Year 1 homeschooling mid-year evaluation

We finished our 2nd Qtr last week and I thought of asking my child how she finds homeschooling, so far. Sharing in the video below. My child is in Year 1.

Angels

My dear daughter aproached me while I was brushing my teeth last night and asked, “Nanay, hindi ko maintindihan s’an galing ‘yung devil, si Satan. Kasi ‘di ba wala namang ginawa si God na masama, lahat good.”

Updates

This was supposed to be included in my last post but since it was already too long, I figured I’d do a separate post instead. So this is a continuation of my last post.

Moving houses again

Since getting married, I noticed that we moved houses every three years (got married 2010, first moved in December 2012, not yet three years but almost three years since getting married, then moved again in 2016). The second time we moved (2016), I jokingly told my late husband and “predicted” that we would be moving again after three years. Who would have thought that it would actually come true? In 2019, we indeed moved again, for the 3^rd time, but it was not simply moving houses nearby, we relocated to a faraway city in Mindanao.

The miracle baby is now 5

We had an advance birthday celebration for my unico hijo yesterday. More friends arrived but they were late so wala sila sa picture. Hahaha. Sorry. If you know me, you’d know that I’m lazy when it comes to taking pictures, so this is the only pic I took. Hehe. Our dear friends in Metro Manila call my dear son a miracle baby… because indeed it is a miracle that he is alive and thriving now. He was born at 28 weeks, roughly 6.5 – 7 months (I wasn’t due to give birth until mid-November, imagine that), weighed only a kg at birth, was all bruised when he was born, was incubated for about a month, and was in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for 7 weeks. And now he is one heck of a very normal, makulit and malikot little boy. Read his story here. And let me share some amusing anecdotes about this little son of mine…

Haircut day

We all got a haircut today. Guess why. Clue: Four-letter word, starts with the letter k and ends in a vowel. Had to suddenly bid my almost nearing my waist-long hair goodbye.

Snakes inside the house

Two years ago, my dear daughter (DD) saw a snake inside the ground floor bathroom of our house. As she didn’t know back then (yet) what a snake was, she thought it was a big lizard. From her description, I actually thought it was a tuko as we used to have a regular tuko “visitor” at the service area at the back of our house then. But I wondered how a tuko could get inside our house. Thankfully, curiosity got the better of me and I checked what kind of “lizard” was my DD talking about and I found out that it was a snake.

To repair or to buy a new one?

My dear son parked his bike in front of a neighbor’s big SUV. This may seem simple and trivial for others but such “simple” and “trivial” things make me so indecisive. Should I have it repaired or just buy a new one? I wish Eugene was here to help me decide. (I just had this very same bike repaired a few weeks ago for a busted tire).

Charlotte Mason Kindergarten: First homeschooling experience

We have finished the school year. Yay! My dear daughter is now a Kindergarten “graduate” (or completer). Praise God from Whom all blessings flow!

Now I will share about it…

Commemorating Eugene’s birthday

We commemorated Eugene’s birthday dining out at a local restaurant. He would have been 44. We used to have a joint celebration of our birthdays. Gone are those days.