First Day High!

One night, when I arrived from work between D's kisses and hugs he said "mommy, bili ka school" hahaha akala mo mayaman kami noh?! nun pala he meant, he wanted to go to school na sabi ng lola niya, so I asked him if he really wanted to go? he said "opo" so I said yes also, na excite ako bigla so I asked daddy R if okay sa kanya. At first, ayaw ni R because baka daw magasawa lang agad, sayang ang tuition, then we realized K-12 na nga pala ngaun and kids starts school early talaga. Plus, D is becoming a bully kid, he needs to learn how to socialize or else mag-school hopping kami lol. 

So there, the next weekend, we enrolled him to a child training school, equivalent to toddler school in a pre-school  inside our village and bought him school supplies. The tuition is P400 per month plus uniforms and IDs. Not bad, since no pressure naman tlaga for D, e di kapag ayaw niya pumasok, e di wag, walang tuition na masasayang, plus the school is small lang but they use US based curriculum and 1 hour a day lang so okay na din and pinakamaganda isang tumbling lang from our house. 

So last monday, this little baby is officially a schoolboy. I took a leave from work talaga, to be able to witness the milestone, frustration ko yan nung bata ako eh! So come monday morning, I feed D during breakfast, bathe him and dressed him, prepared his baon. Nanay na nanay ang peg ko! 

Hay, where did time go baby?!

Since I learned D will be going to school, nagpplan na din ako ng baon niya everyday, kaso the teacher specified crackers and water only. No sugary food and drinks daw. Corny! haha 

D's baon: Apple juice, Crackers and Custard Sandwich. 

Since Daddy R can't take a leave, he just requested photos of his little man. 

Did I mentioned na isang tumbling lang ang school niya sa bahay namin?! Yes! pero the lolo still insisted na ihatid si D using the car at 6:30am pa lang ready na e 8:00am pa ang pasok. haha sino excited?!

I wasn't able to take photos of D at school, anlikot eh! plus ayaw niya magpaiwan sa room nila, kapag sinabi ko aalis na ako sasabihin niya "ayoko na, uwi na tayo" patay na haha.  First day pa lang may inaway na siya na classmate. Lagot na tlaga! buti wala ung mommy ng little girl, kundi napa away din ako. And the teacher's promised na they will correct D's behavior, sana nga!

So after 1 hour, we're home and D is excited to show us his stickers from his teacher, 

And stars... yun lang kailangan sa skin nila? lol na-OC ako bigla! haha andumi tingnan eh!

Yesterday, si Lola na naghatid sa kanya, then I asked if nagpaiwan ba siya, oo daw at hindi umiyak. That made me so nostalgic. I now have a big boy. And bilis ng panahon, but I know I need to let him go so he can learn how to be independent, pero nagbbreastfeed pa din siya sa gabi. lol

Now I am more excited to go home to hear D's story from school, madami yan of course...

Mommy Sweetie is back!!!

I know! I've been MIA for more than 2 weeks and forgive me for my negative vibes last post. Work and school was hell. Now I understand the sentiments of parents working hard to send their children to school, working students who wish for more extra hours a day and of working mothers. At kung ang drama ni R ay "ang hirap magpaaral ng matanda" ako naman ay "anghirap mag-aral ng matanda ka na!" hahaha. R sent me to school and because my semester is officially over yesterday... I am now waiting for my reward, my Tory Burch Bag! I worked hard for that, yan ang motivation ko everytime pagod na pagod na ako from work at may papers or exam ako haha #kababawantalaga.

I am now so near, yet so far in my impulsive dream. When I was young, I really wanted to be a journalist specifically a broadcast journalist yan talaga ang ultimate dream ko. But when I entered college I realized I wasn't for that field and enjoyed being in Development Work. I envisioned myself leading an organization where I can help and empower Filipinos makabayan talaga ang peg ko. But fate has other plans, just before my graduation, my family needed me to support them financially so I need to look for a job immediately and landed to a position in training/hr function and the rest was history. I realized that training has a lot of opportunities to offer, but it needs constant improvement, there will be a time that you need to reinvent yourself so you will always have the competency. At dun ko na naisip and impulsive dream ko, to be a licensed teacher. And let's see what will this new field has in store for me. For now, I am waiting for my grades, and then I'll see if I should take the LET exam this January na, #prayinghardforsign.

Anyway, why is my last post so negative nga ba? this blog is supposed to be full of positive vibes and full of happy memories of my family and baby D. Ayun na nga, I'm back to travelling again, well I like to travel, thats why I love my job pero iba na pala if you are a mom na. It's so hard to leave baby D even if 2-3 days lang, specially when he's sick. I felt so bad that I wasn't there to comfort baby D in times that he needed me most and sobrang nakakaguilty when I went home with a pattottie baby and muntik na ako hindi makilala #workingmommyblues talaga. Iniisip ko nalang, I need to work to provide him all he need and all he want. Yun lang, we know naman that material things are not enough so I made sure that every weekend or nightime is a quality time with baby D. Minsan lang sila dadaan sa cutest stage na yan, and I don't wanna miss it kasi i'm studying, kasi i'm working, kasi i'm tired ayoko ng gnun so now I'm really.. really learning how to handle everything and muntik ko na nga makalimutan may asawa din pala ako haha buti nalang mahal na mahal ako ni R. (love you babe..!)

The last 2 weeks was so eventful, I had a lot of learnings, realizations and cute stories of baby D that I want to share. And sana the long weekends coming and my migration to another lappy will enable me to update this nearly forgotten online diary of mine. I have a lot of plans. Sabi ko nga, I need to reinvent myself, haha sana naman this is not yet a sign of midlife crisis. No not yet.

Today, I realized that we all have the power to say no if we feel or know that we have reached our limits. We are just humans that has limitations and we should know when to stop.  Kagaya ng pagkain sa eat-all-you-can dinner, you should know when to stop even if there are a lot of food choices that you wanted to try. There will always be another time and one should know how to prioritize, kung ayaw mo magsuffer ng impacho haha. Seriously, we can only take so much within our plate, and getting work more than your limit will just compromise other work. So we should learn how to say NO.

Laters,

G