When I was away from home last summer to attend a seminar, my dear hubby sent me an SMS telling that the place that we had occupied before for our business was vacant and he wanted to rent it again so we could revive our business. But I told him that it was not the proper time to talk about it since I was away and we need to sit and to talk about it.
Back home he told me that he has changed his mind. The reason he wants to learn more about running a business first before jumping to a new one, and so he started reading websites that would help him out.
He shared to me this learning he acquired and was really impressed with the several ideas he learned from these sites, that he even wanted to but that book written by Dennis C Carey.
The book is all about running a company, although we won’t be running our own company, but to small scale enterpreneur like us it would be very helpful since it will guide us to handle our staff.
I know this is still a dream to be fulfilled but in three to five years from now, we may start again our business and by that time we would probably be ready.
I nudged my hubby Sunday morning and told him, it’s mothers’ day!
He smiled and went back to sleep. A few minutes later, we both rose up from the bed and since we were staying in my mother’s-in-law house, she immediately greeted me and I did too to her.
She casually asked my husband, her son why he didn’t greet her a happy mothers’ day but my husband in his comic way, just said, “What’s so special about today?”
And that is my husband, he believes that the real essence of any occasion is wasted and abused by commercialism. Christmas, Valentine’s day, mothers’ day, fathers’ day, etc are losing it real meaning because people are after of making money from these occasions.
And to stop starting an argument, I would simply refuse to discuss matter further. Anyway, when he thinks that he has succeeded on annoying me, he would find things to make up for it. But he kept his word, that is, he would never greet anyone on “Mothers’ Day” and he never really did.
While having dinner tonight, Daddy shared his experience in school today. He deemed it very interesting since they are learning about electronics and this is one topic he likes most.
As he talks, I felt that he was just mumbling words and honestly I didn’t understand a bit since I am not interested at all with these things. I pretended to be listening intently, and so since I am more interested in people, I casually asked him about his classmates who are teachers too like him.
“They are all fine,” he said and I always expect this kind of answer coming from him since he is not very particular with observing people until he mentioned something about his teacher.
Dad said that his teacher looks very young but actually she is not. Biologically speaking, the teacher is not that young but physically she looks young.
I told him maybe she got a cosmetic surgery from somewhere so she could enhance her beauty. He just shrugged and said casually maybe she just naturally looks young and pretty.
With this answer, I immediately changed the topic for it might lead us to something that would end up with an argument and so we ended up the conversation.
“Let kids be kids.”
These words from my hubby echoed on me as I started another journey of being a plain housewife and a mother on its third day.
The little boy as usual was on his very high spirit as he woke up this morning, while the girl who was still recuperating from a fever was still sleeping. Well, she got this from me. I used to wake up very late especially on weekends and during summer vacation, but not these days, as Honey needed to wake up early.
And so I tried to be calm and not get affected by the extra ordinary energy of young kids and let them do whatever they want to do – fight, scream, mess up the house – as long as they won’t destroy the whole house that would be fine with me. As what my husband said enjoy motherhood while you still can, for someday when kids will be much older, they would prefer their friends’ company than our company, and so I let them be. Or I would end up exhausted from trying to calm them down or much worse become older as wrinkles are mostly caused by too much frowning. Now, this I won’t allow to happen to myself. Honestly, it would be too hard to maintain one’s youthfulness in the most inexpensive and natural way, that is, to avoid becoming angry always. Although there are other ways of enhancing youthfulness through surgery just like what New York City botox treatments do, but then that would probably be expensive.
Anyway, kids bring so much joy in our lives especially when you feel little arms around your neck and even the wettest kiss planted on your cheeks would surely delete all your qualms away.