Sorry for the late post but I don’t wanna miss sharing my life to you. I’m 23 years old, working as a Quality Analyst in a call center. Before I became a Quality Analyst, I was a regular call center employee. Just like any other call center employees, my life was a roller coaster because of the monthly change of schedule, the pressure to meet the metrics, the pressure from the management, the changing workstations every month, the exhaustion brought about by talking al day long on the phone solving problems of people who shout, nag and demoralize you. Yes! that was my life. And I carried on, unlike my other batchmates who eventually ended their work here in the company where I work. I was given an opportunity for a promotion and it was everything that I have hoped for.

Blogging has been a tremendous blessing to me and my family. I can’t tell you exactly how it changed my life and my life. It brought so many opportunities and new friends. It became a channel for my CREATIVE THOUGHTS which usually dwells only in my mind. Before I discovered blogging, I was scammed and lost around 2,000 pesos to invest on something which was not real at all. But, I never gave up. I knew there had to be a way to earn online. And I did after few months of researching. Blogging came to my life and it has been a wonderful journey as a blogger for more than 2 years.

If there’s one thing I wouldn’t exchange for anything else here in this world, that would be my family. I finally found my one true love through my hubby. All my life, all I ever dreamed was so find someoe who will love me. I was a hopeless romantic. I so love reading love stories and fantasize about them often. I ended up having boyfriends who didn’t really measure up to my expectations. I was a perfectionist. Until, I found the man who would never leave me even if I tell him to do so and the man who was made to be my soul mate.

Through him, I became a Christian. Yes, we are a Christian family and my life has turned a lot better ever since I started living in God’s grace. Everyday is a miracle, everyday is full of happiness. I now know that I can carry on with lif’s challenges because I know that God is with me no matter what. I was born a Catholic ever since I was a kid, and I never had a close personal relationship with God until I finally became a Christian. I am still a work in progress up unto now and it’s just wonderful.

Last year, was full of challenges. We experienced the first ever and the biggest fire in our place, but the house where we are renting was saved. It was one of the scariest moment of my life. And it was a day after this fire that I also encountered the most challenging part of our life as a couple. We almost broke up, after I learned that my hubby was having an affair with someone from work.

Read the following articles if you want to know the details:

I Almost Lost My Husband

I Almost Lost My Husband Part II
To tell you, I don’t want the same thing to happen again, but if given the chance, I won’t prevent the thing from happening. I will just allow it, just the way it is. Because, our relationship has gone so much better than before this happened. We are much stronger, and hubby is more loving and cautious of his actions. He is now the kind of man I always wished he would be. It caused so much pain that I almost gave up but God gave me the strength to do what is right and to move on.
If you tell me, any woman can do it, to me, it was so difficult because of my character. I have always hated men who are unfaithful, because of my father. And I used to think that I wouldn’t  be able to forgive my hubby if ever he did something like this, but through God’s grace, I found the strength to forgive, forget and move on. I just learned from this experience, that even Christian men and woman can fall. Nobody is immune to sin. The biggest problem was, my husband was not so protective of himself. He did not keep his guard to stay away from those things which will do him and our family no good.

If there’s one thing I am proud of about myself, that is my ability to bounce back. I am very resilent and I also have the drive to move up and higher than my previous status. My motto in life is to strive for excellence and keep getting better in everything each day. There is always room for improvement. There’s always a room to get better at something. I am very goal oriented and driven in my life. I know where I want to go and I know what I want in my life.

WHY I LOVE PAULA AND HER BLOGS?

I think it has been more than a year since I started to visit Paula’s Blog, happy thoughts, happy tot. If you ask me what it is that I love about her? It’s her memory of events. She writes in details. Yes! It is very true. When you read her writings, it’s like you are in the place or event that she is talking about. I salute her memory! If you have read Corrie Ten Boom’s Hiding Place, I would say, Paula writes just like her.

I also love her the way she takes care of her family. That’s what every woman should do. To value her family, her husband and her kids more than anything else. To be a great mom and a great wife. Ahhh! Nothing is even better than the feeling of accomplishment this can ever give you. I wouldn’t exchange the feeling with the accomplishment in the work place, no matter how great it can be. She inspires me to be a great person, to be a great mom and wife.

She is also drive driven and focused just like me. When she wants something, she sets a goal to get it. And that’s very me. So, these are just a few reasons. I would also say, she’s a really really good friend. She is. A lot would agree on this.
So, belated happy birthday Paula and I’m really sorry this is so late that almost never got the chance to do this. Anyhow, happy birthday and I wish you good health, happiness, more luck and success in your family and career (work at home) life.

Love lots….