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still here

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Classes has officially started last Friday. Tomorrow will mark the end of the first week of classes and I am still alive, thank you. Mateo, on the other hand, had cough for more than a week. He’s been very choosy with his food lately. He’d prefer to socialize with the many people around him. I’m really hoping that things get easier the next few weeks, once we get used to our school routine. In two weeks, teh preschool department will also be starting their classes and I think Mateo will be more than happy with that since he’s been granted permission to sit-in on classes from time to time. I still have a ton of paperwork to do for submission tomorrow, it feels like a gold chain is slowly tightening around my neck. I can’t afford to be lax in my work since my time with Mateo si what’s going to suffer. I think I’m going to need a lot of energy in the next ten months.

laptop for rent

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Aside from being so busy with my preparations for this schoolyear, one of the reasons why I haven’t been able to blog much lately is my sister. You see, she has a really old Toshiba laptop that doesn’t even have a wireless receiver and a LAN port. We have a 1000 Mbps Globe Broadband subscription and we have a wireless router at home. Now this makes her want to go online every night. The problem is, she’d often borrow my laptop whenever she wants to use the internet. Which leaves me with nothing to work with. I’ve told her time and again to go buy a newer laptop otherwise, I’m going to start charging her for every hour that she uses my laptop, LOL. Of course I was just joking with her. She already asked our dad to buy her one since he’s in the US right now. She’s praying (and I am too) that she gets her Compaq soon.

fit not thin

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A year and five months after giving birth and I’m still not so happy with my figure. Well, of course it’s difficult when I wasn’t that happy with it even before I gave birth. Haha! I don’t want to lose weight, I think I’m still pretty slim with 115 lbs. at 5’4″. Back when I weighed more, there were times when I’ve thought of taking Phentermine no prescription pills but now, all I want is to be fit. Despite my weight being okay enough, I could barely run for 20 minutes straight. I couldn’t stretch my muscles the way I used to. Heck, I used to have toned arms and legs. Not to mention that I still have dreams of getting my abs tight and toned. I don’t have any problem losing weight. Stress and a rice-less day or two could easily make me lose a pound or two but the body that I want would need work, lots of work. I just hope I find the time to make that happen.

updates

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I haven’t updated my blog in quite awhile. Blame it on my decision to go back to teaching full-time! Hehe! I’ve been so busy the past week trying to prepare for the opening of classes tomorrow. Mateo has had two yayas in a span of a week. Ramil and I have resorted to getting one from an agency since we really couldn’t find anyone. The first yaya we got from the agency was okay but still really young. We were willing to let her stay but after a few days with us, she got a call from her mom in Zamboanga informing her that her younger sister died. So we had to let her go and the agency gave us another one. It turned out to be a blessing in disguise because the new one is better so far. She’s only been with us for three days so we’re still keeping our fingers crossed that we finally found someone for keeps.

Ever since I’ve been reporting for work full-time, Mateo has been a regular schoolgoer too. Ramil’s work hours are from 7am to 3pm while mine is 9am to 5pm. Mateo and the yaya goes to school with me at 9am while they go home with Ramil at 3pm. Since our house is just a mere 5-minute drive from school, he’s adjusting well to the set-up. Although I cried for several nights over our time together that will be lost, I’m lucky that I still get to see him at least every 30 minutes whenever we’re in school. My little boy is growing up so fast, it’s so easy to get sentimental lately. I even fixed a lot of his baby clothes last weekend so I can keep them in the cabinet because they don’t fit him anymore. He’s such a talker now and would sometimes easily say phrases. He also likes to sing with me even though he’d only end up singing the last words of each line of a song. I still worry that we might be ‘sending’ him to school early, though we’ve noticed a big improvement on his social skills. Here’s a picture of my boy from two weeks ago, definitely not a baby anymore.

not so baby anymore

going full-time

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When I was still pregnant with Mateo, I was sure I wanted to be the one to take care of him. I left the decision of resigning up in the air and thought of not making a decision until things settle down and everything is clearer. I gave birth on a January, which actually leaves two more school months for me. Since the two months maternity leave would end just when classes has ended, I decided to simply resign.

Since I gave birth last January 2007 until May 2007, it was just Ramil, Mateo, and me. No helper, no yaya, no nearby relatives to help us out. We were on our own and we were proud first-timers. When May drew to a close, however, I played around with the idea of teaching on a part-time basis. Although I love staying home with Mateo, I missed teaching and I missed the kids. It was more than just a job for me and that’s when I realized that I want to be a teacher for a long time, that it’s the work I want to do. So I made arrangements with the school, found and trained a yaya for Mateo, then started teaching once again when June came. My classes were from 1:30-4:00 pm, giving me just around three hours away from my baby. The arrangement worked perfectly. I was able to do two things that I love, being a mother and teaching.

The school year ended with some people in school asking if I’m willing to work on a full-time basis this coming school year. A lot of math teachers resigned and it would help a lot if I can work longer hours. It was a seesaw of arguments with myself during the summer months. Ramil and I tried to think of a system we could use to accommodate a full-time workload for me. When Mateo’s yaya left and then sent a text message that she won’t be returning anymore, I wanted to go full-time – as a mom. Since I already expressed my intent to work as a part-time teacher, I was left with no choice but to look for a yaya. The yaya hunt almost left me looking like I took a lot of weight loss pills with the stress I was feeling. Good thing we found one, I just hope we found a good one.

Last weekend, Ramil and I was able to agree on a schedule for us – his work hours will be from 7:30 am to 3:30 pm while my work hours will be from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, both of us working full-time. After much consideration, including our financial state, we’ve finally decided that I’ll be going back to teaching full-time. It was a hard decision. I’ve cried about it every night after informing the school about it last Monday. If I let myself dwell on what it entails, I’d start feeling this ache in my heart and I would feel the tears welling up in my eyes.

Don’t get me wrong, I love teaching and I am actually excited to once again be a part of the school. I will miss the times though when it was just Mateo and me at home. I will miss doing everything for him and with him. My only consolation is that I will be bringing Mateo and the yaya with me in school. They will be staying in the library until the daycare center the school is planning is usable already. It’s a good thing that Mateo loves going around the school and that he knows almost everyone in school already. I get to visit him anytime during the day. At least we still get to see each other even though I am technically at work.

I just really pray that he and the yaya get along really well soon. They’re okay right now but it would ease my mind big time once they love each other already. I really hope that Mateo adjusts to the set-up really well. I can’t believe he now ‘goes to school’ from 9:00am to 3:00pm. Beats any pre-school student. And to think he’s only a year and four months old. I don’t know whether to be proud of my boy for being so ‘grown-up’ about it or to cry because it seems that he’s not a baby anymore. I hope that when classes start we all won’t be stressed with the arrangements. I really hope too that Mateo knows I love him just as much even if we’re going to spend less time together.

my quest for a fit body

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Ramil and I bought new running shoes last Saturday, I’ve been meaning to get myself a pair because I wanted to start running again. Although I’ve thought of taking diet pills that work countless of times, I’ve decided to try exercising first. I just hope I have more than enough willpower to continue the exercise regimen that I will start. Now excuse me, I need to wake up early tomorrow.

an insured future

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Ramil and I have long been planning to get some life insurance quotes from some agents we know. Since I used to work in the insurance industry, I fully understand how important it is to have insurance. Now that we have Mateo, the need for it seems all the more glaring to us. When it was just the two of us, Ramil and I lazily put off getting ourselves insured. When we became parents however, Mateo’s future became too important to put off. Hopefully, we get to follow through with this plan of ours soon.

starting a hobby

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My brother recently found my old coin collection. He was intrigued by it and asked me if I still wanted it. I was suspicious at first, thinking that he might want to sell it or something. It turned out that he got interested enough to ask me if he can have it so he could add to the collection. He’s thinking of going a bit further by including rare coins in it. I told him that he needs to have certified coins for that. My old coin collection merely consisted of different coins from different countries. I encouraged him to go for it and that I would support him in his endeavor. Although I have doubts as to how big his collection can, it’s still worth a try.

shoe shopping

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I haven’t bought myself good shoes in a long time. Last week, I bought a pair of white jelly shoes for only 79.50 pesos at SM Hypermarket. To say that I bought it because of the price is quite right. Hehe! They feel as comfortable as Dansko shoes but barely made a dent in my budget. But for the longest time, I’ve been wanting to buy a good pair of running shoes. So when I learned of the Adidas and Nike Clearance Sale in Megamall’s Megatrade Hall this weekend, Ramil and I were more than eager to go. He was able to get himself a comfortable, blue and white running shoes for only 1695 pesos. I think the original price was around 3000 and was on sale at 40% off. He liked it so much that while having our lunch, he decided to put it on and wear it for the rest of the day. I, on the otherhand, was able to buy a nice pair of green and gray Nike Free running shoes for only 2000 pesos! The original price was around 4000 pesos and I got it at 50% off. I also bought a Nike yoga mat for only 500 pesos (50% off). I wanted to buy Mateo his first Nike shoes too. Unfortunately, nothing for him was on sale. Our purchases hurt our budget real badly and we’re going to need to forgo a lot of things in the next month so we can pay for our purchases. Nevertheless, we went home happy shoe shoppers. :)

To Do List tag

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Litzie tagged me with a to-do-list. I used to have a post-it on my desktop for my to-do-list. I’m one of those who likes to be organized by listing down things I need to do. It brings me great pleasure to be able to cross out items on my list. So before lounging around this weekend, here’s my to-do-list for next week:

  1. Finish the academic budget for trigonometry, which I’m going to be teaching this coming schoolyear.
  2. Finish a total of 6 SMOs (subject matter outlines): 1 for Grade 6 Math, 2 for Year 2 Algebra, and 3 for Trigo (and I’m supposed to be a part-time teacher :D ).
  3. Finish at least 2 pages of Mateo’s first year book. I’ve only finished layouting the first 10 pages, wah!
  4. Upload new themes on this blog.
  5. Fix my photoblog.
  6. Clean the bathrooms.
  7. Change the bedsheets.
  8. Get a list of drug rehab center that neighbor’s son could get into.

There are several more I can think of but I don’t want to risk getting overwhelmed and not doing anything at all. Haha!

Show me your list… Kathy, Jeng, Jenn. If you’d like to do this too, feel free to snag it.

BUSY PEOPLE: 1.) my chopsuey 2.) mind bubbles 3.) vanity kit 4.) somethingpurple 5.) a detour 5.) Confessions of a Supermodel Wannabe 6.) Mommy Talks. 7.) Aggie Shoots. Aggie Scraps 8.) Winding Creek Circle 9.) Pink and Brown Diaries. 10.) My BIG Picture. 11.) crazy mama