Dear Dad,
I turn 20 this summer. I’m getting ready to transfer to a Top 10 university and you’re not here to see me do it. Not because it was your ‘time’ but because, for some reason, you decided that someone else’s family was more important than your own. It’s been thirteen years and I…
Today, my sister Yang started her food business venture, Tapsi as her main menu and other dishes on the side like sinigang and lugaw.
It is her first time to start a business and I can feel that she is tense and stressed. It’s no joke to juggle work and a business. Only a few customers for her opening day, and not to mention the high prices of commodities nowadays. This new endeavor will be a great challenge for her and I know she will learn a lot. Our only wish is for her business to flourish… I may not be physically present to support her but she is always on my mind and in my prayers.
My last post was last August 03, oh boy I was busy lately both at home and at work. I had to do a lot and I still have a whole lot to do! I am taking one day at a time trying to accomplish even just one little project every day. It is almost a month after my almost clutter free weekend. Last Sunday I also started decluttering our kitchen. One more thing that I am itching to do is the organizing of our stored wedding gifts mostly plates, glasses and cups. I am also thinking of giving away everything that we don’t always use and throw everything that can’t be passed on anymore.
Almost a month ago I was diagnosed with anemia and I feel guilty about not doing anything about it, and it’s sad that I think this affects how I perform at home after work or maybe I am just expecting too much from myself. There are times that I easily get tired, I have dry skin and last week I had a muscle spasm, that is why I discovered chili plaster and it really works! I still feel something on the left side of my upper body ( neck through arms) but I hope it will go away.
Our family trip to Bohol is almost here and I haven’t done my plan of doing yoga and pilates for a beach ready body. I feel that I gained weight and I miss my skinny self, but of course I can’t get away with aging, I can just go with it gracefully.
It is always a challenge to be a working mom, there’s no point giving up and complaining because this is the path I chose. Though there are rough times, the experience is all worth it!
My last weekend was a blast as I almost eliminated all of my clutter, my seven years worth of clutter, that is mostly paper. And this is to our house helper’s delight since she can sell all the paper I had.
Next project will be our closets and drawers. I’ve always been planning to organize and declutter our home and I am glad this is a start. I should have taken pictures of our clutter to remember haha…
After eliminating all the clutter it is time to really organize, avoid clutter, do some scrapbooking and everything that can simplify our lives.
I found this picture on a blog, really nice:
Another inspiration:
With only five weeks until your official due date, life is already moving so fast. I’ve been spending my days readying our apartment for your arrival. I’m realizing that while I’m starting a new routine being home and getting ready everything ready, I’m going to have to start another new routine…
I have often wondered why we are not able to do very simple things like garbage segregation? Are we really that lazy? For the longest time we were used to having a common rubbish bin for all our trash. Recently I asked our house helper to start separating the wet and dry trash, but of course, if I am not there, she always slides back to the old practice, which is obviously easier.
Looking at our streets I also can’t help but be disappointed about the trash scattered all over and not to mention the piles of trash I see and more garbage on our sewers and creeks. Can’t we just keep the little trash in our bags or pockets than throw them anywhere. Can’t we just at least keep our garbage in our place until the garbage truck comes? Can’t we do these little things to help alleviate our garbage and flood problems?
When I was younger I dreamed of cleaning up the world, huh, such a big dream. I realized that the world is too big and I have to start at home, I am only one and I can only do so much, but with my little initiatives I desire to make a difference. Here are the list of the little things I started doing:
1. Training my daughter not to throw garbage just anywhere. You can observe that if she opens a candy and there is no rubbish bin, she automatically hands it to me ( well maybe it’s a different story when I am not around!). I see to it that she understands why. When she see others throw garbage, she tells me and I explain to her again.
2. I bring plastic bags from groceries and other used bags when I go to the wet market so I could minimize the use of plastic. I usually put together all the vegetables in one bag to avoid having even more bags.
3. I told my Tatay that I will find information on composting so we could make use of the wet garbage that he can use for gardening.
4. I am starting to sort our clutter at home and trying to seriously influence our house helper to be consistent in segregating garbage.
I hope to one day contribute to the better garbage management in our home, family, community, country and the world as a whole. For me this is also an issue of discipline, that I will try to write about in my next post. This will be a far cry, but little things can lead to really big things, someone just have to start and it can be me!
I had to remind myself today that it’s still worth the the fight… It’s just that I’ve got the blues this last night until early this morning, because of someone and something that I should be immune by now. I don’t know why I keep on allowing myself to be hurt by these circumstances over and over again, when I can just gracefully move on.. Thank you for God Whisper’s today for somehow keeping me back in track:
July 11, 2011
Dear Rosalie,
What do you worry about? What gives you stress? What makes you lose sleep
at night? Turn it over to me. I can handle it.
Your Burden Bearer,
God
P.S. Maybe there’s nothing you can do to change your situation, Rosalie.
But I can do all things.
and from Sabbath :
Lord, make me a better member of my own family — more loving, more humble, more giving. Amen.
I know that this is also a test of patience on my part. I am still reflecting on the nuggets on the talk at The Feast yesterday, Big Love vs Big Ego, though it’s not the main message, it got me thinking.
But here’s to working on my patience… Ü
Thanks to http://www.gaiam.com/, for this picture, this gave me an idea of what to write today.
I can say that my real journey in life started when I turned thirty. The years before that were full of deep seated personal uncertainties and turmoil, that I only now realized. Just before I turned thirty, life played a joke on me and I was on the brink of giving up… but thanks to family and friends who never left me. With all that happened to me, I have learned so much, and most specially I found the great strength within. The journey is all worth it… The real battles are just within us, the rest on the outside are incomparable to the battles within.
Here I am now, still trying to discern what I really want in life and how can I make a difference, and make this once in a lifetime journey all worthwhile. For a start, one of my guides can be Gandhi. Ü
Our HReClassroom never failed to make me happy and feel really blessed. Being with friends and really generous people in terms of their time, talent and resources, what more can I ask for? Thank God for the our HReClassroom.
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