huling hirit ng st. james class

 

last sunday was pentecost sunday. we were scheduled to go to mass at mega with the Rivers community, then outing with our class. but because we came home late the night before we decided not to join the swimming, and just eat lunch with them. i was afraid bea might get sick since she didn’t get enough sleep and  she had booster shots the day before.

we arrived late. as always. after the mass the class of st james gathered and went off the taytay to sister mila’s place. she is our hostess for the afternoon. we brought happi, our yellow van and lent the other gas, the blue van… why happi? she’s bright yellow, the color of happiness… why gas? kasi ang daming gasgas… hahaha!

when we arrived there, other sisters were helping sis mila prepare the food. it was a feast! seafoods, veggies and fruits galore.  it was a chance to bond with classmates. grabe! sira ang diet. good thing the served only “good food”

after lunch, they went off to club manila east to swim, we begged off saying bea was tired already.

fun day .

bea’s check up for may

last saturday, we went to st luke’s for bea’s monthly checkup. good thing we were really scheduled that day since bea’s was running a slight fever. we left the house just before 4 and arrived there at around past five. it had started to rain. good thing though that we were the next patient already. this is a rare thing since most of the time even if we arrive late, the corridor would be full of waiting kids, moms and dads.

when the pedia weighed her, she told us that instead of gaining weight, bea lost some. bad news for us. last month we were so happy since her weight was already within the normal bracket… and now she’s slipped back to being underweight.

we were given new meds again for the vomiting, and the doc changed some of her vitamins. plus now we were to try feeding her upright. (now that’s a challenge and so far we have yet to succeed… she’s still being force fed through a syringe)

i hope the meds will work. she’s susceptible to vomiting especially during morning feedings. the doc thinks that her tummy probably produces more acid since during the night there is no food intake. hence the new meds.

she also had her hepa b booster. the fever, accdg to the pedia, was due to her molars still trying to come out. her gums are so swollen already.

after her check up we went to greenhills to take care of some errands. we left bea and ayi maymay in the van for a feeding. after we had dinner at Ling Nam. we all had noodles and  siopao. bea was showing no signs of being tired and sleepy, happily walking around the restaurant chatting with the waiters.

went home late, feeling so tired and sleepy… pero enjoy =)

 

saying farewell to summer

sigh, rain drops at last! well actually last night we experience a downpour. that’s why i’m home now… feeling sick.

 i really feel happy when it’s raining, as long as i’m already home with my loved ones. i remember having this feeling when we were still living on our own in cainta. sure, the ceiling is dripping, sure it’s also raining in our bathroom…but  i just love the feeling of being in the comforts of your home, in the arms of

someone you love. bed weather as they say. (wink!)

well, here’s saying farewell to summer… and hello typhoon time!

 

 

a scrap to remember a summer outing with the family

i dont know yet if bea will learn to love the rain as well… my brave girl is not afraid of the thunder and lightning as of yet.

i guess this is a good sign.

belated happy mama’s day

i got too busy last week to post
anything about mother’s day. my mom’s in heaven already anyway, so she knows how
i feel about her exactly. this will be the ninth year that my mama left us for
heaven. sure a lot has changed in me since then. i’ve gotten married, started my
own family, gone out on adventures and what-not. but when i think about my mom,
there is still that bunso in me who longs for her physically, emotionally. there
is no problem, no sorrow, so bad news that can’t be remedied by my mom’s hugs
and kisses and warm choco and walang-katuturang chats in the kitchen. she has a
particular smell i miss. it’s not her perfume, it’s not a bad smell, but a
familiar, comforting smell. when i hug her and dig my face into her tummy, her
duster would smell of the day’s ulam, perspiration, and a hint of her fave brand
of laundry detergent. she’d feel like home,family, happy happy place.

gosh, i miss my mom. i don’t visit her
grave often coz it reminds me of my loss.  i don’t talk about it a
lot anymore. i feel others would think this is old news already. but you never
really outgrow grieving for a parent. you move on, yes, you try to make sense of
your life, occasionally you think “if she were still alive today, would she
approve? would she be proud?”, sometimes you talk to her in your head, hoping
she’s answer sometimes…but you never really forget about that empty spot in
your heart that still aches whenever you’ve had a particularly hard day, and you
go home looking for solace and …you find none.

my mom always made everything feel
better. her mere presence meant a lot. her wise words, her infectious laughter,
her wacky antics, not to mention her ability to invent words, hence our “mamasaurus”.
she was supermom.

happy mother’s day mama. you are still
terribly missed and deeply loved.

the heat is still on

yesterday, on the way home, i heard from the radio that
we now have our first typhoon for this year, named Amang. i look around me and i
find nothing much has changed…weather-wise. sure there were rainshowers here
and there these past few days, but OMG the heat is still unbearable! good enough
if the office A/C units can handle their task of cooling hundreds of  warm
bodies (not to mention the hot-headed ones), then i get home and i feel like i’m
in the equator! it is just too hot! i turn on the electric fan full blast, and i
feel more hot since only warm air is produced and blown on my face! arghh! the
only solution is to take a cold shower… haaay…  but by the time i get
out of the shower, perspiration start to trickle down my neck again.

no wonder bea finds in hard to sleep. grabe these past
few days! she’d toss and turn at night. trying to find a good position. of
course i’d wake up coz when she’d toss and turn, her arms and legs would flail
about. being the one beside her, i’d be the recipient of these flails. hay, i
wish we had aircon. too expensive… not the unit itself but its effect of the
electricity bill. haaay, ang hirap mabuhay sa tropical country.

after a few days/weeks, rain will start, storms will
come, floods would arise, and the already hypertension-causing traffic in the
metro will worsen up a notch. hay welcome to the Philippines.

random things i learned today:

it pays to know a bit about the law.

a lot of people are actually not working 9-5…as evidenced by the gym
population at 10:30 am

a person can sneak in front of you in a line, and still look you in the eye
as if nothing is wrong

trying to live a healthy life can be a bit pricey

an officemate actually has dreams of writing tagalog novels. ( i never
would’ve thought!)

hubby can be a great gym instructor… (hmmm. a career option!)

the single day i was more powerful than lacson, cayetano, aquino and others…

i woke up this morning feeling slightly
sad. tomorrow is back to work day. how negative huh? greeting a wonderful day
with sadness.

then i turn to my daughter beside me…
happily babbling to herself… and i realize, today is an important day for her,
today we vote for her future.

I wanted to vote early, but hubby was
still relishing the last  day of vacation so he’s sleeping in.

we got to vote at around 2:30, just a
few minutes before the precincts closed.

i won’t tell who i voted for, but know
that they were well thought of. i chose not the really popular candidates but
those whom i really believed in.

there were some candidates whom i know
will not make it to the magic 12, but i voted for them anyway. i believe in them
and i just know that with them, my vote will count, win or no win.

i just feel bad for those who opted not
to vote, because they thought that no matter who they vote for, the cheaters
will win anyway, so why bother. i feel really sad for these people.

they are passing up on the only day
they are more powerful than any politician in our country. today we get to
choose who will serve us. today we get to decide who will shape our future by
making laws.

our chosen ones may not all win, but at
least we gave them our support, and at the end of the day, we did our part in
the electoral process. we did our part as Filipinos.