finally!

I have been on constant search for the right template to use on this blog. I have been switching from one template to another just to have the right look and feel on this blog. And then it came, as I was browsing on an blogger template design website, I saw this template. I felt as if this template was especially-made for this blog, from the the theme to design to color combination,the widgets, everything!

I have now really proven, that just like marriage, you can never really settle until you find the right one. You will do all means to search and search and choose from among the best until you find the right one for you. I cannot say this is the best template but I think it is the best for this blog. I have settled 'temporarily' in previous templates believing that it is the one I am looking for but then it doesn't seem right. I felt that there's still something out there for me (err, this blog I mean!). And after running around using different designs, I finally found it- here's now the look of -Of Limes and Lemons!

And just like in marriage, I wish the best and for it to last!

Please do watch out for my upcoming FIRSTS: MINI ZEST(mini giveaway) and a MAJOR ZEST(major giveaway), they are coming up very very soon!

And please care to visit my new blog My Charmed Mom,and help me build it as well...

excited for Christmas

This is my entry to the Week 21 of the Techie She Lucky Blogger Weekly Giveaways. This week’s prize is $10 Paypal credits from Shydub of Impulsive Shopper.

It is exactly 50 days before Christmas. This season always gets me excited because it gives me reason to do some serious SHOPPING, aside from this I like the giving part of Christmas wherein gifts are exchanged and you get to share to others the blessings you got. For this year, it brings much more excitement since this is my first-ever Christmas to celebrate with my daughter, on that note, I couldn't help but be so thankful and blessed with this very special gift that the Lord has showered me with 10 months ago. 

happy 13th birthday Google

HAPPY 13TH BIRTHDAY GOOGLE!-another from Google Doodles

Due to Pedring's wrath,we might not have noticed that someone (?) or something (?) has celebrated its birthday     on September 27. 

-taken from gma news online :

What better way for search giant Google to mark its 13th birthday than with one of its own Google Doodles? Visitors to Google's website on Tuesday saw a birthday cake with one of Google's earliest logos.

Some of the letters in "Google" wore a party hat and were "seated" at a table with a birthday cake and gifts and balloons. Clicking on the doodle will take a visitor to a search results page, with - what else? - Google as the top result. Google has had a tradition of doodles for its "birthday."

Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in California. Page and Brin originally nicknamed their new search engine "BackRub." Eventually, they changed the name to Google, originating from a misspelling of the word "googol." the number one followed by 100 zeros.

In May 2011, unique visitors of Google surpassed one billion mark for the first time, an 8.4 percent increase from a year ago with 931 million unique visitors. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY *Google!

*Google is very dear to me, it is hubby's employer in the US,he works a depot technician in Building 44-the main building that houses the top ranks in the company.

hairless Ceana

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Pause muna for contest blogs, let's get more personal this time...

taken Sept 6, 2011-her 8th month birthday

I was thinking if I will post my daughter's pictures here in my blog. Actually I have mentioned and discussed her and my husband in my other blog which I chose to be more personal. For some reasons, I was just contemplating if in some ways I will be violating her privacy in doing so. 

However, I have read and followed some blogs which features their children and I said " Why not?di naman ako artista?"hahaha

So there you go... and in fact it is really a mom's joy to share to the world her daughter...

this is me when I was almost the same age

Well my (now 8month-old) daughter Ceana is still hairless. Well not REALLY bald but she has thin hair. 

It may be due to genes, because both my husband and I were hairless when we were babies. 

But many say that eventually(when?) her hair will grow, so no fears, no worries for me.

As much as I wanted to buy her clips and accessories, I became limited to headbands. I am doing this because for the times that she is not wearing one she was mistaken to be a boy even if she's wearing a dress already!

 I don't feel bad, but it's natural to sometimes feel awkward to get questions like "boy or girl?" or "girl sya?" even if she's wearing pink or red!(eyes rolling!) 

To my consolation, a highschool batchmate who's based in Canada whom I get to interact with on Facebook also share the same experiences with her daughter. And so I think, it is not really the culture but 'how really the way things are'. So be it.

Bunny Baby, her Dad's favorite

Through time I got used to the comments and I'm not bothered anymore (actually I was never bothered, I was just surprised). So here now I just wanted to share my favorites-headpieces of Ceana (a.k.a. her headbands).

Ceana and her bandanna with long curly hair

I call her Baby Girl Swee'Pea, (Popeye's original Swee'Pea's a male)...