An Act of Kindness

It feels good when you do something good to others. may it be a small or a big thing, the fact that you made others happy and I mean really happy, all the sacrifices and efforts you've done will pay off. Hubby & I recently gave a very nice surprise to our loved ones. I'm just glad that God continues to touch my heart despite of some pains I had to encounter in the process. God is really good!

Raising A Bilingual Kid

When I was still conceiving with the princess, hubby and I decided that we will speak to her in English. Simply because we believe that it has it's advantage and we know for sure that her, learning the Filipino language will come naturally. True enough, she can understand and speak Filipino as well because her yaya and my in-laws speaks to her in Filipino. I was happy that she can understand both languages because we know she will benefit from it.

I heard a friend's story about her daughter whom they trained to strictly speak in English language, is now having a hard time in school specifically in her Filipino Subject. The other day, when I brought the princess to her pedia for a regular check up, I noticed one mommy lecturing her daughter some Filipino words. The little girl was obviously having a hard time. When I talked to the mom, she said that her daughter's having a hard time in her Filipino subject.

I think teaching my princess both Filipino and English language will be beneficial to her. When she started attending classes at Gymboree, she didn't have a hard time following instructions given in English. Now I am sure the her learning our native language will give her an easier time when she started going to classes with Filipino subject. Not to mention we are Filipinos and she should learn to speak and understand the language.

I noticed lately she was playing with some words both in English and Filipino. It was raining in the afternoon and she called my attention saying; "mom, tam i show you, dey is baby dey outside (mom, come i'll show you, there is baby there outside)". I told her it's impossible coz it's raining and she tried to convince me by saying "tam, look dey baby o, bata, baby, bata, see dey? (come, look there, baby o)". And while she was playing with her kitchen set, she said "mommy, mo more chichen toy you, la na o, mo more na (mommy, no more chicken for you, la na o, no more na)". And sometimes when she's saying "stop", she would also say "wag".

Isn't He Sweet?

(the card says)

Mommy

My love for you is ever growing. Each day, each night, you are always by my side. Let's grow our love together.

I Love you

Daddy

He sent me this icard, maybe he felt that I wasn't feeling okay yesterday. I didn't tell him about it, I didn't want to add pressure on him, he's busy working for us. Giving us a comfortable life so I didn't want to bother him with my selfish sentiments.

Feeling low

Do you have this kind of day when you're just feeling low? I do. I woke up today feeling so low. I felt like I haven't done much except taking care of my princess and making sure that hubby's needs are taken care of as well. Don't get me wrong, I've no regrets about it, in fact I love doing it. It's just that I feel like there are more things I can do while attending to their needs. I'd like to do something that would make me feel better. I'd like to be busy with other things and at the same time look after my princess. I wish I could come up to some business ideas that would really keep me occupied. Something that would be for a long term but wouldn't eat all my time so I will not be having a hard time dividing my time for my family and the business.

A Decision Made

I just had a serious talk with hubby. After months and months of searching for answers on whether I will continue to take my NCLEX and pursue my career in the US, I finally had the answer now.

Let me share with you some reasons why I wanted to try our luck in the US. Personally, I wanted to pursue my career, I am fulfilled as a house mommy but I also wanted to experience the fulfillment of sharing something financially to our family and being a nurse there would mean having a better pay. I wanted to secure a better future for my princess and future kids, she/they'll have more opportunities there and we could always come back here in case things doesn't work well for us there.

We carefully thought of the HUGE adjustments that we will make in case we decided to try our luck in another country.

-No Household help, we will definitely have to share the household chores since I will no longer be a SAHM.

-It will be very hard for us to have the regular "dates" that we normally do here.

-I can't devote the same amount of time that I am giving them now simply because I'll be at work for 8 or 12 hours, and most probably it will mostly be at night.

-We might end up having to leave our li'l princess in a day care when our schedules will not meet.

Aside from the idea that special occasions will never be the same because we don't have relatives & friends to invite there, the last one is what really hits me. I can't imagine leaving my princess to a stranger, someone I don't know. I have nothing against day care, I know that I'll b fine when I get used to it, but it's just so hard for me to take the idea.

Now, if we stay here, hubby has a stable job. Stable enough that I can still afford to be a SAHM and I'm enjoying it coz I don't know if I can say the same when we decided to go have another child.

The decision? We will STAY HERE... I'm not sure if this is final but right now, we will definitely stay.

As to the fulfillment of my career, I can give that up if it means being able to spend each day with my princess and being able to attend to my family's needs. Right now, I'm thinking of venturing into a small business.

Does She Have a Sharp Memory?

My princess is growing really fast (she's 26 months now) and I'm proud to say she's a smart little girl. It seems to me that she has a good memory, she's very observant & loves discovering things. She knows a lot of Nursery Rhymes now. Although her words aren't that clear yet, she knows most of the lines from the songs. Here are some of it that she knows; (these are what I can recall so far)

Jesus Loves Me
I Love You Song (Barney's theme)
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Mr. Sun
Baa Baa Black Sheep
The Alphabet Song
Skip to My Lou
Row Row Row Your Boat
Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat
My Toes, My Knees...
Me and My Teddy
You Are My Sunshine
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Itsy Bitsy Spider
The More We Get Together
Old McDonald
One Two Buckle My Shoe
Rain Rain Go Away
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
The Wheels On the Bus
Ring Aroung the Rosie
Dora The Explorer Songs
Backyardigans Theme and some songs
Songs from her Gymboree class

When we're praying at night, I wouldn't have to remind her the names of our loved ones that we're praying for. I was surprised to hear her count from 1-20 the other day while she was playing with her blocks (I know it's not too much but I'm still proud of her). Every time she watches her favorite shows, which has a lot of episodes, she can recall the next scenes even without looking at the screen. She knows how to operate her DVD player and I wouldn't be surprise if one day she'll be able to use my laptop too. I was wondering if she really has a sharp memory or it's just normal for her age.

The Curious Princess

Last week I was going to install a new software in my laptop, when I inserted a cd the optical disc drive, it didn't function. I was so disappointed to know that my less than one year old laptop is encountering problem like this. Hubby and I agreed to bring it to the Apple Service Center next week. The other day, hubby was trying some feature on my mobile phone and he replaced the sim card, I placed it on top of my laptop. I went out of the room to get something and when I came back here was the conversation I was hearing from hubby & the princess;

Hubby: What have you done? Lagot ka sa mommy. (hubby was trying to get something inside the optical disc drive)

Princess: Daddy o, dey o, look. (there o, look)

Yes, my li'l Princess inserted my sim card inside. I tried to get it too when hubby gave up but I didn't succeed as well and I was crying already while trying to get it. Hubby said he'll bring it to the service center.

The little Princess did what she had to do to make me stop from crying by saying
"Toyi mommy, toyi po." while giving me a tap on my back. What kind of mother am I if I woudn't forgive my curios child? so I just gave her a hug and she gave me a kiss.

That night, hubby arrived with my laptop and he told me what went on. When the man from the service center came back with my laptop, he gave the memory card to hubby, he was surprised to see that and said, there's also a sim card inside so he asked him to open it again. In short, the optical disc drive is ok, there was just the memory card inside preventing it from functioning right.

The culprit? who else but the li'l princess.