Last week was supposed to be the last time I was to visit the ortho for the month of November. But I had to do a quick visit yesterday because of the unbearable pain I have been having these last few days due to the cross bite correction adjustment done on my braces last week. The pain was too much that there was no way I will be functional without taking Mefenamic Acid. I wake up in the middle of sleep because of the horrible pain!

Doc was surprised himself yesterday when he saw that after only a week of adjustment, the cross bite is already relatively corrected. The abrupt response of my bones was the culprit to the nagging pain! My doc does not just have a fine clinic and services and great dental equipment financing, I assume, he also knows what he’s doing. I was given amoxicillin to treat the swollen jaw and help me heal the disintegrated jaw bones and also Celebrex for the pain. Hopefully, this will all go away in a few days! I can’t imagine having our vacay, celebrating our 10th anniversary in such pain.

It’s the time of the month again when I’m a little more emotional than usual. I cry nearly over every single time I remember someone I miss, pray for a friend, just about anything. It’s the way I am a few days before Aunt Flow comes to visit. I’m sure this is not uncommon to me.

What’s good is whenever I’m in this mood, I am, for the most part, counting my blessings and am grateful. I more often than not act upon it by sending quick notes and personal messages over Facebook to people that bless my heart. Some that I can get hold of, I even give gifts to say thank you. Just a random thought I have for today. Life is good. Even though our circumstances, most of the time take our eyes off of the good things, we really should go right back to being thankful for the grace that God’s overflow us on a daily basis.

Four years ago was the last of the five house relocation for our family. We finally were able to acquire our very own home in 2007, by God’s grace. Since 2001, we have lived in 4 different houses. The moving can be so taxing and frustrating.

The thing with homes for rent, you don’t actually see the problems in the house until you live in it. This is what happened to us in all the previous houses we rented. So it is always a plus to have a good landlord. The second landlord we had was the best one. He was a Christian and was only after having a family take care of his brother’s property who is already based in the States. The other three were not so good to transact with. Either they have gambling problems or they try to get away from having to get a leaky roof fixed, et al.

We feel blessed that God has allowed for us to enjoy a comfortable home where we can enjoy nurturing our son. And this is something that we tell our son to thank God for too.

Earlier this week as I was sorting through stuff in containers: one container to give away, one container to sell in my online store and another container for the trash. You might have thought that the typhoon Ondoy has done this for me. But hear ye! Hear ye! I still have more sentimental stuff I hold on too. And this week I decided to just let most of them go.

One thing that I saw that got me realizing that I’m sentimental were these wedding napkins I have kept from my friends’ special days. They have gone from immaculate white, pretty florals to dirty yellow and much as I would have loved to keep them, they were just gonna accumulate more dust than memories. So off they went. As for the other stuff, I’m giving away a whole lot away. It is what we hope to keep going in our family. That whenever we receive blessings, great or small, we take away stuff from our things and choose what we could bless others with.

I’m happy to report that despite the exposure our family have had with the flood waters and even from the house that got contaminated, we are all okay and doing good, health wise. We are really grateful. The Lord knows we cannot afford to get sick, especially so that our son still does not have a health insurance coverage. We have been working on it since he was one month old but up until now, there is still no good news about it.

Maybe after getting things settled, we could look for a cheap health insurance for our son. I should know how important health insurance is.

This is how I feel as I post away my journals from years ago. I choose to do this in spite of the fear of vulnerability. Aside from my sentiments of losing my hard copy, I would like to believe that my journey will encourage people towards keeping on.

Next in line is my journal on my struggle to submit to my husband before our marriage turned a year old. Unlike this girl’s face hidden behind this pink balloon, I have conquered my greatest fear.  I have nothing to fear. I am redeemed and whatever I have to share, I will.

After having contacted their support team, emailed them directly via the sales team and every possible way I could get to them, I still have not got a word on what happened to the website error of MarriageandBeyond.com yesterday. I’m really hoping they won’t keep their clients in the dark during times like these.  They may be going through some issues with their server or something, but I hope at least they would let us know what is happening. This is the least they could do after all the people I referred to get hosted by them.

I am  still hoping to hear from them, maybe after the weekend.

As I begin to count the number of years I have been blogging, I figured I must be around the internet for more than three years now. I first got introduced to the world wide web via emailing and I found it really convenient and fun. Then came social networking. It was fun to find old friends and discovering new ones even virtually.