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My Precious Baby

My eldest son, Ken, is already 7 years old when I got pregnant again with JOAQUI. It was a high risk and difficult pregnancy for me. I experience bleeding on my first trimester up to the eight month before I gave birth. I was always in the hospital due to occasional cramps that I am going through.  My OB-Gynecologist advised me to have a bed rest for a couple of months or until my condition gets really well. My loving husband took care of me while he’s at home before going to work, as well as my mom but she doesn’t live in our house, she just visits me from time to time and relatives who live nearby. They made sure that everything I need is not just a step away, but exactly beside my bed. But of course, I can’t avoid the situation that I had to get up because I have a 7-year old son who’s going to school every morning. Of course I am a mom and I can’t just be lying in bed while my son needs me to button down his school uniform and prepare his cereal in the morning. It’s not a he...
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You Are Invincible, Queen! Happy International Women's Month.

Don't look at the surface. There is more to that. There's more to this apparently friendly, cheerful, and strong woman than meets the eye. She handles almost everything on her own. There are times when she feels that the world is on her shoulders but she always choose to endure it without passing the burden to anybody else. She trained herself to put the "happy mask" on when she has to face the world outside because she knew that everybody around her is sticking their nose into her life waiting for her downfall. She wouldn't give that kind of satisfaction to them. She trained herself to find positivity amidst every negative situation. She tries to find solution instead of playing the whining and blaming game. And what's good about her? She's happy seeing other people happy. She loves to be surrounded by happy people who she thinks will help her uplift her spirit. She got betrayed so many times by the people she trusted too much, by the people she shared he...

Post Birthday Self Reflection

It has been 25 days after my birthday and as usual, adulthood has eaten me alive. I saw a post from a page asking "What would you like to tell to your younger self?" Instead of answering this long to the comment section, I decided to blog about it. Here it goes: Dear Younger Self, You should’ve finish your studies instead of engaging to premarital sex at the age of 16 and got pregnant at 18. Keep your promises to your parents no matter how hard it takes because you’re gonna feel guilty about it. Though you wouldn’t regret having 3 kids in the future, but you’re going to wish for a better and more comfortable life with a bigger house of your own, emergency money in the bank and an SUV. So, you gotta be thrifty. Spend your teenage years by trying a lot of adventures with your friends instead of working like a dog at an early age of 15. Well, I know the universe didn’t give you any choice. Anyways, expect yourself to be one badass woman when you grow older. You’ll be a s...

Unusual Fathers Day Celebration

I know I have to let it out, so please bear with me. I am a happy person. My husband and I are both happy people. We’re raising 3 happy, cheerful, silly children.  Today is fathers day. Exactly a week before, we’re planning on how to spend this day. Whether we will just eat out at night, or he’ll take a day off and watch movie with the family, or a simple food trip and Netflix series marathon at home. We couldn’t make up our minds.  He went to work on a Saturday, night shift. I was so exhausted because I spent a whole day of selling our pre-loved clothes but I managed to make a simple video greeting for him before I finally sleep.  6am, I was still asleep when my phone rang. I got a call from him telling me to follow him to the hospital because his abdominal pain is unbearable. He was on duty. The company rescue car brought him to the nearest hospital. I did my best to be there in no time. I brushed my teeth, washed my face in seconds, woke my eldest and told him ...

Sweet Escape to Canyon Woods

My husband and I have been married for almost 20 years and we haven’t got a chance to indulge in an overnight staycation with just the two of us. Maybe one of the reasons is we’re too afraid to be away from the kids even just for one night so we don't really push it through.  Last February of 2018, (as you notice, this is a long post overdue), my blogger friend Mommy Levy Blogger launched a contest in time for her birthday which I luckily won. The prize is a staycation for two at Canyon Woods Resort Club with breakfast.  Yes, I won! I found out that I won from a neighbor who sent me a message because that day was so exhausting, I couldn't even spare a minute to touch my phone. I was so stressed out to the point that I almost wanted to cry, so imagine my reaction when I found out that I won an overnight staycation just by liking, subscribing and sharing a Facebook post. The voucher is valid until April 30, 2018. We still had three months to plan...

I do not aim to blend. I wished to be remembered.

I am not the type of person who exerts effort and try to blend in because I know what I want and I know who I am. I just want to be okay with everybody. And okay means no exceptions, no pressure, no demands, no negativity, no dramas. Chill, cheerful and steady. I only wish to be valued, to be appreciated, and to always be remembered by the people that I Iaughed with and spent special moments with, through good times and bad times. Because if you would get a chance to know me better and be closer to me, you would know how much I value people. You’ll see and feel my sincerity.  I’ve got a very few trusted friends whom I never get a chance to spend time with as much as I want to simply because we already have our own priorities but whenever I need them, they are always one chat away. Though I know I can manage to be alone and most of the time I opted to be alone and be independent, I still want people to remember me at happy times. How I’ve touched their lives and how I made them sm...

Let's Get It Started

First in 2019. Yes, I’ve got plans, I have a few wishes, but I completely surrender eveything to Him. I know I don’t have the power to make everything possible and all of the things in my favor. I just have to trust His plans, and his will, however it may be. I just want Him to walk beside me and remind me constantly that I can, that I am strong enough to get through it. 🙏 2019 Planner from Mercury Drug

Encourage Kind Behavior

When can I accept the reality that there will be kids who will look at my son with special needs, and whisper at each other then giggle? I know they are still kids but I hope that there will also be parents who would have the initiative to teach their children the awareness and compassion, kindness, patience and understanding towards kids with special needs, with visible disability or not, because there will always be kids like Joaqui in our society, whether at the malls, in  school, at the church, at the grocery especially in your neighborhood who has parents that will get hurt and deeply pained when their kids are being laughed at. Let us teach our children to learn the value of special friendships. Let us encourage kind behavior. It is never too early to teach our children about being nice at all times. They may not yet verbalize it, but they can understand it. I don't want to see any more special needs children being laughed at and bullied by other children. I’m a mom, and thi...