Things, issues, and happenings I rave and rant about.
Dear Jeff, Before Nick, Toni, and JJ, there was you and me. There was just you and me, the frequent travels to mainland China, Hong Kong and the Philippines, and the promise to keep the long distance relationship last. Everything that happened between us happened so fast.
I write about my life as a woman (wife, mother, learner) twice a month in Cebu Daily News’ Opinion Section. This article was published on August 20, 2016. Click here for the link to CDN’s website. The teacher announced during the regular monthly meeting that parents are encouraged to present …
Written March 12, 2016 The calendar is not joking. It really is 2016. This year, I’m turning 30. Wow!
Graduate school is tough.
The overconfident 2014 version of myself did not realize this. I was a mother to then one-year-old twins and the family was based in Guangzhou, China.
The original plan was to work on a communication-related master’s degree but as I was checking the different programs of the University of the Philippines Open University, my eyes got stuck in the Faculty of Education’s Language and Literacy program.Continue reading“A fitting gift”
Written March 21, 2016 I experimented a lot with the twins from the first day they were born until now that they’ve grown into fireballs (also known as toddlers). Most of my experiments have been about book exposure and improving their basic literacy knowledge, in which holding a book, the …
I write about my life as a woman (wife, mother, learner) twice a month in Cebu Daily News’ Opinion Section. This article was published on print last July 23, 2016. Click here for the link to CDN’s website. Joy and Elsie entered our lives a week after I gave birth …
Written February 28, 2016 I had lunch today with another adult and talked about grown-up issues. Boy, that felt good to hear myself use more words and longer sentences that were not just limited to “Nicholas, please don’t bite your sister” or “Antoinette, put the crayons back in the container …
I write about my life as a woman (wife, mother, learner) twice a month in Cebu Daily News’ Opinion Section. This article was published on July 9, 2016. Click here for the link to CDN’s website. My twins – Nicholas and Antoinette – turned three on the first of July, …
My husband thinks I am becoming a hermit. A hermit with long, well-conditioned hair, who eats coconut cream pie for lunch. I average seven to eight books a month with no particular genre in sight. I get some books for free for review consideration and I stack them up with …
A few more days and my world’s favorite pair will turn three. Isn’t it amazing how children grow so fast? One day, it was just me and Jeff and without any plans of having children from my end anytime soon after marriage, I got hit with the baby bug.
