Sweet World of Joan

Year 2008 was blessed, busy, bittersweet, bountiful and a time for growth for all of us in the family. It was a year I achieved so much both in my personal and professional life. I felt I matured greatly, for the better and learned that in order to grow as a person I must accept that I cannot have everything I want when I want it. Everything must be in God’s time. It was also a bittersweet time for me, last October my grandmother and cousin died within weeks of each other. A student of mine also died last November, an accident he was so young just in his second year of college. It was one of the reasons I stopped blogging. I may have not shown that I was mourning for their loss for work kept me busy but deep inside I knew that I have to heal inside before I can write again. My experience of death in the family made me realize that my parents, in laws and my aunts and uncles are growing old and I can’t stop it. That they are not the people who I once thought were invincible, that they a...

I am proud to say that my son Lorenzo is a very generous person. One of the toughest things that any parent could teach their kids is the right values, this is one of my fears – that I may not be able to teach him good values. Being respectful, friendly, generous, kind, industrious and self reliant these are the values I want my son to have. Being a working mom I have this fear that I may not be able to teach him the right values for I work six days a week. So far my five year old have most of these values in place, but I realize you have to continuously work at it. Sabi ni Jollibee “ SHARE” A few months ago there was these TV program at GMA7 called “Jollitown”, it was a show featuring Jollibee characters it airs every Sunday morning and my son loves watching it. One the things greatly impressed upon him was about sharing and my son regularly reminds us about it. He would say the phrase “ Sabi ni Jollibee share” on anything he wants to take part in. Like I am using my laptop and he wan...