From Dawn Till Dusk

Since Sunday, the 13th of May will be a busy, pampering day for Mothers (including me), I’m advancing my Mother’s Day greeting for my Mom. There are so many words to let her know how much I am blessed and greatful for having her in my life, but those aren’t enough to say how much I really feel. And through the Digiscrap below, I hope I get the message across. Continue Reading »

I was browsing through some old posts of Bikoy, a Philippine Blog Award nominee for the Personal Blog Category, late in the evening yesterday, when the sudden thought of me going back to school came into mind. Bikoy, an incoming college senior (I guess, based on his profile in the Blog) taking up BA Film and Audio-Visual Communication at the University of the Philippines, has several photos (and must I say they were artistically taken) of some familiar corners in the school that made me reminisce the nerve-wracking but nevertheless wonderful and fulfilling memories of schooling.

When I saw the photos, I can’t help but recall that time in my life when I often go on an undertime in the Office only to rush through the battles of traffic in EDSA (there was no MRT yet at that time) and hopefully make it on time for my 5PM class where our Teacher unfortunately, was notoriously known as one of the terrors in the College. Undertime was the mildest form of tardiness I had years back then (and my Boss was very much thankful of that) because the most horrible and worst of all were for me either taking half-day or vacation leave from work just to go the school libraries for research works on class reports and project papers. Going overnights for group projects especially were likewise of no exception since most Teachers then were strict when it comes to submission on deadlines. Continue Reading »

I know I should have stopped thinking about the tragic chapter in our lives where we almost lost our son. That was already past anyway, and it’s but and all accepting that I have already moved on. I have moved on, and the Lord knows how thankful I am each and every day that He has continue to shower blessings and caring for my son. However, while checking in for some mails today, I’ve come to read over and over, some exchanges of emails with a mother whose three-month old son has an unresolved heart issue. And somehow, it made me recalled the trials we’ve been through some years ago.

The mother (if I may call her here as Mommy T of Baby T) and I arrived at exchanging words of comfort through emails when a friend of hers stumbled upon my entry sometime in March on how we triumphed over Nico’s catastrophic condition back then.

Baby was born with a quite complex congenital heart disease. Aside from Ventricular Septal Defect (which is caused by incomplete growth of the tissue wall that separates the lower chambers of the heart), Baby T’s aorta (that brings oxygenated blood to all parts of the body through a systematic circulation) is on the right side, which supposedly should be on the left. Baby T has no pulmonary artery too, though doctors see small pulmonary veins branching to the lungs, which keeps his circulatory system functioning despite some anomalies. Continue Reading »

Nico spent the whole morning of Saturday just doodling and drawing. (Which is good, because for us, that meant so much relief from toy clutter in the home, that, most often than not, were the cause of accidents and disasters to the bare-footed adults trying to the clean the house.)

So while everyone is busy cleaning our respective assigned areas in the house, the little preschooler was pretty much occupied exploring the colors in the new coloring activity book I bought him the other day. I was able to capture in a few shot of him and was practically amazed to see improvements in his coloring. Unlike before when he doesn’t even care whatever color he grabs and wherever he colors on a certain drawing, I’m happy to say that he’s now more conscious on what colors to use for the drawings and put an equally good effort not to mess up around the drawings. Continue Reading »