Caroleen’s Treasures

It’s been like ages that I haven’t blogged and I am not in best mood to even do it now but thinking about having to make a very long post about what happened in the past days, I decided to write tonight so it won’t be that long.

So today we went to see my OB and she said I am in labor. I have been feeling this pain before we came here in Davao last Saturday but knowing that the baby isn’t due until the first week of April, I tried to ignore it although almost everyone who sees me with this very huge and unusually low bump says I might have miscalculated and it looks as though I will deliver the baby anytime. So my awesome OB was worried that I might have premature delivery and gave me medication to prevent contractions since I am still on my 35th week. I might have an early delivery on the 37th week which is a lot safer than now. That’ll give me enough time to ge ready and if i could still manage, I wish to finish my cloth diaper project. I am still undecided whether to go home or stay. The doctor said it will be fine for me to travel back home but after checking on me, she advised me not to. I wanted to go home to get the baby stuffs and more clothes for us. There are also some stuffs that needs to be done and Ella has to go to school. She really wanted to wear a toga and we already bought her a graduation dress, stockings and shoes with hair clips that will go with her outfit. While looking around, I saw a fancy diamond hoop earrings  that could be great for Cheche to wear during her graduation but I skipped that and will just come back later because Ella will surely want to have a pair too. I hope I could still go home because I need to be home.

I haven’t done a decent post for several days now and I am missing it. There are so much to write about but each time we got here at my sister’s place, it’s already past midnight. I even forgot to blog about my cousins who came from Kabacan last Sunday to pay respect. The girls went home at almost 2am while the boys stayed with Donald at the funeral parlor until almost seven in the morning. My SIL couldn’t believe that they came all the way from our hometown just to show their sympathy. She must have been very surprised if my aunties made it here but since they also have some business and patients to attend to, the younger generation of our clan was sent.

Wish Cheche will be here soon because I want to eat something. I’ll be sending her to buy it and would be asking for a massage that I badly needed. Yesterday, Donald tried the McDo online delivery as he was starving already. I was craving for sundae but too bad they didn’t have it that time. maybe their machine broke. So just had burger and fries, Crislyn had spaghetti and fries while Donald ordered 1-piece chicken with spaghetti. Read more… »

Been here at my sister’s place and having no plans of going out. Since Saturday, I’ve been going to the funeral parlor and I just can’t get my body to cooperate this time. I can stand the kicks and contractions but the back ache and migraine is unbearable. I had it since yesterday and I don’t think I can sit there and pretend I am fine so I chose to stay here with Ella who spent most of the day infront of the TV and the computer. I am just so glad that she’s not needing much of my attention and care like when she was still little. Tonight will be the last night of the wake and I am pretty sure there would be a lot of people there and not much of chair to sit on. My FIL has planned everything before he died. From his coffin, gravesite, what he should wear, where to be buried, the music to be played….most of which hasn’t done and wouldn’t be done for some reasons. But his request that no one will play poker and other games like that of the casinos was followed which is a good thing.

I was wondering the other day why I was rushing to get all the cloth diapers done like I was preparing for something that I am not certain of. The baby won’t show up until April yet I felt the need to finish the sewing project. Donald and I stayed up until 2am yesterday and I was awakened by a call at quarter past 5. Since I just have dozed off, I am in a not-so-normal state of mind while I was trying to reach for the cellphone on the table. It was my SIL’s number and I knew right then what was it. My FIL went home to the Lord at the age of 59.

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Not much going on here today. Ella went to school in the morning, watched movie (again) when she got home, ate, slept, played. Donald made himself busy on the pc tweaking his blog and blog hopping and me on the sewing machine with my cloth diaper project. I already did 24 cloth diapers which still needs to be sewn with velcro. I hope I could still sew the last 12 pieces tonight and tomorrow morning as I am really wanting this project to be “officially” done before we leave for Ate Lourdes’ house in the afternoon for our weekly bible study. All in all I will be having 6 newborn size and 36 small size cloth diapers. I do not want to run out of it when the weather is not fine. Read more… »

I finally got hold of my fabric and spent most of the on my cloth diaper project. I was too excited that I let Donald check if the package has arrived from Davao so after dropping Ella to school, he went straight to LBC. He said their reason of not being able to deliver it yesterday is valid because their courier van goes straight to San Franscisco, a one hour drive past here, bringing all the packages that are supposed to be dropped here. I don’t get the point of wasting gas driving past here and bringing the packages back. Anyway, I am happy that I can continue making diapers for Emmanuel yet I really could not understand why I always get short with it when I have carefully measured the length that I needed putting a half meter allowance. It happened again! I am such a moron. So instead of whining, I make use of the scraps again. Read more… »

We accomplished a quite huge task yesterday….that is doing the laundry. I say it’s huge because if you check my previous posts, the last time we did the laundry was last January 16. Blame it to our crazy weather. Just imagine 10 full loads of laundry in the washer not to mention the whites which I hand washed for four hours. We spent almost a week this month in Davao and I did the laundry there but it didn’t help lessen the pile after pile of dirty clothes. It was yesterday that I heard Donald regret about not getting the automatic machine. He promised that if he did earn from blogging, he would get me one. Maybe here we really need it since Mr. Sun always plays hide and seek with us but if we move back in my hometown where the weather is nicer, we could be fine with our washer. So today, most of the clothes are already dry after we gave ourselves some exercise of running outside to gather them when it drizzles and putting them back on the lines when the sun shows up.

Ella’s doing better and better during her wake up calls. She would not complain anymore about being sleepy and she’s really enjoying the three days in a week that they will spend the entire day at school. I asked her to pose for me in the camera before heading out the door. Read more… »

For two days in a row, Ella has to go back to school in the afternoon. The teacher said they will double time since graduation will be next month. I had no idea that the teacher could just decide on her own…or the school could. It is their fault that they are so behind and the kids suffer from it because when I checked Ella’s paper yesterday, they are already in addition of two digit numbers. Though Ella got a perfect score in their quiz (which I doubt if she did it all by herself or the teacher taught her), I am still unhappy with this whole thing. They are really behind because Ella had this lesson when she was still in Kinder 1 in Davao. But my point is that they are doing it pretty fast just to finish the curriculum in time. One day they are on single digit, the next day they moved to double digits when they should be familiarizing doing the single digit first. They have plenty of time the past months but they are so focused on their scholarship program. Anyway, with this new set up (that will be Monday, Tuesday and Thursday), I missed seeing Ella at home. After her class in the morning, she would watch movie and play before and after lunch then come 1 pm, she would get ready for school again. She seem to like it because she could see her old classmates (the scholars who were moved to afternoon classes and was blaming us for paying school fees when others do not) Well, the good side here is that she could get used to a whole day class if she gets in the 1st grade in June. Read more… »

Feeling really disappointed with family matters. Wish I could vent in here but I do not want to elaborate and I did my best not to mention it here in my blog because I hate blogs full of rants about this and that….you know what I mean. Ranting once or maybe twice is fine but the C.O.N.S.T.A.N.T. ranting about something (or should I say the same thing) is very annoying to me. This has something to do with Cheche’s school. I know I have the right to vent…to rant…because after all this is my blog, but that’s not me. Hopefully tomorrow I will get over with this. I have things that I wanted to blog about. All are nice things but I will just wait until I have cooled down. Bye for now!

Still feeling sore from the leg cramps I had yesterday. I have to walk very very slowly and I do not want to go out of the house wiggling like a duck. I noticed that my bump grew bigger and it all happened while I was sleeping. I believe so because when I woke up three days ago, I feel the big change in its size and weight yet I still do eat the usual serving I had before. I haven’t experienced it with Ella until two days before I gave birth. So tell me, how did that happen so fast? Read more… »