Sunsets are wonderful times for us to slow down.

Just as the sun is setting down to give us time to recompose ourselves and get ready to rest our weary bodies, we should take this time to not just hurry home so we can rest but to reflect on how we were during the day.

Sure, we take comfort in knowing that we have accomplished things that we have set our sights at, did what should have been done and handled our affairs in order.

But at the end of the day, can we honestly say that everything that has happened was according to what we have envisioned it to be? Or do we feel we wanted to take back the words said without pausing to think about it?

How do you feel during these times?

Sunday night we had pasta for dinner. I used San Remo Spinach Fettuccine pasta.The truth is there was nothing in the fridge except for a packet of milk fish back fillet and I was uninspired to do something about it.

So I decided to make pasta.

After I cooked the spinach fettuccine pasta according to instructions, I made the “sauce”.

I melted 2 or 3 tbsp unsalted butter along with half a small block of grated cheese. With this, I put a little dried basil. Then I put in a can of tuna (solid in water) and cooked the fish meat for a bit. Then I put all-purpose cream and let it “boil” or have bubbles. Two teaspoons of mushroom sauce was also placed in the mixture.

After the pasta has been added to the sauce, I put in some loaf bread slices in the toaster and heated these a it. Spread a bit of the same unsalted butter on one side.

Finally, we had this:

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Sunday was spent having a picnic lunch in a nearby place with lots of trees.

While the children were playing around, hubby was napping on the mat and eldest daughter was listening to her music, I went a bit here and there to take photos.

Here is a photo I took while I was lying down and resting on the mat.

Time stood still for a while there. I wish for more family bonding like this.

Two of my students were absent the other Saturday. KJ went out of town because his grandfather passed away. JE also had an uncle who passed away. Both had cancer.

I first thought it was JE’s the aunt that passed away because she also has cancer, apparently, not, because cancer runs in their blood.

I shudder when I think about these diseases that people have and that includes life-threatening ones. I am pondering about getting a group health insurance for my family.

I know this is expensive but as they say “health is wealth.”

In the meantime, I will be reading and watching Dr. Budwig’s videos on having a healthy diet.

Every Saturday, participants post photos based on a theme. The theme for this Saturday is RUIN(ED).

I have another RUIN(ED) entry here, photos inside the gates of Fort Santiago.

Below are photos of the gates of Fort Santiago or Fuerza  de Santiago.

Fort Santiago is a part of Intramuros or the walled city in Manila that was built as a defense fortress around 1571.

Fort Santiago gate upon entrance.

Below is a close up version of a part of the fortress’ gates taken from the photo above:

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The FIlipinoMomBlog.com invites all you of moms and wives out there to showcase the lunchboxes that you prepare for your loved ones: children and husbands.

What’s in your lunchbox?

Click here if you want to join the LunchBox meme.

Here are what I have prepared yesterday:

Chicken breast fillet strips cooked with mushroom sauce and asparagus. The asparagus are beneath the chicken strips. This is my eldest daughter’s share of the lunch menu. We also had similar food in our lunchbox to bring to work, plus eggs cooked over easy as extra.

For snacks, the children had these:

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