Being An Email Support Rep

Being a full time mother requires a lot of patience and guts. I have to take care of my 8 month old Ella and 3 year old Daniel. But at the same time, I look for opportunities where I can have extra income while being at home. 

Because of that desire to also have extra income for my family, I landed being an email support representative. I am just new to this commission based job but honestly, I feel rewarded every time that there is a positive lead. All you have to do is search for US companies and offer SEO and web design services by just sending email. I was able to pay some of my debts and of course bought stuff for my family. I was also given the chance to try the 10 day trial salary. Wow, it was a fulfillment to me as a full time mother.

How about you? Been searching for a job? Why not try to be an email support rep? You could possibly earn and pay off debts and buy for basic needs.

The Joy and the Pain of Waiting

I did not renew my contract with the City Treasurer's Office because of practical reasons: one is that I have to take three rides to get into the office from our house. I have to consider also my health since it has been ten months from my first giving of birth. Practically, I have to rest.
My sister and I have been interested about online jobs. That's why we convinced our mother to purchased for us a new personal computer with unlimited internet connection.
It's been almost a month of trying and waiting for responses from prospect employers of online jobs.... from freelance sites. But, we ended on paid to click and paid to review websites.
I, personally has high hopes of landing in a rewarding online job since I have to work for my little boy. My husband is on training at Laguna for his work. I don't want to depend on him.
Viewing the same ads everyday is tiring but I just managed to encouraged myself to go on... wanting to reach the minimum payout of each website, hoping that in due day, I can get what I was paid for. I am starting to love this job. Just like I what I have prayed, "Lord, supply our everyday needs."

Realizations

Well, my life has been so confusing these days. But one thing is sure: IM STILL OK, PRAISE THE LORD!!!
The uncertainties in life may pull you down but when you choose to be all right in God’s perspective, everything will be ok. Pressures from different sources may be great, but I always thank the Lord that He never left me. It’s hard to be pretentious but I also thank God that He has given me that “ability” so that I will not affect people surrounding me. Wew! My mind may not give in to advises of some friends and colleagues and my heart may not feel ok with the symphaties of every concern people… but I praise the Lord that He is able to bring me back to my senses and realize that apart from him I am just nobody.
I’ve been thanking Him for the uncertainties in my life for because of it… I learned to be sure that in Him my future is secured.
I thank Him for the discouragements I feel in almost everything because He is ready to encourage me when no one is around.
I always thank Him for the hurts people are giving me because I always feel love from Him that never changes over the time.

Life With Our Son

Darwin and I call our firstborn son, Nanak. Now that I did not renew my contract with the City Treasurer’s Office, I feel free! Ha ha. I have no regrets after all. I will not exchange those precious moments with my baby. I want to spend most of my time with him. We play, we sing his favorite nursery rhymes, we dance, we read his First Bible, we both laugh and giggle! I can’t imagine how a little baby grows into a big piglet.

God is too generous for giving us this little boy. Though I know that child-rearing requires a lot of patience, love and understanding. You have to wake up eventhough you are still sleepy. You have to carry him even your whole body aches. You have to stay out from your comfort zones because of him.

I am just grateful for all these things. It is amazing that God blessed us with this baby. Thank You Lord!

Experiences In Giving Birth

I just want to share with you my experiences as a new mother.

Monday, December 15, 2008, almost 3:00 o’clock pm - This was my last scheduled prenatal check up at Friendly Care Clinic with Pat Banglot, MD as my obstetrician gynecologist (ob gyne). She was surprised upon knowing that my cervical opening is already 3 cm and I do not feel anything after she did I.E. I even managed to walk from Lachmi San Pedro to the clinic at Bankerohan. She advised me to go home directly and pack all my things and the baby’s because anytime i’ll be giving birth.

That made me feel nervous. I was not expecting that this is the beginning of my anticipations about delivery. Darwin was also uneasy when he got my text messages. He thought that after I reach home, we will be heading on to the hospital.

But, the night came and nothing happened.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 8:00 o’clock am - Bloody show was observed and this made a panic in our house. After our breakfast, we were on our way to the Davao Medical School Foundation (DMSF) Hospital. The admission officer through the phone asked the staff on the receiving area: “How is the patient?” She gladly answered, “The patient is smiling!” I even managed to fill up the admission forms. I even refused to sit on the wheel chair ‘coz I can still manage to walk upstairs. But, it is a SOP (standard operating procedure) to ride the patient on a wheelchair.

I stayed in the labor room, lying and sitting on the bed without any discomforts until 4 pm. I even enjoyed the tv shows. I even help the student nurse assigned to me to monitor the heartbeat of my baby and the contractions of my uterus. Then, I started to feel bored. I feel bored because there was nothing to do and, I was also hungry. Just imagine, I just ate a pack of skyflakes biscuit and a few drinks of nestogen milk. (My husband don't know what to do at that time).

Until 6 in the evening, Dr. Pat decided to induce me. Three minutes after the oxytocin was injected together with the dextrose, the pain started to crip in my tummy. It was so painful but praise God, bearable. The contractions will just stop in the interval of 2 minutes. Wow! This is it!

I was on the delivery table at about 8 pm with 8 cm cervical opening. I was so sleepy.

I even waited for my ob gyne to arrive…. 1 hour before giving birth.

At about 9:09, after 4 pushes and coaches of the nurses and my ob gyne, I gave birth to a 5.5 pounds baby boy through NSVD - Normal Spontaneous Vaginal Delivery. It was successful and had it not been by CHRIST, it is not possible.

Our precious baby Daniel Winard was named after the known Biblical boy Daniel and Winard from Darwin.

We brought baby Daniel home on the 20th day of December, Saturday. He was left under observation by his pedia, Dr. Rommel Bernardo for three days. He was under observation because he was vomiting when he was brought to the nursery. It pains us much to see our little angel with the tube, the needle and the dextrose.

Now, he is 5 months 8 days young. He weights 6.6 kilos during his last visit on the health center for immunization.

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Being a mother is a wonderful privilege from God. Not all are blessed to bear a child. I will be forever grateful to the Lord for this chance.