--Me and my 2 weeks therapy

It's been one week now since I was grueling on my backpain accompanied by severe headache.I had myself xrayed, they call it thoracolumbar xray, where it does show if the spine has an inclination. During my last xray, way back 2008, my spine showed 4 and some point degree of leaning towards the left. The physiatrist explained that usually the pain is impacted on the right shoulder, which was true. But this time, the pain was all over my back, excruciating painful muscle on the right shoulder and upward through my nape up until the head. It was so unbearable that I almost cried dealing with it.

Today, I started the first therapy session. She {the PT} was extremely helpful, very accomodating and always has this smile ready whenever she instructs me on the exercises. Unlike the one who attended my session two years ago, he {it/she} was doing his job just because he has to earn money, the usual worker type. This was a different one. I put on the hospital gown, lay on my face, as she spreads this cold gel on my back.She squeezed some metal roller on my back, to ease up the muscle, and a big towel with warm water, while 4 plaster attached on the painful part , {shoulder blade and lower back}. There was a low volt electricity running on it so that it'll penetrate the inner muscle area. Xy was with me and she helped me count the exercises. It lasted for an hour and a half. and gave her a tip for job well done. I need to follow the exercises before and after going to bed. I kinda feel relaxed. The pain wasnt totally gone but it gave some succor to my tightened muscles. It's a two-week session so I'll be back Wednesday.

---Brutal Migraine + Back pain

--back Ache..:(

---Beach Bum

--Mum's great day!

When snail mail was still the only option to deliver greeting cards and internet access are still being developed, any celebrations are usually spared with effort and time.I remember rummaging through the aisle's of National Bookstore where Hallmark cards are neatly piled and go through the confusion of choosing which of which best suits the message.Even with ample stipend,I'd try save a few just to buy a card from Humor Post. They have cute designs with minimal pictures, and most come in black and white sketches or hues in pastel blue. The messages were pretty straight forward and nothing like those long poems I-couldnt-relate cards.

Nowadays where internet connection has already become a part of the regular Filipino household bills, I feel that the essence of passing through a celebration,became cheaper and sloppy. Gone were those cards or trip to the mall to buy one simple piece of folded oslo paper sent via courier., and to this I'm guilty of. I simply turn on my computer, load Facebook and get at least 20 notifications, {>>that's a fair number} where I am greeted for the mother's day.

When Myk's kids were younger,they would make greeting cards with messages straight from the heart. And since Xy is still young, she made me a card saying I love you {love represented by the heart shape} Mam's Day!. I asked her why it writes "mam's", she said she doesnt have the "o" shape on her cut outs. It's cheaply made, but is done in best effort and means. I want to savor the moment that Xy still has time to make me a card.I am such a laidback type. My preference still goes to the old times regardless of all aspects but things has changed. Enough of the sentimental me.




























We didn't have really plans today. Like usual, Myk made a last minute plan {I mean plans made same day}. . I awoke early, made them breakfast, one of the rarest time I do already. Bacon and Egg + juice in the morning. We ate before we left, since it was almost lunchtime.
Itenirary: Sto Domingo Church (past 12n) mass and lighting up of candles
STarbucks Trinoma (treat them with frappucino while they have the half price promo)
Send kids home
Hazy and Myk watch THOR.
Grocery.


The movie was great.I spent the day more than I expected and I am happy I did it around people that I love.

-Mother's Day Special

Oftentimes, being a mother is an open-for-all job. The job description isn’t really laid out like the usual recruitment type, that whenever you failed to comply with the standards, you lose the entitlement, and has no job after all. It's a birthmark right for women I supposed.
The difficult part of it is, it's a round ‘a clock job with no material pay, and they say whatever worth it is they're getting; it's more than what money could buy. You get absolute fulfillment, perpetual happiness and affection from your progenies.

I am a mother of four.-with two biological kids, and two acquired by law, if you put it in simple way..but really, I am counting them all regardless of connection. There's a certain tinge reluctance to admit to myself that I can be tagged as a good mom, and I have no basis. I grew up in a big family, where, what our focus daily was survival. The means to keep up with quotidian duties I sometimes failed doing while my parents were struggling to raise us up and be in good school. It is unfair for my mom to be compared with any other mothers out there because we all are facing different economic plights. When I was younger, (10)I felt like I wasn’t given enough freedom to play and act as juvenile. We were all given tasks that entitle us a "pass" to wander and play, if fulfilled up until 5pm which is a common set up in the province at that time. I would obey mostly loathing each day at work, that I was feeling it was completely unfair. We weren't born with a silver spoon and worry not on bigger-than-us reality. My father has to work on carpentry, my mom on her little store and sidelines to get by. The only motivation to abide by household chores was when I'd spend it with my childhood friends whom I share same sentiments. I didn’t understand everything until at early adolescence. I was taught how to mature early to understand things and dream big so that I get more choices in life. WE learned the value of school to warrant us ticket for a better life...to persevere and overcome hardships without complaining, strive harder to achieve rather than envy others for what they have had. Even if we haven't had enough as I grow, my mother tried hard to provide us with good food, clean shelter, showed how to keep house a better place to live on. Now I thought, what she's gone through was tough, I could never even be as much as she can. She made me realize that sometimes a mother has to sacrifice time and patience dealing with the seven of us. I’m unimaginably stubborn kid.:)

As time passes, the Mother Job became a commodity at Jobstreet. My kids grow up with nannies around, grandparents who will always do whatever they wish. I can afford to hire someone to cook for kids, bathe them before they go to school, fetch them at school, watch them play around the house, because at night I am at work,,,and during the day when I come home they are all gone for school. I am feeling that I'm losing the confidence of the mother figure coz that is taken away from me by someone whose consaguinity is none. SO, at free times during rest days, we try to go out, eat lunch at a restaurant, and walk around the mall.
I have no other choice. I need to have a job so that they can be in better places than I have been,, to have more opportunities than what I got..travel to places than I've ever been, be in decent school, put on good dress {of which I wished when I was young}, more Barbie dolls {coz I haven’t had any}, pay someone to do menial tasks so that they can play all they want, study with parents guidance and be enjoy childhood as supposed.

SO what is really being a mother?

I am a mother because I know that I love them more than anyone else in the whole wide world!!

~~Family time @HotelH20

It's my hubby's first time to ever spend the company's team building. They were allocated with some funds and choose a place from the given list. It's an overnight stay with family at HotelH2O.This will be our first time ever to sleep together in a hotel.

My youngest daughter, Xeon, was ecstatic. Her eyes were sparkling as she wanders around the lobby of the hotel, spinning the chair, look down on Manila Bay, in and out of the mini entertainment room. The other three, Xy, Mykee and Joy, gets plenty of photo ops, here and there. Since this was a company event,the rooms were fully occupied, and we had to wait anxiously for the reservation. Complimentary iced tea were serve, and luckily, I bought some snacks to fill up their hungry tummies.

A little over 2pm, we got the Bay View Room, with free snacks and jacuzzi on the side. I was so happy to see the kids faces, jumping over the white and soft bed, go around the amenities and from afar we could see the ships docked in Manila Bay. We ate our packed lunch,some picture taking to the Liquid Pool while they swim and meandered around until dusk. The restaurants surrounding the park were pretty expensive, so we had to find a place outside and grab our dinner....and they dozed off as early as 8pm.The following morning, we took breakfast at MakanMakan, buffet style. THey have so many choices of food, and as usual, you get easily full by merely looking at how neatly everything were served.

It was a wonderful experience. Xeon was crying as were packing to check out. She said "I dont wanna go home. I want to live here!". and she was asking me if we would come back if I have lots and lots of money "..{said in her childish tone of voice.}

And yes, we will come back.