teacher mama

Posted on March 20, 2007 - Filed Under Motherhood, Teaching | 5 Comments

"You don't have kids yet, right? That's why you cannot understand what we're feeling."
This is what a parent said to me when they went to school to talk to me. Their grade four son had a broken right arm and I asked him try writing his answers to an exercise using his left hand. He [...]

the joy of breastfeeding

Posted on March 20, 2007 - Filed Under Breastfeeding, Mateo, Motherhood | 2 Comments

Mateo has been 80% breastfed since three weeks ago when I stopped pumping. Since I wasn't feeding him breastmilk from the bottle anymore, I was forced to feed him directly more often. It turned out to be the best thing that happened to our breastfeeding situation.
During that week, Mateo would consume 12 ounces of formula [...]

a woman behind every man…

Posted on March 20, 2007 - Filed Under Marriage, Motherhood, Ramblings | 2 Comments

Ramil and I have ended our movie hiatus last Saturday. After two years of not having stepped a foot inside a movie theater, we decided to celebrate our 15 months of married life by watching 300. I must say that we chose a worthy movie to watch.
I've heard and read a lot of raves about [...]

daddy-o

Posted on March 15, 2007 - Filed Under Ramil | Leave a Comment

My husband's daddy instinct kicked in.

I have often wondered how Ramil would be as a daddy. Within a week of being one, he has already exceeded my expectations. Having grown up with very little presence of my papa, my idea of being a father is very limited. Time with my papa being lacking during [...]

a wife and a mother

Posted on March 15, 2007 - Filed Under Marriage, Motherhood | Leave a Comment

Right now, I am simply two things: a wife and a mother. I cannot even call myself a teacher because I am currently on maternity leave. My days these past few months has been all about struggling to be a decent mother to Mateo and a still-fumbling wife to Ramil.
A lot has changed ever since [...]

who looks like who?

Posted on March 14, 2007 - Filed Under Mateo, Ramil | 3 Comments

Some babies immediately look like one parent right after delivery. With Mateo, we've been getting mixed opinions on who he looks like. Almost equal numbers of people say that he looks like Ramil or he looks like me or he looks like both of us. We decided to take pictures and see for ourselves.

Now, [...]

first malling

Posted on March 14, 2007 - Filed Under Mateo | Leave a Comment

crying while mama & papa are having coffee

We took Mateo malling for the first time last Saturday night. We needed to pay some bills on our way to my parents' house so we decided to bring Mateo along. We used his new stroller and didn't give us too much problems, hehe! We pushed him around [...]

the teacher in me

Posted on March 13, 2007 - Filed Under Teaching | 2 Comments

I miss my kids. I never thought I would put something like this on my blog but now I feel the urge to. After almost three months of not being able to teach and go to school, I find myself missing my life as a teacher.
There were times during my short stint as a teacher [...]

priceless

Posted on March 9, 2007 - Filed Under Mateo | Leave a Comment

Mateo has been getting more generous with his smiles. I love how he loves to be talked to and shows it with open-mouthed, eyes-crinkled smiles. One of the ways that Ramil and I use to make him smile is to laugh. Laughing has elicited some of the best smiles from Mateo. For two people who [...]

death of a loved one

Posted on March 9, 2007 - Filed Under On Me, Ramblings | Leave a Comment

Whenever someone you know died or someone you know lost a loved one, it usually makes you reflective of how you are showing your appreciation for the people around you. We've had several deaths in the family but the only death that made me really grieve for months was the death of our then 4-month-old [...]

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