Caroleen’s Treasures

Remember how Ella eagerly listens to Donald when he explained about baptism last Sunday? Well tonight right before dinner, Ella was shooting questions about the Creation one after another. So Donald had to answer them all before she complains that “Daddy doesn’t know everything about bible…” She started asking about God. She asked what’s the name of God….Donald said “God” Ella was stunned…”God what?…He has no family name?!!!” They had a quite long question and asnwer portion. Since we arrived here, Ella was the one who is praying before meals. And so tonight she said the longest prayer I have ever heard! She sounds so cute talking to God.

“Dear God thank you for the food we eat, thank you for the sun so bright. Thank you too Lord for the rain…plants are so happy to get a drink….thank you Lord for making us human, we are your favorite Lord that you made our mouth talk. Thank you Lord for our home, our life is a lot nicer here. Thank you too Lord that you made chicken, dogs, birds, cats and fish. Please help us Lord that we can have juice always……” Oh well I could not recall everything she said! Trust me, it’s toooooo long!

After dinner, she hurriedly went to shower and brush teeth. When she was dressed, she let me get her children’s bible on the shelf and waited for Donald to read to her. Her bible has illustrations. She listens attentively, this will be until midnight I guess…Donald has to read in English and translate in Tagalog plus the question interruptions on almost each sentence he reads! LOL

Since we arrived here in the province Ella have seen things she never did see in the city. Like the bugs that keeps coming at night when the light was off; we have to attempt catching it a few times before dropping it on the chamber pot and the lizards that checks in our ceiling to wait for dinner. There was one night when a dragonfly was caught by two lizards…Ella was shouting and jumping in frenzy telling me to save the poor dragonfly. So I grabbed a hand towel and threw it up to the ceiling…the dragonfly fell and I scooped it to check. She has torn wing so I put it on the window so she could fly if she can (Ella told me it was a girl!).

Still disappointed to what she have seen, Ella was asking me that same night why the lizard don’t fell from the ceiling. I said it was how God made them…..hoping she won’t ask for a scientific explanation which I have yet to find in the internet in case she’d ask again.

Tonight, as Donald was off to dreamland, Ella was still trying to get my attention by asking questions out of nowhere….telling me stories about what she did at the neighbor’s house…this and that…I tried to look interested and keep switching my eyes from her and my pc. I told her to go to sleep since it’s almost 10pm, and she said: “Mommy, please lay beside me just for 2 days only…..” She might want to say 2 minutes? LOL So I crawled to bed and as I was stroking her hair, she screamed and jumped in fear. A lizard feel from the ceiling right to where she was! I tried to calm her down and she said : “Oh Mommy, the lizard has no more glue on his feet and hands….that’s why he fell…..” Now that answered her own question… LOL

 Since we moved here in the province, we finally had a place we can call home. It is not ours but Ella claims it to be I have sewed a curtain for several windows. Though the windows here are a little bit smaller, I made a standard size curtains since we still have plans on getting our place of our own someday.

Ella is always telling me to build a big house with soft and nice poster bed with Disney Princess theme. Oh well as they say dream big so I am dreaming too like a child to have an elegant dining set and have my own home office where I can spend hours blog hopping I might as well start saving for this big dream to come true so I will start hunting for more opps for a kickstart!

We really can’t tell how short life is…just today I heard that one of the member of the church in our hometown passed away. She was Inang’s younger sister, Auntie Sabing. It was her second stroke, was confined in the ICU for several days and was discharged last Saturday. We thought she could recover since the Doctor said her response  to the medicine is quite good.  But then there was a sudden change of her condition. In times like these I always thought about getting cheap life insurance which can be of great help with the expenses from medical bills to funeral expenses.

Hello! I had a wonderful day. We woke up later than usual. Ella went at the neighbor’s house to chat with the old couple…they don’t have little child in the house and they are more than happy to have Ella around. She keeps them entertained by her never-ending stories. Ella keeps telling them that we should exchange houses. She likes the porch! Their house was made of wood, a house that seemed standing here for over a couple of decades. This is Ella’s second time to go there…the first time was when the couple’s children who are in their teens showed Ella some magic. Ella found their house so homey that she even joined them for lunch!!!! I didn’t knew about it until I called her home for lunch and she announced she was full. We told her not to do it again. That she is not allowed to go to the neighbor if she do it again. She said it’s not her fault….and here goes another line of the day that almost made me faint “I am just sitting there and they called me for lunch…they insisted so I have to obey…”

I was putting on a light make up last Sunday when I noticed I had white heads on my nose. I was thinking about pricking it but this will irritate my skin…I just thought of becoming more concious since I seldom look in the mirror the past weeks. When we moved here I haven’t found a nice spot for the mirror to hang and I get so busy in my pc and trying to put all the things in its places. I have to have mirrors all over the house so I could be concious of my looks. I wanted to gain weight so badly and I can feel the changes now I remember my cousins back there in our hometown, they have these problems on oily faces, acne and black heads…and the most is their figures. After giving birth, the ballooned to their sizes now and seems there are no way to trim down. I found Orovo will be of great help to loose weight. I will tell them about this when I see them on the 23rd.

Not much of going on today. I am still not feeling well…got a headache added to the neck and back pains Ella went about marching around the house, played alone and sneaked out from the front door to play with the kids but was called in everytime. I told her she is not allowed to play with them today. Most of her toys are broken or were stolen by the kids and that upsets me so much. Everyday I hear one squeeling about the other stealing Ella’s toy and everyday too, I am seeing broken toys! This is not good at all and I am making Ella understand that we should not let them play anymore with her toys. Last week I sorted her toys, the barbies and good ones are put in the crate and should not be carried outside for their play. I put the odd toys in one smaller crate for them to play with…hoping that everything will be taken cared of and that everything will be turned in after their play….but see, neither of this was done…so I am declaring Martial Law here. No more toys outside and they are not allowed to play either inside the house. This will not take long since I wanted the kids to play too….but I want them to learn from it

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I am having back and neck pains from yesterdays weeding in the back yard. After checking mails at 7am, I hide under the covers again feeling so cold and dead tired. Ella played in my pc the new game she discovered…I don’t know what it is called. All she says she have to drown the bad boys….that’s it. I just laid down almost all day getting up from time to time to check on opps but no luck

In the pm, Tatang and Inang dropped by in their way home to give Ella’s package from the States. A book for her birthday. I opened it already, a Dora book but will keep it until Ella’s birthday. After an hour, Tatang and Inang came back bringing quail eggs and chicken. I was thinking about these this afternoon and I was surprised how God knew I am dying to eat quail eggs and chicken So Donald fried the chicken and boiled the eggs. After dinner I worked in my pc while Donald and Ella had a review lesson on Phonics and spelling. Ella was very cooperative at first but made some excuses after a few minutes. Teddy was going to pee…or Teddy is hungry…so the class was dismissed ealry by the not-so-patient teacher and decided to make champorado instead. We crave for it for sooo long too and I have finally found a pure cocoa powder this afternoon. So our tummy will be really full and smiling

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mother’s out here! This is the second Mother’s Day that my mom is not here with us, hopefully we could visit her gravesite on her 2nd death anniversary on the 23rd.

This is our second Sunday here and I didn’t expect to have more kids in Sunday School! they are in different sizes! I have a 12 year-old and the youngest is 2! So this was a great challenge now for me…I must follow a curriculum but with the wide difference among ages, I think I have to ask for reinforcement Another teacher is needed to handle the older ones. We made Mother’s Day cards before we ended our class and they have enjoyed it. All materials compliments of Ella I am so glad she doesn’t complain. She was even more than willing to share everything she has. It was all from her “project” thingie…the papers, crayons and stickers.  After the worship service, there are 5 who were baptized by the river officiated by Donald. Ella was so excited when she heard the announcement that there will be baptismal. She said: “Mommy, sama tayo ha!!! May magpa-BACKTIZE!!!” (Mommy, let’s go with them!!! There will be people to be backtize!!!) That is our vocabulary of the day…

Ella’s vocabulary:

BACKTIZE-dipping of the body in the river to erase the sins and be called a Christian

She was asking her daddy soooo many question about baptismal…one after another…and we are surprised on how well she understood and of how eager she want to learn. They were like having a one on one bible study When she was satisfied with Donald’s answers, she announced she wanted to be baptized! Oh dear…that took us more time explaining to this little debator all the things she need to know. It was the first time I heard her say she wanted to grow fast! More often than not I would hear her say she don’t want to grow fast because of the house chores!