Weekends are meant for…

How was the first long weekend of August for ya? QC peeps actually were lucky because the 19th was also a holiday. If I worked in QC I would have taken Thursday off too and made it into a 5-day weekend.

I’m actually on leave now pero sick leave *blech* I’ve been rained on last week while waiting for my Uber. I didn’t think much of it, I’m not sickly but I guess early days of prepping David for school and just spending the entire day stressed finally took a toll on me. I probably need to take a daily multi-vitamin again or really enroll at a gym to get my strength back. Promise talaga…sa sweldo I will look into the Planaforma studio that just opened near our office. (Look lang ha hehehe)

So I am making the most of this day by taking a look back at all the fun stuff we did.  It was a really rainy and dreary weekend but we got the most out of it. But weekends are always for

School Work!!

I went to work last Friday but went home at 2pm when the weather turned for the worst. Good thing I got an Uber right away. When I got home, Kuya and I talked and agreed to do his assignments on a Friday so he’d have the whole weekend free. David has been adjusting well to his new school. He still gripes about the early morning and the traffic….well don’t we all? Hehehe

Doctors Visits

First, I took Noah to have his teeth cleaned and have vitamins applied to his teeth. We go to Children’s Dental Center and our pedia dentist is Dra. Carmela Pedroso. Noah is such a good patient. He’s been around so many doctors that he just knows what to do. He’d be scared at first always but he would always do what needs to be done. Afterwards he’d be back to his normal self, smiling, making beautiful eyes and waving to all the medical staff. This kid talaga 🙂
 Our dentist has handled patients with Down Syndrome before but Noah is her youngest. Based on her assessment Noah actually has to have several procedures done to him 🙁 His teeth are in such a bad state that he has to have several teeth extracted and have some of his molars crowned. Dra is also a surgeon so she would also be able to remove the fleshy growth under Noah’s mouth.  The total bill is huge but we are willing to pay rather than risk infection for Noah. We need to take Noah to his pedia and clear the procedure. It’s such a huge medical step for us and I feel a huge pit in my stomach everytime I think about it.

To moms who’ve had their kids undergo major dental procedures, do you have any tips for us?

Movies!

After the visit to the dentist,  I left Noah at home who was sleeping and took David naman to watch Inside Out.  I always try and schedule these mother and son dates with kuya. He’s growing up to be an observant and empathetic young man.  He’s not afraid to ask questions and his curiousity has not reached its peak yet. He questions everything and has an unbelievable imagination. He sometimes gets lost in the world he creates and I just let him.  Childlike wonder is a sight to behold. I sometimes think about mine and when I lost it. Being a grown-up is complicated. If you do get to read this David, do know that you should never ever lose your amazement of the world around you.

Oh and Inside Out is amazing!! Go watch it!

 

A Little Treat for Me!

I treated myself to a new book this weekend. I finally got the newest copy of Smaller and Smaller Circles by FH Batacan. The heroes are two Jesuit priests who are in search of a serial killer. It is set here in Manila. I have a copy of the first edition and it was so good I finished the book in one sitting. I looooove crime dramas and this book is too good to pass up.  However, I have one unread book in my  nighstand.

Wonder by RJ Palacio has been by my bedside for 2 years. It’s about a boy with a disfiguring disability who is trying to figure out his place in the world. It just hits too close to home for me and I am afraid I will be bawling my eyes out by the end of the book.  I love how stories are able to affect me this much though. Fiction or not, it moves me and it plants seeds in my soul that makes me want to do more, to share more and to be more. Has any book made you feel so passionate about something lately?

 Church

Sunday we went to church and heard mass. These two are super likoooot. David gets bored and Noah wants to be carried all the time. We prayed for the week ahead, we prayed for Dan’s safe return and we prayed that we’d be together all the time. I always pray the serenity prayer and whenever I get to the part about ‘the courage to change the things that I can and the wisdom to know the difference’ I also ask for extra grace and discernment.

Family!

Sunday was also a good day because Dan came home! He was in Zurich for a week for work. He’s jetlagged and a bit disoriented. He showed us pics of Zurich and the monastery where they had their management retreat. He also brought home some goodies but my most favorite is this puzzle that was sold at their gift shop. It was made by individuals with intellectual disabilities in a sheltered workshop. The hotel where he stayed in for their management retreat employed 45 PWIDs (peope with intellectual disabilities). This is just like the Tahanan Walang Hagdan Program here. I do hope that sheltered workshops and support by businesses become the norm here in the Philippines. I do hope that when Noah grows up that there will be a program that will take his skills and strengths and apply them to create amazing things.

What an amazing deal would that be no? Hmmmm maybe I should pray the Serenity prayer again a few more times 😉
There’s another long weekend coming up! What are your plans?