On Monday, June 6, I and my wife will be back to school, not as students but as mom and dad bringing their son to his first classroom experience. I never experienced having my father drop me to school. Iris has her brothers who fetch her to and from their home. But for us, it will be the whole family going back to school. We are obliged to bring Don and Denise because we still do not have a full time house help. This is really something of a different experience for me and my wife and our children. It brings a feeling of excitement. Excited at the fact that we will be together in this special day, a real first for all of us.

Actually, the decision phase of where to enroll our son is also part of the excitement. It’s like going back to the old college days where you have to debate on which is a better school, public or private?
I must say that the discussion is certainly for a good reason. There are different considerations which we had to look more closely like our finances, the proximity of the school, the quality and track record of the institution, and a few more which we’ll gladly share in the next post.

Nevertheless, we decided to enroll Drey at Bob Hughes Christian Academy, here in Cebu.

If you are thinking what made us decide to choose this institution, check out our next post.

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Iris and I got married on April 28, 2005. And I must say that our tale is one of the many examples of a complicated mixture of love story. We started on the wrong foot. Got married at an untimely and unplanned manner. Were separated a week after our wedding day. But eventually, God’s hand started to work in us, to put everything in our married life in place.

In a span of five years, we’ve learned a few things about each other. We’ve coped with one another’s weak side and have strengthened them through prayer. Iris is a born giver, a person full of charity for others. I am what they say as the natural Ilokano, “thrift” “kuripot”. We’ve complemented each other’s personality pretty well. And I believe that’s one thing that keeps our bond stronger each day.

When it comes to family, Iris has an innate nurse to take care of his love ones. Not only for me, as his husband, but she cares even more for her family and those close to her heart.

They say, you can never repay your parents until you become a parent yourself. I say, you can never understand your parents, until you become a parent yourself. Our two kids, Don and Drey are in a way, a duplicate of the characters we have. They have taught us many things about the things we previously did not understand about our parents. Why they hit us with a rod. Why we need to sleep after lunch. Why we should wash our hands before we eat. Why we need to study hard and a litany of other trivial things we consider as punishment.

Married life can be sweet. But the real flavor of marriage is like a chocolate, bittersweet. It can be bitter. It can be sweet.