I guess it has been quite sometime since I last wrote something here.  Eversince summer time had begun last March, I’ve been been a bit busy with my family.  The kids are home all day, so I decided to spend some time with them, teaching and training them to help with house chores.  We let our househelp take a vacation for a few months while I personally do the chores around the house, of course, together with my kids.  This is the second summer vacation we’re doing this.  It is tough, though.  We all know how kids hate housechores.  I did, when I was young!  We can’t help but hear whining and complaining every now and then about who’s to do this and who’s to do that.  But I realized that this is part of life.  I wish for them to grow up independent, no matter what or where they choose to be in the future.  I know eventually, when they grow up and start living on their own, somehow, they will be thankful for learning this in their life.  

When I was young, I despised doing housechores.  I always thought my parents were always punishing me for making me work around the house.  But as I grew up, I realized that I’m actually in a much better position than many people I know who may be very successful in their careers, but know nothing about home work.  They can’t live without help, and I find that so pathetic!  Imagine waking up in the morning alone and you can’t even fix yourself your own breakfast, simply because you never learned how to cook an egg… isn’t that so sad? 

I love what I’m doing…  I’m so bonded with the children.  We are so much closer to each other and I can actually see them day after day learning to be responsible not only for themselves, but for each other.   They have become self-sufficient.  If they’re hungry, they can immediately fix themselves something to eat.  I do laundry and they make sure their clothes that I  have washed are nicely folded in their closets.  They know what they ask me to wash and they make sure they have them all after they’ve been washed.  That’s being responsible and learning to value the things that they own.  We plan dinner all together everyday.  If I can’t decide what’s for dinner, they suggest what they like to have, my son buys the stuff that I might need,  my eldest daughter helps me fix dinner, and our 4-year old insists on setting the dining table every night.   Here are some snapshots I took of my kids doing their own things last 2007… 

my son cooks, my baby sets the dining table, and my eldest feeds her little sister! 

"The goal in raising children is not to protect them from pain or undesirable circumstances, but to equip them with what they need to be responsible, independent and resilient adults" 

-Lori Radun, CEC – certified life coach and inspirational speaker for moms. (http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Teaching_Children_Independence_and_Responsibility.html)

I was just tagged by Arlene, so here I am giving y’all an idea of what my desktop looks like…..

…now I’m passing this tag to Emz, Marie Grace, and Janine.  Have a lovely day, ladies! 

A few days ago I wrote a thread about our preparation for my son’s graduation day, which was held last March 30.  We were supposed to be at the NDGM Gym at 4:30PM.  Yes, we arrived on time, but unfortunately, the ceremony did not begin till around 6PM.   We could not wait on our assigned seats, as our son informed us that we were required to wait outside the gym while waiting for the graduation rites to start.

The event was to commence with a procession, where each student had to walk together with his/her parents in the middle aisle, on a red carpet, upon entering the gym.  Then we were to proceed to our assigned seats.  It was going to be a nice procession.  There were 2 big projector screens up front where everyone could view each and every student walking in the middle aisle with his/her parents.  But since the weather was really hot and humid that day, by the time the procession began, we were already sticky and sweaty.  You can just imagine how we looked on those two big screens!  I was so relieved to see that the gym had those real big fans that sprinkled water as they swung from left to right.  That made the air inside the gym a bit cooler than the air outside.   

Anyway, the entire graduation ceremony ended a little after 8PM.  We took some pictures during and after the event, after which, we proceeded home to have our special dinner with the rest of our family members waiting for us.

Here are some of Angelo’s photos, including the pictures that we took on his Graduation day, that I collected to share with all of you… 

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Today was report card day.   I asked my Mr. Workaholic to get off work just for a few hours to accompany me as I had to go all the way to Caloocan City for Angelo’s report card, then back to Quezon City for Angela’s report card too. 

On a hot  and humid summer day like this, travelling all the way to Caloocan City was a such miserable experience.  Fortunately, my brother Jonas was on his way to pick Mom up at The Wave Ballroom, so we took a ride with him until North Avenue, where we got off and transferred to a taxi.  

Inspite of this hot and humid day, we were so happy to see the grades of Angelo as his report card was released to us this afternoon.  With a General Average of 90.8279, my son is number 1 in his class!  This is so wonderful!  We took a really quick late lunch at Max, then proceeded next to Angela’s  school at Quezon City.  Again, we were so elated to see her grades too!  They both did very well this schoolyear and we’re really very, very proud of them! 

Just as soon as we got home, the kids came running to greet us and were both excited to see their grades.  So proud of his accomplishment, Angelo asks Dad if he could attend that swimming party his class was going to have.  Well, what can else can Dad say?   

Anyway, so here I am, once again, bragging about our kids, who definitely make us feel their appreciation for all that we do for them!

 ANGELO’S REPORT CARD

ANGELA’S REPORT CARD

just another proud mom…