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I know a lot of filipinos and have been to the Philippines 3 times. Don't mess with the rice! It needs to be plain white rice or it isn't a meal. We have a filipino preacher who stays with my family sometimes and he hates most US potlucks because he just wants some plain rice and if he finds any it's in a casserole.

Another thing is make sure there's ketchup on the table, or banana sauce. If you want you can make it pretty by putting it in a dish, but it's a necessary condiment.

Good luck! I was engaged to a filipino guy but the only cooking I did for his family was making guacamole which they declared gross ;-) I do agree that avocado milkshakes taste pretty good though.

If it fits you best at this time I'd go for the two bedroom. We had secondary infertility with our second, 3 years later than planned he'll be born.

We were in a two bedroom apartment when he was conceived, which we were fine with till 18 months as the baby would just share a room with us, and now we find we're moving from California to Texas for work and we'll probably get a 3-4 bedroom there. There's no predicting where life will take you. If you're not buying I see no reason to get a bigger place than you need right now.

No picture, but this sounds like them

http://www.ehow.com/how_4898249_make-swirl-lollipops.html

I love to cook

I think it's cool that some fans of Trader Joe's put together that book. It's not by Trader Joe's though and sadly, a lot of the ingredients have been discontinued. There's still quite a few good ideas in there though.

I'm normally car free as my husband takes our car to work and since we work opposite shifts I'm rarely home at the same time as him. This summer however he's taking classes two days a week and there's a bus that can take him to school. It worked out perfectly that a mom from my son's preschool organized a playdate at a different park every Thursday, which is one of the days I have the car. My son and I are really enjoying visiting a new park every week.

There is something to be said for having a park that's "yours" though. Our apartment is next door to a park and we tend to see the same people every time we go so we have his "park friends"

I have had two earlier versions of this camera and I'm somewhat happy with it. The first one worked fine, just didn't take the best photos (the reviews agreed with me) I lost it though.

I now have a stylus 1030sw which is waterproof, drop proof and crushproof. Somehow I've managed to break it twice. It wasn't abused right before it broke each time either. The first time the shutter stopped working, the second time the LCD stopped working. It's under warranty though and they cover EVERYTHING in these type of camera. I do have to pay approx $18 to send it in though, but with a $400 camera it seems worth it. I haven't sent in yet the second time though because I can still sorta take pictures with the LCD broken. It's hard to be without a camera.

It's great fun to use though. I take it swimming with me, wash it off when it's dirty. It takes great underwater photos. I even had it in my pocket while tubing down the river for a few hours. I use a name badge clip attached to the cord to keep it attached to my pocket. I let my 4 year old use it all the time. He poured sand into the shutter of my nikon coolpix and ruined it.

I love her room, and the twilight photo just adds the perfect level of teen feeling to the room (though I'm not a teen and I love it too)

I bought it and found it too hard for the grownups to use every time. You have to unhook it and rehook it. My son did think it made a great toy however :-P I've never been able to convince him to not touch the TP, but we have a shelf above the toilet and keep it there. Now that' he's almost 4 he's asking me to put the TP on the holder, but he still makes a mess sometimes.

I was really confused about what this was too, so I googled it. Here's a quote from a blog.

>>The weaning table: This one brings tears to my eyes. I can't believe I'm already thinking about giving her food. The weaning table is Montessori's answer to the high chair. It's on the floor, and the child gets into and out of the chair herself.>>