Today is Ria’s convocation day for the second trimester. We took a whole day leave to attend the event as she is to receive a certificate as a qualifier for high honors award.

We were late. And when we saw her, she was crying already because we were not able to accompany her when she received her certificate.

We were heartbroken, too. This was the first time that this happened. So I had some time thinking about so many things while waiting for the program to end. I realized, we are so focused on our own undertakings that we are already starting to take for granted our kids. We are so busy with studies and work that we do not have enough time to teach our kids on their lessons.

While we have weekends for ourselves as a family, the quality time that we have is not what we have before. Both of us are very busy. So I thought that we need to reorient ourselves for our kids, now that they are going to be three already.

At least Ria was able to accept that we were late a while ago and she managed to move on.