Posted by: gidday on: January 27, 2009
Something weird is happening.
My life is unravelling before me…
This, on my 36th year of existence, jurassic by some standards, hardly the age for new beginnings.
One would have thought that motherhood would slow me down. A five (5) month old baby that heartbreakingly clutches on me, a nine (9) year old boy I could hardly keep [...]
Posted by: gidday on: January 12, 2009
Yesterday’s Eucharistic celebration was the Feast of the Baptism of Jesus.
Which reminded me that, after all the hoopla, I forgot to blog and post the pics of my daughter’s baptism!
It must have been the rush that comes with the season. It must have been the burnt dress (yes, our helper burned the dress I intended to use [...]
Posted by: gidday on: December 5, 2008
It’s the day before my daughter’s baptism (cum practice debut ). I have a million things to do and some are not falling into place as I expected. I am suddenly jerked once again into the realization of what this affair truly is all about – my daughter will be welcomed into the family of Christians! Geez! Surely [...]
Posted by: gidday on: November 26, 2008
It seemed like a scene straight from the movies…
A young boy lying on a hospital bed, his lifeless body unresponsive.
Except that this was no movie scene. He was my husband’s nephew and this after all is our life.
It was a shock to see him lying still on the bed, heartwrenching to hug him and feel him cold.
He was Manuel [...]
Posted by: gidday on: October 8, 2008
It’s Sunday.
And for my husband, aside from the family and religious obligations, that means its lotto day.
As usual, he asks me for my numbers. And as usual, I gave him the same numbers I always do – 18, 22, 26, 29, and 34, numbers that refer to the ages when milestones occured in my life.
At 18 [...]
Posted by: gidday on: September 13, 2008
Nothing can prepare you for the first sight of your child.
You wonder for nine months how she will look like. Will she take after her dad or will she take after you? You devise ways in which to somehow manage and control her DNA, be it through food (eat lots of oranges and apples) or [...]
Posted by: gidday on: February 24, 2008
On 16 July 1251, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Saint Simon Stock of the Carmelite Order, holding in her hands the brown scapular.
She said, “Receive, my beloved son, this scapular. Whomsoever dies wearing it shall not suffer eternal fire. It is a sign of salvation. A safeguard in danger and a pledge of my special [...]
Posted by: gidday on: February 12, 2008
I feel especially blessed to have been able to attend the feast of the Blessed Mother of Lourdes at its Shrine in Quezon City. I took a half day from the office and went with my mom.
Pope Beneditct XVI has decreed that whomsoever attends the feast of the Blessed Mother of Lourdes in any of [...]
