Pledges for Girrard.

Shaly, a good friend from my former office, is asking for our prayers and help.  Her 16 year old brother has been diagnosed with AML, a form of leukemia.  He is young and has a whole life ahead of him... so fighting this battle is worth everything that their family has.

I hope we can join the fight in our own little ways.  Kindly include him in your prayers.  And if you have extra funds to spare, you may want to pledge and deposit an amount to help in the battle costs.

More information can be found in the e-card below.

Please send me a note either through Facebook or this blog if you shared an amount.  The family would like to recognize you.

God bless Girrard.  God bless us all.

The Greenery

My little boy and father-in-law celebrated their birthdays this year in a nice place.  It's a resort tucked in Baliwag, Bulacan called The Greenery.

The place is not your usual resort.  It is picturesque and the setting seems to place you out of the country.

They have a pavilion where the Grand Ballroom is located.  We did not bother to visit the insides of it.  Our target was the mini train which lit up my little boy's eyes.

There is a mini golf course plus a driving range somewhere.

The villas are cute.  They look like houses in an American suburb.  We stayed in 2 of these.  While the outer designs are nice, the interiors looked a bit neglected.  If you are the high maintenance customer, you might be disappointed.

I super like the Grand Villa.  It's a house with 5 rooms in it.  I hope the interiors look much better than the smaller villas.

My little boy and his cousins enjoyed feeding the pigeons and playing with them.

But, I guess, the best part of the holiday was swimming in the infinity pool!

The place has lots more to offer especially for those looking for venues of events and pre-nuptial photo sessions.  For more information about The Greenery, please visit them here.

The Best Role in the World.

Back then, I could not understand a lot of things about mothers.  I must confess that at certain points, I took my Mom for granted and just accepted that Moms are really a part of one's life... just that.


And then, I became a Mom.  It is true, they say, that when you become a Mother yourself, the real appreciation for your Mom and other Mothers dawns into you.


Carrying a baby for nine months is no joke.  The whole gamut of hormones plus the added weight plus the stretch marks plus the lab visits can get the best of you.  Add the pressures of your daily life while all these things are going on.  It can indeed be a recipe for disaster.


And it does not end there.


Moms need to endure hours of labor to get a precious baby out into the world.  Epidural, while it helps, never really lives up to its painless pitch.  After the anesthesia wears out, moms are left to feel the real pain of childbirth.


Once the baby is out, Moms are in for the longest roller coaster ride of their lives.  And no, you can't back out... even if you are tired from the hours of labor, even if the wounds are painful... because a baby cannot wait.  There is no excuse.


This is the theme for the rest of our lives.


When the child is sick or hurting, when the child needs help in their homework, when the child wants to be the best soccer player or the best pianist or the class valedictorian and when things go wrong.. we, Moms, need to be there.. because the true meaning of being a mother is not bearing a child but giving and molding a life.


The challenge now is to find ways to be raise good children, run the household, be good wives without losing ourselves along the way.


It has been four years.  I am both happy and scared.  Happy because I have a wonderful son and scared because I have a long way to go.  I must do a good job.


For Mommy and all the mommies in the world, Happy Mother's Day!  Congratulations to the world -- it is so lucky to have us.