RJ’s 8th Birthday

The picture below was taken inside the operating room eight years ago when I gave birth to RJ via caesarean section. It was an induced labor for 25 long hours and you cannot imagine the pain I went through. I thought I would die and won’t be able to see my baby. When I saw her I cried, tears of joy and relief.
This one was taken inside my hospital room. The proud parents while waiting for RJ to be roomed-in. Rhonnel and I were both excited. I hate it every time Rhonnel went to the nursery to see RJ while I was left in the room.
It was RJ’s 8th birthday yesterday, the reason why I was absent in the blogosphere the whole day yesterday. She hates it when I am blogging. I don’t know why. Maybe because she cannot play in the computer or maybe because I cannot give her my full attention or maybe both. So to make her happy on her special day I let her play her favorite computer games while I was attending to her needs.
We will celebrate her birthday tomorrow at my in-laws’ house so I just cooked pancit and bought her a little cake yesterday. Our gift really made her day. She asked for it and we promised to give it on her birthday, an original Philippine Edition Monopoly; an addition to her scrabble and snakes and ladders.
So more or less you already know what we did last night before hitting the sack, we played monopoly!

Thanks, Tokaya!

I received my second card from my Tokaya Rose. The first one was a Christmas card sent last year and this one is a birthday card. I can’t help but smile when I read the card’s dedication…
It says, “I could never forget your birthday. It would be like forgetting my own.” It is because we share the same birthday which is June 10 and we are both Rose that made us to be twin sisters here in blog land. lol!
To my Tokaya Rose who is a loving wife, a great mother and author of Obstacles and Glories, Etcetera Etcetera, Nostalgic Marveling and Spice Up Your Life, thank you very much!