Oh well.. life has to go on.   Good morning everyone!

We are all happy for both of them… We hope and pray that they continue to love each other unconditionally and will stay in love forever.

The culmination of a long and much awaited union

Ah… I love weddings!  However, it always bring tears to my eyes..

I am hopeless romantic I guess..

While us in the admin section, we were already bent in doing pending work and have to deal early with numerous request from our cardiac physicians; leaves, visa request, memos….Whew!  It is too many to enumerate.  Oftentimes,  some of our doctors are getting “toxic” (that’s how we call most of them, lol) and it always tested our patience.  However, we were trained to handle those types of people, if  not, for sure, we will be at our  wits end…  Office work is really a challenge especially for us who are working in a multicultural environment.   Imagine our hospital employs more than 7,000 plus employees of different nationalities.

Tough but we believe that communication is really the key!

However, sometimes it made me guilty of being far from them.   I believe that they need my motherly love and care but I still need to stay with my husband to  help augment the family’s income by working too because all 3 of them are still in college.   Our great consolation is that our children are all matured enough to take care of themselves.  They are blessed with many talents and skills and they are using it to good use.   They love the arts!

New technologies made distance and the anxiety of separation bearable.  We can converse, chat, write emails and even see them through webcam at our convenience.

I miss Kevin – my youngest child.  He is  such a jolly and an affectionate son.  Of course, I also miss my 2 other children- Karlo and Kukay.   They are our treasures!

Kevin with his two other siblings.

We still have a lot of shopping to do so we can fill up the almost half full box.  The other two are already securely taped and once the other box is full, it is ready for shipment.  For sure, my children and relatives are looking forward for the boxes.  

There is joy in giving you know….

Such guilty pleasures…. Now, we have to start sweating it off.

Our friend recounted to us their ordeal and we listened and offered our advices being their elders.  It is hard really to figure out how we can help them because they are entangled in a situation that also involved another couple friend.  In some ways, we believe that my husband and I had given them sound and well-meaning advices.  They were thankful that we came to listen as they poured their heartaches out. 

We trust that they will start to communicate more and will map up plans for any eventuality that might happen in the days to come.  

Going out of our comfort zone might be hard at first but the feeling that you did a good deed for a brother is uncomparable. 

We are mission ready!

Well, we are so happy for him eventhough it was pretty obvious I am no longer the first priorty in his life.   I am now the second best because there is now a  Super one in his life.  But, he drew his good inspiration from her so we let him be.   

I hope he will give up his old cellphone and pass it on to his sister Kukay whose phone was stolen few months back. 

So, there’s a smiling lucky guy at this moment!  Bravo!

We almost traded her for a H-1 Mitsubishi van (slightly used) because we wanted a bigger one but we always end up cancelling the deals.  We don’t know, but we  already had this strong affinity to our car that travelled with us for 7 years from house to office to everywhere so we can’t give her up easily.  My husband loves his car so much and so do I, that everytime we check on it in the morning and found some scratches (sometimes done intentionally by we don’t know who), we are feeling sorry for her and we used to rub  her bruised body part with re-assuring touch.  One time, we found out one morning, the side and back  mirror were  smashed because a burglar went into the car and tried to steal our CD player.  We were quick to replace the mirrors but the next day it was again smashed.  Our poor car has been beaten twice in just a day.  Poor she! But still she is serving us well, not giving us headaches.   We lovingly call her “Camilla” before but we are now calling her “Trudis” patterned after a TV child wonder. 

So today, happy 7th b-day and promise we will keep you forever!

We non-Muslims will respect their observance of the Holy Ramadan month.  It might be hard for us not to eat or drink publicly but that will test  too our patience.  It will be a month of self sacrifice and the best time for us also to re-assess our lives ,refrain from everyday evils and practice self restraint.  I trust that we should all be doing it all throughout- self purification and not only during the month of Ramadan.   God will be more than pleased!

Ramadan Kareem!