I only have my very own SAM. So far, having one daughter and enjoying together her childhood is overwhelming and at the same time fulfilling. As a first timer mom, I can say that raising up your child on your own way is not easy. Mixing with joy and hardship is the theme. Specially here in USA, I don’t have anybody to call for a help except my dear husband. So now, I am enjoying my way of raising up our SAM. I am making my best to let her grow in a very good way. Teaching her what I have learned and the way it should be.
Reading books and asking mommies around helps a lot. Got some tips from them and applied it to my daughter. Reading articles help too!
So far, it is all in control, thanks be to God for the guidance. My husband is one of my best buddy as well as adviser, who helps me in raising our SAM properly. We are doing our best to keep our little in the right path in this journey we called "life".
Have fun, be realistic, be positive and best of all, ask guidance from our Almighty God. Enjoy, despite of the cruel circumstances that cannot be avoided. This is life, we must enjoy every minute of it, despite of --- that's what it should be.
To be honest, I have never heard or seen watch winders. I actually asked myself what is watch winders. Probably, I am too late for this kind of thing. The reason why I mentioned such is, it's because I have found anywhere about watch winding. I was too curious about the product, so I navigated the entire website, trying to look through the photos, and I have learned that these watch winders are good if you have automatic watches. Okay, I heard my husband told about an automatic winding watch.
If you have been using an automatic watch, most likely, you know that automatic watch would stop running if it is not in use. So, by the time you pick it up, and wear it in the morning before going to work, the watch is not working. You will set the time thru the watch repairman, but you will have to wait a couple of day/s before it works again unless if it's just right on our house or neighbor person. Ooh well, that is why there's watch winders, just like
underwood watch winders, which purposely designed for automatic watches. You just have to place your watch inside the watch winder when not in use, so that, by the time you need to wear it, your watch is ready to go. Anyhow, if you have automatic watches just like me, I guess you it is worth to have just like this so we won't go to the store or the repair person which has like this.
Playschools and toddler schools are giving new meaning to the term early childhood education. There was a time when kids were only allowed to school when they turned five or six. In contrast, today’s student body is also made up of little crawlers and creepers, some who could barely say a few syllables or could even go potty at the right time and place.
Welcome to the new world of toddler schools and playschools. Yes, there are schools now for toddlers. Parents with kids from 1 to 3 years can now enroll in the school, and usually these are private schools. Sarah is only 16 months months. I can enroll her now, but I prefer homeschooling since I don’t have work at the moment. Maybe I would send her to the proper school when she is in the right age already. For the meantime, I have educational toys for her, interesting books, and she actually can hold a pencil or crayon now. Okay, she is actually has an infant teacher to develop her skills once a week just for an hour going here at our home and I'm amaze how it is going.
I would like to ask this to all mothers. How do you manage holding an academic position while being a wife, mother and homemaker at the same time? Well, I am not currently employed in a company. I stayed at home all day and night together with my little angel of my life. I sometimes blog if I get a chance. And now, I realize that many women today live in a similar situation.
In this stage, mothers performing other roles do not sound uncommon. The question perhaps which these well-meaning friends really want to ask is this: How do you behave as a wife, subordinate to your husband, while occupying your time with your child? Truthfully, it is hard. I am just lucky because my husband never acted like a king in our home. In fact, he has time to take care of our only child when he gets a chance, or sometimes even if he is tired from work. He likes being with his little angel. Just like when he arrived from work today, instead of laying his back on the bed, so he could rest for a while, he played with Sarah. That was really an awesome scene for me. I just hope that hubby will always be a devoted father to Sarah, and a supportive husband to me.
I have heard that some of my friends are applying for some medical transcriptionists online. Is this for real? Well, it is proven as one of them is earning now. So great that this is another way to earn online. What should I do then? Well, I am planning to take the application and will see what will be the result. This medical transcriptionist don't need any medical experiences, you must just be very clever in listening and transcribing the correct words during the conversation of the said tape. This is cool enough! Maybe I can transcribe when Sam is sleeping or when I have free time. It doesn't required time and day for you to finsih the job. It is up to you if you will get the job or not. So no pressure moment for this job.
So anybody are into this kind of online job? Can you please give some tips on how this works well?
Are you depressed? Are you lonely? I admit sometimes I feel like depressed and lonely. I am a mommy, wife, friend, child and ooh yeah, I am just human and of course I felt what those normal people do. Living abroad is not easy. Some of my friends are encountering depression. This is serious yet normal, but we must just know how to fight against it!
I found some solutions here:
1. Surf the Internet ---> People can’t live without surfing into net now, by surfing you can be updated of the happenings around. You can be entertained by people online. Chatting, calling and interacting others can ease you loneliness. One thing, Facebook helps.
2. Watch Movies ---> Try to watch movies that drives your interest. Make sure that it is your favorite movie. Call a friend around to watch on together or your husband or if you choose to be alone then do it!
3. Take a warm bath -> As far as I read, taking warm bath can help. The warmth from the bath will have a calming effect on the nerves and will soothe the body. The bath will leave you feeling fresh and positive.
4. Go to the beach ---> If you like beach, it is great to go there and feel the serenity of the sand and the crystal clear seawater (or you can also go to lake, river or pond perhaps)
Hope this can help! Mommies and everyone, live freely as possible. Free yourself even in a little while. Remember, life is a journey and not a destination!
Today commemorates the day that the Lord has made, Lord the Son, that is. He has been made and destined to save us, humans, to free from our first sin which we inherited from our fore-parents Adam and Eve. This is in Roman Catholic Religion's practice, to which Catholics commemorates this date and being grateful of what He had done to us. God sacrificed Himself and gave his only Son. HE is amazing!
A mommy or not, we are oblige to commemorate HIS kindness. Everything God has done for us. So today we value His existence and yes, have our self-reflection. Have a great Holy Friday to all of you!
I feel overwhelm, it is in between of happiness and sadness. The good thing is more of the former, yes, the happiness. Why? It is because my daughter's fever has already subside. And she's asleep now. Thanks God! Though, it's not that so long but she was uneasy beginning 4:00 pm until 11 pm because of her
fever due to her vaccination pneumococcal shot. I think it's not because of that specific shot because she has been energetic (as she always is but not when came from, she always asleep after giving her milk at home from Doc) lately, instead of sleeping. Thought, she has her shot on her right leg. I felt overwhelm of that hours of carrying and pleasing her to sleep so she could rest instead of crying, though DH also helped me. The feeling of hearing her cried is indescribable feeling. Now I can relate to the good mothers why they feel this way when their child is sick.
Anyway, I hope you are feeling well now, whether you're a mommy, mom-to-be or just simply a cool person. How's everything? Do you feel the same way too ever if you're not a mom? Are you getting overwhelm if you can hear an infant/child's cry?
My live angel sent from Above. Gift. One of my inspiration. Precious. I am a momma/mommy because of this cutie patotie. :-) I experienced sadness, pain and most of all the unexplainable great happiness. Indeed, an angel given by God. God is great! Journeying with her is priceless!
Ahhahah! My cutie patotie's smiles journey has been captured by momma. :-) Just one of my baby Sam's goofy moments with momma. She's just so precious. She can entertain everyone in the house with just her smiles and giggles. Isn't that cute little goofy smile? Ha! This was on her five months stage.
Now, it's your turn, can you show me there while you sit your lovely precious goofy smile? If you can't show, maybe you can write, saying, yes I did it? *wink*.. thanks in advance. smile.. :-) Alright, I hope you are smiling now even if it's just a little one. Great! That's one great spice in life, being happy. Attracting positive vibes, don't you think? Smile..
I gotta find that picture of baby Sam that holding stuffs as just like pinching. It is just so cute to see her holding or grabbing her shirts, toys and such. You would want to see more and more (well, like me *heh!) of her doing it. I cannot just have enough of looking at it. Of looking her doing that thing. I just wanna share because I feel and laugh every time she does it. Sometimes she would just look at me wondering why I laugh and just then smile with me. Ha!
Being with my baby love Sam is just priceless. I am always thankful of this time. This time that I am with her not the other way around, thinking that I am working and let her does things with other people. I am just thankful. She surprises me everyday. Good surprises, that is.
Can you share some surprises too? From you, or from your love one/s? I hope you are having a great time despite of the trials in life. Trials/sadness is a twin of happiness but we have to make the former is leading most of time. :-) Spread the positive vibe! Give good surprise!
My baby love Sam was being mixed on her milk when she was in the hospital. That was one and a half month. She drank my breast-milk. I pumped out hard so she can have my breast-milk. Breast-milk is best for babies so I made sure she got it. When she was home, I formula-feed her. Yes, all formula. Why? I have a lot of reasons (I give out my important decision after weighing both sides) and the latter won. No regrets. She wasn't been sick because I formula-feed her all.
Anyway, formula or breast-milk mix, she eats not a lot. Just enough and her doctor is okay with it. That's the important word I got and nothing else. As long as she is not sickly and all because of formula-all, that's all that matters. She is not fat infant which I want her to be, but since want is just a second of "like", and you now found the answer. :-)
She drinks not quite a lot and it's fine (not just from my thought but also from her doctor's thought). I give more of strength than standard babies who likes drinking their milk, but am fine. It's just that it's just the way it is. And I like when they said "you did a great job!" . :-) Who wouldn't like that!? Don't you? Smile. :-)
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