love languages

this is my post-valentine post... haha... super-duper late! i was sooooo tamad to make any post lately, and it doesn't help that we only have a limited and sloooow internet connection now. =S

anyway, going back to my topic, i just learned about love languages when i listened to these marriage counselors being interviewed in 700 club. they said that it's imperative for a couple to know their partner's love language/s to be better attuned with their needs. sort of... it's useless to shower your partner with gifts when he wants you to spend more time with him.

here are the five love languages discussed briefly but clearly by one of the counselors, i think they are also self-explanatory so i don't have to explain them:

1. physical touch

2. acts of service

3. quality time

4. words of affirmation

5. giving and receiving of gifts

i discussed this with jude this morning and he greatly appreciated this learning. i asked him what's his love language and as i guessed, he said it's acts of service and physical touch... =) yes, he's really a touchy person especially when we're still bf-gf.

i also let him guess what my love languages and this is what he said, "quality time and.... receiving of gifts!" hahaha. he never missed the last! =D

 

the little boy is praying

iñigo now leads us during prayer time. he already knows our prayer (we made it short and standard for him) since late last year but it’s only lately that he’s zealous about praying. he would even pause and pray when he becomes aware of an image of papa jesus in front of him.

 

let me share with you his prayer before going to bed…

 

"papa jesus, tenk you for the bessings. bess us always: daddy, mommy, and nyigo. keep us heathy and smart… and safe."

 

this would be followed with a round of thanksgiving which usually about what happened or he received within the day.

 

"thank you for the kids (his playmates)…

thank you for kuya aaron (a playmate)…

thank you for chicharon…

thank you for thomas the tank engine...

thank you for the dinosaurs…"

 

and he never forgets about our jobs…

 

"thank you for daddy job,

and mommy job,

and iñigo job."

 

yes, all of us have jobs! =D

 

that's the prayer before bedtime. prayer before mealtime is another story. he used to be a silent follower to us before but his face is this serious and we can't help but laugh… while praying... =)

 

"i wish to see hotdogs on my plate, papa jesus."

 

but now he also leads us in our prayer ever since i made it short and sweet.

 

"tenk you lord for the food."

 

but when he's in the mood to pray, or probably talk, expect that everything i serve on the table will be mentioned from the rice to the viand including the “tapis”… that’s patis. hehe.

 

 

 

how naive can he be

mickey mouse lives in hong kong

 

iñigo asked me one day, “mommy, go to hong kong… like?”. i was surprised to hear that from iñigo. i never thought he already knows there’s a place on earth named hong kong. but he probably got it from me as i always show him the pictures of our hong kong trip and the brochure on hong kong travel which we got from the airport.

 

“why do you want to go to hong kong?” i became more interested.

 

“go to disneyland! see mickey mouse!", he quipped.

 

aba, asensado na… he only talked about going to enchanted kingdom but suddenly his itinerary becomes farther and more expensive.

 

“but we need to have a lot of money iñigo to go to disneyland… do you have a lot of money?”. i was challenging him to come up with a good answer. but iñigo ran to our room and took the coins i left inside the drawer.

 

“mommy! look… iñigo have money! yehey!” showing me two one-peso coins.

 

“but iñigo it’s only two pesos. you need more of these… lots of money.”

 

i received a nod for an answer. i thought he already dismissed the idea of going to hong kong as he never bothered to reply. but after a while iñigo exclaimed, “i got it!” and ran to his room where his coin bank, filled with one peso coins, is placed. he was so happy when he showed it to me, “mommy, iñigo have lots of money!”. hahaha. so that’s what he was thinking all along. poor little boy… and he thought going to hong kong is just that easy.

 

now when asked where mickey mouse and friends live iñigo would give a quick answer...

 

“hong kong!”

 

 

 

the cow jumping over the moon

 

there was a reported lunar eclipse last monday night so all of us—jude, iñigo and me--were all in the porch to wait for the eclipse to happen. but iñigo, remembering the line from his favorite book “goodnight moon”, mumbled about the cow jumping over the moon. but he was not contented. he quickly ran inside the house and picked up one of the blocks scattered on the floor. he joined us again outside and to our surprise, tossed the block upward which made it to land in our front lawn. jude quickly chided him for the misconduct, “why did you throw your toy?”

 

but the little boy had an answer, “daddy, cow jump over the moon.”

 

just to give an idea of the line in the book

 

oh, i see. it’s the cow-shaped block which he threw outside as his intention was to make it go over the moon. i never thought of that! haha.

 

his first day in his new company

...and that new company is (drum rolls please?)... shell shared service, a subsidiary of royal dutch shell--the energy and petrochemical giant.

jude was appointed as the health, safety, security, and environment (HSSE) manager of the company. so more than a transfer, jude's move to shell is also a promotion for him as he was just a rank-and-file employee in p&g. i don't mean to brag about this but i just want to tell that this is the big blessing i was talking about late last year. parallel to the offer by shell, jude was also applying for another role in his former office which could give him a better take-home pay every month. you see, we have bigger plans for this year (particularly my plan to just be a full-time sahm) and the coming years but we also need bigger funds to have those plans materialized. in short, we need more income and we really count it as a blessing when jude was headhunted for that managerial position last november and was picked among the other hopefuls. i can't help now but think that GOD is one with our plans after all. so i might as well close the issue that others don't think the same way as we do. =)

but his transfer is not that easy at all. for one month, we stressed ourselves on the transfer of jude's housing and car loans balances which we originally made with p&g. but again, GOD is so good that everything is now resolved and we just have to pay for one loan as the other will be taken cared of by what he can get from p&g for his 10 years of service. isn't it great that his transfer was just two weeks after his 10th year anniversary? GOD really is a wonderful planner, don't you think?

...and as the saying goes, "when it rains, it pours". blessings really pour on us at the start of this year as we have another answered prayer. =)

 

sweetness

the feeling was like being paid back a hundred times for those sacrifices i made for him when it's iñigo's turn to comfort me when my left foot got sprained after a 6-liter container of distilled water hit it after i opened our car's door. it was awfully painful and jude had to carry me up to our sofa (extra challenge for him) while the little boy rushed behind us.

jude immediately made a cold compress for my foot while iñigo was there on my side and assured me that, "ich okay, mommy." he'd touch the cold compress once in a while as if he was checking that it's still in its proper place and then he remembered something, "iñigo get doctor's set..." and ran to his room to get the toy. jude and i both laughed but we just let him do his own thing. he just wanted to take care of mommy, that's all.

mommy's little doctor

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we were outside the house this afternoon to play and at one moment i saw iñigo picking up the flower of the cogon (am not really sure on this huh) near our house. but to my surprise, he went to me and said, "iñigo give flower to mommy."

my heart melted like a butter under the sun. i just hope he really knew what giving of flowers means... hehe.

better than daddy's roses =D

 

 

 

another bo sanchez's article on homeschooling

i'll just give the link:

http://bosanchez.ph/will-homeschool-work-for-your-kids/.

jude and i are seriously considering to homeschool iñigo for pre-school and--if i still can--up to grade 3. we decided that the formidable years is with us.

afterwhich, the daddy will enroll him in his alma mater... as if the mommy or the child has a choice. hehe.

i think i won't have a hard time teaching iñigo his lessons as the kid is really passionate about learning... i just have to make learning a fun thing for him to do. he loves reciting the abc's and the 123's; i can talk about science topics with his eyes glued to me as if he's so amazed on how mommy knows a lot of things... este, how things around him work. he absorbs words fast... it's just this afternoon when i was stunned when i heard him use the word "pobably (for probably)" correctly. oh my, am really a proud mom and i can't help but share it here... this is our site anyway. harhar.

i just hope the kiddo would always be like this and won't get bored when it's already study time... or i might tell the daddy to send him early to don bosco.