A Time for Everything

I told you I will have the time for all the things that I plan to do, one of which is to write another blog entry ;)

This week has been quite busy since I worked for four days. I had to let go of some things in favour of the more important ones. I had my first two-week teaching block and I can say that it was an affirmation that indeed, I am cut for teaching.

Monday was a bit chaotic but I got to get back on track as soon as I figured out and settled the things that needed to be settled. It was a chance for me to see that I haven't lost my magic inside the classroom ;) One week down, one more to go.

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Sammie has been a bit clingy to me the past two days. I have been leaving her for two extra days at Yogies. I know that it was a change from our usual routine of swimming lessons every Mondays  and Gymbaroo lessons every Tuesdays. I thank her for her understanding. She has grown over the past weeks and has achieved a lot of developmental milestones. Her vocabulary continues to improve, she can now answer us in complete sentences and even give remarks like "hurry up mama."  Her present addiction is watching Hi5 and Despicable Me.

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Liam started with his Kindy transition classes today, Friday. He was had some apprehensions at the beginning, asking me a lot of questions, but he was okay with me leaving him at the room with the other kids. When I came back to pick him up, the first thing that he told me:"Mama, I like this!" Happy that he seems to enjoy going to school. Speaking of which, his reading has greatly improved over the weeks. His Math skills as well has improved a lot. He can now add single digit numbers without regrouping. He started with his tennis lessons again and his coach has started teaching him to do service. He needs to work double time on his service hehehe.

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Funny how you can overlook the mess at home and choose the mess you will fix if you are really busy with more pressing things like, work and catching up with the kids.
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Weeee! I called my mom this afternoon and she told me that the results of their visa application will be delivered today. Need I say more? I'm so happy and excited because our family will be complete after almost 8 years!,,, happy, very happy Christmas!

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Sammie's party is all ready to go! Thankful that I finished most of the preps over the school holidays. Food has been ordered and plan has been given to the venue coordinator ;) now we wait :)

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All is set too with our holidays. I haven't started packing clothes but with the IT and tickets, all have already been purchased. I'd allot more time with this after Sammie's party ;)

There are still so many things to write about but I have to save it for now because it might take me forever to finish!

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Happy weekend everyone!

So Many Things

I'm making a quick blog entry this morning while waiting for Hi5 to finish and start another work day for me.

There has been a lot of events and things to write about but so little time. I want to write about our weekends and my first week as a full time teacher (for two weeks).

I want to finish reading my book A Thousand Splendid Suns and catch up on reading parenting magazines.

Hay. Hehehe :) I'm choosing not to stress. I know that I'll have all the time soon to do all those things.

Happy day everyone!

A New Blog

I told you, there is beauty in death.

The death of some of our friends convinced me and Alvin to live in the present.

Enjoy each day that we're given to spend with one another. Workdays are quite busy so we make an effort to do something special over the weekends.

I decided to make another blog. This time not much words are written. Hopefully, through this, Alvin  and myself, of course, Liam and Sam can remember most of their childhood and how they spent it with us.

A little keepsake from those happy weekends or family bonding sessions, sometimes with just the four of us, or sometimes with family -- Titos, Titas and cousins and of course, with friends.

An attempt to chronicle our beautiful memories.

The Chronicles of Familia B.

Visit us at: www.chroniclesoffamiliab.blogspot.com

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Pardon Me

I was trying to look for an old blog entry when I came across some which had plenty of grammatical errors! I also had a fair share of spelling errors!

Que horror!

Pardon me for the errors!

Reading it again (after many months) made me aware of the errors I have committed. Most of the time, I was missing some words. It's probably because my mind was thinking too fast when I wrote/typed, that my hands can't keep up hehehehe Thinking that I have already written the word, when in fact I have missed it totally.

Editing is not for me. Probably the reason why it took me soooo long to finally finish my Masteral thesis. I just hate going through each page again and again and looking for possible errors. I am just plain LAZY. Sabi nga ni Alvin, when it comes to checking or editing, nawawala pagka-OC ko hehehe

I'm just conscious because when I come across some blog entries which have grammatical errors (some naman kasi super obvious na!) tumataas ang kilay ko.

Maybe I'm afraid na malait especially that I come from the academe.

May tawag dito, karma. Hehehehe :)

So now, before I post my blog, I will have to give it one or two days so I can re-read and re-check for any possible errors. Hopefully, it will allow me to have error-free blog entries :) But if I still miss, pardon me for the errors ;)

Wanting to Remember

I started writing blogs for two reasons: one, I enjoy writing and two, I was kind of hoping to earn extra through blogging.

Thankfully, there is no need for me to write blogs in order to earn. I get to write now because I love and enjoy it and it also serves as my breather from the daily grind of life.

After almost four years of blogging, there seems to be another reason emerging as to why I continue to chronicle my journey: I want to remember.

I'm pretty sure you are familiar with the novel The Notebook. Well if you haven't read it I'm sure you've watched the film.

Having Alzheimer's Disease runs in the family. My father's immediate aunt and my father's own sister were diagnosed to have one. So I am open to the idea that I might have it too in the future. It doesn't help that at the age of 33, I have had 3 major operations that needed general anesthesia.

Because of this possibilty, I now  write because years from now, when I  am old and gray, and who knows with Alzheimers, I would like to have something to  help me remember how my life was before. On how I have lived my life. On how my journey went. I would love Alvin to read it to me as well, just like in The Notebook.

But Alzheimers or no Alzheimers, I'm sure years from now, I will be very happy with the decision I made, of writing my journey to remember all the happy and sad stories and the choices I made.

Hopefully, there will be no regrets, only lessons learned and lessons to be taught in the next generations :)