SubscribeFirst things first, you can get updates (real, believe me, 98% true, LOL, like what Kelly said) here at my Winding Circle blog. I wish I was more organized in detailing the move but I dont even have pictures to post. That’s how strapped for time and everything else I am.
So, I have been working another job since May 1. It entails 24 hours, erratic lunch breaks and very very little personal time. But I have been loving it, and I have already seen the effect of having me around has been with the kids - they eat more and are more behaved. (Sa wakas, di na sila KSP). They still fight like cats and dogs, but at least we are slowly reducing it to meowing and barking - no biting and scratching na. Hehehe. Im actually putting aside any sharp objects and replacing them with safety cutters.
So, about the move. It went as smooth as we had hoped it to be, and much harder because it was just really me, Edil and the kids. My parents helped as much as they could but our move coincided with a big event with our organization so they were pretty much tied up. I think I can describe it as taking a glimpse into an American Life where it is no one but me, myself and I. Can you imagine us moving using varied types of transport (Owner, RevO, IPV), during early evenings to early mornings, with Edil doing the driving and hard work with me and the kids in tow. Yes, the kids. (We really didnt get a good yaya eh, Im resigned na that it will be Yaya Mommy for the next year). So we go to Manila, pack, drive to Cavite, stopping at BlueWave to get Jollibee drive-thru, and then the kids take catnaps at the car, wrecking their sleeping time. So by the time we get to Amadeo, Edil and I are deadbeat but the kids are refreshed so we stay up until 3AM to 4AM. (Edil has lost a lot of weight, kawawa nga eh). (Nevermind me, I have a lot of spare to lose, hahaha).
We just settled in 80% last week, enough to get a working kitchen, and a decent house to have guests over. We thought we had a lot of stuff, but we were wrong. We had a lot of JUNK - the kids’ toys can make up a whole room. My office stuff can occupy one cabinet and we have a LOT of clothes still, even with 3 boxes sold at ukay-ukay.
Things are very different now, but at least I have the normalcy of internet to keep my sanity. But even the world wide web fails to give what I have been looking for these days.
Let’s write posts in different categories.
by Joy
, on May 6 2008
@ 4:10 am
I’m sure you’ll get used to it too. My friends and relatives there keep asking me how I do it here alone with 4 kids - no yayas or maids. The thing is there is nothing to compare it to. Eto na nakasanayan namin so go nalang ng go. We just do it without thinking. And I actually like that my kids are responsible, they have chores, etc. We’re functioning as one unit, hindi kanya-kanya.
Good luck sa adjustments mo. May this change draw your family even closer.
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