Caroleen’s Treasures

Saturday again! We are surprised by an unexpected guest early in the morning when we are still in bed. He was here to see his niece who is a member of the church but was ashamed to attend the service here. So he and Tatang arranged to visit the niece and the family today. I quickly prepared breakfast and when it was already 8:30am and no shadow of Tatang has appreared, Donald decided to bring the guest to Tatang’s place in case he forgot about their appointment. When Donald came home, we all went to the market.

Speaking of ukay-ukay…I found a maternity capri jeans! And while I am busy picking vegetables, Donald dissapeared and he came back with a Nike baseball cap. I could not ruin his excitement for finding a very nice cap. Ella has 5 peso coin in her little purse and she bought a rice cake out of it. Donald and she are equally happy about what they got.

We ended up carrying a bag full of vegetables, fish and some meat. I doubled the meat and vegetables for our meal fellowship tomorrow. Early morning, at 8am, we lost power. No power means no water too for us who uses electric water pump. So I have to send Ella and Tadiday over the well to take a bath. Tadiday has filled the three basins before the electricity went out. Glad that I believed what the neighbor has told me yesterday. We usually have a whole day power interruption during Sundays and not Saturdays, but I said to myself I wouldn’t be hurt if I believe. So the water on the basin has helped me clean and wash the fish, meat and vegetables.

In the afternoon, we took a nap. It was not yet long when the members came to clean the church yard. We have assignments what area to clean and they decided to come even it is not yet their schedule. Me, Donald and Tadiday also cleaned the area where we would plant our seeds. I hope we could start the garden Monday. The rain has hindered us to go to Tatang’s place to get some bamboos. Hope it won’t rain next week.

I think Ella could be the fastest runner here in town. Donald borrowed Tatang’s motorbike to get a big pan that I need tomorrow to cook big batch of dishes. Ella wanted to ride with her Daddy but Donald said NO. When Donald started the motorbike, Ella ran as fast as the bike and even ran ahead of the bike. Donald stepped on the brakes and she got her way. Donald knows he should have not let Ella get her way but as he sees it, Ella could get an accident if he won’t stop and he knows Ella won’t stop running either. I think they had a nice and long lecture about obiedience after that.

I will be off for a while to check on portable oxygen concentrator and be back to blog hop. See yah!

I was still enjoying my internet up to this moment! No more long walks to the market to check mails on the internet cafe. It was just a relief from the stiff neck and the foul smell of the cafe. Some ar smoking inside and the others are just so selfish turning high the volume while they play….I suppose it should be airconditioned and that each has to have a headset. My neck hurts too. On the first cafe I went I was looking up for the monitor while the other cafe, I was stooping down. Then there’s this keypad that is soooo hard to press…as if it wasn’t been used for decades. The worst thing is it has no letter F! But anyway, I am still grateful that there’s internet cafe here in town.

Today, we woke up early. I checked mails first then went around the little rooms to organize stuffs while Donald went outside uprooting weeds again and Ella played with her new friends. I don’t know why I only accomplished to sort two crates of odd toys of Ella. These were from our old little house so she’s very much happy to see those again after two months of staying with my sister Crislyn’s parents-in-law. I put the toys that cold be played with other kids while the toys which were given to Ella as a gift or that of value has to be saved. So I let the kids play with the other toys. I am not being selfish, but last Saturday Ella cried because her bike’s seat was broken. The boy much taller and bigger than her kept on riding it, the next thing I heard was it broke. So I was just being careful of Ella’s toys since we can’t afford to buy for now.

So the kids went playing on the shed beside the house where we gather on Sunday School. Donald was on the side near them while I was in the front yard planting ornamental plants we have brought from Davao. As expected, a little boy broke a toy and Ella was just calmly saying to Donald that her toy was broken. When I went near to see if I can do something about it, she ran to the house crying. She was saying “My toy is dead! My toy is dead!!!” Instead of symphatizing with her, I broke into laughter. Her toy was really dead….Poor girl. I told her that it was just a toy and that’s why Mommy kept her special toys inside the house.

Oh by the way, the best thing living in the province is your neighbor knocks at your door with a bowl of “binignit” (it’s like a porridge with sticky rice, banana, sweet potatoes, sago – looks like tapioca, coconut milk and sugar). This is the place I like!