Monday, March 13, 2006

belated birthday gifts for my mom


my mom rocks!

her birthday was last month but she was in the philippines ‘gallivanting’ with her high school classmates, so i went out to visit her this weekend to spend some ‘birthday time’ with her.  in addition to eating with her, i took her out for manis and pedis:

however, i think she ended up buying me more ’pasalubong‘ from the philippines than i bought her for her birthday!  in addition to the cultural-hat-that-looks-like-a-bell that she’s wearing in the top picture, she got me an outfit from the philippines, a “mestiza saya” just like i requested!  i always enjoy the cultural outfits and i’ve never owned one of these butterfly sleeve ones, so she got me this great barong style one (and she said it was the most expensive present she bought at a whopping 750 pesos! ($15!!)):

it’s actually a blouse and a skirt, and the blouse flares at the bottom… but it’s still nifty cool!  my mom just laughs at me and wonders why i would ever wanna wear an outfit like this but i’ve always loved dressing up in cultural garb and i look for opportunities to wear stuff like this - international day at japanese church, filipino day at filipino church, and even on halloween i’ll dress up with whatever national costume i have! 

i had fun hanging out with her pampering ourselves.  both of us never ever get manicures or pedicures so this was a real treat!  happy belated birthday, mom!

Posted by kgrp on 03/13 at 04:49 PM
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