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Time to rest!

feyma — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:07:58 +0000

Well my mom Zosima Rodriguez Bayoy, born on December 26, 1928 in San Fernando Cebu. Passed away last October 05, 2008 at 12:30pm. In Patag, Sarangani Province. At her bedside was her 6 children and grandkids and son-in-laws. One of her son(youngest son) was in Manila, just arrived from Singapore to visit her. He was just starts working to this new company. Luckily they allowed him one week off to visit mama.

It was really hard watching Mama suffer. I think at the end it was really a relief for us seeing her rested already. She’s already been suffering from the stroke a few years now. I think just 2-3 years after I get back from the States to lived here for good we did enjoyed having here. Not long after that she had stroke and her health went downhill then after that. I was just happy that my kids and Mama did spent some time together here at our house. She usually visit us here before and likes to work at our yard. Lots of time we will take her to Bukidnon to buy some flowers for her to plant at our yard. She really had a green thumb. Anything she planted it will grow. I wished I had some of her ability on the plants.

Mama, we really love you a lot. We are just happy that you’re now resting with Papa in Heaven. From the bottom of my heart thank you so much for raising us kids. You and Papa did good, because we are all turn out good and simple people. I really appreciate you guys hardship and sacrifices just for us to go to school. I know that sometimes we your kids had some trouble with each of other, but we did try our very best to be united in honor of you. And I am proud to say that we did it. Even when you are starting to get sick we are already united for you. Not as strong as now though. I hope that you know that all of us really love you with all our heart. It’s just hard to believed that you are gone already.

To all the people that attended the service and also in the wake of Mama. From the Bayoy clan “THANK YOU” so much for coming. You guys prayer really help us a lot. To all of you that attended the funeral we thank you guys so much too.

To Mama so long and God will always be with you and Papa. We love you both!

To My Beloved Mom!

feyma — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:22:11 +0000

My mom is turning 80 years old this coming December. Right now she’s really sick. Honestly she could go anytime now. Just 3 years after coming back here to lived for good my mom had stroke. She did recover after that, but she didn’t really take care of herself that much that she got ill again. She didn’t get better after another stroke. She didn’t really listen to the advice of the doctor. Bob and I even hire a physical therapist to come to our house everyday to work on her. My goodness just after a month she fired the therapist. I was wondering why the therapist didn’t come that day for her session, so I called her up and told her why she’s not at my house for Mama’s therapy. She didn’t told me that Mama told her to not come back because Mama’s going to the farm in GenSan. I was shocked. I told the therapist that its not true, that my mom still at the house. I just didn’t force my mom to had the therapy.

Anyway, now she’s not looking good. She’s not eating too. My sister told me that she’s really in a lot of pain now. She can’t even sit down now on her wheel chair by herself. She can’t swallow her food now too. My sis just try to make everything into soup but still she had a hard time swallowing. I think its almost time for her to rest it really showed in her face. Really I pray that she will be happy seeing my dad soon.

To Mama: We really love you a lot. I know that Papa is happily waiting for you. All of your grand kids and great grand kids and your sons and daughters-in-law loves you very much too. Thank you so much for loving us and taking care of us. I was really happy that we came back here and my kids know you better. Bob’s mom also loves you very much even though you guys can’t communicate. Through you guys actions the love was really there. Bob really loves you a lot too. He always told me that your the only family I had that he felt that really loves him.

Mama I really love you. While typing this I was crying. Sometimes I felt that I wished I should have been the older kid of yours so that I have a longer time to spent with you and Papa. But being the youngest was special too. I was really loved by you both. From the bottom of my heart I always love you. You are the reason why me and my siblings are still together.

I LOVE YOU MAMA!

Our Sarangani Farm!

feyma — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:09:11 +0000

During summer breaks of my kids this year, we went to my parents farm in Patag, Malapatan, Sarangani Province. Just less than 30 minutes drive from General Santos City. Its a place where I was born. Patag is a small barrio. I don’t even know the population there. This is the first time that my 3 kids went there. They really had fun going swimming with their cousins(Leo, Glenrose, Cyril, Emmanuel, Joshua, David, Nichole, and Sahara. They probably would have stayed on that river for a long time if not that its getting dark. They really like to jump from that coconut tree thats just floating in the middle of the river. As you can see on the picture the water is not that deep. Its really good for the kids to take a dip. My youngest son likes to dig under water and get some sand and rocks. He likes to collect different shape of small rocks. As a matter of fact my niece and sister had to come back to the river because Jared my youngest forgot to bring with him when he went home to my sister’s house his rock collection. He left it at the side of the river. He was really glad that my sister and niece found it. I wonder what would be his reaction if he felt the small crabs under the rocks? I think he might be freak out a little bit. He doesn’t really like to touch those.

One of the highlights of our trip was the Kariton(cart pulled by the carabao) ride. The kids like it. That was the first time they experience riding it. They were really amazed. The kariton it should be used to get coconut or any stuff from the farm. Sometimes they want to just keep on riding it, but we have to let them stop so that the Carabao can rest for awhile. The kariton is really a big hit for the kids. Even now at our house they even talk about it and sometimes asked me when are we going back to visit the farm again. Honestly we were thinking of going back there a few weeks ago, but canceled it due to some fighting in the Sarangani area. We just felt that its not the right time to go anywhere at the moment. Just to be safe though. One of our friend almost hit by the bombing in Digos. If he would have arrived like 5 minutes early, his bus that he was riding would have been hit too. So it just scared me a little bit. Hopefully it will be fine soon. We will visit there again soon. I want to visit my ailing mom. I want to see her as much as I can now. She’s turning 80 years old in December and bee through a lot.

The kids also went and pick out some veggies. They had fun picking them. The only thing they don’t know how to pick the ready or not. My sister just try to let them get what they want from the garden. Thats the first time the kids ever harvested anything. They also familiarized then the different kinds of veggies in our farm. They really like it there. They told my family that next summer they want to stay in the farm for a month. They also want to help harvesting the coconut and corn.

Really I am looking forward for that. Will see though. I am also glad that they the place that I grow up. They want that we will build a small house there for us to stay whenever we want to visit there. We might. Who knows.

To my family thank you so much for taking care of us while there. I know its extra work for you guys. I love you all!

Sad news!

feyma — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:15:25 +0000

Well, from my previous post I wrote about my niece’s daughter who got very sick. Sad to tell you that she did passed away a few days being in the hospital. It’s been hard to my niece, but I think it’s better for her daughter to rest than really suffer. At least she’s with God now. I think it also taught some lesson to my niece and her husband especially to be responsible parent. I hope that they really would take care the remaining three kids they have right now.

For those people that pray for her thank you very much.

So long Gwen!

Heavy heart

feyma — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:48:04 +0000

I found out from my family in General Santos that one of my niece’s daughter got ill since yesterday. They told me that the baby has meningitis. I didn’t really know what it was until last week when I went to a hospital here and heard somebody screaming inside the emergency room. I asked the doctor what was wrong with the lady. He told me that the lady has meningitis. Gosh, just remembering the pain on that lady and here we are we have a baby that has it. My sister said that the baby might not make it. It’s hard for me to think the pain the baby is going through. Just typing this blog is hard for me thinking that my niece are in pain right now. I hope that God will ease their pain.

It’s hard thinking that the baby might be gone. When I saw her last she was a good and healthy baby. My other siblings are even telling me that its hard for them if something will really happen to the baby. One of my sister even baby sit that baby. I am not sure what my mom will even think. Not sure if they will tell her though. My mom’s been sickly for awhile now. She has stroke like 5 years ago. Not sure if she can handle it if something will really happen to the baby.

Anyway, I ask you guys prayer for the baby. I do hope miracles will happen. To you baby Gwen, we love you. I hope you will feel better. I hope and pray that God will touch you and heal you.

WE LOVE YOU GWEN!!!

Our new baby!

feyma — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:15:55 +0000

A few weeks ago we got a puppy from our friend Klaus and Rosana. Upon seeing at their house prior to getting her, Bob and I always thought that the puppies are really cute. They are very clean too. We really like it a lot. Later as the days goes by when Bob and I went to their house. We really did admired the puppies more and more. So finally one day we decided to surprised our kids, Bob asked me to call up Klaus and Rosana and asked them if they could give us one puppy? Rose then told me that she will ask Mutti( German for mom) if they could give away one puppy. Rose got on the phone again and told me that Mutti said it’s okay because she really like us that’s why shes giving us one. Wow, we were so happy she gave us one.

The kids were really shocked when we brought Chi Chi( that’s our puppies name) home. They really are happy and in love with her. She just roam around our yard and following our other dog Fluffy. They are cute together. We think that Fluffy is a bit jealous of Chi Chi since everybody pay close more attention on the little puppy than her. We tried to pet her more now, we don’t want her to feel left out though. We love all our pets. Next time I will feature all our pet here in the house on these blog. Have fun looking at Chi Chi.

Kids birthday party!

feyma — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:59:52 +0000

Last week was a big event for us here in our house. It’s the birthday of our daughter JeanJean. She turn 11 last week. Prior to her birthday we brought her to a resort in Matina for her to see if she wanted to celebrate her birthday party there. When we enter the place and she saw they had pool and the view was spectacular. She then turn around and told My husband Bob and me that she wants her party there. The name of the place is Felis Resort. It’s just 5 minutes away from SM.

Then we just had another party yesterday for our son Aaron. He is 11 years old too. Before seeing the place Aaron was so sure that he wants his party to be held in our house because we have lots of games and activities to choose from in the house, like xbox, xbox 360, psp, ps2, computer games, basketball and trampuline.

He changed his mind quickly after seeing the pool at Felis. They really like to swim. The menu for the kids party was good too. Lots of food for them to choose from. Basically, you can choose 3 different foods and 1 dessert including 1 drink. For that we paid 250 pesos per person. Not bad though. With the swimming it’s 60pesos per person. They table was arrange nicely and the food was set like a buffet style. It was really nice and clean. Now our other 2 kids wants their party to be there too. I really highly recommend Felis for party and seminars.

I’m really happy seeing the kids having fun there. We had fun watching them swim. We’re even thinking of having our Thanksgiving party there so that we can invite a lot of our friends. That would be fun. Don’t you think?

Maybe see you at Felis guys.

Happy Anniversary Honey!

feyma — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:27:08 +0000

Happy Anniversary to you Hon. Wow, I’ve been married to Bob for 17 years today. We were married August 9, 1990 in St. Peter & Paul Parish in Lagao, General Santos City. I was a college student then in Cebu. We just came to GenSan to get married since my parents lived there. I am happy to be married to him. I am proud to be his wife. His been really a good husband and good father to our four kids. His also good to our nieces, nephews and my other family. He is so close to my Mom even though it’s hard for him to communicate with her. That’s part of the reason why he wants to learn to speak bisaya so that my mom and him can communicate sometime. He really tried to speak to her even with his broken bisaya.

Hon for 17 years we’ve been through a lot. I am glad that our love with each other are really strong. Nobody can keep us apart no matter what. You’re the only person that was there for me when I was having a hard time adjusting in the States. You taught me a lot there. I really thank you for the unconditional love that you gave me and still continue loving me . That’s why my love for you is endless.

HAPPY, HAPPY ANNIVERSARY HONEY! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH.

Granny’s coming again for a visit!

feyma — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 14:13:57 +0000

Our kids are getting excited over the coming visit of my mother-in-law. She’s coming here next month. The kids are already counting the days. She’s going to stay here for 2 months. She’s attending the birthday party of our 2 kids in September. Wow, Aaron and Jean jean are super excited already. She’s here during Christmas of last year. What a great Christmas too with the kids because they spent lots of time bonding with Granny.

My mother-in-law, she’s also getting excited to come here because she likes to eat lots of our fruits here. She loves rambutan especially. She like to drink calamansi juice and mango shake. One thing she likes here too is the pork liempo. You know what? We told her to just stay here in the Philippines for good since she likes it so much here anyway. She told us that she’s really considering in moving here due to Bob and I can’t be with her in the States if ever she gets ill or something. As you guys know we have 4 kids to take care of. If ever she decides to live here later at least we could have somebody help us take care of her and it’s cheap too. Her other son can’t take care of her there because they are too busy with their lives. Nothing against that, that’s just the way you live your life there. Everybody’s busy.

Anyway, I hope that still a long ways for us to worry about. We love her dearly.

Heartache

feyma — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:24:50 +0000

Today I was shocked what my neice decided to do with her life. When she was just a baby my parents took care of her. When we moved here to lived we got her to lived with us and we then sent her to a very nice school. Well, when she moved out last year and stayed with a classmate. The brother of the classmate got her pregnant. Well it was a shocked to us that when she came back to see us she had baby already. Bob and I gave her second chance, we let her worked at our business and we are also babysitting the child. We told her to save up the money that we paid her from working with us so that in a year or so she can go back to school and finish up her nursing degree. We even offer to help her take care of the baby. Few days ago Bob offered her to let her work more hours so that she could earn more. Yesterday she e-mailed Bob and told him that she is not interested to work anymore. She was upset that we told her that she should work extra hard now to support the baby if she wants to give the baby good life. I think she was just shock why we are not giving her or sending her back to school like before. My goodness she really defy us before when we told her to stay in school and study, instead she went out and party and got drunk. She would tell us that she went to her classmates house to work on their projects, we believed on what she told us. We never thought that she could do what she did, drinking and lying to us. Now she still expects us to just hand her the money for her to go back to school now! Not gonna happen. I really thought she has learned her lessons when she moves out before, I guess not. We felt she’s still immature.

All of us here felt sorry for the baby. My neice just doesn’t know yet how to take care of the baby. Could be she’s just too lazy. Honestly we hope that the father of the baby will let my neice go back to school so that when she finish up her degree she will have a good job. We haven’t meet him yet because he is too chicken to come and see us. My heart ached for the baby, but I can’t be responsible for her. My neice is already old enough to know what she was doing. She needs to learn her lesson that we are not gonna be her wallet anymore. She just used us to get ahead and not even thankfull of what we did for her.