Posted in Family, Motherhood and parenting, life outside work on Oct 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
Yesterday, on my way home from work, the mother of one of my Ates (I call my yayas “Ate”) informed me through a text message that her father is in Manila and will leave for Samar (where they live) this Saturday. The sad part is, he wants to fetch his daughter and bring her home [...]
Posted in Family, Motherhood and parenting on Sep 30th, 2008 No Comments »
My mom’s eldest sister and her family were here last Sunday. Naturally, we also stayed at my mom’s. you see, we have a big family (angkan talaga since my mom alone has 9 siblings, not counting her four half sisters) and whenever we visit each other, we make it a point to stay together for [...]
Posted in Food, Motherhood and parenting, My Hubby Bong on Sep 26th, 2008 3 Comments »
When I was but a school girl in pigtails, my mom used to pack our merienda bags (I remember mine was the red, square-shaped plastic kind with Star Wars in front. It has its own juice jug, too! J) with mamon or cheese cupcake from Alvarez Bakeshop, a local bakeshop with a branch in nearby [...]
Posted in books, life outside work on Aug 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
Got myself a used copy of Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate via ebay, and yesterday, was able to read the whole thing. again. I remember reading it the first time when I was so much younger courtesy of my ninang solly. (i think i was only on my 1st year in high school at [...]
Posted in Family, Motherhood and parenting on Jul 21st, 2008 No Comments »
It does not matter whether it’s a few hours, a few days, weeks, months, years or decades, even. Once you decide to be a mother, you become one and your life ceases to be what it once was.
Just recently, one of my college friends who just gave birth to her twins lost one of them. [...]
Posted in Motherhood and parenting on Jun 3rd, 2008 3 Comments »
Today’s my 36th week, but my OB Gyn friend and I already agreed on my date with the stork. It will be this Friday, June 6 at 8 in the morning. I originally intended it to be on the following day but there will be a conflict in skeds so we settled for Friday. This [...]
Posted in Family, Motherhood and parenting on Feb 18th, 2008 2 Comments »
Last Saturday, Feb. 16, was the first time in two weeks that I was able to hold my Jeremy. He had german measles/rubella which prevented me from taking care of him. I have to protect this little one inside me, too, and if I am not careful, the complications arising from a congenital rubella will [...]
Posted in Family, Motherhood and parenting on Oct 28th, 2007 2 Comments »
well, what do you know?
for close to two years, we waited to get pregnant, and in june this year, i gave birth to our handsome baby boy. needless to say, it was a rather difficult pregnancy since there were complications and i had to take tons of medicines to ensure that he’d be ok.
now, close [...]
Posted in Family, Motherhood and parenting on Jul 15th, 2007 No Comments »
Today, July 15, 2007, is another important milestone, not just for my son, Jeremy David, but for all of us, as well, for we all welcomed him to the Christian world. We were supposed to have him baptized two weeks ago during his first month, but as luck would have it, Bong had two singing [...]
Posted in Family, Motherhood and parenting on Jul 10th, 2007 No Comments »
A lot.
People have been asking me why we named our baby boy Jeremy David. Well, the Jeremy part, I have already written about here in a previous entry. Why then David?
Ate Kara actually favored Daniel over David. Nice name, alright. But I thought, it had to be significant to this baby who we consider God’s [...]
