The Calendar Months

calendar-of-the-year

January brings new hope and cheers.

The first month of the whole year!

February fills the world with love.

Cupid with arrow comes from above!

March brings full Lent season.

And month for fire prevention!

April brings summer tropical air,

Fiesta and graduation songs, we share!

May brings plenty of fruits and flowers,

Month of election and to honor our dear parents!

June tolls church’s wedding bells,

Universities and schools open for students!

July brings typhoons and floodwaters,

Black and cloudy sky, signs of disaster!

August brings the spirit of nationalism,

Manifested through the language spoken!

September winds cold and chill,

Breeze from mountains and hills!

Golden October brings fortune and luck,

It gives abundant harvest that ever lasts!

Dull November reminds us about the past,

For loved ones and friends who return to dust!

Cold and festive December has the merriest rhymes,

Ending the year, full of love on Christmas time!

Divorce: Is it really the Solution?

broken-heart

The law makers here in the Philippines revives the issue of legalizing divorce, But quite a number of pros and cons have been publicized already in the media and plenty of people are really against divorce in the Philippines for our tradition here is we are more on family solidarity. I’ve heard plenty of feedbacks from different community groups and they have different opinions, and they are respected what ever opinion they have, because here in the Philippines we don’t really practice divorce.

Why do so many married couples part their ways? Why can’t they work out their problems in love? So many questions come to my mind. Well, in my own observations many married people have personality problems and emotional hang-ups, almost all of them grounded in childhood and youth. Others are immature in their concepts of love and of life and really don’t know what they are promising in the marriage vows.

I think those who are having trouble in their marriages would present their problems to the Lord, ask guidance and maybe we will enlighten our minds on what really we need to do, But for those who really don’t know the solution seems to be what the world at large is using divorce.

I ask to my self why they don’t work out their problems in love. It sounds simple, but love is the hardest word in the language to incorporate into real life. But if the husband and wife feel that they have exhausted every possibility for living together as they hoped, and if the couple don’t have the kind of experience that would offer some support for building as husband and wife relationship, then we can certainly have the right to separate or to get divorce.

Divorce is a very tragic thing to happen, because our children need parental love and guidance more than anything else. With the father and mother living apart from each other or to our children, problems crop up for them who are still in their tender years.

But if there is a strong ground for divorce, such as infidelity and irresponsibility, I really suggest that a couple may set free from their vows to find another man/woman. This is better than pretending to be still in harmony, living under the same roof, yet going our separate ways and with another partner. This gives a very bad picture to our children to see.

Meditation while Walking

For these past few days I felt tired and boredom in my life, so I research what is really need to make me feel better and feel relax. Not feeling better makes my mind and my body uneasy to move and don’t even mind to open the computer.

Good news that I found a magazine that wakes up my mind and has some meditation while walking. But before that there is a mindfulness meditation that can be practiced while we are sitting, standing, or walking. And this is a good practice especially for those busy persons like me; a walking meditation can be done going to my car, to my garden, or even going to my kitchen. And I even go out in my house and find a place for my walking. I practiced these walking while meditating twice last week and it helps me a lot.

How to do it? Just follow these steps;

1. Pick a private place where the walking path is at least 10 to 20 feet long. If you walk outdoors, find a secluded spot.

2. For a few moments, feel your body standing, and then pay attention to the sensations in the soles of your feet. You will likely feel pressure and a sense of soft or hard, depending on the surface.

3. As you walk, focus on the path before you. Start by strolling, and then let your body ease into a natural pace.

4. Note each thought and bodily sensation as it arises. For example: “Steeping…arms moving…head moving….weight shifting…turning….bird chirping…cold.”

5. Note how often the impulse to check the time arises. Don’t just walk. Remember, there’s nowhere to go. You are already there.

Collection if Quotes

“You are not hard up when your purse is flat, and your trousers frayed like an old doormat; you’re not hard up when your bills fall due, and you haven’t a dollar to see you through.

But you are hard up in everyway if you haven’t a cheerful word to say; and you are hard up if you reached the end and can say in truth you have no friend.”

—Good Reading

“The child who experiences love in an atmosphere of love between husband and wife has the best prognoses of a healthy life.”

—Rabbi Mosses B. Sachs

“Religion is a man’s upward look to God. It is man’s inward look to his own soul. It is man’s outward look to all other men.”

—Rabbi Harry W. Etterson

“Start happy, you’ll never complete a perfect day that didn’t start right.”

—Frank A. Clark

‘Nothing contributes more to cheerfulness than the habit of looking at the good side of things. The good side is God’s side of them.”

—Thomas Carlyle

“Men are strange from what is most familiar and they must seek out what is in itself evident.”

—Heraclitus

Let our Children Dream for their Own

As my children grow up I have to be careful about the advice I go to my children. They grow fast these days and they know more than when I am growing up. I want my children to succeed but not at any price.

At an early age, one can spot a talent in young children. That can be taking care of young kids carefully without exerting pressures. My kids should be allowed to dream on their own and the last thing they want is a controlling parent to constantly remind them of what they could build themselves when they grow up. One of my kids says he wants to be a policeman, then that should be fine. I don’t attempt to change his mind just because I think his talent is elsewhere. The police forces of the world do not pay big money and I want my chills to an investment manager. Perhaps I notice his persuasion powers when he demands things from me.

My son is good in taking care of the money, when ever I gave him an allowance he tries to keep it and save for the future or sometimes he put it on his piggy bank. Perhaps he would be a good businessman. I don’t want to be sarcastic but fraudsters are also good when it comes to swindle people out of their money. What I am telling to my son is if ask him to choose a future career of his choice, is it to go for a job that would earn him lots of money.

The advice saying “seek your future from your talent” is not the one that I would pass on to my children. It is as misleading as it is vulgar. Fortune seeking should never be associated with skills or professionalism since it has the tendency to push one towards greed. I am not saying that people who made a fortune were greedy but we don’t choose a career with wealth as a driving force. It takes the shine out of real essence of living. It also lessens one’s abilities to communicate with forces outside the kingdom of their binding ambitions. We all see many such examples around us when parents try to live the lives of their children.

Boracay is a place to go

BOracay

Lately last week I and my friend went back to a very beautiful place here in the Philippines the place in Boracay, one of the most visited places to go especially during summer season and place to go when we want our selves a relaxation from a very busy hard work in the office or in our house hold chores, a place to refresh all our worries in life, and a place to celebrate the special occasions in our life.

From the moment my friend and I visited this place a few years ago, my friend dreamed of getting married in this paradise island. Little did I know there were so many lovers who shared the same romantic sentiment? By the time my friend was engage last year, Boracay was fast becoming a favorite alternative wedding venue.

wedding isle

And why not, a wedding in Boracay meant a church under the sky and a ballroom carpeted with the finest sand. Like any other destination wedding, the wedding party is on vacation as one big, happy group. This gives everyone more opportunity to spend time with the entire guest and for everybody to get to know each other. There would be no quick rounds of greetings at the reception but rounds of beer shared while hanging out at the beach.

We really enjoyed the beautiful beach in Boracay a romantic place to go with our love ones and I told you my experience in going to Boracay is a priceless and a place that I will never forget, Boracay is the place to go.

a place to relax

Best of all, getting married in Boracay means we are already in a romantic honeymoon spot. The morning after the wedding, my friend and his husband relaxed as husband and wife on one of the beaches on the planet. I am very happy for my friend for wedding in the beach is a dream come true for her.

The Importance of Water in our Life

Water is all we need; water is everyone’s life, without water we cannot live longer. When we are thirsty water is all we are looking for we cannot move anything without water. Like cooking our food, taking a bath, washing our cloths, watering the plants and many more, these are the importance of water in our life.

It comes to my mind how important is water in our life, because just this day we suffer a water interruption in our subdivision and I don’t really know that there is a scheduled water interruption this day so we did not put an extra water in our tub, it so happen that I take a bath in the bath room and my body was covered with soap, with a little water in a tub it was all ok for the shower has no more water already. Water is really important for us to refresh our body. Other thing is we are going to cook our food for our meals and no water, so what did we do is I get a one bottle of mineral water and used for the cooking of food and washing also our dishes. Sometimes we are only wasting water we don’t mind if the water is flowing in the faucet without somebody use it, but in times like no water at all there we can realized that water is really important to us all.

Drinking water must be clean and safe, and everyone knows about this because if the water we intake in our body is dirty something happen to us that is not good to our health, even when we brush our teeth and we are using the water in the faucet we cannot tell that water from the faucet is clean that is why I don’t really recommend water in the faucet to use when brushing our teeth because sometimes the water that we gargle is the water we also intake and we can’t avoid it. And these happen already to my son that was admitted before in the hospital due to the water that he use in the faucet for brushing his teeth, so, I am now very careful in everything we intake to our tummy for health is wealth.

Seaman’s Wife on Business Rebates

I am a seaman’s wife who doesn’t stay in just one corner, I love my self finding new things that make me enjoy at the same time I can have an income for my own. Just like yesterday I got my monthly business rebates it’s really amazing and very challenging rule that being a mom of 2 and a wife of a seaman who is my husband always far from the family. I always keep my body and mind busy and this is also another way to make as younger through busy minds. As what I read in a magazine, Yah! Having a busy mind makes as younger and being younger makes us a clever in everything we do.

Handling my business rebates is that many things put into my mind on what to do with my money. But as what I post in my previous blog that school of my kids is past approaching so I decided to go to the mall and buy their requirements in school and buys everything that is needed in their coming school. So without waiting from my husbands allotment I did bought everything my kids’ wants and needs.

Doing my own style in business, in that simple way I can help my family. Maybe you will ask in mind what kind of business do I have. It’s just a sell and sells business with no capital but at the end of the month or every month I can have my own rebates on what I sales. In this time of crises I don’t want to depend all my financial problems to my husband I need to have my own income just to survive and have a savings for the near future while my kids are still in the preparatory and elementary level. Saving for the future is a must for we don’t know what will happen in the end, and I don’t want my hubby to be on board till we are already old, we need to enjoy also our togetherness while still young. And enjoy the company of our children.

Doing business is having fun, at the same time I can help my family especially to my children to buy everything that they want without waiting from our monthly allotment from my hubby. I really enjoy my life being a seaman’s wife and a mother of two boys in a row.

School Enrollment of my Kids

my big brother

It is almost opening of classes and enrollment time again. Just this day I did go to our chosen school to let my children to be enrolled for this opening of classes. I miss the school for it is almost 2 months of not visiting the school campus due to summer vacation. For I let my children rest their minds and enjoyed their summer vacation playing, biking and everything they likes to play for it’s their time.. And now it is already time for enrollment and the classes is past approaching.

School enrollment for my kids needs a lot of budget, like paying for the books, school uniform, school identification card, note books, and other school needs. I need to reserve for the enrollment budget for I my two children and both are enrolled in a private schools. So there is a much higher price than enrolled in a public school.

My children are now excited to back to school again as what they told me, they missed their classmates and so with the teacher. While preparing for the things I bought for the school requirements my younger boy ask me, Mom why we need to go to school? I enjoy my life here in the house always play with my friends and love to play my toys too? And I told my son that they need to go to school for it is important that they learn many things in school for it is the only gift that Mommy and Daddy can give to you both for your good life ahead.

We will not live forever in these crazy world, the only way we can give to our dear children is a good life, respect one another and to be an educated one in the near future. These are our rule as parents to give our children a good life, so now we need them to follow up their studies so that they will go to the way of righteousness.

How to Help Gifted Child

school boy

I have a friend of mine that we did not see each other for a long period of time, a sudden incident we meet each other in a mall where I was choosing a good and durable bag that will be use by my grade 3 pupil for it is almost opening of classes. I invite my friend to have refreshment for we miss each other; we talked many things about life and being a mommy. She opened to me about his son that is a gifted child a very bright child and I told him that she is very lucky for having a gifted child and I am happy for her. My friend is a teacher and she is also handling special children in her class. So I research for a topic on how I can help my friend for having a gifted child, and a teacher as well.

There are many ways to help bright children. One is to keep the youngster with his age mates but giving him extra opportunities or assignments. Giving him the same lesson as the slow learners will not only make him loose interest in the lesson as well.

Another way is by rapid promotion, also called “acceleration” By accelerating him to the next grade, he will feel excited by the new challenge before him thus encouraging him further to learn more.

I told also me friend to give him a special class on a full time or part-time basis. Although this calls for an extra time for us, yet our efforts will be rewarded by a rapid growth of our child.

Another is to give our gifted child an attention to the social and emotional dimensions of a child life. Great care should be taken that a special child is in an emotional climate of his own type because if we keep him on suggesting what to do maybe he is misfit by our demands.

And lastly we must tell our dear teachers to help develop an educational program that will help a bright children or a gifted child to make the fullest use of his resources capabilities and capacities.