It has been a busy day.. I missed this space.. I miss my laptop.. Happy Holidays! will fiind time to visit you all 🙂
Memories Of Christmas List
Host: It’s been a week since our last episode and I really missed you guys. But of course we cannot ask for more from pehpot specially now that she is maintaining 8 blogs. WHAT!?! 8 blogs! How is she doing it? Book her now! I wanna interview her and know how she handles it all. And I am pretty sure you all want to. Even our guest blogger today for sure, wants to know the blogging schedule of pehpot. Itching to know who’s our guest blogger for today?
Let’s all welcome the beautiful mom (who almost made it Ms Philippines beauty contest) behind Memories Preserved Online. Give her a round of applause.. welcome to the show Paula!
Paula: Thanks and also thanks to Pehpot for inviting me here at her show. She told me we will talk about my kid and how me and S handle his Christmas “list”. I wonder why she invited my here, maybe because she had no blogging friends left to invite (I was just kidding and pehpot knows that). Honestly, I am really glad that I am here.
Host: Haha, I am sure she invited because she likes you. And yes our topic for today is about gift buying, so let me ask you, are you done shopping for you kid’s Christmas gifts?
Paula: Are you kidding? We can never be done shopping with our kid. As long as Z’s dad feels he’s still a kid we’ll always be buying him toys. It’s a year long event, I tell you. Last November, his dad bought him a gift that was supposedly for Christmas. Of course, dad couldn’t help but give it to him as soon as he got home. Now that Christmas is approaching we feel it would not be appropriate for him not to open any gift on Christmas day so we’ll surely buy another one which hopefully, will stay unopened till Christmas day.
Host: I think all parents like that. I heard even Pehpot already gave their gifts for their kids and yet they were thinking of buying them gifts to open this coming Christmas. So did you give in to his demands? Like buying the toys he want? But before answering that, we have a surprise intermission number.. surprise! surprise!
Host: Whoa! Is that you husband? Is he a professional singer?
Paula: Pehpot told you about it? He is not, but he really likes to perform. Hi S!
Host: Ahaha, but his good, you must be very proud of him. Back to our topic.. So did you give in to his demands? Like buying the toys he want?
Paula: Fortunately, Z is really not that specific with his gifts as long as you give him a toy car then he’s okay with it. Z is so agreeable with his mom and dad when it comes to toys. We can convince him easily that this or that is the perfect toy and he’ll agree. So usually what dad wants, what Z gets. Or when I feel we ought to buy him something educational instead then I’m the one that does the convincing. LOL!
Host: How do you deal with Z when he wants something that is beyond you budget? Or when he wants something and you don’t think it is practical to buy it, how do you explain it to him?
Paula:We don’t let him hold it! As far as Z is concerned a toy isn’t his until we let him hold it. If something caught his fancy and it’s beyond our budget then we just tell him outright it’s too expensive. We’re fortunate that he, even in his young mind, understands that we can’t buy every toy he likes. We can even visit a toy store and not buy a single toy. To tell you the truth I’m already overwhelmed with the number of toys he has and I think Z himself can see that. We don’t have any problem with him in buying toys at all or maybe because he’s only four and is still in the “agreeable” stage.
Host: Lucky for you, he can easily understands those things and would throw into a tantrum when he wants something..or did he has any “best actor performance” that you can remember?
Paula: There was one time when he did have a tantrum. We were in MOA and it was only in the checkout counter that I saw he’s holding a toy. We already bought him one that’s expensive so I removed that toy from his hand. When we were outside the store he started crying loudly which took us aback because he never makes a scene. That’s when we realized it was bad to let him hold something we won’t buy in the end. I don’t even remember what how we got him to stop crying it was certainly hard to reason with a heartbroken little kid but I know he eventually forgot about it and we did learn our lesson.
Host: Awww. It really is hard to explain to anyone on that stage even on adults..LOL.. Thank you so much Paula for gracing our show.
Paula: Thank you also and please visit my blog Memories Preserved Online. You can also catch me on my other sites:
Host: I am sure they will check you out :).. And to end this show, let’s welcome again, S, Paula’s husband! See again next week here at the hottest talkshow in blogniverse..
My Happiest Christmas
Talking about Christmas tradition made me reminisce my happiest Christmas (that is before having a family of my own). It was in 1998. As I have said we were used celebrating Christmas in large crowd, my father’s family and my cousins and all. That year, we celebrated it in another place, in Ilocos Norte, without my father’s family,just us.. me, my mother and my siblings (and my mom’s friends). It was the happiest and the most memorable for us.
Why it was the happiest though we celebrate it in another place?
That year, I was already a freshman in UP Los Banos. On our semestral break, I went home of course. During that break, my father, who already has two kids on his mistress, went home. He brought with him his two kids and asked my aunt to take care of the kids.My mother was really hurt by that and I was furious.. I cursed them for accepting my father’s illegitimate kids (although I have nothing against the kids) and not respecting my mom as the wife. Actually I wouldn’t have acted that way if I had not seen my mother crying..(I can never stand the sight of my mother crying) And up to this day, some of them still cannot understand why I cursed them (but I already forgive them.. life is too short for hatred..my family are now happy and contented and it is not my fault that they don’t have the capacity to understand things). M mother knew how much stressed it brought to us and as a treat we went out of town and we spend Christmas in Ilocos Norte.
I remember how we laugh out loud as we roll over down the sand dunes. I can still hear our laughter up to now. We went to Pagudpud (even before you guys discovered that place, it already made memories in our little minds) and collect shells and corals. We were ale to taste the famous Ilocos empanada. We went to different kinds of sea shore, from calm seas to the wildest I can imagine. We enjoyed the long drive from our place to Ilocos Norte. We laugh all the way and enjoyed the scenery. That trip took all our worries away.. Little that we know, that it was just the start of our journey and that we still have to face some battles when we go back home..
And though we spend months of crying and cursing after that, I knew that we made it through because of that trip.. and that’s the reason why it is the happiest Christmas for me. I wish i can show you some photos of that trip but we don’t have any. I guess it really is true that best memories can never be captured in films, paper or in sd.. it is imprinted in the mind and heart of a person.
those were the days…
