A tweet from someone I follow makes my heart bleed. This is what I have read and my reply:
I am a mother, sometimes I brought along my kids with me because I have no one in the house to look after them if I leave them at home. It is so hard to find a house-help nowadays, especially those who you can trust with your children’s welfare. Reading this tweet makes my heart bleed because I am a mother and I know how hard it is to be one, aside from that, I was once a kid and yes we throw tantrums anywhere, we don’t choose the place.
It is hard being a mother, it is hard to take care of the family, to take care of the kids while doing household chores, to make ends meet, to take care of the budget and everything else. Then you would read something like this. I love my children and even if they do stupid/clumsy things in public, I love them still more dearly. They are young, clumsy, and sometimes they don’t know that it isn’t right to act up and show tantrums in public. We were there, once in our life, we should know better. Mothers shouldn’t be judged, people should not tell us where we should bring our children and where we should not bring them. As for me, I always bring my kids along wherever I go.
My son is enjoying his summer vacation even though he just spend it at home. He is fond of playing his PSP, DOTA in my PC, hotwheels and matchboxes, hide and seek with our neighbors and slipper games too.
I always check his playing time because I don’t want him to play with his PSP and PC more than 5 hours every day. I ask him to color his coloring books, I also ask him to play with his miniature cars (hotwheels, matchboxes and tomica). Sometimes I tell my little brother to call on our neighbors so that they can play hide and seek (sometimes they need a name tag because my son forgets their name easily) , slipper game and biking around the front yard.
I love eating chocolates and so are my brothers. Even my son loves eating chocolates (good luck to his teeth). Just recently, Mom brought these home:
We have to divide it equally among us and this is my share. Being a blogger that I am, I can’t help it but take a picture of my share and post it here.
When I ate a part of my share, I have found this at the back:
I have been a long-time FAN of Hershey’s Chocolate but I didn’t know that they are sending the less-fortunate kids to school before, until now. I am fortunate because my parents can afford to send me to school, and my kids are fortunate because I can provide for their school needs too. I am not paid by Hershey’s Chocolate to campaign for them nor I have received free products from them. I just love their chocolate so much and I have realized also that by buying them I could help send children to school, ain’t that just great? If you are a chocolate eater or chocolate monster like myself, try Hershey’s if you haven’t yet. They taste awesome!
My son is purely breastfed up until he was 2 years and 3 months old. When my breast stopped producing milk, I had no choice but to let him drink formula milk, and I have chosen Nido JR. When he was 3 years old, we changed his milk to Nido 3+ and now that he turned 5, we changed his milk to Nido 5+.
Why did I chose Nido? I chose it because I just felt it was the right milk for my son, and mothers always knows best. Nido tastes good and it has the right nutrients that my child needs.
What’s INSIDE NIDO 5+ ?
Lactobacillus Protectus – live active good microorganisms
Calci-N – a source of milk-derived calcium
Vitamins and Minerals – calcium, selenium, zinc, vitamin A, C and E are important vitamins and minerals needed by children
DHA – an essential omega 3 fatty acid found in the retina and brain
My father has been planning to buy a Montero Sport GLX-V for so long and finally he has the money to buy his dream car. Our next problem was the color, my brother downloaded this picture in the internet so we could choose the color that we would like: The problem arises then, because my mother wants the cool silver, while my brother wanted claysoil beige and my father wants gemstone grey mica. I hope we will not argue with what kind of fuel to use when we need to re-fuel our Montero Sport GLX-V though I doubt if we could choose Auto7 electric fuel pump.
I will be making a blog post if ever our new car will arrive next week.
Aside from calling my daughter Baby G, I have decided that her nickname shall be “Rai-Rai”. My first choice was “Ayah” but her father’s mother (which is her grandmother or also called “Ama”) wont allow us to call her with that name because “Ayah” in Chinese means “Big Brother”. Moreover, my mom wont allow us to call her “Shobe” because it means youngest sister and she believes that Gerayah will not be our youngest (hahaha).
Last April 8, 2012, we welcomed baby Joanna Gerayah to the Christian World. She was baptized by our Parish Priest Fr. Yrap Nazareno. She had four godfather and four godmother.
This is Rai-Rai’s Christening invitation which was made by her father’s best friend:
I did choose the design and the photo to be used but he did all the rest.
And these are the giveaways during her Christening:
Rai-Rai’s father and my mom chose these cute little girl figurines and I just put the tags on them.
And of course, a very important thing that is needed for the Christening are the candles, we chose bigger ones and I have tied pink ribbons on them:
I listened to Sister Gloria during the seminar that is why we bought big candles rather than the small and cheaper ones.
These are the things we have prepared a week before Rai-Rai’s Christening.
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I just gave birth to my second child last March 17, 2012 and nothing feels different. I am still ME, I still have the heart of a child who believes in dreams and hopes for the best in life, I still think that I am young, that age is just a number, and I still think that I have a lot of things to learn from my mom (or other moms out there) to become better in my profession as a mother, myself.
I have been a mother for 5 years already to my eldest, JB, and yes I can proudly say that I did my BEST to be a good mother and father to him at the same time. I was a single-mother and I am still now, because I am not yet married, but somehow I can say that this time around it’s a different story. I now have someone who can help me raise my two kids; I already have someone who can help me show them the right and only way to become a good person in the future.
I am a proud mother again, to my daughter baby G. And I am a proud mother, still, to my eldest child JB. Though I have two children now, my love is undivided; instead it is multiplied by two. My love for my first-born hasn’t changed, I know that it shouldn’t be, and my love for my daughter is just the same for my son. Being a mother of two, nothing has changed, I am still a mother, I am still me, and I am still striving to become the BEST MOM for them.
My son just turned 5, and I still can’t believe that it was fast approaching. By now, he’s into toys, playing PSP, watching cartoons and just being a kid. Soon, he will become a teen, finish high school and get into college and meet some girls. After that, he will get a career that he wants, might be having a business of his own or enter the corporate world. By then, I know that getting a mens leather briefcase for him will be a perfect gift that I can give. I’m sure that whatever career path he’ll choose he’s going to use it wherever he goes.
HAPPY 5th BIRTHDAY JB!
Yes, my son turned five today and I never thought that children could grow up so quickly. It felt like yesterday we celebrated his 1st birthday and now, he is five. I am busy for the preparation, so I will just make another post about his day next time. This is just a quick and short post to greet him.
