“Things that made me happy these days.”

August 18, 2021

Wednesday

Disclaimer: This article is like any ordinary article I have written, just another update, a part of my life blog stories/experiences.

These days I'm not so active here both in read.cash and noise.cash, it's not new, I now. 😅No matter how I tried to be active here I was just eaten with my responsibilities at home. Well, these probably are just “reasons” for you, but yeah, it's the mere truth.

Despite my busyness at home, I am so glad that there were things that made me really happy these past few days. Honestly, I am missing the online world so much, but I need to attend to my priorities first which is my family. Well, it's not new to me, I'm always been like this for years and I just can't break the benchmark easily. Maybe I need to wait more years when my little one goes to school too. That time he won't need me that much and won't be clingy.

Maybe some of you don't know yet, my second son is still breastfeeding. 😅 So I can hardly hold my phone to online nor sit and relax at home.

But if some of you still remember, I made an article here about my little boy's first birthday. I published an article about his birthday here on read.cash and now, his 2nd birthday is fast approaching.

I know birthdays come and go, but I only have few memories of my birthdays before. All I remember was, my birthdays were just any ordinary days I had. There were no celebrations, no gifts, no special meals and all.

As I turned into a mom, I don't want my kids to missed how fun celebrating their birthdays. I know we're still in a pandemic but it won't stop my plans for my beloved son's birthday.

No, it's not his birthday yet, it'll be on September 3 and I am just excited. We won't hold any grand parties, we're right on a budget too. I'm practical especially when it comes to expenses so I am doing my best to save and budgeting my expenses for his upcoming day.

But aside from his forthcoming day, one important occasion will be held too. It'll be his Baptism day or Christening too, this is very important in our religion (Roman Catholic). It's more than a tradition and I felt bad he wasn't baptized yet in his age. So we planned to hold his christening day on his birthday so we'll have fewer expenses. It's like hitting two birds with one stone. 😅

So last Sunday we went to the Parish Church in our municipality and inquire about scheduling and requirements. At first, I was so uncertain because the signage says we need to provide PSA copies of the following certificates: Marriage and Birth Certificate of Child

As of now, we don't handle any PSA copies of the following documents since we need to travel hours just to process for it. Since we're under ECQs the last time we can't travel outside the province.

I approached the teller nicely if our documents could be accepted and state my reasons why we can't provide PSA documents. I asked her in a very pleasant way and she responded with me a smile. My fear suddenly vanished when she told me to give them the photocopies of each certificate I handed.

My husband and I were very happy and pleased after we submitted the photocopies, we filled out the form to the church for his Baptism schedule and I wrote September 3, the date of his birthday.

After filling it out, I gave it to the lady and she told me the date of his Baptism was acceptable but I need to pay a “bit” for it since it was considered as a special schedule. Normal schedules for Baptism should only be on Sunday's making September 3 which is Friday a special schedule.

I paid around $20 or 1,000 in Peso for his Baptism and one hundred pesos for the parents' fee. My gosh, I and my wallet cried after. 🤣 But it's no big deal for me, what's important for me is for him to be Baptized.

As we left the parish office, we walked with no regrets and just felt happiness around us. Then, we bought some toys for the kiddos to be given on September 3 too as gifts. We bought 2 engineering cars for the two boys at home, an excavator and a dump truck.

You know, when you have two toddlers at home you can't buy one toy for just one of them, you must buy two so there'll be no fights. 😁

Sorry, I can't provide photos, I left them in my cousin's room so they won't see them until the said date.

To tell you frankly, these days I am so stressed with my personal ordeals as an individual. But I realized, instead of thinking about it deeply, why not try to remember the things that made me happy these days?

I know stressors are just everywhere ready to attack me anytime, but time is so precious just to be spent on them. So I'm knocking it off as soon as I could before it ate me whole up.

What's making me happy too is that, even though we're undergoing a hard time today, God never let us down, instead, we became much stronger and growing together. I won't state here my personal issues in life, I just want it to be private, somehow.

We've been through tough times and this one's just a little compared to what we had been to before.

What's important to me today is my family, they're my source of strength and my stress reliever too. And of course, I am so thankful to this community, without this, I won't be able to provide my family especially my kids some good stuff to cherish.

If you don't know yet, the budget to be used only for my little one's event is coming from here. ☺

I made an article about it before:
https://read.cash/@eommaZel/a-new-goal-is-set-dd3be565

Days keep on moving and the clock is ticking so quickly, we're just waiting for the event and it will be exclusive only to the family since it's pandemic and we need to follow the guidelines and protocols here in the community.

Here's his Baptismal candle with our (the parents’) candles:

While I chose these cute bottles for souvenir.

While making this article, I just forgot even for a short time my worries, especially about my health. It made me recognized that there's a lot more to admire in life.

This time, my happiness is primarily for my kids, their happiness is my happiness. Even I can't be a perfect mom for them, at least I am doing my best to be a good parent to them, and that matters most to me.

Written by: @eommaZel ✍🏻🥀