http://blog.sanriotown.com/cathybabao:hellokitty.com Mothering In The Midlife Years Mon, 25 May 2009 06:45:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Franco Eugenio,3 and Anton Eugenio Cruz, 2 slept soundly, cradled in their yayas arms as the Commando 6 ploughed its way through choppy waters under a blue sky. It seemed like a perfect day for everyone on board the vessel. Many of the passengers were families, like the Eugenio's who ... http://blog.sanriotown.com/cathybabao:hellokitty.com/2009/05/25/lessons-from-the-puerto-galera-tragedy/ He seems okay on the surface. He or she has high grades, continues to play, and does not exhibit any outward manifestations of sadness. Children grieve differently than adults and so we often mistakenly assume that everything is okay and they aren't grieving at all. A child's grief is masked because ... http://blog.sanriotown.com/cathybabao:hellokitty.com/2009/05/14/do-children-grieve/ <p><a href="<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_711bTOwE2HA/SgYQQjhAYFI/AAAAAAAAB98/pl0RyykM19g/s1600-h/IMG_7594_mom.jpg%22%3E%3Cimg">http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_711bTOwE2HA/SgYQQjhAYFI/AAAAAAAAB98/pl0RyykM19g/s1600-h/IMG_7594_mom.jpg"><img</a> id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333968685264560210" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_711bTOwE2HA/SgYQQjhAYFI/AAAAAAAAB98/pl0RyykM19g/s320/IMG_7594_mom.jpg">http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_711bTOwE2HA/SgYQQjhAYFI/AAAAAAAAB98/pl0RyykM19g/s320/IMG_7594_mom.jpg</a>" border="0" /></a><br /> <strong><span style="color:#ff6600;"><span style="font-size:180%;">W</span>e</span></strong> learn best by watching, listening and observing. The first role models we have in life are our parents. Daughters watch their mothers closely, and so ... http://blog.sanriotown.com/cathybabao:hellokitty.com/2009/05/09/five-lessons-from-mom/ It's more nerve-wracking to do a television appearance when your daughter is with you. That's exactly how I felt the other day when P and I were interviewed by Coney Reyes on the set of The 700 Club. We were asked to talk about our experience in writing "Heaven's Butterfly" together ... http://blog.sanriotown.com/cathybabao:hellokitty.com/2009/05/09/mothers-day-on-the-700-club/ “There are two ways to live; one is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.” - Albert Einstein San Francisco, California --- Sometimes you never know where the road leads.I’ve been in the U.S. for the last two weeks, primarily, to attend a conference on ... http://blog.sanriotown.com/cathybabao:hellokitty.com/2009/05/03/when-grief-comes-full-circle/ Have you seen this film? It surely puts everything in perspective in times such as these. BIGG's is a restaurant chain in the provinces of Naga and Legaspi in the Philippines.It doesn't matter though, where it takes place. I suspect that it is a scene which repeats itself in countless ... http://blog.sanriotown.com/cathybabao:hellokitty.com/2009/05/02/worried-about-the-recession-serve-yourself-some-chicken-ala-carte/ Above the blue and windy sea When I come home to you, San Francisco Your golden sun will shine for me What is there not to love about this most beautiful of cities by the bay? A few years before my dad died, he would often wax poetic about this city which he ... http://blog.sanriotown.com/cathybabao:hellokitty.com/2009/04/30/falling-in-love-with-san-francisco/ When I look back on the road that lead me to Dallas, I can't help but think of the many Good Fridays I had to live through and the Easter Sundays that God always provided me with afterwards. I spent a quiet Easter week-end in Mt. Pleasant, Texas - a small, ... http://blog.sanriotown.com/cathybabao:hellokitty.com/2009/04/13/the-easter-sunday-of-our-lives/ Arrived here this evening, in this most beautiful of cities by the bay. I shall spend the night here before flying off to Dallas in the morning which marks the beginning of my big adventure. I'm still up, at close to midnight, but I need to get my shut-eye very soon. My ... http://blog.sanriotown.com/cathybabao:hellokitty.com/2009/04/10/loving-san-francisco/ a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_711bTOwE2HA/ScbJoA9VBbI/AAAAAAAAB7U/NVANwUo9_Ow/s1600-h/Mga_Gerilya_sa_Powell_Street_(2007)%5B1%5D.JPG"> Growing up, I was very close to an elderly uncle, my mother's eldest brother, who was a WW II veteran. He liked to regale us with stories of his exploits as a guerilla in Cebu as a 20something young man. He had quite the love story too. On the other ... http://blog.sanriotown.com/cathybabao:hellokitty.com/2009/03/23/mga-gerilya-sa-powell-street-revisiting-our-forgotten-heroes/