Some of you might have noticed the lack of updates that I had here in this blog. I saw all the messages and the comments you have left and I thank you all for it. I am actually busy not only with my freelance work, but of three things: freelance work, my kid and my parents.

I am constantly reminded that my kid is growing up fast. In just four years she will become a teenager, and I really pray that she’ll grow up to be a person on the right track. I fear that she might try all those things that teenagers do during those years when they start thinking of themselves. I don’t want her to become a confused and angry teenager, just like what I was.

As I see that, my parents are also aging as well. Both of them are seemed to be strong and well unlike their other senior friends. But last week, my father had a gout attack and could not walk without a cane. My mother got into an unfortunate accident at home too: she slipped on the bathroom floor and got a big nasty wound on her foot.

Suddenly, I was the strongest person in the house. We don’t have a maid, so I was running around like crazy doing all the chores in the house while keeping an eye on my kid and trying to keep up with the jobs that I had been doing online. Before that my mother helps me with my daughter and loves to do all the cooking in the house. She likes doing household chores too because she wants to maintain her strength.

If there’s one thing that I like about this, it’s that, I get to drive the family car again. It was almost a year since I last got behind that wheel, because my father always uses our car, and I am always the passenger. Now I began to realize that I might find myself often in this situation because it would not be long when my father would stop driving. Time flies so fast and I just have to take the reins of responsibility as life would lead me now.