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I love being their role model

Once in the church, I heard the pastor say, “your children are what your parents are.” It hit me hard! That was the time when daughter #1 was going through a hard phase. I took the pastor’s words literally and blamed no one but me for what my daughter had become. “What could I have possibly done wrong,” I asked myself. I never drink or smoke. I went straight home from work and vice versa so I could be at my children’s beck and call despite of how tired I was. I repeteadly turned down invitations from my friends for a night-out session. I said, “not until my daughters are out of my house, only then, I might consider it.”  To date, I haven’t succumbed yet to any of those invitations.  We never keep a booze in the house except for a bottle of cooking dry sherry. I just mainly concentrated my life in raising them to the best of my knowledge. When they needed me at school, I always made time even if I had to forfeit my lunch.

Thank goodness, that was just a phase. She is as good as gold now, and so as daughter #2. Both are non-drinkers and non-smokers, and both are good and responsible girls. It turned out that the daughter of the pastor got pregnant before she even finished high school.

I love playing guitar for them.

I started playing guitar for them and sang songs like ABC’s and from the Sounds of Music ever since they were babies. At age 2 or 3, Steffi could sing ABC’s well with the guitar. She went like this, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, Mino Mino P. Lexi’s favorite song, however, was Ency Wincy Spider. Sitting on a cart in a grocery store, she would sing the song non-stop. It was like a broken record…ha ha. Now, they are both into singing and playing guitar. We all self-taught ourselves to play guitar sometime in high school.

I love cooking their favorite food.

Both my girls love Filipino eggrolls or lumpia. Even though fixing eggrolls is time consuming, I always make time to wrap a dozen or two amidst my busy schedule just to satiate their appetite of their favorite food. When they were here this recent spring break, I knew I didn’t have much time for it but, somehow, I managed to fix eggrolls with help from my girls and Steffi’s bf. They were awesome helpers, especially Steffi’s bf who was able to master the art of wrapping eggrolls in no time.

I love hanging out with my girls

When they are home during  school break, I always spend some time hanging out in their rooms, catching up on the latest events and developments in their lives, and filling in for the missing part in life. I love to hear new songs from Steffi, which are saved in her computer. I also love watching movies with them through a projector in their rooms. In fact, I got to watch Slumdog Millionaire with them (my girls and S’s bf) from the computer through a projector, for free. It was like watching in the big screen at the movie theater. That was a lot of fun. Now that the kids are gone, my living room is dark, empty and quiet again. I should have adopted a little rug rat.

I love exchanging clothes with them.

Since we are approximately the same size, we love wearing each other’s clothes. One time, I wore Lexi’s expensive denim pants, and a friend of mine saw it at work, and loved how it fit on me, so she asked where I bought it. Ha ha, she caught me right there and then borrowing my daughter’s pants. There were times when I couldn’t find a particular outfit, and it was because one of my daughters took it without my knowledge. Oh well. One thing I like about my girls,  they love to share their clothes with me. Though now I am limited to what I can wear from their wardrobe because Lexi is about 7 pounds smaller while Steffi is a lot taller.

Note:  I blurred his face for anonymity

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