Heartache

   Just got a fight with a family member. A little misunderstanding turned into a real, ugly fight. Now we're not talking to each other.

   It will  take too long before healing. I just know it. Ang mahirap, even my daughter is getting at my moods. At pati siya e nasisigawan ko na rin. Lalo kapag may failing grades siya sa mga quizzes nya. At kapag hindi nya masyado ma-gets yung mga review ko sa kanya.
 
    I hate myself right now. I just hope I'd feel better about things. Soon.

Sigh....

No More

Coffee is a big part of my mornings. Kung walang kape, feeling ko, hindi ako productive for that day. I feel something is just missing. 

I sooo love my coffee habit.

Pero something is not right with my body system. My blood pressure has always been 90/60. As in, always. When I got pregnant with my daughter, it slightly went up to 110/80. Fairly normal. But I'm not pregnant anymore.

My daughter is attending her big-school. I have to get up extra early to prepare her things. So everyday, is a  4:30am call time for me. Errands and chores means coffee break is at 7am and 4pm (if its too hot to have coffee in the afternoon, I'd usually have them in a smoothie form).

And all those caffeine is adding something to even lower my bp. And so is my lack of sleep.Which sucks, because I'd feel woozy more often than I like.

I guess its goodbye coffee? Goodbye Coke (my stress-buster)? And goodbye iced-tea?

I need to be healthy for my daughter because she needs me. I am not young anymore. I can't afford to be sick. 

(Sigh)   :(

Educational Field Trip

It is the Field Trip Season. Together with the -ber months, private schools usually have their annual field trips on these months. Months that are usually rainy. Months that indicates more expenditures.

My daughter's class is having their "educational field trip" on the 26th of this month. They are set to go to two locations: the first one, to a doll factory, and the next is to watch a theater show. Costing 1550 per head, accompanying her (although, it is okay not to accompany her, but she is much too young to be left on her own on such a long trip) would mean a tiny bit more than three grand. That's just the field trip fee. It does not yet include our food for the trip and some pocket money I may need to bring just in case my daughter would like to buy other stuff. For only a day, our trip would at least cost me  4,000 to 4,500.

I must say that's its a little bit too much for an average-earner such as myself. The good thing is that, its not mandatory (she just need to do a make-up project). And even if my daughter really wanted to go, I told her that we just can't afford that right now. But, supposing we can afford it, the news of different accidents happening on the field trips of other schools is just as disturbing and frightening for a mom like me. My husband is even the first to tell us that it'll be much too dangerous to go.

So we are definitely not joining this year (we join two-years in a row of the previous trips). But I did promise to bring her to a different "pasyalan". A visit to a park, to a museum or a movie even. My husband can also come with us, and I just know that it'll be fun and cost much less. 

I just hope that the "field trip" thing would be abolish someday. Not that its not educational but the students have seen it all, every museum, every zoo and animal sanctuary, every factories of bread, dolls, and other things that the metro and other provinces near the metro has to offer. If it can't be abolish, better make it every other year. That way , the excitement of traveling for the child would still be there.

PTC Day- 1st Quarter

Last Saturday was PTC day. It was the usual card-giving day, and a little chat with your child's adviser. So, my daughter and I went to her school to get her report card. I dreaded this day because I know my daughter's score in her quarter finals examination. My daughter asked me, "Ma, natatakot ka ba?" I told her no, "Hinde ako takot anak, nervous lang si Mama. Pero kahit ano pa grades mo, okay na yun, naibili na kita ng gift e."

I relaxed a little while waiting for my turn to talk to her adviser. Turn out, there was nothing to worry about my baby. She was well-behaved in school. She's even one of the achievers (those who got the highest average), even if its only within her section and not in the over-all grade level. I am so proud of my girl! 

She is beaming while she makes kwento to her grandparents of her achievements. All smiles, I know how proud she is feeling at that moment. 

This is one of those things that I like with being a mother. Seeing your child all smiles, like its Christmas.

Doggie Instinct

            My family owns a two-year old aspin ("asong-pinoy"). A well-behaved dog, Icy gurads our house 24-hours a day.  A single sound in the midle of the night, and you'll be hearing her loud barks.

          Anyway, as my dad were cleaning the attic, he found this old football toy and he gave it to Icy. Smelling it and licking it, she looks happy playing with it. Then she accidentally steps on it, and it produces a loud sound. The way that Icy is behaving right now is that, we think that she thinks it is her pup, because the sound that toy is producing sounds like a loud cry of a puppy.

She doesn't want to let go!

She thinks its her pup

She's thinking where to put it.

         

Pastillas Part2

      So I promised that I'll be showing the final packaging of my pastillas business venture and here it is:

 

Pastillas with LOVE  :)

     I snapped this picture while it was displayed on my mother's stall in a wet market. I called it cookie pastillas because I shaped it that way, like a cookie. Parang lengua ang dating! It is sold either with sprinkles, langka flavor, coffee flavor or the plain variety.

       Oh, didn't I tell you guys that also do atchara? It's also a very promising home-based business. Till next... I'll write it next time.

Let's Start Cookin'!!

      My daughter has been watching all this Play-doh videos on Youtube. She wanted a kitchen-making play set. I told her that if she got good grades on her quarter exams, then I'll buy her one. She was so excited with that idea that she really did her best to study for her exams. Unfortunately, she got two subjects with very low scores. The first time that she showed me her exam results, she has this sad look and asked me whether I was still proud of her even if she got low scores. I was definitely disappointed and it showed on my face and she was quiet for sometimes, ignoring my presence and just went to taking her afternoon nap. 

        Seeing her so down just melted me. So I figured, hey, what the heck.. just give her a reward. At least for trying! And so, the last time I went to Divisoria to get some supplies for my shop, I did get her a kitchen set. I wasn't from Play-doh but she still gave me a very, very warm hug and the sweetest smile that shows how happy she was.

Got this Kitchen set for P800

 

What's inside the box.