Mom of 3rd Culture Kids

When my kids went on a motorbike ride with Hubby the other time, they saw a street kid .  Our kids seemed so curious and asked a lot of questions about the boy that  Hubby had to  explained to them the hard life that a street kid lives.

When they came back home, my li’l boy hurriedly  reported to me what they saw. At the end of his ‘narrative’, he asked me if we could let his ‘friend’ ( the street kid) live in our house and if he could give away his toys  for him. My daughter easily agreed on his little brother’s suggestion and before I could say, yes , they were already on the way t o their room to sort out the toys they want to give out. Oh, my heart just swells up knowing that my kids care for others .  I’m also glad that they can easily let go of their favorite toys so that other children will also have a chance to play with it. At one instances, there was   one toy that my daughter wants to give out to the children in the village that was a bit expensive. I could still remember the exact amount of that toy when it passed through the barcode scanner. I also know that it’s one of  her favorites. So, I had to ask a couple of times if she’s sure to give that away. And she said yes…  And now, it’s the mom who is quite reluctant to give away that ‘expensive’ toy.  But on the other hand, I’m sure no amount of money can  pay for the happiness that the gift can bring to someone who doesn’t have anything much.

There’s something wrong with our PC. It just restarts on it own, without me clicking anything. Sometimes, I’ll be in a hurry and write all my posts then, ‘pow!’. It shuts down and restarts again.

That’s why I don’t use this PC when I’m buying anything online or booking tickets. I’m afraid that it might suddenly go off during payment. Then, there’s no way of knowing whether my payment got through or not.

We don’t have plans in buying a new set of PC or laptop yet. Though, there are a lot of reconditioned laptops available in the market. We’ll just have to bear with this PC until such time when it will be unusable.

In our family, July is the month with the most celebration. This is when a lot of our family members are celebrating their birthdays; my brother in law (July 17), my nephew (July 17), my brother ( July 21), my sister ( July 24) and my father ( July 16) who’s now with the Lord.

When I was still in the Philippines with my family, I would eagerly look forward for the month of July because this is the month in which we often eat out. I was still a student at that time so I didn’t really give much attention to giving gifts for the guys. As for my sister, I think I remember making a card for her but I’ve never given gift baskets for her . But it has never been in our family ‘culture’ to give wrapped gifts for birthday, we just usually give a treat or something very casual. But it’s always nice to give gifts because it somehow appreciates the celebrant and as a celebrant, it’s always feels nice to be remembered.