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Sunday is the best day to reflect and gives thanks to God for all that we’ve had for the past week whether temporal or spiritual. While listening to Episode 1 of  Music with Message in Mormon Channel, I got inspired to write what gives “sunshine in my soul” today.

It is a rainy Sunday morning.  Oh! I missed the First Sunday in Church today.  I was even awaiting for this day to share my testimony before I give birth this month.  It is now impossible for the audience to hear it but I am glad that I can still write some of my thoughts on what gives “sunshine in my soul”.

• The Gospel of Jesus Christ. Its truthfulness is what continues to give me happiness with what I have.

• My baby’s ultrasound yesterday. Two weeks to go.

• My dinner date with hubby last night.

• My work-at-home-mom job.

• Sophia and Calixto.

• Family Quality Time. Playing with the kids, praying and reading the scriptures with them.

• The good health that we have.

• The helps that we get from people who care for us.  My -inlaws, househelpers, friends, etc.

• Our financial capacity to provide for the needs of our family as well as little of our wants too.

• The comforts that we have. The house that we live in, the car that my husband drives.

We always have to be thankful for what we have.
This will be my first ever post and I hope to continue giving gratitude as much as I can by putting them all together on

Sunday Sunshine in my Soul.

I intend to share this to everyone whatever race or religion you live by.

Spread the Sunshine!

Dress Up Day is the theme for this week’s Mommy Moments.  It can be any character costumes or formal dresses that they have worn.

Here are some of the pictures of my kids in chronological order.

Sophia’s First Birthday (March 2007)

Our Little Mermaid

@Somethin’ Fishy (Ewood, Libis)

Our Little Wonderwoman

@ BK, Cainta.

It wasn’t a blue christmas for us but we were dressed in blue

for Christmas 2007.

Calixto’s First Birthday (April 2008)

Our Little Cowboy (@Fun Ranch)

My Kiddos’ Sunday Attire are always formal.

Finally,

me and my kids are dressed in white with angel wings.

Taken 2008, this was my creative shot for our Yearbook before I graduated college. I included my two kids since they were with me all throughout my college life.  From conception to birth.

We survived it because we are ANGELS. =)

~The End~

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After buying baby stuff, I haven’t really prepared yet for my due.

Days have passed and I am still packing all those stuff only in my mind.  They are still in the closet, in another bag or container.  What have I done?  What do I need to do? At this stage, I am getting anxious that the baby will just come one day while all the stuff are still cluttered all over.

Okay, this is the third time but why I haven’t learned it yet.  Blame it on this pregnancy blues!

There is one thing I am really afraid of.  PRETERM LABOR/BIRTH. This happens when the baby is born before the 37th week.  I had it with my first two.  The culprit: S-T-R-E-S-S. Both were delivered on the 36th week.

I am once again counting the days before that dreadful 36th week.  It really insanes me especially now that I can feel the baby is actively moving inside me.  I definitely do not want it the third time.  I know I have taken care so much of myself from the very beginning and yet it still haunts me.

Maybe blogging might pump me up and help put away those blues.  So, here are some things I’ve done (with **) and I haven’t yet.

**-Request leave from my online job at home.

**-Buy baby stuff

-Pack….

• my hospital bag (includes: toiletries, undergarments, socks, slippers, sandals, going-home clothes, documents, clothing for Chris, towels and towelettes, extra blanket…anything else?)
• baby bag (includes: receiving blanket, going-home clothes and diapers)
• our food bag/utilities (includes: paper plates, spoon/fork, plastic cups, dish washing soap, magazines..what else?)

-Laundry some old baby comforter, blankets and lampin (cloth diapers) that can still be used.

-Prepare my househelper and yaya in the house and with the kids while I am in the hospital.

**-My doctors and the hospital.  They are fixed.  They were there since my first pregnancy.

-Lastly, may I ask you to pray for me and my baby’s safe and normal delivery.  That would be the best blues’ eliminator for me. =)

My name is a combination of my parent’s names.  It came out to be very unique.  ELIZAGIE (Maybe I’ll blog about it next time) Most often it is misspelled, mispronounced and hardly remembered.  I had to spell it or say it over and over again until they get it.  I have been usually asked if I am a Moslem, Japanese or whatever.  But actually, I love it and the uniqueness it brings to me.  Consequently, I didn’t want my kids to feel or be treated the way I expereinced with my very unique name.

For our eldest daughter, we gave her the name that we love to hear, easy to remember and spell as well.  Or in other words, it is exactly the opposite of how my name is.  She is SOPHIA KATRINA.  Both names are of Greek origin.  Sophia meaning “wisdom” while Katrina is the modern form of Katherine and the like which means “pure”.

Katrina would be a remembrance of my life as a college student and as a pregnant mom/wife.  They came from my two friends in Miriam College whose names are spelled as Katrina.  They were, of course, one of the the school’s pride.    The one graduated as Magna Cum Laude in Miriam College and the other is a member of the MC Dance Troupe.  Whatever Sophia will be, que sera sera. And who would forget the hurricane “Katrina’ in 2005, it was still fresh when we were playing on our baby’s names.

For our second child, we were thinking of using our initials, C & E.  It was pretty difficult.  Chris searched the net to find a not-so-common name that starts with the letter C.  He found CALIXTO and I agreed.  It’s a Greek name meaning “the most handsome”.  And he really is! (of course, for us!) His second name is ELIJAH, the prophet from the Old Testament.

And for our next baby girl, who will be arriving in a few weeks from now, her name will be as pretty as her, we’re sure! Can you make a guess?

This is my very first entry to Mommy Moments.

Sophia and Calix haven’t had yet any experience of being soaked in the rain. But when we moved in to this house last June 1, they both now enjoy the feels-like-rain shower in the bathroom everyday.

So, what will really make the rain go away? Not a sun dance after all, but it’s the SUN.  See what Sophia drew while singing Eensy, Weensy Spider.

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