Its bonding time for Jon and the little girl today as Sophia’s yaya is on a day-off so it was the husband who took the princess to school sans the driver. He’ll also be the one to pick her up of course after three hours and then they’ll be off to Manila to settle some stuff and have lunch. Isn’t that sweet?  I just hope the husband can stand the little girl and vice versa. LOL.  I hope too that dear husband can make Sophia eat lunch. That I will find out when they get home this afternoon. 

As for me, all I asked was for them to bring home Paella Negra from Las  Paellas. Yummy! Can’t wait.

By the way, tomorrow, it’ll be my time off. Its my check up and then I’ll head on over to the salon and the mall to buy our “babies” gifts for our Christmas Party on Saturday here at home.  I’m sure it’ll be a blast again just like last year and the year before, and the year before that.  Food this year is courtesy of CCME, thanks to MBAPs for introducing them to me during our MBAP Party.  Food from them is so sulit for the price. 

I’ll try to work on my very short and uneventful birthing story after this post. Hope Mateo won’t wake up anytime soon. I wish!

The husband is off to attend a stag party so I am left here at home with the kids and my army. You wonder what army? My “personal army” as Jon and I fondly call them – Yaya Candy (Mateo’s Yaya), Yaya Lyn (Sophia’s Yaya), Manang Betsy (our cook and housegirl), Manang Babylyn (our laundrygirl) and Kuya Noel (our driver).

Running a house with five stay-in aids is no joke. Aside from it being expensive, sometimes they get to each other’s nerves too so I get to be their referee. I am thankful though that I have a good bunch as I know how hard it is to find people to trust. So I make sure they get what they deserve or even more because I badly need all of them. Seriously, no matter how hands on I am with my kids, I still need their yayas to lend me a hand every time. And as I have posted before, finding a good and reliable yaya to trust is a blessing and so far I’m truly blessed. I have two wonderful yayas who help me and keep me sane. Finding them through agencies was tough luck and as my mom and mom in law would put it – “parati naman daw akong nakakaswerte”. As we all know, there are a lot of horror stories about maids from agencies and I am just happy that I don’t have one to share, just yet. *crossfingers* I did however had an issue with one agency before but not with the maid they supplied me with so that doesn’t count.

So why am I writing this? I don’t know, I just felt the need to after being out today for the first time with my two kids in tow. The two yayas just made it easier for me. And for that, I’m very thankful. Even while at home, I get to have my me time which I value no matter how short as I can be in front of the computer just long enough to do stuff I enjoy – shop online, blog and chat. Just like now, I’m checking out stuff online as my sister in law is coming home on the 20th. I hope I get to score some great deals at RL again and get to grab a used cisco which I badly need.

I am one mom who is on a lookout for nice scrubs all the time. You see, since Sophia’s yaya is always on the go, I find letting her wear scrubs very comfortable whenever we go out. These days, wearing scrubs is not limited to people who are in the medical profession anymore. Anyone can wear them, well, at least those who are all for comfort and a bit of style if I may say. There are a lot of stores selling scrubs but its so hard to look for quality ones. Good thing I stumbled upon Scrubs and Beyond who has high quality and very fashionable scrubs. Just look how pretty their peaches scrubs and barco metro scrubs collection. Their dickies scrubs even has matching clogs. To top that off, their prices are very reasonable. Surely, they are the shop to get your quality scrubs from. I’m just so happy to have found them.