January 10th, 2010 by mitone
My youngest is now 3.5yrs old and it has crossed my mind a few times lately that babies are rather nice and that children are wonderful (after you get past the daily drama at my house). The youngest also came to me one evening and said “Momma, I want a baby brother.”
Children can get expensive and exhausting. The thought of a few more years of expensive day care puts a damper on any baby thoughts. The cost of full-time day care for a baby and pre-schoolers can be cost-prohibitive. It’s no wonder some women choose to be stay home moms.
I’ve barely got quality time to spend with my own 2, I can’t figure out how I can manage another. I really don’t know how large families do it. I think it’s a whole different way of life and a completely different way to see what “quality time” and “one-on-one” time means.
Staying the course with our family of 4 is the way to go. At least for now.
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January 5th, 2010 by mitone
I’ve thought for a long time about writing a journal. It happens when I’m snuggled in my bed thinking about the day or the week or the month that just past. Not wanting to get back up again to open up that journal and start writing. Then I think about those journals I used to write when I was younger. Mind you, I didn’t journal religiously. I just did sporadically. Sometimes when I travelled, when I lived abroad, when I was in college and when I had my first child. I’ve read some of those journals and it’s made me smile and think about those wonderful little details otherwise forgotten had it not been captured in my journal.
So now, I’m going to start writing again. This time I will write online whenever I can string some thoughts together. It might turn into something more, I don’t know. I may or may not have a following, not important. This is more for me to capture my life’s little details and a way to look back and remember fondly those snipets of my life.
Here I am on January 5th 2010 at my desk at work with a few minutes to spare. (Isn’t it great that I can do this anywhere?!) I want to make sure I know what I want to write about. I want this to be about me, my family, my extended family, my near constant obsession with weight gain and loss, work life, committment to my community and the Rotary Club, travel of which I love to do and don’t do enough, being Filipino, food and anything else that I can think of and strikes my fancy.
Today I got confirmation for my trip in the fall. Yes, it’s a long way off, but I do live for those vacays. My girls are going to be flower girls at my cousin’s wedding in France. I’ve hired them out. Not really, almost though since my aunt has offered to pay for their airfare to Paris! Of course, as the parents and chaperones, Phil and I are going to attend. So on the 5th day of the year, 2 of my trips this year have been planned (the other is to Cancun for the girls Spring Break), tickets have been purchased and all that’s left to do is get ready for them.
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