Poor Eman……I think he has colds now which he got from me. When his hay fever kicked in few days ago, I had colds the next day which is due to the weather. Although I was trying not to give him the virus, that is very impossible since I am nursing him which requires me to get near him and hold him. No matter how I wash my hands, still he got it and I hate it when baby’s sick. He can’t breath and it became worst tonight. 
I missed smelling his sweet smelling breath. Wish I will be well soon so we could play catch-the-nose again. Anway, I have to do some fast uploading of some photos from the camera while the little guy is sleeping. Donald was asking me not to take so much photos of the kids because if I get used to it, by next time we will be traveling without the laptop, we will need to get one of those memory sticks I found online.
I don’t think I can make a decent post tonight. I feel nauseated and I just want to sleep early but I found myself too engrossed in searching high and low for steamed cake recipes and other goodies. We do not have oven but we do have steamer and I am glad I found some recipes that I wanted to make for Ella’s birthday. I hope I can find all the ingredients here in our little town that I doubt if I could.
Been very early on the computer today. After I gave Eman a bath at 6:30am, I started the computer and found an email from my Spanish boss asking for the output of an assignment that I have not yet done because I could not understand her Spanish assistant. I sent him an email that I will be submitting it before noontime and that made me feel sick. I only have some breaks each time Eman needs to be fed and held. After working, I wanted to nap but Eman was awake and was whiny because his allergic rhinitis is acting up again (dunno what caused it this time…maybe the weather) so I carried him outside in Ella’s hammock. We spent half an hour swinging and I threw up! Not right in there with Eman on my arms but on the sink. I was just too fast to ask Donald to take Eman from me because I feel I am going to drop him on the floor. I hope I will feel better tomorrow. Have to go!
Been more than 9 hours coding and as usual I was called for back up for graveyard shift. It is so cold last night and more so in the early morning hours. I feel so drowsy at 4 am but the other coders kept me awake by their funny jokes in the chat conference. We are required to join the chat conference for log in, log out, error and status reports but we are also allowed to chat with each other when the queue is not long. I enjoyed working and being there but I dreaded the part when I have to ask permission to log out. For days I can’t log out as quick as I wanted to be because there would be no one to take over my post. So what I did this morning was to ask permission an hour before my eyes will shut off by themselves. Gladly it worked well for me! 
I logged out from OHJ at 6:35am, in time to wake up Ella. She went to school at 8am. Donald went back to get some more sleep after he walked Ella to school. He says he is not feeling well since last night. I also did get some sleep and we ended up sleeping past 10 in the morning. A gentle knock on the door awakened me, I knew it was Ella so I quickly jumped out of the bed and it was really our little debater smiling on the door.
I am making this post early so I can still get some sleep or even just a rest before coding. Donald has high fever and colds while I had menstrual cramps Donald should be the one to go out this afternoon but since he is feeling dizzy, I went to the grocery store instead to get some things we needed and to get some medicine. I was too tired when I finally got home ‘cos I walked from here to the grocery store which is almost two miles away. I was planning to get only something for dinner but I ended up putting in the basket other things we needed. If only I knew I’d buy more stuff than I planned, I pushed a cart instead of picking a basket. That would made my food shopping easier.
Our plan on going to Davao was postponed again Maybe it will be on Thursday when the money from my paypal will appear on my bank account. It is better also that it was postponed because Donald and I are not feeling well. I hope they won’t be needing back up for tonight so I can get some rest that I really needed and to attend to my patient who is now on his socks and pyjamas hiding under the covers.
Today I woke up feeling so sore on my back, chest and throat Donald with the other members serenaded Ate Aling. I decided last night to stay as Ella has no company. It is raining when they left here. When Donald arrived at around 6 am, I told him I am not feeling alright. So he and Ella prepared themselves for the church while I declared I am on a sick leave 
The kids has no Sunday School teacher ‘cos no one is willing to teach, so the kids decided it was time for a tour around the church. As much as I want to get up from the bed and get dressed, I could not. Ella was even telling me “Please Mommy, you dress now ‘cos we don’t have a teacher…” Awwww…..poor Ella. She missed Sunday School but I am sure they did enjoy their “field trip” around the yard. I am not feeling well from too much heat exposure yesterday on the wood stove. After I cooked lunch, it rained and I got wet. I thought taking a shower will keep me from getting sick but I was wrong.
After lunch, Donald and Ella went with the rest of the members to the river for a baptismal. I am still not feeling well so I stayed in bed. At 3 pm they came home and Donald prepared again to leave for a bible study. I and Inang had a nice chat in the living room while she was going through the pile of our clothes that needs to have a new home. She was looking for spaghetti strapped tops as she was feeling so hot. Just in time when Tatang was leaving, Ate Edith came with her tail….three daughters and a son who are Ella’s playmate. While we are chatting, I heard some kids yelling in the chapel. I went out and saw a bunch of kids, boys and girls, playing inside the building. I asked them not to bring their “tire toys” ( an old motorcycle tire which they push with a stick to make it roll ) as this is not a playground but a chapel. I told the oldest daughter of Ate Edith to lock the gate when everyone leave. She did lock it. After a while I heard a noise again from the chapel and it sounded the same kids whom I asked to go home. I went there to see them all again in the chapel. I was like “Heck! How did they came in when the gate was locked?” I went near them on the other side of the Chapel only to see one part of the fence was opened to give way to the truck which dumped gravel this moring. 
Man, if the kids were’t looking at me, I must have laughed out loud at what I have discovered. Such an idiot I asked help from Ate Edith’s daughter to put back the fence to keep the kids out.
In the evening, Donald gave me a very good massage just before we had dinner. He is so good in it and I felt better. Yesterday, when I and Ella were on our way to the grocery store, she said her friends were haunting for steel, nails and tin cans to sell to earn money for the enrollment fees. I said, “Oh really?” then she, in her most innocent look, said “Mommy, I will go and find steel too so I can sell it and pay for my enrollment fee…” Awww….she is such a sweet girl! I told her she doesn’t need to do that as she will go to school without selling steel.
While Ella was in deep sleep, I and Donald are so engrossed watching the You Tube of Moymoy Palaboy. They are so talented! We had so much fun watching their videos. You gotta watch it and see for yourself This is my favorite….entitled GIRLFRIEND.
