Going home early for her birthday

Yesterday, we made some preparations for PJ's birthday. She turned 15 today but since she had cerebral palsy, her mental development was a bit delayed. She had phenobarbital as her maintenance, and that medicine lessened the seizures since she had it. Sayang that she had it.

I always see her to be a beautiful girl. Way back when she was the youngest in the family and I did not have a family on my own, I used to nanny her whenever I am around. Her mother detected her having seizures before she reached a year old and brought her to specialists.

Her growing was never easy, she had been hospitalized also of times and whenever she had a fever, it will reach up to 40 degrees Celsius. She had a Urinary tract infection and was even infected with amoeba once; I was there also as an errand girl to fulfill both of their needs. Her mother was always by her side ad never once left her. My sister made a lot of sacrifices for her even suspending her want to go abroad so she could find the money. PJ will always look for her and wait for her to tuck her in every night.
Despite PJ's situation, I feel the strong bond between them and love. Also, Pj made us all love her even more, my late father loves her the most and she was affected when he was gone.

For her birthday preparation, Indang bought lots of ingredients. But it was the raisins that I and my kids got interested in, We ate them without Indang knowing and asked my husband to replace them for us. The kids enjoyed the raisins so much and even called it kalungat (boogers) haha.

Indang sent my Laling to make me help her. Indang had lots on her table. Laling got very excited when she knew that Indang will be making cake. Look at the looking her face.

I spent more than an hour wrapping the lumpiang shanghai yesterday and her is the result. In the morning, Indang asked to cook some for the breakfast. I am pretty proud of my work. I am getting better at it.

Sorry, it was not good-looking but Hubby likes the taste of it.

Indang prepared the cake batter and baked them. It was very fragrant and made us crave it. I was actually hoping we could get a free taste that afternoon but she said she only had enough for today's celebration.

This was the first bake. Hmm, perfect!

But Czak could not wait and pinched some for him to eat. Indang got furious haha. But what can she do? It was very delicious and Czak can't control himself.

I see no problem with it since she made cake icings to cover it with.

This was the second batch. The batter overflowed and got a little burnt.

And to make the base even, she cut the top off and I was very happy about it because we got a free taste!

The scorched side is the best! It's crunchy. Homemade cake is the best.

This is what it looks like and a few seconds after, it was cleaned. Czak even wanted to have more.

This morning when my husband came from his work, my mother called for his help to slaughter the chickens that he had. They had to do it very early; my mother will go to her farm and my husband had to go to an amateur boxing contest.

Indang then asked me to go home early so I could help her prepare the food. Now she has texted me to buy something because she ran out of budget.

But the good thing is that they were able to find somewhere to buy a coke for later. Coke had been scarce in our place and some stores that had them are selling them at significantly higher prices.

I promised to be home by two in the afternoon, just in time, I will be able to finish my work(but here I am writing an article.LOLs)

I'm excited to go home!