After getting colds yesterday, I am now suffering from fever. Ace seemed so worried because I don’t have company here and he cannot go home during lunch time because he needs to finish something needed for tomorrow’s inventory. I am quite okey though except from the headache, muscle pains, and colds. I wanted to lie down but I seemed to be more sicker lying down the whole day. Hence, I tried getting up and to do some blogging. It might help but I’m sure my eyes would be strained in a while. Hence, I’ll make this short because I can’t stay long in front of the PC.

Guess I acquired my colds from the drizzle last Sunday and Monday nights. My immune system is stronger than Ace but the weather really hit me on this. Ace has colds that started Sunday but he’s more ok than me. Maybe one of the pressure points was touched during the foot massage that triggered my body to react. But for sure, after this I’ll be more ok.

I have mentioned about our relatives that arrived from our hometown to celebrate the thansksgiving of our cousin’s house in my weekend snapshot post but wasn’t able to talk more about it. Anyhow, our church minister and his wife were shocked to see our number and we jokingly said to them, “that’s only 1/8 of the total number of our family.” My cousins are happy to see that I have gained weight and said I’d be like them if I don’t control my diet. Most of my female cousins have grown so big after they have given birth to the extent that one of them even resorted to diet pills. The diet pills seemed to be ineffective because she didn’t lost weight. Now she’s in search for the the most effective diet pills in the market. So ironic that after my cousins eat a lot they would then think of losing weight by taking in diet pills.

We ran out of LPG last week and I didn’t bother to call for delivery for we have a charcoal stove already. It’s the improvised stove with blower which makes cooking easy and quick as that with cooking using a gas stove. We bought it from my cousin’s husband last January. Since then, I seldom use it except for stewing beef and pork bones. My youngest sister was assigned to cook for dinner that day and I told her to use the charcoal stove. After putting enough amount of charcoal, she plugged in the blower. After almost 10 minutes, she kept on telling me still there’s no fire and the charcoal isn’t burned yet and insisted that I’d check it. I suppose she knows what she’s doing and so I left it to her telling her to check the blower if it is working. She said yes and so, I was confident she did the right thing. After a couple of minutes, she came back telling me that the charcoal isn’t burning yet. What? She’s supposed to be cooking this time. Curious enough, I checked on the stove….yes, the blower is working, there’s enough charcoal….BUT she didn’t lit it ( she didn’t made fire) to let the charcoal burn easily with the help of the blower.

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This is my niece, Daniella Cassandra, who is fondly called Ella (after my mother’s nickname Ely). Ella is a source of joy to everybody since she was born. Since she is the first grandchild, Mamang and Daddy are so happy with her. A very adorable and witty child. She even initiates a conversation with strangers. She is one of my sources of comfort. One time, she saw me crying in my room and she said to me, “Tita, ok lang yan..” and hugged me. It’s so amazing that a little child (she was 2 years old then) tries to give me comfort. She even told her mom, who was awakened by the rolling thunders one night, “ok lang Mommy, wag ka matakot” (It’s ok Mom, don’t be afraid). These are only few of her comforting words, encouraging words to everybody whom she thinks needs it. More of Ella next time. :-)   

It’s been 3 days since I’m home, officially home and I really like it! I’m enjoying every moment that I am here. This is what I like all my life. Being at home. Far from the pressures outside. One of my greatest desire is to be a fulltime wife, a fulltime mom (hope God will bless us kids soon). I remember telling my Mom before that I wish she’s a fulltime Mom and she asked me why. I told her I want to be like my cousin who lives like a princess in their house. Her mom doing all the laundry and cooks for them until she finished college. Imagine! What a great life I guess. While I wash my clothes every Saturday, iron them on Sunday nights, my cousin doesn’t worry about hers. Anyways, that is my selfish desire before. But I think what pushed me to ask Mamang to stay home is the thought that when I arrive home she should be there, I could see her more often, and spend more quality time with her. Since she’s teaching, she has school activities to attend on some Saturdays and that’s one day less to our time together. In the evening, she’s busy preparing her lesson plan. Most of the time, I’d go to sleep earlier than her. When I wake up, she’s also leaving for school and we’ll see each other again after school. Though a working Mom, she attended to all our needs, getting all household chores done without a nanny. We didn’t have a nanny when I started going to school. Mamang managed to do the household chores until I and my younger sister learned to do the laundry, wash dishes, and cook. Now, I am already a wife, my great challenge is to be like Mamang (but in my case, not a working wife) who continuously do her role even if her children are grown up already…that, even before she died at the age of 56 she still cooks, do the laundry for my father and youngest sister (and even mine if she visits us here in Davao before) and other things that she could do. For all those years, I never heard her say she’s tired. Now, it’s my turn. I want to be more of a hands-on wife and soon a hands-on mom, personally attending to my family’s needs. Quitting my job is a blessing for me and I don’t care much of having a job as of the moment. As much as possible, I would like to be at home so that I can be the boss of my own time. Nothing much to worry about. I’m more comfortable and at peace though I don’t make money as much as I do when I have a job. It’s also an avenue for me to learn things that I want to do such as sewing, making crafts and baking though I haven’t done much these days aside from exploring the blogging world.                     

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Almost everyday, my sister-in-law’s boyfriend sends inpirational SMS to his friends….and I am lucky enough that I am one of them. This morning, he sent me something to ponder.

“In life, there are five balls to juggle:

1) Family

2) Friends

3) Health

4) Values

5) Work

Only work is made of rubber. The rest are made of glass. Don’t drop them!”

Hence, I salute those who gave up their work for the sake of their family, friends, health or even their values in life.

My Dad’s nature of job almost made him live in the camp, 24/7. Though our house is only a few meters from their detachment, he wasn’t able to spend more time with us. He gave up his work when I was 7 because he wouldn’t want to compromise his values and didn’t want his children grow without him. 

I believe one thing is for sure, money cannot buy family, friends, health and values. If these are shattered, it’s hard to bring back the broken pieces again.