13 posts in one month: an entry dedicated to B

Earlier this month, I resumed this blog after a 27-month web log hiatus. Thanks to our able nanny B who nursed me back to health and afforded me extra time to do things other than office work, business matters, and household chores.

This post equals the number of posts I did in 2007. I was able to do in one month which took me a year to accomplish in my first year of blogging. But this entry is bittersweet, while I am elated to be writing my 13th post for May (on the last day of May), the one who allowed me to go back to blogging has said goodbye.

B got a proposal from her boyfriend when she went back to the province to vote and to attend their town fiesta so what was supposed to be a three-week interlude between a 2 month stay and a longer term working arrangement with us has turned into something more permanent. This means she won't be coming back to us. While we originally planned to have her with us for only 2 months after the operation, Hubby and I decided to keep her for good, primarily for health reasons. Condo couple living is unhealthy. For almost four years, part of our weekly sustenance is take-out food and fast food delivery. I do love to cook but with a full time job and a small budding business, preparing home cooked meals for two is simply not something I could do daily. Having nanny B with us allowed us to enjoy lutong bahay for dinner. She also made breakfast at home before going to work possible (hubby misses champorado with condensed milk) and she even made my work lunch healthy by cooking different vegetable dishes which she packs in my daily lunchbox.

Now that she's been in the province for several weeks and would be staying there for good, this juicer is gathering dust again. In the brief period that she was with us, B had used it to prepare vegetable juice (a mixture of bitter gourd, carrots, cucumber, and green apple) for me and hubby. I got the juicer early 2009 but only after a month of using it myself, I gave up. It is time consuming. It takes me almost an hour to rinse the veggies up to cleaning the high maintenance thing. The juicer, am sure, felt useful when B was around. Now, it is looking sad once again.

Am happy for her and I wish her an enlightening engagement and a blissful marriage but we will surely miss her.

Now, I just have to find a way to provide our small family of two healthy meals. How do I do that with a full time job, a business, and a blog? I don't have the slightest idea.