Here’s wishing everyone a very Happy New Year and may it be a wonderful, prosperous, joyous and successful 2009! Change is coming and can feel it in the air, let’s all help to get this change to move smoothly, we know that it won’t happen overnight!

God Bless all of you and let’s start this year with being kind & loving to each other and let’s all of us  live in peace!

Hello Family, Friends

Just wanted to share something wonderful with all of you!  My Aunt has written another book and has been published! Her first book was a book of Poetry and she has published another series of great writing!  We are very proud of our Auntie and wishes her many more books to write!  Visit her website - Jeanette W Dunn and you can order the books there.

The new book is called - “Tears of the Heart” ~

Eartha Mae Keith

DOB January 17, 1927

Died December 25, 2008

Nickname - Kitty Charles

Spouse: Bill McDonald -(June 6, 1960) Divorce (1965), one child - Kitt MacDonald-Shapiro and 2 grandchildren, Justin 8 & Rachel 4 (ages of the grandchildren might be different as this information was taken sometime in 2000?)

Sad news today, Eartha Kitt passed away, of all days on Christmas Day!  Our prayers are with her family.  I loved Eartha, her voice and her own translation of the songs that made her great! One thing that I can honestly say is that NOONE has ever replaced her “purrrr” as Catwoman…an awesome woman and she will be missed by all!

Eartha Kitt was born out-of-wedlock in the cotton fields of North, South Carolina, a pregnancy resulting from the rape by a white plantation owner and a sharecropper mother of African-American and Cherokee Native American descent. Her mother gave her up, arrived in Harlem and by her 15th birthday had quit high school and worked in a Brooklyn factory.  She lived in friends homes, at the streets/subways.  But in the 1950’s she had danced and sung for her way when she joined Katherine Dunham Dance Troupe and did a tour in Europe and went solo and that’s when she became the Toast of the Continent - she received flacks about her stance on hard issues and plays no favorites.

Ms. Kitt has always made her age a secret, until a group of students from her hometown went to the City Hall and found her birth certificate - her true birthdate was January 17, 1927 (WOW, my dad was born in June, 1925!) they were only 2 yrs apart!

Well, here we are again, tis that time again to be Jolly! My time flew too fast this year!

~And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
Matthew 1:21 ~

I want to wish everyone a wonderful Christmas celebration with friends and family. Its a sad time for my family this time again, as we lost a member of our ever growing family, Heidi Willkom Pepito ~ my cousin who passed away last week at such a young age! She was only 26 yrs old; the time she had here was short but the memories are forever!

Have a great time celebrating with your friends and loved ones, as life is to short! Happy Christmas to everyone and a VERY MERRY NEW YEAR ~2009~

Well, just this bit of news might be old, but I just found it and thought of sharing with you.  We are striving to make a difference in this world and I am proud to say that I am a Filipina-American.  There is a lot of news, but we never get to hear it unless we go know where to go to get them.  I found this news item and it was published in 11/2008!  I wanted to see if you all have heard of this guy that won this acclaimed award - IPMA - International Young Project Manager Award. This might not be the Oscars, or the Grammy’s or better yet the Tony’s…but still we are making impact on the world! Here is the excerpt of that story…

Rome, Italy - The International Project Management Association (IPMA), the world’s first and leading non-profit professional project management organization, has announced that Edward Logan, a Filipino-American living in Virginia, winner of the 2008 IPMA International Young Project Manager Award…Read More

Today, we lost a member of our ever growing family, my cousin, Heidi Willkomm Pepito who passed away today.  We connected thru Facebook, and I found a few of my family members that I’ve lost contact with or have not met.  My relation with Heidi is from my Mom’s side of the Family - Willkomm-Dunn - this family has grown since I was a little girl growing up in California.

I never had the opportunity to meet Heidi, but from what I’ve read about her, she was loved by all and she will be missed terribly by all of us.  I know that she is with all of our family members that has gone and our Lord Saviour.

I would like to share this YouTube link sent from Tita Myrna Lynne Willkomm-Chai - FOR HEIDI - Silvie Paladino - The Lords Prayer

The pictures you see are from her Facebook.

Love from your cousin, Kathy, Cecile, Jojo & Gigi and our families xxxxxoxoxoxox

This is alot of writing! WOW, I never liked it and its more of a pain, but am helping and we have a few more blogs that we are starting. Gathering lots of data so stay tune for the debut of our next greatest blogs. Of course, I can’t take credit for it, the writer in this household is none other than my honey bun… THE EYE!

Keep coming back as I post some stuff…oh I do need to get you all updated on the latest news in my community.. okay, that is the next topic to be talked about.  I do appreciate your comments and suggestions and critique…thanks again for stopping and reading my posts and see you again soon!

Okay, I wanted to share something with you that my bestest friend in the whole wide world! But before I go on with this, let me tell you a little bit about Gita and I - we originally met while we were going to College - LAVC its a community college in Van Nuys, California.  We both graduated High School, she at Hollywood High and myself at North Hollywood High - sadly our paths never crossed while we were in high school, until we went to college.

Our paths came when we were both at the “recreation room” this is where the young kids hang out when in between classes or just didn’t feel like going…we both knew similar people, but didn’t know it yet until one day, I decided to “cut” class and just hang out with the guys at the rec room - well unbeknown to me, Gita did the same thing!  We played pool with the boys and had a great time!  Well to cut the story short, we became “best buds” from then on - I found Gita to be fun, funny and very beautiful! She has the awesome “English” accent! I just loved to listen to her talk…made her uncomfortable, but I soon fixed that! Apparently, she was teased in high school and told her that there was nothing to be ashamed of it and those that made fun had the problem and not her.

We have been thru alot in our lives and time seem to fly so fast that next thing we both knew, I was in the Navy and away from home and friends and found a life, married, had a son and then she married and now she’s a mother or 2 great beautiful children! We have keep in touch from time to time and do miss our time together just hanging out and having a great time!

Well, now that you have the gest of our relationship - she got me for my birthday (which is a milestone) …a gift certificate that I could spend on Amazon! She said in no uncertain terms…to be bought for my son or hubby, but it was just for ME!

Okay, so I didn’t get it right away, my birthday was in March and I have just now gotten around to getting something for me! I went to Amazon and looked around, but didn’t know what I wanted…but alas, I needed a new handbag! So I go and shopped around and found the perfect one! I just got it today and it is AWESOME! Love it! So here it is…

Its called a Zebra handbag - black, white with red accent and its really a nice one and the colors are just one of my favorite and it will do nicely with my wardrobe (all oldies) lol… you can make it into a small handbag and unfasten the button inside and make it into a Large bag! So in the evening I can make it into a smaller version and during the day make into a large bag where you know the husband says “can you just…” or “can i put my glasses…” think ya’ll know what I mean by that.

So my friend, Thanks sooooooooo much for this birthday present and I truly loved it! Miss you lots and give the kids a big hug and kiss for me and hugs for you and Tim from all of us here! 

Happy Birthday to my lovely Sister-in-law MARIAN!
Happy Birthday to you….
Happy Birthday dear sissssssssssssssssssssss….
Happy Birthday to youuuuuuuuuu and many many more!

Have a wonderful day and am sure Chris has something up his sleeve.. Love you and miss you loads!  Couldn’t resist it..

I know we don’t have this testing here in the US, but in the UK they do have this test for children 11 years old to find out which schools they will go. If you score very high you get to go to a “Grammar” School and if you didn’t score well, you would go to a regular school. In translation to US school system, the grammar school would like a private school while the regular school is like our public school.

I’ve tried to take the test myself to see how I fared…it wasn’t that easy at all and I can understand why its very stressful for both child and parents!!

See if you pass this test - …go to this link - Can You Pass the 11 - plus?