tears for the unborn

Last Saturday, April 14, we were in the doctor's clinic for AJ's monthly check up when I received a text message. It was from my friend Kim, who was less than 20 weeks pregnant. "We lost our baby last Thursday, Please pray for us.....Please tell the others for me". I thought.. is this some kind of a joke? But who would joke about this? I called her up and confirmed it. I hate it when my friends let me announce the bad news (my best friend from college also asked me to inform our friends about the death of her father) to all our friends, its like I'm the messenger of bad news.

Anyway, It was weird because when I spoke to her, she seemed okay even if she lost her baby 2 days ago. And thought that she have accepted the reality of losing her first born. I felt, I was more affected of her loss than she did. But when I read her post, I cried. I was wronged and I felt so ashamed how I could have even thought that she didn't care.

In my previous post, I was so excited about about her having a baby and was so excited on the baby shower and baby Q&As, but now its like a blur, a dream. She posted an eulogy for her baby angel. Again, I was crying while reading her eulogy and even more while I was typing my comment.

I'm crying for all the unborn children who were lost by people who will be good parents and will love them unconditionally. And I'm crying for all the unborn children who were aborted by their parents. There are a lot of good people I know who are still trying and waiting to have their own kids. So, treasure your own. They are beautiful gifts from God.

a new family Holyweek-end tradition

Gosh I miss doing this.. blogging I mean. As usual, work is keeping me from my balanced life and sad to say, Andre is the one keeping me sane from all these report analysis that I have been doing for weeks (3 weeks to be exact if you include working over the holy week). Can't they understand the meaning of Official Non-Working Holiday?!

Anyways, even if I had to bring some work during our Holy Week vacation in Nasugbu (Batangas), I was able to spend a very good QT with my little cute rascal and the equally handsome (and equally rascal in a rough way) hubby of mine. We drove to hubby's hometown early morning of Holy Thursday to avoid traffic (Kat, there's no Car Seat Law here in PH) but I guess most people was thinking the way we were because as early as 5:30am, EDSA was packed with vehicles… it was like a normal early Monday rush hour. We took the Cavite route (we usually go via SLEX) because hubby had a feeling the SLEX will be swamped by cars, bus, vans and what have you, even motorcycles. It was indeed free from traffic, we were already in Tagaytay by 7:30am and stop over for breakfast at McDonalds. Traffic came when we were approaching the town proper of Tagaytay, where I spent video taping AJ to pass the time. AJ and I fell asleep right before we enter the Nasugbu welcome arch. Thanks to Baby Mozart playing on our car cd player. And woke up when we reached the house just before 9am.

The rest of holy Thursday and Good Friday, we just stayed indoors, playing and sleeping and visited Lolo Paco (AJ's Great Grand Lolo). Early morning of Black Saturday, we went to the nearby beach to catch the sunrise and to see the newly made monument of the Batangas Landing (just like the MacArthur Landing in Leyte).

Easter Sunday, around 6am, we (with Hubby's brother's family, Dandin, Gina and Abby) headed to the Calayo Beach to avoid the late morning heat of the sun (yeah we're afraid our babies get sunburned). AJ was crying and scared of the water when we dipped him in the beach and tried to get him in his inflatable giraffe. We tossed the giraffe and hubby just held him while in the water. Eventually he was calm and playing with the water with one hand and the other gripping around hubby's shoulder.

We left the beach just before 10am and headed to hubby's 2nd cousin's house. When we arrived there, Alexia and AJ (Angelina Joy), (both are Andre's 3rd cousins), were already swimming in their big inflatable swimming pool. So Abby and Andre joined in the fun with all the daddies inside the pool as well playing the roles of lifeguard while the mommies are on the outside cheering, taking pictures and videos (That's me) and holding bath towels. It was indeed fun to see those kids enjoy themselves.. guess as a first time mom, I enjoyed it more than anyone else.. oh but wait.. all of us there are first time parents ... heheheh! And I just realized that all our babies names starts with the letter A! (Abigail, Angelina Joy, Alexia Reese and Andre Jonah) CUTE! By 12nn, Andre was already snoozing which I'm glad since I was able to eat peacefully and heartily the food that the daddies prepared ( Hubby grilled the fishes ~ fresh dalagang bukid, pla-pla and pork chops, brother-in-law, cooked Pinakbet and we also had some Indian Mangoes and watermelons). Like clockwork, Andre woke up just past 1 pm as I was finishing up with my plate. Now its his time to eat.





Monday morning we were all set to leave and go back to the hustle and bustle of the city and can't wait for the next holiday in Batangas, we, especially Andre did have fun! I think this will be our new family holy week tradition.