The husband is back from Macau. We picked him up from the airport last night. While he was away though, I had the scare of my life.

Read on.

Sophia was feverish when the husband left last Friday. I thought it was nothing serious as she was still active on our way to Pampanga after dropping the husband at the airport. Late afternoon though, the little girl’s temperature was 39.5 and she wasn’t her old self already whose very active and talkative. Although I give her tempra every 4 hours, her fever won’t go down so I called her pedia and told her that I am taking Sophia to the clinic the next day.

By 12 midnight, Sophia woke up and started crying. She was so hot!!! Her temperature was 40! She kept telling me her head is “ouchie” and she can’t breath. We gave her sponge bath and I was already in panic. This is the first time my daughter ever complained of something painful. You see, if you know my daugther, made of steel yun! She hardly complains of getting hurt etc so to hear her say that “ouchie” her head while crying, it is something. Knowing that the husband was not with us made me all the more emotional. I felt so alone even if we were in my mom’s house. I guess I’m really not used to not having Jon around. Its actually the first time he left the country without us with him which I doubt would happen again after this incident. We were ready to take Sophia to the hospital when suddenly her fever went down and she said that she feels a bit fine already and just take her in the hospital when its already morning. Wow, the beauty of a pre-schooler. She can really communicate well na unlike if baby pa, we have to guess what’s painful or not and bear with the non-stop crying without knowing whats wrong.

The next day, she was still not active while in the car and she even vomited as her fever went up to 39 again but I was a bit relaxed already as we were on the way to her pedia. When we arrived at the clinic, the pedia checked her and gave her medicines. She wasn’t advised to have a blood test yet though as it was just the second day of her fever. If her fever continues the next day, she will have to undergo blood test already. I was a bit relived though on the way home as she was suddenly active and was looking for sinigang! Hay, as soon as we got home, there she gobbled up on her pork sinigang and went to sleep. Hay, thank God.

Now, the husband while this was all happening was calling me on the cellphone non-stop. He was in panic like me. He can’t believe that his first ever attempt to have a short vacation with his friends abroad without us will turn to be a not so relaxed one. He wasn’t able to shop according to him and only got to buy an air conditioning compressor for a friend. So I doubt if it will ever happen again.

But guess what he got me.

The husband and I have long been contemplating on getting our house insured. I know we should have done this sooner as home insurance is very important but for some reason we haven’t, yet. We are dead serious on getting one now after hearing so many testimonials from other people about how their insurance actually saved them. You see, accidents do happen no matter how preventive we try to be so we can really never be sure. A home insurance will somehow give us peace of mind, don’t you think?

Right now, I have been asking around for cheap home insurance available which led me to a home insurance quotes comparison site, the great place to find cheap home insurance. At Money.co.uk, The money comparison experts, one can get the best home insurance quotes available over the net fast and easy. They have a list of top online deals from the best house insurance providers so finding the right cover for our home is very simple, hassle free and most especially, cheap. We can also find the latest Home Insurance news in their site so we can be up to date and read more on home insurance. Such articles are very helpful especially for first timers like us. You will surely learn a thing or two. So if you ever feel the need to finally get your house insured and get your peace of mind, you should know where to go. We do.

Thanks to Jen for hearting my blog. I do feel the same for yours girl but lately you have been slacking off, bwahahahaha. Post some more! I love erynne posts!!!! And how about your dieting quest? Losing 30 plus pounds all on your own without having to take diet pills is simply amazing! Any updates? Are we close to our 50 pound goal? If so, baby number two is on “his” way then.

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Halloween is just around the corner and I have been spending a lot of my time surfing the net now for a costume for my little girl. I have a couple of halloween costumes in mind but I still am not convinced so I keep searching and searching hoping to find that one perfect costume she’ll wear to their Halloween School Party and the neighborhood trick or treating. Last year, she was a buzzing Bumble Bee in a tutu and everybody loved it as much as I did. Now, I have to top that off!

Looking for a kid costume, I believe, is harder than looking for adult costumes. There are so many choices for adults while with kids, not as much. Or even if there are, I always look for the flame resistant one which most costumes I see are not. And as a mom, I consider the material of the costume as a precautionary Halloween safety. I’m sure every mom would agree with me on this. We, of course, wouldn’t want a happy occasion turn into something tragic right? Accidents do happen you know and all we could do is to always be preventive. So to mommies out there, goodluck on your Halloween costume hunt and may we find the perfect cutie little costume for our kids.