My Farm Girl

We spent our Easter Sunday at our house in Bulacan. Bela usually refers to our house here as our farm and every time we are here, she always have a grand time.

She tries to plant some flower, she picks fruits from our trees, and she even sleeps in a hammock under our mango tree. She is certified to be one farm girl. LOL.

I can see that Bela is growing up to be like her dad who has a love for nature and is never scared of any adventure. As a mom, my only wish is to see my kids grow up and be with them in every important milestone in their lives.

That is why my husband and I made a pact that we will really take care of our health so we can live longer (God willing). So we have been doing steps to try to live a healthy lifestyle like taking colon cleanser, staying away from bad vice like smoking and alcohol, and we just try to enjoy life.

I am sure Bela will grow up to be a fine lady and my only prayer is that my husband and I will be able to witness that transformation.

On Her Wedding Day

I am so excited when I saw in Flickr some pictures that Jojo took during Bela’s 5th birthday party at the Creamery. But there is one picture that I love and even caught the attention of some of my friends:

They said that they imagined Bela’s wedding day (I just hope that I still don’t need anti aging products by that time) after seeing this picture and made them really emotional. I was really emotional too when I was looking at Bela’s pictures as it hit me and I realized that Bela is really no longer a baby. As I posted in my previous entry, I was nearly in tears when I first saw Bela wearing this gown.

How I wish I can just hold her in my arms forever and she will forever be my baby. But I know that I have to let her spread her wings and find her destiny. I know that if we brought her up right, she will turn up to be a very fine lady.

The Perks of Being a Mom

When I was still single, I can stay up all night just talking on the phone with my friends, or have a DVD marathon of my favorite TV show, or just do anything to pass time as I find it hard to sleep at night (I even thought of using sleeping pills to get a good night sleep).

But things have changed when I become a mother. Now instead of reading magazines or novels, I read children’s books to Bela. Instead of playing on my iPhone, I join Bela as she plays with her animal toys. And when she feels sleepy already, I have no choice but to go up to our room too even if I still want to catch my favorite show on TV as I need to put her to sleep.

But in all honesty, it is a very good feeling. I love being a mom. I love the kiss that I get from Bela as her bribe to me so I will read to her the book. I love to hear her say “I love you mom” which comes with a kiss and a hug before she goes to sleep. I love how she shouts “Mommy” with so much excitement when she welcome us home from work. This are just some of the perks of being a mommy to Bela and I will not trade it for anything else.

Learn More About Gold Investment

It is already past midnight and my husband and my two kids are now fast asleep. I am staring at them and I became sentimental and made me really think about the future of our kids. I love all of them dearly and in case something happens to me, I wanted to make sure that my kids would still have a bright future.

That is when I came to realize that I should start making investments like buying gold coins to save up and secure the future of Bela and Cobi. Gold is a very good investment as it doesn’t depreciate in time and is universally accepted so it can be easily converted to cash. Storage is not a problem also as it can be easily stored in a safe deposit box at home or arrangement can made for it to be stored in local banks.

I am still not sleepy so instead of being sentimental and emotional, I would just use this time to read the website of United States Gold Bureau to learn more about Gold Investment.

She is really an Ate Already

I was looking through Bela’s online album in Flickr and I can’t help but feel sentimental because I really realized that time really flies fast. One of my favorite pictures was when Bela was dressed as a doctor during their Career Opportunities Week in her school. I remembered when we asked her what community helper she wanted to be, she immediately said that she wanted to be a doctor.

This coming June, she will be an incoming Kinder student already and before we know it, she will already start on healthcare job search after she graduates from med school.

Before, my only problem was what best brand of diaper should I use, and then it became a dilemma on which school to send Bela for preschool, and now we can’t decide if it is time for Bela to go to big school or not. So what is next? We will start to get worried of her love life. (Oh, no. I think Howell and I is still not ready for that. LOL).

I know we can’t stop our children from growing old and that is really a fact of life and there is nothing that we as parents can do, but to accept that fact. For now, we will just enjoy Bela’s (and soon, our baby boy’s) growing up years.

Complicated

When I was still young my only problem was how I can escape nap time so I can play outside. Now I realized, the future of a child is already in my hands. How can I raise them so they will be a better person. How can we make a better future for them.

Just like now, just making a decision on which school to send Bela is a very complicated decision for us (or should I say, for me) to make. I just feel that I have a big responsibility that we should make the right decision because it is for her future. The decision that we will be making might make ore break her future.

When we were choosing a pre-school for Bela, I thought that it is the last time that I will be confused. But seems like, every year, I am always at lost on what to do with regards to Bela’s schooling. Thank goodness for anti aging skin products, because if not for them I might be looking so old already for thinking so much about all this stuff.

I was asking my mom, if it is really this complicated. I just need to choose a school for Bela but I have spent countless sleepless nights already just thinking about it. My mom just smiled at me. Maybe she knows that in time, I will surely know what to do. Just like what my blogger friends has mentioned, I just have to use my gut feel and mother’s instinct.

Big School or Not to Big School?

When it comes to decision making where the future of our kids is at hand, I am always faced with a dilemma. Just like now when we have to decide if we will enroll Bela to a big school this coming school year or we should just let her stay in her current school for one more year.

I must say that I am really so stressed out that I need a face moisturizer and I really don’t know what to do. Actually, hubby and I already agreed that we want to move Bela to a big school this year so she can start with the kinder level, then Preparatory before going to Grade 1. We thought that by doing this, Bela will have find it easier to adjust to the big school setup since all of her classmates will be new students like her instead of moving her to big school by the time she is ready for Preparatory level.

But then after talking to the Admissions Officer at St. Scholastica’s and we were informed that Bela has to master writing by June, my mom got alarmed and got scared that Bela might find it hard to adjust since she is still playful and she might get traumatized. We were also able to talk to the director of her current school and she is discouraging us to enroll Bela to big school. According to her, Bela’s cognitive and social skills is already ready for big school but she is still not mature enough for the new pressure that big school will bring.

Last October, I was able to talk to Bela’s teacher and she told me that Bela can make it to big school and she is already ready. This is also what her Developmental Pedia had mentioned during our last visit.

So now I am face with the question: big school or not to big school? I even emailed my blogger friends who are moms like me for their take on this. I really appreciate all their inputs and I am really thankful because I really learned a lot from them and this will really help us in our decisions.

I pray that we will arrive at a decision that will really benefit our daughter.

My Life

Kids are really amazing. Sometimes, I feel I need to use anti-wrinkle cream to survive being a mom but majority of the times, I just feel so happy and lucky to have Bela. She is our source of joy, our inspiration, the reason why Howell and I are working really hard to give her all the best this world has to offer.

Now that she is to become an ate soon, we can already imagine that she will be the sweetest ate to her sibling. Every night, she will kiss and hug my tummy and she will tell her baby “IT” (that is how she calls the baby inside me) how much she loves him. She will also tell a story to her baby IT before she goes to sleep. She also likes it every time she helps me with my medicines and she reminds me every time I drink it that it will make me and the baby strong.

Every time I visit my OB, she is always with me and will hold my hand if my doctor asked me to lie down to check on me and she will always tell me “That’s ok mom, everything’s going to be ok.”

After a long day at work, my husband and I loves it every time she welcome us home with an excited tone saying “Mom, Dad!!” and then she will hug us and kiss us.

No matter how bad our day is, I am sure that everything will be okay as soon as we see her. I am sure it will be double the fun, double the happiness and double the contentment we will be feeling as parents with the coming of our second child. We are thankful for the precious gifts that God has given me and Howell.

Successful WAHMs (Work-at-Home-Moms)

As I searched multiply sites for stuffs that I can order for Bela, I just noticed that most multiply sellers are stay at home moms. Some of them share a certain passion with a friend, a former officemate, or a mom like them and they started to put up their own business by starting an online store. I so admired them for their creativity and for being able to work while being able to stay at home with their kids.

I wonder what their secret is for their success. Maybe one reason is that they really have a passion for what they are doing. Like they always say, you must really enjoy what you’re doing in order to find the drive to strive harder. Another reason might be they hired professional CPA like Las Vegas CPA to help them with all the details of their finances. Having an efficient accounting system, reporting and auditing which can all be done by professionals from Kondler CPA can play a big part in the success of a business. Another reason is that maybe, they have excellent customer service. Being a client myself, I always go back to businessmen who have good customer service.

These are just some of the reasons that I can think of. I just wish that one day, when I finally decide to retire and just stay at home with my kids, I will be able to put up my own business too like the successful business of some of the WAHMs that I know.