Caroleen’s Treasures

I had a plan to go to Davao to get my eon card and packages for Ella in the city post but I had a bad feeling on leaving today so the trip to the city was postponed until tomorrow. I am bringing Ella along as Donald has Bible Study in the afternoon and her titas wants to see their niece. As we cannot go home for my mom’s death anniversary, might as well bring Ella along to see them. I really have to get my eon card because a friend of mine will help me sell in ebay. I need this for the ebay thing and I need to withdraw my first earnings from blogging too to pay for my computer.

I forgot to tell you that Ella spent almost half day in neighbor’s house yesterday while I was gone. The father of his friend Charlie celebrated his birthday yesterday and this little gate crasher of ours went there without our knowledge. They rented a videoke machine (a machine where you drop coins or token for the song to play) and the kids took turns on the microphone. The loud music goes on until the wee hour in the morning and I was praying that there will be power interruption (but not in our house!). I woke up early only to hear the loud music again :-(  Ella was saying she didn’t had the chance to sing yesterday. She is good in singing the song Narda and when she sees videoke machines she will grab the mike and request for her song Yesterday she just sat there, I asked why she didn’t sang and she said she don’t have five pesos to pay for one song. Poor Ella She was almost punished when she escaped again after asking her Daddy is she could play outside under the shed. Donald allowed her but she must not go anywhere…she went there and played with the wood blocks from the neighbor’s furniture shop. We are doing our own chores and we kept on checking her through the window. She was playing alone and seemed so occupied with it….moments later she was not there and nowhere to be found. We knew then where she went. Donald followed her in the neighbor’s house again and when he was about to give her punishment when she started blabbering…”Mommy the birthday of Charlie’s Daddy is not yet over…how come it was not? And oh…Daddy I saw the pigs in the pigpen and they all look the same! The baby pigs are pink and the mommy is pink too…but they don’t have a daddy in there…” What else could we do but turn away from her and giggle. She really has a new way to get out of trouble.

My mom’s death anniversary will be in three days. We cannot go home to visit her grave and to see Daddy and my sisters since we moved farther from there. It will cost us much for just bus and van fare from here to our hometown. That will be approximately seven hour trip. There are lots of things to take care of, the last computer payment will be due on Ella’s 5th birthday and we cannot keep up with all of these. So I decided not to go home. Although we will not be there, what matters most is we honor Mamang’s memories. I missed everything about her….but I know she is with the Lord. That comforts me so much. I don’t have a mother to buy wrinkle cream, make ups and little gifts.

Just recently, my classmate since elementary until high school got married. He was a bully before but turned out to be a good friend. All of my classmates are worried about him, for one good reason is he has a rheumatic heart disease of which might cause his death plus he has grown sideways. I last saw him last year and he was like the size of an upright fridge and this is not good for his health. At times he cannot walk because of his arthritis too and he cannot bear his own weight. I was thinking about the whole class surprising him with a wedding gift of Orovo detox. He’d surely be suprised!