Happy Birthday Syot

He's our one and only syoti/ahya, he's really good in driving and in direction parang GPS lang ang peg, back in 2006 when I was pregnant with Elle, Ronald was not with me all through my pregnancies, so my syoti is the only one who would drive and go with me to check up, I will remind him my schedule since he got some business to do also for himself. I was really thankful for all the time and effort he gave to me and Elle, he will always said yes or he's available even I know he had something else to do, he will also buy food for me. Now, if I had problems he will just listen and tell me that things will be fine later ( hay I cried everytime I write my blog, tears will just fall down), words can't express how much I'm touched and thankful for just being there when Ronald is not with me.

To my syoti, thank you so much for EVERYTHING, if you only knew how much I love you, I may not say it to you, but I will be here for you, 24/7 if you need me, and i thank God for giving me a syoti like you, and I won't trade you with anybody else.

Again syot, happy happy birthday, I love you to the moon and back, enjoy your special day ❤️

Prayer answered

1 John 5:14 "This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us."

It's raining seasons already here, mostly in the morning it's hot and come afternoon the rain will start to pour down, you see Ronald is very OC with the house, he will check the house every now and then and see some minor things to be fix, then one day it rained whole day so Ronald just went to the 2nd floor and felt that the wall near the window is soft, that means there's a leak inside the window, so he search for a person who can do the job, fast forward, the guy came and make a hole beside the window, and yes it wet and it almost starting to had molds, he told Ronald that luckily he was able to found that out, so the guy schedule his next visit so he can close the hole on July 11, ok here's the thing, every Saturday we bring our kids to a place, that place is a lot bit far from our house, and the Parking is hard too, so when Ronald told me that I will bring the girls, imagine my reaction and worried, and quickly asked Ronald if he can drive us there no he just come back and he said it's impossible, that's where I became worried and started to pray, I prayed to God that if its ok to not let it rain until Saturday,(because if it's doesn't rain until Saturday, we need to reschedule the guy to fix). For a week I've been praying not to rain and yes my prayer was answered, it never rain for that week till Saturday, so Friday Ronald text the guy and told him to reschedule, then come July 11 Saturday the morning was so sunny, after my girls finished their camp, we went to eat lunch and went grocery, by the time we are bout to go home, it rained heavily with loud thunderstorm and lightnings, that very day I thanked the Lord for hearing and answering my prayer.

Love language

I've heard the love language before but never give the attention to it, until recently I want to know what is my love language, all along I thought mine is receiving gifts ( who does not like to receive gifts anyway hahaha), you see I'm happy when Ronald or my family give me gifts, but I'm so curious that I took the test of the love language, lo and behold I was surprise that mine is words of affirmations, now I know why, you see I'm shy even now I'm a mom, my self esteem is very very low, I always thought of myself not the pretty and smart one, but when my family member said something it give me boost to believed myself all the more, my next is quality time, I know that before I took for granted the time that we all live together before when we still are singles but now as I'm so far away from them I always longed to be with them all the more, if only I could go back to that time I would really want to spend my time with them. 

Next I asked Elle and she took the test, her love language is quality time, I'm not surprised anymore, for she always want us to play, read book, do anything as long as we are there,and also I asked Ronald to do the same, you see he's don't want to answer things like this but still I asked him and while he's cooking the fish he just answered without really put into heart so he got receiving gifts, I do disagree with it for 12 years for being together I knew him so well that he's not like type of person hahaha, I would say his love language would be act of service.

As for Erin, since she is still too young to take the test, Her love language is physical touch, she's the girl who is happy everytime you hug and Kiss her, her next would be words of affirmation, she wants to hear something when she did something good.

How about you what's your love language?

My love language 

Elle love language 

Ronald love language 

Prayer

Mark 11:24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

As a Christian, my faith was put to test a lot of times, I can say that my spiritual relationship with God is not that strong like before, there are times I questioned Him which I know I should not, now that I had kids, I want them to know more about God, so we do had our quiet time everyday where I read 2 chapters a day to my girls, it's hard to explain to them that is why I'm so careful with the words I said, and sharing to them my own experience about how God works in my life. Then I shared to them a story of a child who prayed for months that she wants a dog, before her birthday, a friend of her parents gave them a puppy, the child was so happy. You see my girls want to visit our hometown, so we told them we will go next year, before that I've been asking Ronald if we could stay for a month, you see everytime we go to Philippines we only stayed there for 3 weeks, so I said if he could consider my request and give it as a gift to me since I'm turning 40 ( hahaha). Just recently while having dinner, our girls opened that topic again, so we tried to convince Ronald and he just gave us an answer that he will think about it, that's where Elle said to Erin if she still remembered the story I told them about the answered prayer, and Elle said that we should start praying and she knew that God will hear our prayers.

Ever since I taught them that when they pray they should pray with a sincere heart, that first they should give thanks for all the blessing they had, next ask for forgiveness for all the bad things they've done third to pray for all the families health and safety and pray for the whole world, I pray that as they grow that God will lead their hearts and they will have a strong Faith in him and had a strong relationship with our Lord Savior.

Choices

It was the topic yesterday while we're having dinner, when Ronald came home, Elle was complaining that I did not give her IPad. Ok there's a rule for it, I only give 30minutes iPad to them (yes 30 minutes for the whole day) if they are nice, so when I asked them to study shobe immediately sit and answer while Elle start whining, I told her she answer or not it's fine with me but she still can't get the iPad for I want to see she is nice, so Elle told her story after I told my story that's where Ronald told our girls about choices in life, he said when you were born you are nice, but as you get older you see people around you there are nice and not so nice, it's your choice which one you want to pick being nice or being the bad one, I also told her that in every action she make there's always a consequence that she need to face in due time, especially when God come, we also told her that we as her parents are only here to guide and correct her but it's still her choice what she want, and she said she got it. Today when I asked them to answer she didn't whine instead follow what I asked and I told her Thank you and she just smiled.

Being a parents is not an easy task, especially to discipline your children, it takes a lot courage, firm rules and we need to work together, what we're doing is for the best of our girls, I always pray that may God help me and Ronald to guide our girls the way he wants, my only prayer is that they grow up to be good, kind, respectful and be full of love.