Archive for February 5th, 2010

Words of Affirmation. From the day she learned how to speak, I made sure she knows the proper use of simple yet meaningful words like “Love you/Love you, too”, “Thank you”, “Welcome”, and “Sorry”.

Acts of Service. Now that I have two girls, I try my level best not to lose quality time with the Ate. The day I recovered from a CSec operation, things went back to normal e.g. Giving her bath and preparing her for school and even putting her to sleep. That way, we also spend a quality time together.

Physical Touch. This act is very common for us. My eldest is one sweet little girl and that melts my heart every after disciplinary action I give her. She would hug me and say “I won’t do it again”. I know she will but the fact that she realizes her mistakes is enough.

Receiving Gifts. She’s 4. Could even hardly write her full name on a paper without my guidance so I don’t expect her to make a greeting card for me as early as this. If she would, that won’t come a surprise coz for sure she’ll have to do and finish it with my help. But you know what gave me joy last Monday? These flowers that she freshly picked from the garden. Read the rest of this entry »

Whenever she asks for something I couldn’t give at that moment, I would always answer with “mamaya”, for her “mamaya” does not literally mean “mamaya”. Anything “mamaya” means “future” for her.

The other day, she once again asked me to take her to the playground. I told her “mamaya” coz Mama isn’t so well yet. And she answered me with:

Deye : Dada always says “okay, okay”.

Me : That is Dada, not Mama.

Deye : You always say “mamaya, mamaya”

Wahahaha!

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This morning, she was so engrossed watching Jollitown. Despite of telling her to get her school bag many times, she just ignored me and must have decided to completely ignore me for the rest of that hour.

I got pissed off and called her in an angry voice. Gave her one nice sermon and have her faced the wall for few minutes. I was going to the bank to do some errands so I had to lift the punishment quickly and strictly told her “No TV and computers even in the weekends, you are grounded!” Read the rest of this entry »