Aside from the usual addition subtraction, we will also incorporate money into our lessons. We’re looking at getting some coins and bills that we could use just for our learning. It would be great if we could get something personalized too so it can also be a keepsake of our homeschooling adventure. For now, we’ll be using whatever we find at home as well as printing out other materials from the internet.

We’ll let you know how it goes. Hopefully I can get a curriculum online that would aid us in this journey. But since math can be incorporated in almost anything, I’m crossing my fingers that this will be a breeze.

Because of this, we also want her to learn how to save for things she wants to buy for herself.  We’ve tried to buy her piggy banks but she just isn’t into the whole “piggy” thing.  For this reason, we’re looking into getting personalised money boxes for all of us so she knows that we all try to save up for something we want to buy for ourselves or just to save up for the future.

What better time than now to teach her about money when she received some money gifts from her Godparents last Christmas, right? A great way to boost her counting and saving techniques.

Tomorrow, I’m thinking of cleaning up my closet. I think I can finally get rid of the maternity dresses I’ve been keeping for some time. No, I didn’t keep them for sentimental reasons. I just never got to giving them away because nobody I knew got pregnant recently.

Isn’t it interesting that in exchange for the space of my maternity dresses, I’ll be hanging some of my kids’ clothes? Oh well, I’m sure my sister misses her bump but until then, these dresses will go to my mom who will donate them to a community they are looking after.

I couldn’t help wonder about a lot of “ifs” today.  If only he agreed to have that heart surgery in the late 80s or early 90s, would he still be alive today?  If only the technology today was available for him then, would he have made a different decision?

He was told at first that he had 3 blocks in his heart.  A cardiac bypass was a big thing back then, and the doctors gave him a not-so-good chance of success (anything less than 95%-5% ratio of success-failure for us was not-so-good).  If he were alive today, would he have been a great candidate for a minimally invasive heart surgery?  By 7 years before he passed. doctors said he had 5 blocks in his heart and they couldn’t do any surgery anymore, also due to his diabetes.  So, if only he agreed the first time, would it have made a difference?

I always think about my father’s experience whenever I talk about surgery, or anything about the heart for that matter.  When I was pregnant, they also heard some regurgitation and I was advised to see a cardiologist before giving birth.  He said it wasn’t too alarming but he wanted to be present during my delivery to make sure there wouldn’t be any complications.

But unlike those times when my father had to make a decision, I’m grateful now that it’s possible to have a more types of  procedures that are minimally invasive.  If I should need to, I know the success rate is definitely higher and the post-procedure pain will be much tolerable.

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