Kids

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Kids always find the right amount of words to make any parent run, dock and hide from embarrassments.What do you expect them to be, right? They are kids and kids will be kids. Not matter how you teach them from the right and wrong, the left and the right. Kids will bring the out other side of any good abiding parents sane into a whirlwind. But sometimes don’t you just wish that they will grow up fast enough? or you have wished that before when they were just babies.

But we all parents wish that they would just think before they open their mouth and let those words run wild. Sometimes it’s just too much to handle and that sometimes we just want to run for cover or better yet be invisible so that nobody will see your facial expression.

Of course we parents understand that they are growing and discovering new things and that includes new words. Every kid is different and kids don’t come with a manual cause if they do, we parents won’t be this crazy over their behavior and attitude in public.

Well, kids will be kids and hope that in moderation will help slow down in growing too fast. Like another parents I want my kids to enjoy each and every moment of their youth and I want them to take their time in growing and just be a kid.

After all growing up is not optional but being a kid at heart is.

Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent Season and as we all know it’s time for fasting and abstinence.

Abstinence from eating meat is to be observed on all Fridays during Lent. This applies to all persons 14 and older. The law of fasting on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday applies to all persons 18 years old and younger than 59.

Fasting means that one full meatless meal per day may be eaten. Two other meatless meals may be taken sufficient to maintain strength, but together they should not equal a full meal. Liquids, including milk and fruit juice, may be taken between meals. If health or ability to work are affected, fasting does not oblige.

Private, self-imposed observance of fasting on Lenten weekdays is strongly recommended. Pastors and parents should ensure that children, who are bound by laws of fast and abstinence, are taught an authentic sense of penance, conversion and reconciliation.

This is the hardest for me of all the season for I am in constant fight with my hubby. He loves meat and by giving up means death to him. I have practice this fasting and abstinence since I can remember and attending to a catholic all girls school in Cebu it’s a must to follow the rules and law.

So far he is respecting my views as a Catholic and a practitioner of the law and rules. He has been following the fasting and abstinence for quite awhile and has been on his eating habits. Well, I guess sometimes you can teach an old dog some new tricks.

I don’t just practice not eating meat on Fridays of the Lent but for the rest of the year. Before coming to California I eat on fish and chicken alone but since fish is kinda expensive here so I learned to eat pork and beef but still not a fan of them.