Presenting... the latest Catilo residence :)

They say 3rd time's a charm.

After our 3rd move this year (from Cambridge to Lola's House and now to Treelane), we can finally say we have a home. And we love it!


So this is how we found it a month and a half ago



and this is how it looks like after almost a month of fixing it -
(ehem, drumroll please...)

(click photos to enlarge)

living room

dining room/kitchen

bedroom

view from the living room/ home office/ garden

Tadah! So wadaya guys think?! :D

Martha moment #01: a place for placemats

While eating has been more enjoyable during my second trimester, I've also developed a new pet peeve: placemats that smell bad. It just ruins the whole experience. It's a good thing the ones we have are the washable soft/rubbery plastic ones so we can easily clean them along with the dishes after a meal. However, when piled together, they tend to stick and develop a certain smell even if they've been washed and dried.

This came to me after our first morning in the new Catilo house:


Yep, I rolled them into cones and stuck them to one of those steel thingies I found on the kitchen counter. Placed in a tall drinking glass, they even look like plastic calla lilies heehee. Now they don't smell and stick together anymore, and they look so much prettier! :P

Warming up

Hi everyone! Welcome to the world of sheila turned martha. The year isn't over and it's already been quite eventful. I could blabber all about it but to sum it up, the chunk of our year has been comprised of three major things:

1) getting married
2) getting pregnant
3) moving houses thrice

It took a while for all these to sink in, but being forced to be home in bed for almost a quarter of the year helped accept these changes. For those who've known me for a long time, I'm quite the busy bee - and being settled down (and i mean SETTLED) isn't exactly what you'd expect from a person like me. How's it been so far, though? Different. You see, after getting married, I saw myself on the fast track still. Since Jorem (the hubby) and I are in the same field, I expected us to be shooting around, traveling, working and living in the city, finally free from my parents’ jurisdiction. Bwahahahaha.

(pause)

Ok, so it's not really how I expected things would turn out, but honestly - it's been great so far. :) Somehow, there's a certain sense of security and contentment in being settled down, a sense of peace and belonging and home. While there's truth to enjoying singlehood while you're still "free", marriage has given me a kind of freedom beyond single life ever did. I'm enjoying things I never thought I'd enjoy before (keeping the kitchen and bedroom clean, thinking of what new recipe to experiment on for dinner, buying monay for Jorem, growing an herb garden in the lanai, drooling over house stuff and baby clothes over shopping for my own closet, etc.). I never even saw myself staying in Imus after getting married. As far as I knew, I wanted to get out of here as soon as I could! But now we're here, and I can honestly say I'm loving it. :)

Anyway, I opened this blog because there have been so many things I've been discovering since I became Mrs. Catilo. Although I'm no expert in this particular field just yet, it's just nice to be able to share the perks and the quirks of being a wife and soon enough, a mom. naks!

Lastly, I just want to say that it's amazing how we keep trying to plot our own lives convinced we know what's best for us, when in the end God turns things around to show us He knows us better. And it's only when we submit to His will and let it prevail that we truly experience the joy of living our lives as it should be. :)