Hope

When you are on the worst situation, all you can think of are negative things. Which won't really help you get out of the dark. Right now I am on the pit, the lowest. And it does not help that the only person who I can hang on to is so far away from me. I would have wanted him on my side but it would be impractical. But nevertheless, near or far he knows how to encouraged me.

Thank You, Daddy for always being there. Thank you for the words of encouragement. Thank for the unconditional love. And thank you for this picture. Love you.

A Week

It's been a week now since my accident in the grocery. I am struggling physically and psychologically. For a week, we have not yet went out of the house. I am afraid to go out. And I still think I am not capable to be out yet. I still cannot bend my right knee because of pain but I am hoping that soon I would regain its normal movement. And I am keeping my fingers crossed that I don't need surgery. I do not want to talk about what happen but let's just say I took a dive in the grocery because of wet floor in their chicken station. I was an unfortunate victim of carelessness of one of their staff. It does not help that I have joint problems. In addition to that my right arm sometimes hurt like h3ll and even two Hunter ceiling fans would prevent me from perspiring heavily. I always end up soaking wet when the muscle pain comes and it comes in the middle of the night that I have to call for help. Now, I am contemplating that its time I got to hire some help in the house already. I was planning to go out today primarily to send the little girl to school but unfortunately she got a cold and I decided to rest her rest. Oh man, the stress of my situation is getting into me I am feeling a bit negative.

Here's Hoping

For this coming week, I am looking forward to the SLUMBER PARTY of the little girl on Friday night. The result of the 'exam' of the little girl. What exam? You'll know eventually. Working out on the gym if I had no aches.

I am keeping my fingers crossed on the following though and I am really saying a prayer that :

• the SPA that we have would be okay and we can finally get the resignation pay of the husband. It still is a big help for us as it somehow give me breathing space for my expenses
• payment of ALL pending earnings which was promised this week. i hope the fixed would nail it and everything that was promised be delivered. if that happens resignation pay + pending earnings = happy pocket! hahaha.
  

As usual my schedule would include :

• sending and fetching the little girl in school
• after school activity ( an hour a day every day except for Wednesday)
• lab test and visit to an eye doctor
• hopefully MORE WORK! even if it means a little rest, I would still welcome a huge workload just like the ones I am receiving this past couple of weeks.
  

Thank you Lord for all the blessings and the strength to do them!

Why not Gold Coins?

As parents, we always wanted the best for our child. We buy the best clothes, the best toys even if it cost a fortune. I was like that until I realized you can outgrown your clothes and toys. In the end the money you spent will all go to the storage area. haha. That's why I was thinking that instead of expensive toys and clothes, why should I not start collecting gold coins for her. I would still buy her toys but not the expensive ones. Rather I would show her the gold coins so that at an early age she would already have an investor's mind. lol. Should I start to make her look into the United States Gold Bureau and see if she can unearth some more information about the gold market. haha. I bet she can because she is one smart little girl.

Tomorrow

In preparation for their slumber party on Friday, tomorrow Anevay would be going to school in her pajamas. Yes, you read it right, PAJAMA! hahaha. I kept on forgetting about it so now that I wrote it here I am keeping my fingers crossed that I won't forget it. Good thing, I bought her new bedroom slippers. Oh, I am still waiting for the result. I hope and pray I would receive a positive result. Hmmm. Come what may!

It's all because..

I plan to finish all online task this morning. Around 10am I decided to have a 1o minute break. I lay down on bed, after 10 minutes I went back to the desktop only to find that I was disconnected. I tried reconnecting but my modem just won't budge. I called the hotline but my connection was lost already. So, I just decided to go offline, do some cleaning and then we headed to the nearby mall. Went to Mc Do where anevay played and had lunch. After which I told her if I can get my hair cut. She agrees. I spend two hours in the saloon. hahaha. A good break. After the pampering ( foot spa + pedicure + mani cure + hair spa + trim) we went to the grocery. Went home at 5pm, do her work sheet and now I am back online finishing what was left of my unfinished task. I plan to have an early night. I plan to sleep straight and to wake up by 5am. Yes, 5am. Not 3 am or earlier. Hopefully I can do that.

Be Aware

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Don't Talk to Strangers

This is currently the line that I kept on repeating to my daughter. She really is friendly. In fact that is one of the comments I always received from friends and even strangers. She kept on saying hi and introducing herself. She would go to a kid and would say Hi, I am anevay, what's your name? And now she has an additional information. In the drugstore last friday she told a stranger our complete address. Imagine that! I am now regretting the fact that I did teach her our address. hahaha.Anyway, I just have to repeat it to her over and over again that she should not be doing that. Good luck to us!

A Big Improvement

Last night while I am talking about human growth hormone, I am in a state of being half asleep and half awake. haha. I was really so tired but have to finished up because I don't want a lot of backlogs. I want to work as my way of saying thank you for all the blessings that is coming my way. As I said the blessings I am talking about are not only those that has money equivalent but also for friends who are there to help and reach out without expecting anything in return.

Today is no different. A lot of work both online and offline. And to top that, my little girl would like to do work of her own. Imagine after school she was asking me if she can finished her worksheets. The problem is she already finished everything. haha. Good thing I have this Kumon workbook of Upper Case Letter. I gave it to her and would you believe she finished answering it all by herself ? Yes, that's how independent and smart she is. Okay, I am avoiding calling her smart because I don't like branding. But you cannot blame me. Slowly the signs are showing up. Seems like the little one has a brain just like mommy. bwahahaha. Anyway, I am just happy!

Hexagon

I am so embarrassed but I still would write about it in this blog. This is a classic example of our everyday conversation. And a proof how smart Anevay is. Truth, I don't know where her knowledge is coming from. Maybe, she really got my genes.

Today, she was telling me she has to complete her work. She have completed all her worksheet but I left the math one because sometimes she gets tired of counting. And so we did the worksheet. Then she pointed a shape to me which I know she is unfamiliar with. Here is our conversation.

Anevay : Mommy, what shape is this?
Mommy : Hmm, trapezoid.
Anevay : No, mommy it's a hexagon. See it has six sides. Six. 1, 2, 3,4,5,6. See, six. hexagon.

hahaha. I am so proud of my little girl and I am a bit ashamed of myself. haha. Now, I need to update myself with the geometrical shape. Time to review, Milet! ;)

Not So Good Experience

Okay, now I am going to share it to you. The story that really upsets me last month which I thought would require me to have the best acne treatments. It's been a year now since I enrolled Anevay in the Math program of Kumon. I enrolled her at that time because I feel there is not much of a challenge in school for her. And also we wanted her to love numbers. Both the husband and I loathe math. haha. The program requires her to go to the Kumon center twice a week for an hour session. Then everyday we have to answer 10 pages worksheet. It was okay. Until one time last month after her session, I saw her almost close to tears. She said 'Mommy, I am sad. Because teacher told me I am bad.' At first, I did not take notice of it since I was hoping she would forget. Unfortunately the next day, Anevay said that again to me. And so I decided to talk to the owner of the center, who after wards talk to the teacher. And the teacher denied having said those words to Anevay. I just let it be but decided to discontinue Anevay's session with them since she kept on saying she won't go back to Kumon. Seems like she has phobia with the teacher also.

Indulge

I wanted to go shop this weekend. haha. Nothing really extravagant but some supplies here and there. I am still thinking if we will go to SM Marikina since they have a 3 day sale. I wanted to buy the bigger non stick pan. And jeans for the husband plus some baking supplies. I wanted to bake cupcake this coming week for the husband's birthday. But I am having second thought. I wanted to avoid expenses as much as possible because my medical expense is no joke. Every time I buy my one week supply of medicine I spend around 4k. That's a bit big, right? So the money I am earning only goes to meds. But still I am thankful because there is a steady flow of work for me and it somehow supplement my needs. I hope and pray that these type of blessings would keep on coming.

Story telling session

The use of human growth hormone supplements is getting popular nowadays. I wonder what is the effect of it. Anyway, no, it's not my topic on the story telling session I had last Monday on the little girl's class. Unfortunately I have not taken any pictures to post here but I really have fun interacting with the class. The book I read them is Monkey Puzzle.



This is one of the books that the husband bought. I love it because the story was told through rhyming words. It is such a joy to read it aloud and the story is also interesting. It's about a monkey looking for his mom and the butterfly helping out. It turns out the butterfly would show the monkey different animals based on the monkey's description of her mom. In the end, they realized that the butterfly have a hard time figuring out who the mom is because she does not look like her baby.

Eagerly Awaiting

When I was young and it's time for the announcement of the top 3 I would always chastised my mom when she would brag about me being a top 1 student. haha. Ironic, isn't it? I would tell her not to announce that to the world especially if I don't still have the medal in my hand. That's always been our story since elementary to high school. haha. Since I don't like that, I am now practicing some form of restrain when it comes to my little girl. There are times when I wanted the whole world to know her accomplishments but remembering how embarrassed I feel when Mom is doing that to me. But now, there is this result I am eagerly awaiting. I don't want to tell because I might jinxed it. But I am wishing that the talk about it would come soon. And with positive result. If that's the case I would be a very proud and happy momma.

Which Way?

I am now seriously contemplating on what to do so that I can have a fast weight loss. I am really serious because I have a feeling that my blood pressure would go down if my weight would go down as well. So, I am thinking should I stick with no rice, no pork only fruit and veggies diet and go to the gym or should I go the easy and fast way through diet pills and fat burner. Does fat burner work? Are they really effective? I cannot find the right answer for now. But I am sure of this though. For the next two weeks before my check up, I would concentrate on feeding myself with healthy stuff only. Fruits and vegetables. I think I would also enroll myself in the gym. That way, while waiting for the little girl to finished her activity (which is a good one hour) I can do something worthwhile rather than just sitting and reading ebooks. haha.

Dividing Time

I thought when I was still employed and having different task here and there I would never get busier and be in so much stressed. I was wrong. In my current situation I barely have time to breath. In the morning before the 'break of dawn', I would get up, say my prayer, do some exercise and then work. Yeah just before 5am. After wards all h3ll break loose. haha. Cooking, preparing school stuff etc. etc. By 7:30 the little girl and I should be all bathe and dressed up. Because the school bus will arrived. I would spend until around 9am in school, then run errands (go to the market, grocery, banks, clinic etc) until 10:30. That's my time to go back to the little one's school. After lunch she has after school activities. When it's done sometimes we go to a play place where I let her play for an hour. That really put a smile in her face. Of course, arriving at home I still have to cook for dinner. After dinner and the little girl is sound asleep just like tonight, I work. I am thankful that God is giving me the energy to do all this things. I am fortunate also to have a kind, considerate and loving daughter who knows how to take care of mommy even if she is just four years old. And I thank those who are helping me along the way.

For them

I am in a scary state right now. My kidney has now been affected by LUPUS. Something that luckily I was able to elude this past nine years of having the disease but unfortunately this time LUPUS got me. But I am fighting. Fighting the complications for my husband and Anevay. Right now, I am bent on living the healthy life by eating only fruits and vegetables. I have sworn off pork already. I think it's been a month now that I have not eaten it. I can now successfully say that I don't drink Coke anymore. No matter how big the urge is. Just thinking about its effect on me makes me not like it.

Also, I am on the road to my weight loss goal. I need to shed off the pounds because my blood pressure does not want to go down. That's why I am searching for the answer on this question what is three best dfiet pill on the market? And I found the answer I might try one of them.

But for now, I can proudly say that I am right on track. Hopefully I would have the sustaining power to do it. Well, I guess this time I have because I will always think that I am doing this because I wanted to live longer for my family.

The Week's Almost Over

Imagine it's midweek already. I felt like I have not yet done anything extraordinary for this week. Yeah, I was able to go to the market, grocery, clean the house everyday, cook but I still wanted to do more. If I am not doing any housework be sure that I am on the side of the study table of the little one and we are having our teaching session. She is fond of calling me 'Teacher Mommy'. haha. I love how she now would really asked me to start our session. One time after school she said, 'Mommy, I wanna do my worksheets'. She has now the initiative. And then this afternoon she seems tired so I was telling her to rest but she won't give in. She said she want to finished up. Oh my, my very studious baby! I am so proud of her.

Wanna Shop!

Am itching to shop. haha. From lingerie to PJs of the little girl. I also wanted to buy her some additional clay and clay molder. But the problem is, I am on a thrift mode. I have to prevent myself from spending if I wanted to accomplish something before the year ends. Not to mention that we have tons of expenses this coming holiday. Oh, I also need some funds just in case we are going to Kuwait. I planned to shop there. haha. Hopefully I can also come up with funds for my gift for the husband. Hmm. Right now, I am so sleepy I can't find the thoughts to write. So, I have to rest first. And I am thanking my stars that my little one seems to be recovering and going the right direction. Thank you Lord!

Sick Day!

Just when I though everything is going okay, the little girl throw up her dinner plus the wafer she eat for snack. It's nice that she went to the bathroom and throw up there. I think it's because of the phlegm. But she does not have fever anymore Thank God. The cough and colds are coming though. Currently monitoring her and am keeping my fingers crossed that there would be no more vomiting incident. I am just thinking what to feed her because I know after throwing up her stomach is empty. She is not yet complaining though. So we are on the waiting game. I am praying she would be well already.

Preparing for Education

I am still thinking if I am going to move the little one to the 'big school' next year. By next year she would be 5 years old but on July. So I am not sure if my prospect school for her would accept her already. For now, I am still scouting good quality school near our place. I don't want to enroll her on an exclusive school, same sentiment goes to my husband. While scouting for school, I just realized how high tuition fee is right now. A year would cost you an arm and leg, it's like when you buy gold bullion. But both are important, right? Good education would give you a better future, a solid investment that cannot be taken away. Just like gold bullion. Only you have to make sure you study the gold market very well so that you know when to buy and when to sell. That particular task and many other information can be found at the usgoldbureau.com. So visit that site if you plan to dwell in the gold market.

Card Day

As I have previously blogged last Saturday was card day for the little girl. I did not expect much since I don't want to be disappointed. I have learned that from last year. Anyway, I arrived in school at 8:30 after leaving the little girl on my brother's house. Unfortunately, some parents have misunderstand the letter and thought they can drop by anytime. They did not give importance to the pep talk. So the school staff were scrambling to text every body when I arrived. By 9am, we somehow managed to have some attendance.

The talk was nice. The head mistress was able to point out some of her concerns. Like wearing ids, attendance, and if we are confused with the letter sounds we just let them teach the children to avoid confusion. Then, she told the story about one of their students being able to read the word FAN through phonics. You see, they put labels on stuff in school like oven, door, bin, fan etc. So one morning that student was in front of the fan. They were are surprised when she read FAN by using the letter sound. And you know who the student is ? My one and only little girl -- ANEVAY. haha. I am one proud mama.

After the pep talk I talked to the teacher of Anevay. I let her talk because I was so speechless about what she was saying. One thing stick to my mind, Anevay is smart. They were just amazed at her development. During their exam week, according to them, they do not need to supervise her. She just sat on the table and finished her exam perfectly! haha. And her teacher were amazed when instead of coloring the clouds blue which is an ordinary thing to do for kids Anevay colored the surroundings blue and left the clouds white. They were really surprised. haha.

Well, there goes my baby. So proud. But we have another challenge coming up next week, whatever the outcome, I am very proud of her for reaching that point!

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Exhausted

Really I am busy right now. As if I am juggling a lot of task and I feel like I do have an 8 to 5 job. Ever since Monday or weekend, I have been working non stop in front of the computer. I am thankful really because I can beefed up my medical funds. Right now since my LUPUS is out of control, my expenses is sky rocketing! Both in buying medicines, laboratory test and of course for the food I eat. I need to focus on cooking healthy meals. Now, how I wish it was otherwise. I wish the money I am working on can be used to buy Ulysse Nardin Macho Palladium timepiece that I saw at lussori.com. It would be a great gift for a great man -- my husband. I saw a lot of classic timepieces at the said site and how I wish I can buy one as a birthday gift. Well, for now I know the greatest gift I can give my husband would be working on my health.

Card Day Tomorrow

I would be attending the card day tomorrow in Anevay's school. I am not excited since it's not my first time and the first time was not was I expected. Last year, we were given a card that I think contains ten pages. Yes, it looks like a book! At first I was so excited to look into it. But my heart feel down when I saw that most of those that they put in there were just for a show. You can easily see that they don't assessed their students properly. For example there is a part there that says, Knows the alphabet already. The teachers put in I think the letter A which stands for we have not done that already. This only shows that they really are not a progressive school. If they are they would have written another letter there since when I enrolled Anevay she is quite familiar with the alphabets already. Well, that was last year. And that's one of the reason why I transferred my little girl. Imagine paying such a high tuition fee because they say they are progressive and they end up being traditional is such a waste of hard earned money. Now, I am looking forward to the talk tomorrow. Let's see!