A few weeks before finally deciding to let mateo join the 1A (youngest) class of the Preschool level, I distinctly remember asking andrea how sure she was about the idea. I told her that the moment mateo starts school, it was the first step to letting him go. Now, eight months into the school year, [...]

Back in October, andrea and I experienced one of the worst heartaches we’ve ever felt. We lost our second baby. She was only three months old and still in her mommy’s tummy but she was ours. Now, several months after, here we are again, expecting.

This love affair did not happen by accident. It was a conscious decision to go for it, a conscious decision to make a lifelong commitment to another person. Nevertheless, it was never forced. If nothing should come of it then we wouldn’t be any less happy, we knew the right time would come.
So imagine our [...]

Getting those two pink lines the second time around is definitely not the same as the first. This time, Ramil and I are mentally prepared for it because it was planned. Also, there’s a two-year-old jumping up and down with us although he doesn’t fully realize what the fuss was with the stick I was [...]

I teach in a small, private school where the average tuition fee of each student is around five months worth of a teacher’s gross salary. It is a school where expensive cars line up the street during family days, report card days, and Christmas programs. It is a school where some students get cars [...]

Almost two years ago, we were completely new to the concept of a baby. After almost 24 months of experimentation, much browsing and a ton of advices (both solicited and unsolicited), we’ve relatively mustered the basics of taking care of our own, at least when it comes to changing diapers, feeding, checkups and lullabies. But [...]

Even before I got married, I knew I wanted children. I went as far as deciding that if I am unmarried by the age of thirty-five, I’d look for an attractive, intelligent man and get myself pregnant. When I became a mom however, there were times when I would feel so down especially during [...]