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better half's time-out!

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This is the first time in years since coming here in America that I allowed Dennis, my hub by , to take a break, mmm, it’s actually more of a time-out! Lol! He’s in an H4 visa, what it simply means is that he can’t work, since he is my dependent.  It was a relief for me when he gave up his job as a seaman 4 years ago, because that was my dream – for our family to be together.  Good thing too, because that time our youngest was only 2 years old. Mimoi went to school at 4 years old because of the transition (we needed to move from one state to another).  I love that he is just at home, doing all house work, with no vices and just focused on us, his family. Though Dennis made productive use of his time by creating projects for the house, sometimes, there's really nothing to do, so he’d watch movies and tele-novelas all day! Lately, he opted to attend the early Mass, just so he’d be spared from our hustle and bustle of morning preparation ...

Learning Life's Lessons!

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I heard or read somewhere that life will continue to give us lessons until we learn it. Two weeks after graduating from college, I was already teaching college students.    I was so idealistic, perfectionist and wouldn’t tolerate students who were cheating, talking while I was teaching and not doing their work. Ye s , I was really strict! Many of my former students would attest to that! The thing was even if I knew I needed to change, I continued on doing what I was doing because I was afraid if I lost my control, if I became friendly and acted my age (I was just 20 then!, some of my students were even older than me!), I felt my students wouldn’t respect me and may took advantage of my kindness. So I continued on with my demeanor; I pushed my students to meet my expectations! I abhorred cheating, if they did so (I was good at finding out; because all our activities were computerized), the next day they would find their names written in bold caps posted in t...

Should we shut up or tell the world our plans, dreams and goals?

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  When our desires are deep-seated, when we want something so bad, when we want our hopes and dreams to come true… what do we usually do?  Keep it to oursel ves or let the whole world know about it? My mom would always say that if you have plans, keep it to yourself. Let it be between you and God first, and when it comes to pass, then shout it out to the whole world! I’ve followed that rule from ever since. I even posted about it here . But really, what’s wrong with the picture of shouting out to the whole world your plans, goals, and dreams? Just thinking aloud, is it because if we let people know the desires of our h earts, if we allow people to know our goals and plans; if we permit ourselves to be heard, is it FEAR that really holds us back? Fear of people with negative vibes? Fear of people jinxing our plans? Fear of people who could take away our “power”? Lol!  OR is it more of an internal fear? Fear that if the plans don’t h...