and JJ) and one greatest …
I took my four-year-old son to the International Youth Day celebration at the Cebu City Hall Grounds last Saturday. We were there for an hour and then I ran out of money. There’s a BPI building nearby which houses a museum and a library and which, to my memory, has an …
