Woke up 4am or 5am. Cook breakfast and ate it. I know I have to start early because I have to take the opportunity that the little girl is sleeping. After cleaning our tv rack, I ate, then do the laundry. Unfortunately, my washing machine is still unrepaired, still waiting for parts. So I did everything manually. The little volunteers to help me. hahah. I told her I’d rather she play. I finished around 10am, cook lunch while cleaning our room. I found lots and lots of treasure under our bed. haha. That includes toys, hair clip etc. After lunch, the little girl and I took a nap. But since I have tasked on hand I only had mine for about 30 mins. Then I move along with cleaning all the toys in the toy rack. I finished around 7pm, cook dinner and now I am done. Happily accomplished. To wrap up my day, I got the chance to chat with the husband..yahoo! That’s my day! Oppss…it isn’t finished yet. I still have to do some school activities with the little girl and menu planning.

I really cannot believe my luck! I am happy that God has been answering my prayers in the most unexpected way. I have been deeply problematic because of my health condition. Much as I want to deny it but somehow LUPUS have already affected my left kidney. I am quite scared but I am holding on to my faith and the knowledge that many lupus patients have gone through this stage but still they are alive. So, what I just need to do is religiously take my medicine and eat healthy.

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Salt is one of the most important ingredients when you are cooking, right? Now, I am having a hard time figuring out how to make my dishes tasty without the salt. Well, the dish that I eat. I can make an exception for the little girl you know. So, now my research have shown me the himalayan salt which I saw a seller in ebay. But I wanted to have more options. My doctor advised me to look for some herbs as a replacement. This is such a tough task right now. I am used to eating what I want and this is kinda turning me off right now. In fact I am depressed right now. With my health condition, the medical bills getting higher and having a tough time planning what to eat. Man, this too shall pass. And I know I will emerged victorious.

My plan for today did not push through. Actually the cleaning part. I also did not have a nap yet. But in fairness, I was able to spend an h0ur with the little girl for studying. I wanted to clean the house but I don’t have time. Work has been piling up and I won’t be complaining. Because it would help me in my medical expense. Actually I can afford not to do all this stuff but I don’t want to be a big burden to my husband. And I know this too shall pass. All I have to do is keep the faith and make sure that I found some means to source out my funds for my medicine. Last week, I said my medicine is Php 500 a day, now it increases. Urgh! That’s why I am not complaining even if I have been sitting in front of the computer since noon and have been juggling mommy duties on the side. Would you believe I was able to cook lunch and feed the little girl also ? And now after dealing with some more stuff in the computer I would go offline first to cook dinner. I need to work as much as possible because there is a possibility that the husband would go online soon and tomorrow I will be spending the morning in my little girl’s school. It’s card day!

After finishing some work here I am now going to cook lunch. Ah, a mother’s work is never done, right? I have to cook everything in 30 minutes (fried chicken, sauteed amplaya and rice) because I still need to go to my little girl’s school to fetch her. I am happy with our setup right now because it force me to go around and work  like I am exercising. But sometimes fatigue hit me. And last night I was so scared because after a few years I feel the pain attached to rheumatism. I did not sleep well until I decided to take two tablets of biogesic. Yeah, they are my painkiller. If the pain did not go away this morning I would resort to taking tramadol.

I always feel that there’s not enough time for me to finish all my chores. Every now and then there seems to be something I need to work on to but can’t find time. Just this day, I decided to go home after sending my little one to school. I planned to clean our room which is a long overdue task and when it’s 10am, I planned to cook our lunch. Unfortunately, I decided to cancel the cleaning the room part because I think I might ran out of time. So I decided to do some work in the computer instead. I am glad that I still have work. I am using it to fund my medicine right now. Well, it’s still not enough though. Just imagine one of my medicine cost PHp 120 pesos and should be taken four times a day and the other one cost Php 60 which is administered thrice a day. I don’t want to compute how much I am spending per day for medicine alone. I am hoping that this stage will pass. According to my doctor, I would be taking the meds for six months. I am happy that my kidneys are responding to it. But h3ck my medicine expense is sky rocketing!

Yesterday I received a text message from my older sister. Her eldest daughter has a fever. I can sense the panic in her message because according to her, her daughter seems gave them a blank stare and would only say ‘Opo’ ( vernacular term for YES). I told her not to panic and check her temperature. I also told her to lather some of the Padre Pio oil that I gave to them. After a few minutes she told me that somehow her daughter’s fever went down and is now okay. But because they are in the province, they believed in ‘tawas’.

I have been very busy offline and online. I am not feeling rather well but I am coping. I am really thankful that I am given this chance and I won’t waste it by complaining. I am glad that I can do my responsibilities as a mom. I really like to cook and over the past few weeks I come up with different dishes not only for lunch but also for snacks. And boy, the little girl and my sister likes them all. Anyway, tomorrow I will be going for a check up. Hopefully I have favorably results. For now, let me leave you with this.

Last week I was able to cook Inangit and fried it. I got the desired taste and have bring me back to the day that Mommy was cooking it for us. My sister enjoyed eating it too. And because of this I thought of making some more native delicacies. Since I have a pack of sweet corn in the refrigerator I thought of cooking Ginaatang Mais. So I searched the internet for the recipe and saw the ingredients : 4 cups coconut milk, 1 cup malagkit and 1 cup corn and 3/4 sugar. Unfortunately, this recipe seems to sweet for my taste. I was able to cook the ginataan but I have to put in some water because it is really sweet. Not sure if it’s beacause I put in a lot of corn. Still I was happy to eat it.  I still have malagkit so I think I might be cooking Inangit again this week.