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Surrender

March 30, 2020 By Tammy Leave a Comment

Dearest P, Finally, after more than a month, I finally made time to write you your first letter. It’s a bit more challenging to find quiet time to write with your Manoy, Diko, and Ate clamouring for attention. While the boys play, and Tatay and Ate K bond over Netflix, I’ll try to gather my […]

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Filed Under: Faith, Family, Letters to the Kids

Friends in the Lord

February 12, 2020 By Tammy Leave a Comment

Dearest I, J, K, and PeL, This was supposed to be my first letter to P (a letter I started when you were 37 weeks in my tummy, then continued when you were 39 weeks, and here we are – you’re out, healthy, beautiful, and so very pink! And it’s not done yet – and […]

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Filed Under: Family, God, Letters to the Kids, Parenting Tagged With: family

Giving Thanks

October 14, 2019 By Tammy Leave a Comment

Dearest I, J, and K, It has been so long since I’ve written to any of you. It has been a while since I’ve given myself time to sit, reflect, and actually thank God for giving me the gift of beautiful (and slightly crazy) babies. Last night at church, Deacon Greg talked about the importance […]

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Filed Under: Faith, Family, God, Letters to the Kids, Parenting, Reflection Tagged With: faith, family, Gratitude

Feast Days and Forgiveness

May 20, 2019 By Tammy Leave a Comment

May 19 is our feast day. Our little town, San Jose, is celebrating (or already did, since they’re ahead by a day) in an exciting way. Our 200+ year old parish church has been conferred as an Archdiocesan Shrine of Saint Joseph. As I was doing my homework (I’ve joined a group of women in […]

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Filed Under: Bicol, Camarines Sur, Churches, Faith, Family, San Jose, Uncategorized

On Life and Everlasting Life – A Letter to J

August 15, 2018 By Tammy Leave a Comment

To my dearest J, Tatay sat you all down, and let you know that his Lola has passed away. He quickly explained before heading out the door to get your Lola Auntie at church. You looked at me and asked “Is Lola Auntie sad?”. When Lola Auntie came in the door, instead of hiding, you […]

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Filed Under: Bicol, Faith, Family, javier, Letters to the Kids Tagged With: family, Javy, Letter

The (now) bearable lightness of Being almost Canadian

January 14, 2018 By Tammy Leave a Comment

After what seemed like forever, the eagle has finally landed. It took the Canadian government approximately 16 months (less than the expected 26 months) to process my application for permanent residency. All the paperwork, medical tests, and mailing back and forth, has finally come to an end (actually, no. This isn’t the end because we […]

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Filed Under: Family, identity, Migration, Vancouver Tagged With: Canada, Identity

Giving Birth: Royal Columbian Hospital (Part 3 of 4)

November 22, 2017 By Tammy Leave a Comment

These posts will try to outline the differences and similarities of my experiences giving birth – as well as what to prepare and expect. Hopefully, by documenting whatever I remember – I can be better prepared for number 4 (hah! just kidding. That’s it. We’re done.) or help someone else with their birthing experience and the […]

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Filed Under: Family, Kara, Parenting, Pregnant Tagged With: family, Giving Birth, Parenting, Pregnancy, Pregnant, Royal Columbian Hospital

I Still Want To Be Like Mom

November 17, 2017 By Tammy Leave a Comment

I stumbled upon an old blog post (Read it here! Written in 2004) about how I wanted to be a mom, and more specifically, like my mom. I wrote it almost 14 years ago. The way I wrote it is embarrassing (I’d like to think my writing has improved with time), but everything I shared […]

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Filed Under: Family, love, Parenting, Uncategorized Tagged With: family, mother

A Sense of Belonging

November 10, 2017 By Tammy Leave a Comment

Last Sunday, our youngest received the sacrament of Baptism. Like the boys, she was welcomed into the Catholic Church early. She is three weeks old. Ig was almost two months. And J was a month old. Like the boys, she wore my Baptismal bib, a thin piece of cloth, with the Cross in light blue, […]

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Filed Under: Canada, Faith, Family, Friends, God, Kara, Letters to the Kids, Parenting Tagged With: faith, family

Your Tilde – A letter to Iñigo

October 12, 2017 By Tammy Leave a Comment

So, I still can’t get over how much effort your preschool has put on your tilde. That all your personal spaces have your name, squiggly and all, labeled nicely. Before we moved back to Canada, we have accepted that in this country, our Ñ is not accepted in legal papers. We knew that our last […]

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Filed Under: Culture, Family, identity, Inigo, Letters to the Kids Tagged With: family

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