After two months, we get to visit again my future in-laws. I am one of those luckiest women to have in-laws like them. Every time we are in their place they do almost everything. They - my future nieces, sisters, brothers, and parents in-law.
They take care of Coi all the time, do the cooking, serve the food, wash the dishes while I just let my back rest on the sofa or in bed just watching a tv show or browsing the internet with either iPod or laptop.
Sometimes I feel really shy about these scenarios but they are the ones whom are so persistent leaving me with no choice but to sit back and relax.
So this past weekend I really got tired of doing nothing - just watching Coi playing with his friends.
I have never been out for several weekends now. I think the last time was when I participated in our company outing last July 24 of this year.
Consequently, during weekends I am a full time mom, a house keeper in that sense. This weekend is just another tiring but fulfilling Saturday and Sunday.
I was able to do the laundry, did the pedicure for myself, glued my sandals, cleansed our silver accessories, took Macoi to the barber shop and had some sort of clean-up and rearrangement of some things in our home.
There was no major changes actually, except that we already placed our personal refrigerator up in our sleeping area - a space in our kitchen was vacated.
Our bed is my favorite spot at home and it feels so good to see things arranged in a manner simply fine where you can relax and spend even a few time of rest.
On the other hand, I guess the process of cleaning had worsen my condition. My colds gone really bad which might be due to inhalation of dusts.
Hope to feel well tomorrow as we have a badminton schedule with office mates.
I am just so proud to share that our company (APC by Schneider Electric) is really actively implementing Good Housekeeping methodology in our facilities. Every Friday, 10minutes before 6pm, we are anticipating to hear the 7S chant recited by an employee assigned coming from any department.
Last Friday, I was asked to do it but fortunately I got exempted because of colds. And today I no longer have something to reason out. I had no choice but to do it though I was some kind of tense.
My script
I was a shaking a bit but I was able to speak in a manner clear and smooth to those who listen. Glad to hear positive comments on how I delivered the piece amidst little irregularity of the sound system. Thanks to Allan Buena for the encouragement, to Tita Mariz and Tito Dodi for being my coaches and for my friends and colleagues for the moral support you have extended; this has really helped to further boost my self-confidence.
Today is just another payday. This day doesn't make me excited at all becuase I know the money will just slip through my hands. Numerous bills are awaiting to be paid and month-end is even more difficult for me as my housing loan amortization becomes due at this date. Budgeting is not really fun especially when you have nothing to be allotted or you're even expecting a deficit.
from clipart
Really it is just one of the ironies in life, you've got to work hard to spend. Glad I have Coi with me. Just a gentle call of "momi" from him eases me somehow. I just love to be a mom for Coi. Hope I can continue giving him anything he needs.
Proverbs 29:23 (NIV)
A man's pride brings him low, but a man of lowly spirit gains honor.
I was once an active church member during my childhood as an El Shaddai Ministry Choir. I have never failed attending Sunday masses. I do pray a lot then.
Year 2007 when I entered the congregation of Singles for Christ (SfC), wherein I found friends considered brothers and sisters who do a lot of worshiping activities. I have learned then how to read the bible and became proud of speaking more about Jesus. I found a certain kind of happiness and fulfillment during those times. I found peace and contentment, a joyful and blissful life. I thought I have got more strength from above as I really got closer to Him. But during the same year I have been greatly challenged and in that test I failed. Thinking I was strong, I appeared weak that I was not able to fight the worlds’ temptation.
I am indeed a sinner. I might have already repented on the mistakes I have committed but there’s really nothing I should brag about my Spiritual life. I must admit I am not absolutely observant of His Commandments. Nevertheless, I am wholly assertive that I do believe in Jesus Christ and in the Holy Trinity. However, I know I still have to do a lot good to make it up to Him.
I am fully aware that I am not perfect, but I am really trying to be a good mother to my child and little by little as he grows I am teaching him Jesus’ existence as well as the value of prayer. I am just so glad that Macoi already learned how to pray and he calls it “Amen”. Before he gets to sleep, he comes up to me and say "Momi Amen, Momi Amen" which I already knew that he is inviting me to pray.
And this will be my official entry for this week's GT.
I am not rich; I guess I just have enough monetary resources to support our daily living. I have four (4) active bank accounts which I am not able to maintain the supposed Average Daily Balance (ADB). Why I am telling you this? Not that I want you to have pity on me but it is the real thing.
As of now I don’t have existing savings on hand except for this set of coins I keep inside my office drawer.
(one of my office mates told me that its as if tokens for videoke )
Given this situation, I still love myself as I’ve been through a lot of financial turmoil but I was able to withstand them. And I should give recognition to my friends who have helped me all these years and most especially BRO who have never turned his back on me (I bet HE does it to anybody as well) particularly during those times when I was the only one providing for our everyday living.
At present, it’s enough that I have funds allotted for my fixed expenses such as mobile phone bills, internet fees, housing mortgage, utilities (electricity), Macoi’s needs (milk, diaper, distilled water, vitamins, medical check-ups and immunization, etc), transportation allowance (approx. P15/day), grandma’s meds, personal hygiene supplies and that’s it. Thanks to “dadi” for being such a good contributor – at least I am no longer having budget deficit.
Though I sometimes still cannot help myself from complaining, I have considered myself blessed and more fortunate than those people who; live in the street, not eating meals for at least three (3) times a day, do not own shelter to protect them on weather assaults, do not have medicines to heal and cure their sickness and pains and obviously do not possess steady financial resources which was the root cause of this poverty that they usually experience.
What’s I am trying to avoid right now is to add on my debts as admittedly I still have few payables to be settled.
I missed blogging again... I was supposed to write last night but I wasn't able to get up when I did lullaby to my prince. It's already 2:30am when I realized that my PC is still on. That's when Coi asked for his milk. I was supposed to show what I have accomplished last night. It's never too late.
The task I've listed was 90% done, it's the closet that's left and I'm doing it right now.
-our sleeping area-
I was able to clean our room, wash our clothes, take Coi for his vaccine, go to SM for our Jollibee bonding moment and I even had this chance to do a project for Coi.
I was planning before to buy another set of learning chart for Macoi but I remembered he has flash cards sitting untouched in our cabinet. I decided to use them instead. And here's the output:
What can you say? I had a hard time aligning them all and even harder as Macoi's roaming around trying to remove what was already pasted to the wall. Nevertheless,it was a success. Macoi can now read them before he goes to sleep.
He can now count from 1-10, sings the alphabet, bahay kubo, Barney and Little Einstein's songs though you cannot clearly understand the words he utters. Baby talk stage still. Anyway's he's just turning two(2) this coming June 24, 2010.
Happy Birthday dearest Coi! Momi and Dadi luv u so much and the rest of the family as well.
Every time I have the chance, I do love cleaning, doing some sort of a little home make-over, rearranging stuffs and being kinda creative in some ways. It's giving me a sense of fulfillment seeing the outcome of what I've done after wards.
And so now, I am trying to portray the real role of a housewife. Seldom that I do this coz I'm always out of the house during weekends and I really miss doing things like these.
My list of tasks for today:
1) Clean-up our so called room
2) Arrange my files
3) Sort-out anything in my closet
4) Wash our clothes
5) Take Coi for his Anti-H1N1 vaccine (I had mine yesterday)
6) Do grocery shopping in preparation for Coi's 2nd birthday
7) Have bonding moments with Coi
Hope I can do all these things while also doing tweets and blogs. Nyahaha!
