Caroleen’s Treasures

I am not in my best mood today because I have not yet taken a bath and it’s already 6pm. We woke up this morning with no power and since there’s no announcement regarding this 12-hour power interruption yesterday, we have not showered nor done the dishes. What we have in the water tank was barely enough to rinse pot for cooking and some little wishy-washy. We have no problem with the drinking water because we are buying it and we still have plenty. Aside from not getting shower until in the evening, I spent hours fanning Ella while she naps and this made my head very heavy because I so wanted to nap too.

It’s Saturday and we are supposed to go to the market but I have like I have said, not even getting freshen up makes me feel so icky. In the morning when we have just woken up, Donald let Ella get some scrap wood from the neighbor which she did in a lightning speed. She brought a small box and filled it with blocks which she was saying for her “business”. She was asking me about that since last night but I never said yes because Donald has no comment about it. I was thinking he might not agree but I was surprised when he let the girl get some wood. The furniture maker helped her fill the small box and after thanking him, Ella went home grinning. She started the “work” right away and she has painted more than a couple of dozens.

While she did her own thing, I kept busy doing my own thing too. We both settled on the floor, she painting and I fixing photo albums. In no time she was done and she said, “Mommy, hindi ko tinaas ang presyo. Minura ko lang para may bibili.” (Mommy, I didn’t price it too high. I lowered the price so I could sell.) She then gets a pad of paper and she wrote her inventory! My great worry is, who would buy it? I don’t want to disappoint her by telling no one will ever buy but I don’t also want to make her expect that she could sell. She has such a great dream and at 5, she started to have one step towards fulfilling it which overwhelms me so much. She even waited for it to dry and carefully put it in a shoe box for “delivery” and she insisted on going around the village to sell. Knowing that no one would really buy it, I said she should pack it and bring it when we go to Davao because her Tita Crislyn and Tito Ace would buy it and that she can also sell it to her Lola Inday, Lolo Boboy and her two other tita’s.

I just don’t know how to deal with this stage where she wanted to work and earn money to help us. Seems telling her that Mommy and Daddy would take care of everything we need is useless because she isn’t listening. I am afraid that if I further stop her, she could have an impression that Mommy and Daddy are dependable and that when she grows old she won’t work to earn a living. I hope and pray this will pass soon or that my sister Crislyn would come over for a vacation so Ella would have a playmate and forget about her “business” and be busy chatting and making her tita crazy with her antics.

On the other hand, the laundry is left untouched today. We had a good weather today to dry laundry but we ain’t have power to run the washing machine and water tank. I will do a load or two tonight because I was telling Donald that if Ella has not much lessons to tackle from Wednesday to Friday, we might as well leave on Wednesday so we could have plenty of time to spend in the farm which would be worth the effort to travel that far. I was carried by my excitement the other day and I forgot about being pregnant. My OB said not to sit and stand to long and walk too far because the baby is lower than where it should be. I feel contractions now and then and its not the same with Ella. Now it contracts earlier and more often and it does hurts more. This is why I was not advised to travel as far as Kabacan but since we stopped over at Davao which is a three-hour drive from Trento and traveled another 3 hours from Davao to Kabacan after 3 days, it isn’t a long travel anymore. :grins: But this one would be long and I hope the 6-hour trip would just be alright and I am crossing my fingers that Ella would enjoy the trip. She feels sick with the zigzag roads and when she does, she would whine or the worst scream.

I think I should stop now. it’s dinner time and Ella and Donald are waiting for their turn in the pc to play.