Wear A Dress Day

(Photo quality: Fail = Cellphone shot + Evening + Bad Lighting)

Dress: by H&M
Necklace: bought by Hubby
Pendant Pearls: diy from a Celine's charms
Shoes: Leaveland (cheap local brand)

Lately, I don't feel so bubbly and fabby, nor to do any of my daily routine. What more of glamming up? Life has been so stressful and hard for me these past few weeks, but still I always try to find reasons, or at least one, to put some excitement on it. Well, not to mention my little bean's silliness. Yep, Clarence! His tremendous (annoying) stories and funny faces like this:


 

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So, back to our title! Today is Wear A Dress Day, a lovely community on Facebook that convince, campaign, have fun together with or without a group, or just a reason to dress-up for that day. WADD is a biannual event taking place the first days of June and December. Since yesterday is the 1st day of December, this gave me giddy to glam-up. I did my hair and bit of a day make-up, put on the dress and pumps, and took couple of shots. Good thing this wasn't wasted... (clap,clap,clap). Because! I was with my sisters and cousins for some treat and good times. Happiness!

Can you tell me what gives you excitement and happiness on a lame day? Leave as a comment below, I'm sure they're much interesting. :)

Happy fabulous weekend everyone! xx

Lynn

Grouchy Mom with the Bliss

"Visita Iglesia" A Lenten Filipino Tradition

Lenten Season is somehow special to the Filipinos or what we call Cuaresma or Semana Santa. It has been a tradition of the faithful Filipino Catholics to do Visita Iglesia each Maundy Thursday during Holy Week, literally visits seven churches to pray for. Visita Iglesia means "Church Visit", it is a Spanish word "Visita" (visit) and "Iglesia" (churches of Christ). Iglesia is from a Greek word "ekklesia" means "called out" and refers to congregation or an assembly. While every congregation is a church, all of the congregations together are also referred to as the church (as in Collossians 1:18).

This practice, brought in by the Spaniards, who colonized the Philippines. Goes back to the time of the early church where Christians would visit the seven great basilicas (The Saint John Lateran, St. Peter, Saint Mary Major, Saint Paul Outside the Walls, Saint Lawrence Outside the Walls, Holy Cross in Jerusalem and Saint Sebastian Outside the Walls) in Rome for the worship of the Blessed Sacrament during Holy Thursday.

For devoted Filipinos, it is not just the Blessed Sacrament but a reflection of the Fourteen Station of the Cross. And, for the churches, they really give time and effort to embellish their church for the visitors to feel the solemn and and eagerly contemplate on what Christ been sacrificed.