THEY ONLY GET ONE CHILDHOOD

 It won’t always be like this.

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I remind myself of this often.

To help me see through the hard days, but to also pull me into the now.

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Because it’s true.

They won’t always be this small. And I won’t always be this tired.

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They won’t always need me in this way. And I won’t always feel this lost.

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They won’t always come to me first. And I won’t also feel like I come last.

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This is a season.

We will move through it together.

And it will pass before we know it.

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It won’t always be like this.

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And my heart aches as I think about what it may look like.

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The first school drop off.

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The last kiss goodnight.

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The nights up late waiting for a call that doesn’t come.

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Because life will be different one day.

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And it won’t always be this tiring, messy, or beautifully wholesome.

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It will be watching from afar from a clean house, longing for them to come home for a weekend.

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It will be loving them through phone lines, messenger, and the kilometres between us.

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It will be losing myself in something new, to busy my mind from what I’m missing.

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It won’t always be like this.

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Not the hard.

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Or the beautiful.

It will be a different hard and beautiful.

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We won’t always be like this either.

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We will age.

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And our relationship will evolve.

We will be a different type of “us”. 

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But this is my one chance at now.

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I only get to love them, be there for them, and be needed in this exact way, once.

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I only get to know this stage of motherhood like the back of my hand, once.

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I only get this time as we are now, once.

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This is it.

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I only get one Motherhood.

And they only get one childhood. 

This time is ours. 

So I’m breathing it in, in all of its shades, because it just won’t always be like this.

NAMNAMIN ANG BAWAT ORAS NA BABY PA SIYA

 Sobrang bilis lang pala talaga ng panahon. 🥺 Minsan lang sila maging bata. Kaya SULITIN MO NA. 

Matagal siya makatulog? Sabayan mo. 

Makulit at gusto laging naglalaro? Makipaglaro ka rin sa kanya. Samahan mo siya.

Matagal niyang mapick-up mga tinuturo mo? Tyagain mo ng bongga.

Sobra sobra at hindi maubos energy niya? Enjoyin mo lang.

Mahaba, paulit ulit at matagal siyang magkwento? Pakinggan mo ng buong puso. 🧡

NAMNAMIN MO ANG BAWAT ORAS NA BABY PA SIYA. Kasi hindi forever yan. Isang araw lilingunin mo ang season na ito at sasabihin mong ang bilis lang pala talaga ng panahon, sana sinulit mo ang bawat oras na lagi niyang gustong...

Sumama sayo..

Nakadikit sayo..

Magpakarga sayo..

Hawak ang kamay mo..

Tawagin ang pangalan mo..

Makatulog na ikaw ang huli niyang nakikita.. 

Magpasubo sayo..

Makipaglaro sayo..

Magtanong sayo..

Nagpapakiliti sayo..

Magkayakap kayo..

Magpaturo sayo..

Magpabasa ng libro.. 

Ubusin ang oras mo...

TAKE YOUR TIME. Ibuhos mo lang lahat sa kanya ngayon. Magtanim ka sa kanya. Aanihin mo yan balang araw. Isang araw baligtad na....

Siya naman ang maghihintay sayo. Hindi ka niya mamadaliin. Sasamahan ka niya, sasabayan, papakinggan, tuturuan, tyatyagain at aalagaan. Eenjoyin ka din niya at ibubuhos niya ang lahat ng pagmamahal at panahon niya sayo hanggang sa huling pagtibok ng puso mo.. hanggang sa huling pagpikit at hindi na pagmulat ng mga mata mo.

REFLECTIONS FOR HUSBANDS

Your wife is already tired...

Have you ever wondered how your wife feels?

Believe it or not, your wife is the one who carries the most things on her shoulders and still has to go on every single day.

If your wife tells you that she can't do it anymore — don't judge her, or think that she wants to leave you, she just feels pain in her heart that she can't get out because she has to deal with other people's problems and solve them and usually forgets about her.

Mom gets tired too, that's why you have to share household chores washing dishes, sweeping or mopping won't make you less of a man... she also cries, she also feels bad... and no one asks her how she feels.

First she is a mother... a psychologist... a doctor... a cook... a housewife... a wife... a stylist... and a thousand other things, but the most important thing is that it is YOUR SUPPORT AS A PARTNER...

If you have problems, she will support you and she will tell you that everything will be fine, if there is no money, she will find a way but she will never leave you alone even when you see her distracted, distant, thoughtful, she will always say that she has nothing, but she HAS EVERYTHING...

FOR ALL THE FIGHTING WOMEN AND WIVES OUT THERE, ISANG MAHIGPIT NA YAKAP. 🤗🧡

Mapapagod lang ang katawan natin pero hindi tayo susuko. Laban lang. God is rooting for you, and so do I. 🙏🏻🧡🌿

HINGA INAY

 HINGA KA LANG INAY.. 

Pag feeling mo ang buhay ay hindi parang gulong kasi lagi kang nasa ilalim.. 😅

HINGA. 

Kapag suki ka ng mga tambak— tambak na labahin, tambak na tiklupin, tambak na hugasin, tambak na modules (😂) , tambak na deadlines pati narin tambak na cart sa shopee at lazada 😅… 

HINGA. 

Kapag feeling mo wala kang na-accomplish sa buong maghapon dahil nag-alaga, nakipag-laro at nag-spend time ka sa mga anak mo… 

HINGA. 

Yung minsang hotdog at corned beef nalang talaga ang kaya ng powers mo lutuin.. 

HINGA. 

Yung hindi ka pa makapag-exercise at juming rope gaya ng iba, hindi mo pa magawang magkaroon ng hobby kasi yung maligo lang pahirapan na. 😅 

HINGA. 

Yung lahat ng pinag-aralan mo ng college pati yung Algebra na dalawang beses mong inulit, di mo magamit dahil wala ka naman sa corporate world. 🥹

HINGA. 

Yung lahat mahimbing na pero ikaw iniisip parin si “judith” 😁 

HINGA. 

Kapag naibigay mo na lahat pero feeling mo kulang parin…

HINGA. 

Hinga ka lang Inay. 

Kailangan ka ng mga anak mo, kailangan ka ng asawa mo pero kailangan mo ding alagaan at pahalagahan ang sarili mo. 

Yes ikaw. 

Mahalaga ka. 

Mahal ka nila. 

Hindi yung “perfect version” na ikaw. 

Yung ikaw lang talaga. 

Yung aligaga, makakalimutin at sumasablay na ikaw. 

Mahal at tanggap ka ng pamilya mo. 

Kasama yung mga worries mo, yung mga tawa mo, yung mga pagkakamali mo, yung buong pagkatao mo. 

Never kang nag-absent sa pagiging Nanay kahit minsan sakal na sakal ka na at yun ang mahalaga. 

Yung andyan ka lang. 

Kaya hinga ka lang Inay. 

At wag ka lang basta huminga. 

Ngumiti ka din. 

Magpahinga ka. 

Kumain ng maraming kanin ng di na-guguilty. 

Sana alam mong mahalaga ka. 

Mabuti kang Ina. 

At mahal na mahal ka ng pamilya mo. 

Mahigpit na yakap sayo Inay ♥️♥️♥️