Hey there, Hive friends. How are you doing right now? I hope you are all feeling good despite the situations we have experienced today.
I have shared lots of birthday celebrations here before. How joyful we were celebrating the gift of life with colleagues, family, and friends. Yesterday, another birthday was celebrated and we joined the family of the celebrant in making it a memorable one. The daughter of my wife's colleagues, baby Audrey, celebrated her 2nd birthday. My wife messaged me yesterday that we will have our dinner at her colleague's residence but I don't have an idea about the occasion.
I just continued conducting classes yesterday after her message. I have class observers, the CTU student teaching interns, and I needed to prepare the flow of my classes to let them learn strategies and techniques that would prepare them in delivering their lessons. I have straight classes in the afternoon. Because I was busy doing my job, I forgot about the dinner that my wife talked about.
After our work, I went straight to Tabogon Central School to fetch my wife and kids. When our kids came to me, they told me about the occasion. I responded that we will be going home instead of going there. Jehoia said that she wants to go to her Ate Zia's house. The sister of the birthday celebrant who is a classmate of Yoye. Yoye also said that he wanted to go because he was invited. I just realized that our kids already knew how to value friendship and how important is to be present in this kind of gathering.
Her face asking me to go to her Ate Zia's house.
When my wife finished logging out on the biometric, we went directly to her colleague's residence. When we arrived there, we sat for a while and waited others to come. My wife's colleague whispered to her and requested me to bless the food before partaking it. As I mentioned in the other birthday blogs, I've always been requested to lead the blessing of the foods. I don't know why, but they confidently wanted me to do it.
After blessing the food, they had a quick photo opportunity with baby Audrey. They sang a birthday song that made the baby confused, maybe because most of her guests were adults. 😄 We had our dinner and of course, a conversation that is full of laughter filled the occasion with so much joy. We only do this at times like this. Talking and laugh out loud as if there is no tomorrow.
Jehoia played with the other kids present yesterday. She enjoyed it and even joined the picture taking with a party hat on her head. I was not able to capture it since I was still eating. My wife and her colleagues loved the fresh fruit/vegetable salad made by a parent of the 2nd grade. They keep on getting and eating while having fruitful conversations.
I then asked Jehoia to have some ice cream. We asked some and Yoye wanted to try it too. He was so happy to eat some ice cream since he was advised not to eat more sweets because of his skin irritations and allergies. We stayed for more minutes until we decided to go home. We thanked the family of the celebrant and I asked my wife to just walk with Yoye until they reach the Barangay road because it's already dark and the road going out from their residence is difficult to pass.
When I, sir Kim, and ma'am Yeyen reached the Barangay road, we notice the kittens that were possibly thrown into the area. They adopted the 5 kittens because they felt pity on them. I did not get one because we don't have someone at home to take care of it. We then went home and when we arrived, we immediately turned on the lights and fed our dogs, Nini and Cloud.
How wonderful it is to celebrate birthdays. It gives me a lot of realizations that inspires me to be more courageous. When life hits so hard, sometimes I think of giving up. But there are happenings like this that made me think of the things I must be grateful for. Life might be difficult, but we can do a lot of things to make it better.
Thank you for reading my blog today. Thank you for the support. Till next time. 🫶
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