Sunday must be the busiest day of the week. All four of us go to school and so we need to prepare everything on Sunday what we need for the whole week ahead of us. Saturday is laundry day and it was really tough on me since doing the laundry is quite heavy for me but I am coping and I live doing it - well, maybe mother just loves to do everything and anything for their children.
I am getting to used to this routine after almost six years of being a mother as we have someone older who helped us around in the house but since we have Tita Bing right now who is younger and who needs the assistance around the house, I see to it that I have to do my share in the chores too.
Sunday evening is ironing night and I love it since the kids would stay beside me doing their favorite stuff that is writing anything on their notebooks. Since the older girl is already in the first grade she could work independently and would just write anything she remembers in her lessons. While the little boy will just scramble
I was away for awhile once again for I attende a five-day seminar workshop on Special Progrma in the Arts - Creative Writing in Baguio City. Our speaker, national artist and multi-awarded Mr. Vim Nadera tasked us to write a tanaga, a Filipino quatrain with seven syllables for each line and here’s the poem that I have written:
The River
I become wild to be free
I flow, I seek, I wander
Storms and floods may alter me
But great seas I will conquer.
It is almost eleven o’clock and my little girl is still sleeping. While the boy is ready for his midmorning nap. While I am free to do anything I want. This is of course blogging. Wow what a way to spend this day.
I woke up feeling so wet since the boy thought I am a comfort room and he had the liberty to pee all over me. He did this three times last night even if he had already visited the comfort room twice before going to bed last night. Well, this is because he drank a lot of ice tea and ate several ice pops yesterday.
Daddy left a little bit late today, but I still needed to drag myself off the bed as there were several things to prepare before he left for school. He kissed the little boy, who was always an early riser compared to his older sister, goodbye. And when I called out how about the Mommy, Dad was already outside the gate and so I just heave a deep sigh an thought that it was probably very late for Dad.
Sitting in front of the tube with a cup of coffee in hand, I heard the sound of an engine back outside the gate and Dad came back rushing. He forgot his cellphone, his watch, and most especially a kiss for me. Hoaaaaaaaaahhh.
This made me have a good way to start my day.
i never really realized that I have been away for a long time in this place until today. Well, life as a mother and a teacher become too demanding for me that the only thing I could do was to check on my mails and read for awhile. Then the next moment I could already feel my eyes demanding for sleep and my body dragging me to bed.
Although, summer proves to be very productive for me as a mother as I get to have a first hand on taking care of the kids since school is out, but then I am assigned as a trainer for a seminar for teachers and that demands more of my time. I looked after the kids during Monday to Wednesday when seminar is off but during Thursdays to Saturdays I am out early from the house that kids are still sleeping when hubby brought me the venue.
But, one more training schedule and I will be free. Free to write again in this blog.
If you are thinking about the newest Clear Shampoo commercial starring Piolo Pascual, then you got it right. But, honestly, I don’t like the commercial at all. I don’t like the idea of having a Black Valentine even if it only means a shampoo campaign for daring to go black since you won’t have to experience an embarrassing situation with a date because you are dandruff-free.
Honestly, I have already grown up with the idea of relating black to something evil for what has a color got to do with it. But, the idea of promoting a Black Angel, well, this is much more different and I found it really insane.
Nop, I have nothing against Piolo Pascual. In fact I am an avid fan of him. When much more younger, my daughter used to joke around that if we wanted a new “daddy” then it would be Piolo. And whenever she saw Piolo on the tube, she would then say, “Mommy, look the love of our lives.”
Now, my daughter shares the same feelings with me too or maybe she was just influenced with what I thought. We both utter words of disgust whenever this Clear commercial is being aired.
Feng Shui experts say that 2008 is a good year and it promises a good and optimistic life for those who wants to go into business and those who plans to settle down.
Yup, so if you think that you are ready for it then if you’re the man pop the question and if you are the woman take the plunge who knows this year is really the time for both of you to take it more seriously and start a new chapter in your lives.
There’s no problems when it comes to preparations as there are alot in the internet that offer help regarding wedding preparations particulary on wedding invitations online. One site offers unique wedding cards that will surely awe your guests, and if you go for elegant wedding invitations, then this site is really for you as it showcases various and wide array of wedding invitation designs that would surely fit your taste.
This site will be very good in your pocket, too since it gives you free bridal shower thank you cards. Wow isn’t that amazing.
Well I have been looking at the screen for several minutes now and still I couldn’t figure out what to write. Every now and then I glance at my window looking enviously at the guava tree over my neighbor’s lot. My mouth going watery every time my eyes fall on the many yellow and green guavas hanging as if calling me to pick and devour them.
I could see one guava being left half-eaten by a bird and it sent me to wish I was that bird. I wanted to tell Tata Bing to ask some from the neighbor but I got to shy to tell her that.
I felt like a little girl once again longing for a thing, maybe some candies or dolls.
Oh I might as well forget about this guava thing and think of my Christmas list first.
And this one too is still empty and to think that Christmas is just four days to go.
On the evening of my birthday, my sis in law was online and we chatted for more than an hour. She asked me if I have one particularly thing that I wanted to buy for myself what would it be. I was too shy to answer that question because what I really liked would sound very funny to my husband.
What is it that I want? Well just a pair of Nooza shoes. That rubber shoes (material used is the same as that of the materials used in Crocs) that is very flat colored black and another pair that is skintone.
You see, my husband feels that I just have a lot of shoes and I don’t need one. He told me instead of that if he could give me a gift this Christmas it would be a family insurance plans because the whole family will benefit from it. In fact he said at this time he is looking for some online insurance policy that could help him decide on this matter.
Now, that really is a good idea. I wonder, is he really serious about it? I guess so because I saw his brows knit and when he does that, he is really serious.
Later on he told me that he is contemplating on this website in the net on cheaper insurance rates and he seemed very interested in it.
I just do hope that he will be really serious on it. For I really do believe that it would be the best not only a birthday but also a Christmas gift for the whole family.
Another year is added to me. I felt sad as I left home this morning looking at my two kids waving both my husband and me goodbye as we were off to work.
My daughter could not help asking where would I celebrate my birthday. I said in school. She asked, “Why?”
Because I would be working and I was very busy and so I would ask my co teachers to help me cook in the school so we could celebrate there.
I could feel that her eyes were almost brimming with tears while the young one was waving sadly and oh I felt the a very big lump on my throat and I wish I could stay the whole day.
In school, the teachers in my department ask me what my wish was. I wanted to say I wished I were home. But, I know they may not understand it much and so I said loudly that I wish someone would give me and my family a healthcare insurance so we won’t worry if one day we could get sick. Something that would cater the medical needs of the whole family, definitely something that would give us a major medical family plans.
And they said, well you can have it. But, medical insurance might be very expensive. Somebody said well I could start looking in the internet since that is what I am doing all the time. May be I would first look for things where I can save money on insurance.
Well, so much for that wish. Anyway, I was still able to celebrate my birthday at home with my kids feasting on spaghetti and cake.
Yippe! I have been anxious for almost three days as I was not able to write a post. It was due to some problems encountered by our admin. Well this is according to my brod in law and for two nights I kept on thinking what have become of this blog and boy I am extremely happy that it is back.
Last night the whole family was too engrossed watching national television. My kids were anxious too as they have observed that both Dad and Mom just couldn’t take our eyes off the tube.
The mention of curfew brought my husband back to the old days. Although we only have a short memory on it as we are both born a year after martial law was declared by then president Ferdinand Marcos, but we could remember the fear that it brought to our parents and older siblings.
I wonder what will happen to us when curfew was declared after the saga of Trillanes and his group last night in Manila Penisula.
I wonder if this event could affect my children and would they still have a peaceful nation to live in the future? What would become of the Philippines if we continue to live in this place where politics is always in turmoil and where people kill each other over politics and power?
I am just wondering….