As early as January we are planning to go to Ilocos for our Holy Week Vacation but my mom and dad refused since its too early pa daw to decide, even we keep on explaining that we must have a reservation with a travel agency. I totally forgot Holy Week because of my busy schedule. Two weeks before the Holy Week when my mom asked me if we can go to Subic. OMG! what will I do all the hotels are fully booked and some hotels that are still open double the price, from the regular rate of Php 2500 it become Php 5000-8000 per room and they don’t offer discount for a senior citizen. Since we can’t find any place to go we decided to stay in our farm. Actually this is the plan of my dad and he is very happy ang lakas kay Lord na mag pray na sa farm na lang kami. When we are still kids we used to spend our Holy Week in Pagsanjan Laguna with our grandparents. That is the time that we can play with our cousins, eat a lot, watch procession and every Black Saturday we will g to a river to have lunch and swimming time. Before kasi life is so simple, happy na kami. How I wish that my kid and his cousin can experience the same thing. But the culture is now different na kasi, we used to spend the holiday in different out of town and have fun.
So this year, we are back to basics, we are trying to revive the culture/tradition that we used to do when we are still kids, of course there will be some changes. We stayed at the farm for three days it means we don’t have a maid we need to do all the chore by ourselves, we don’t have aircon in our room, we don’t have cable tv but we can watch DVD, and we don’t have an internet access the same thing mahina signal ng sun and smart. Since it’s a Holy Week we need to do some sacrifices and we are all agreed that for three days we will have a simple life and as much possible not to complain.
How we spend our holy week?
We ate a lot :-), we roam around inside the farm, we went in some places in Laguna, the kids enjoyed in their mini swimming pool. The boys naman happy na sa drinking session every night and tingnan mga fighting cocks ni dad.
It is a simple vacation for us but the thing is we enjoyed it, we are complete as a family, we make our parents happy since all their children are complete and for three days we had a little sacrifice we are able to give up the comfortable life that we have in Manila and free ourselves from stress in work and social media.
How about you lovely mommies how did you spend your Holy Week?
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It’s always a fun time no matter where the family goes. What makes it so special is that when the kids grow up, they would realize how special they were and they would impart the same to their future kids.
I want my kids to grow up like us to know the importance of being a family and have a simple life 🙂
We stayed in Manila as well but it was still fun doing activities with the family 🙂
This reminds me of my childhood in the province. We had papaya, pineapple, and sili like those. I remember picking pineapples even when they’re far from being ripe, we would just roll them on rock salt, ahh, those were the days.
We have a different childhood experience before compare now ibang iba na trip ng mga bata.
that is so nice, best way to raise children, really 🙂
Thank you 🙂
As long as family’s together, it’s fun for me! Sama-sama together!
Your right when I become a mom that’s the time that I realized what is the meaning of the true family. Why my dad raised as to be together always in special occasions, weekends and holidays iba pala feeling when you are always together you feel secured and love. That is one of the tradition that I want to pass on with my little kulit
That’s true. If you’re going to make a reservation around Holy Week, especially for Ilocos, dapat months in advance. We reserved our rooms January, and all of the walk-ins were charged at least thrice more. But I’m glad you made the most out of your holiday!
Yes as of January halos punuan na din, I want to bring my parents in Ilocos para ma experience nila Vigan and Pagudpod maybe someday. As per my dad it’s blessing in disguise daw why we stayed at the farms kc may typhoon daw pero hindi natuloy but the traffic is so horrible in North
Holy Week is a great to time to spend with loved ones especially when activities are centered on Christ who died on the cross for us. Luckily in the provinces we can still instill the traditions of our Cristian faith to our kids letting them understand the importance of lent and Easter. Thanks for sharing and Happy Easter.
🙂 thanks for sharing also inspirational post on your blog
We don’t have any province, so we just stayed in Manila for the Holy Week. I think it is good for kids now to experience the simple life. It would be a fun learning experience.
yes you are right mommy for three days he don’t watch tv and no ipad. But he enjoy his stay playing with all the stuffs that he can see. He enjoyed picking the “sili” in our back yard
Looks like the kids had fun with their simple vacation. Sometimes tlga its the little and simple things that matter most.
yes they have fun 🙂 sometimes they need to experience having a simple life, no gadgets, no tv
Holy Week is indeed a time for the family. Would love to bring my son to a farm, too 🙂
This is the time that we can reflect and spend time with our families
Fun activities with the family make up most of my childhood memories. I want to impart the same with my own kid.
Your way of spending Holy Week looked so relaxing for you and the kids, I was at work the whole time. 🙁
kids enjoyed their stay at the farm, no work for me muna during holy weej but when I came back to work super stress
one of our children’s birthday always falls on holy week, so we usually try to make it fun and memorable for him. 🙂
Holy week is really family time. Wherever we may spend it, it should be with the family!