Tales of a Good Life

Since Kael was about 3.5yo, we tried to see if there was a sport he wanted to try. We tried to offer football (because everyone was doing football) and he was just ok. He said truthfully that the trial was fun but he didn't want to do it again. He did taekwondo when he was about 4 or 5 and he was just ok with that too. Then he started big school in lockdown so there was no chance of any other things to try. He did, however, activated his apparently super strong drawing and artistic skills.  Sometime during grade 3, his best friend's mom asked if he would like to join his best friend in tennis sessions. They got to do this about 3x until the schedule wasn't working out and the weather not too favorable for his friend's allergies. In the first session, we were a bit surprised, he seemed to have natural affinity for it and was something of a natural, tennis strokes-wise. So when summer came and the school offered sports sessions and I saw that there was tennis, I asked him...

Sometimes I wonder why I stopped writing in my blog so regularly. I really liked keeping an updated record/diary of my life. I wonder if it had something to do with us going into pandemic and lockdown 3 years ago and found ourselves in front of our laptops nearly all the time. After a while, you just want to get off at the end of the day and avoid opening the laptop again until it's time the next day.  ANYWAY.  Latest updates:  I've moved into a new agency that I never thought I'd work for. They found me on that jobs site that starts with L (haha) and the initial interviews were good so I proceeded. I accepted their offer in February, ended work in the other place end of March and did a two-week quiet break before starting in mid-April. I now feel like I've been here SO LONG. Which is also a good thing. I think it helps that I got evaluated for a cluster that would fit. I got regularized on my third month and here's hoping things continue to get better as my co-clus...

 I don't think I've ever really gone this long without updating my blog! And I'm updating now lest it thinks I've forgotten it completely.  The past year has been such a rollercoaster, mostly because of work. When I transferred, I had expectations and they turned out so differently. HAHA. There was quite a bit of stress and now uncertainty. Maybe to cut the story short, I've resigned and will be moving to a new agency by April. But first I will have my usual break so my last day of work will be the end of March. I felt very happy and excited about the opportunity, which was maybe not really exactly the case when I moved. I just really wanted to leave already :p So I'm hoping that this is a good thing and I trust that this is where God wants me to be because the way forward to this opportunity was so clear and direct. Thank you, Lord!  Mid last year, I got diagnosed with diabetes! It was pretty bad, I had to do insulin shots straight after for the next 5 months u...

 I haven't written in quite a while and a lot of things have happened since the last post. So this will be a lot. Towards the holidays, we experienced such low positive rates that we were able to go out more and even bring the kids out. It was great! We even did our very first antigen test so we could go to that one christmas get-together with friends that we chose to go to. That was great too. I couldn't explain the happiness I felt being with friends and not talking through chat screens (which we've been used to since college, haha) or video screens! We also managed one dinner with my sibling-in-laws, which was, again, great. Then Christmas came and it was a lot of fun, with a more "normal" christmas shopping experience. We even got to deliver some Christmas gifts, the kids got to play in the park and they were able to see Powerplant's huge trees and the beautiful decor.  However, about a week before before NY and as other countries' started to experienc...

I seem to be doing updates based on our quarantine classification :p Anyway, it is now August. We have been on ECQ since Friday. After a surge last March, we are now experience at what authorities say is the onset of one (we all believe we're in the middle of one already) this time likely driven by another new variant - Delta, which is more transmissible. So now, we are solely at home. This virus is annoying  to say the least.  The weekend before Tala's birthday, we officially moved back to our house :) It's really nice to be back here and with all our own spaces, especially since school started already last week. Kael told me yesterday that he really likes our house, haha. Isla has well-adjusted and I know Tala is happy to be laying on her own, solo bed at times. I've gotten back to cooking here and there, trying out recipes with success according to the rest of the family. We still go to Mom and Dad's house each day - Isla goes earlier in the day so she can nap at...

 Just like that, we are on the last 3 days of June and July will be here! Halfway through the year. We are in... GCQ, I think. Cases have gone down where we are but rising in the other regions of the country. Vaccines are ongoing. Dad, Reg, Nek, Inna, and I have our first doses. Mom is waiting because her doc has given a time frame of when she can start getting it. Plus only 3 specific vaccine brands (and one she doesn't prefer) so there's really some waiting time on going. All our Ates are also waiting right with mom, because they are listed under my allocations in the office. Heard today that this may be in September pa, which made me very sad. There's not much we can do for mom because of the prerequisites but I signed up our Ates with the LGU in hopes that they can get a schedule sooner than that. We'd really like to "close the bubble" at home and have everyone vaccinated.  On the day we got our first dose, Tala said she wished that the one for kids would ...