My Blog is Nominated!

Let me first take a deep breath. I started being active in blogging (again!) after an unpleasant event. It is when I was able to find time to update on this blog and take some online learning about how to tweak on its design. After almost 3 months, out of luck (?), my blog is nominated in The Composed Gentleman's Filipino Blog of the Week Award (week 162). It is such a pleasure to be nominated (what more if I win this). If you can please vote for me on his page, it will be such a delight (the poll is almost in the middle of his first sidebar). To my fellow mommies and wifeys who are sharing my journey through this blog, sana tulungan nyo ako (it seems that there are only few from our group who have been given the chance to win the award).

So please, to anyone reading my this blog, kindly vote for Mom from Manila in this site . Your votes will be greatly appreciated.

Ngayon pa lang po, maraming salamat sa lahat!

Praying for Motherhood, the Second Time Around

Roughly four years go when we decided to have another kid. I stopped the pill and waited to be pregnant in the months that followed. It was in the same year that we found out that my left ovary was not so healthy. I was one of the many women who suffered from Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS). My then-OB told me it will be hard to conceive the natural way. During the same time, my Mom is struggling against Bone Cancer. That made me shrugged off PCOS, I even told myself the old saying “pag di ukol, di bubukol”. But waking up this morning made me realize that I am not getting any younger, few days from now, I will turn 33. We have always wanted Jian to enjoy the role of being a “kuya”. In our daily conversations , I often call him “Anya” or “Kuya”. And I know he likes it when he is being called that way.

Now, I am contemplating. Should we try IVF or wait some more for God’s Time?

In the meantime, my officemate told me about St. Gerard Majella, the patron saints of motherhood. I think I will try to pray some more.

Good St. Gerard, powerful intercessor before the throne of God, wonder-worker of our day, I call upon you and seek your aid. You know that our marriage has not as yet been blessed with a child and how much my husband and I desire this gift. Please present our fervent pleas to the Creator of life from whom all parenthood proceeds and beseech Him to bless us with a child whom we may raise as His child and heir of heaven. Amen.

Prayerful Monday

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life. Amen.


**This is a prayer by St. Francis of Assisi.

Prayerful Monday 1

I want to start the workweek right. This gives me the idea to start it by sharing my prayer for the moment.

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference."

From now on , I will dedicate all my monday posts to my Creator by posting prayers. This is going to be my way of giving back the blessing that all came from him.