of yayas and predictions

     the past few weeks scary email has been circulating. I’m referring to that of a certain Mr. DaRoose’s (DaLuz in his local) predictions. apparently, he’s been having visions in his sleep of things to come. unfortunately, his visions are mostly about the unfortunate things that would happen in different parts of the globe. it has been claimed (the word is being used in lieu of lack of positive proof) on the email that Princess Diana’s assassination and the WTC 9-11 attack were predicted by himl. and as of recent, the earthquake in China as well. it so happened that he’s also predicted an earthquake to happen in the country. included in the email is the specific date of 07-18-2008 and the claimed demise of thousands.the scare brought about by this email, as early as now, is big time to say the least. for people like us who’s been working the evenings inside the Central Business District’s sky scrapers are foremost to have this fear. I for one, have filed a leave of absence on the said date. there’s nothing wrong in making sure I would be with my kids on that day. God knows almost nobody’s ready. I say to Him that may He not be considering this as an example of a challenged faith. I trust Him. in fact, He’s the only One I truly trust. only thing I would like is for Him to look after us, together. I know everything He does is for a reason. I pray for the serenity to understand, and the courage to face anything head on, knowing fully well, that He would never forsake us. so it was settled, I was granted the leave, and I couldn’t thank Him enough. at the very least, I would have a longer weekend with my angels.
       HR has done their research. they chanced upon Mr. DaRoose’s own blog (in local Brazilian language) and a translation of its content. together with that blog, link of other articles about his predictions were forwarded to us. if truth be told and those articles would be taken logically, the email was a hoax. if it was, I could not think of a good reason why anybody would come up with such.still, I have settled myself with the thought of four days -surely hectic- work and 3 days at home. couldn’t be happier.
       or so i thought.
       the new yaya’s we’ve hired were to say the least, a bit of a problem. one they were guaranteed by the people who got them for us, that they would be paid a monthly amount that is beyond our capacity. more to our woes, they were guaranteed they could take a month’s advance. each. another thing that caused contention was, emabarrasingly enough, food. they claimed they’ve been not fed e nough in the past week they have been here. and unfortunately, they chose to talk about this, with our neighbors(who incidentally were the ones who recommended them). and we found ourselves the topic of gossipmongers talking about how we are not paying, feeding and treating our helpers well. to my discomfort, I voiced out my indignation. nothing was true. we have been very upfront with neighbor from the start. here is what we can pay them, here is how we pay them, and here are the terms. if these people are amenable to these, okay, if not we would understand as well and let them give the would be yayas to other people. eventually the new yayas arrived. and after a few only did i learn things were not clear to them. no, actually, their understanding of our agreement was different, hence the fiasco. now amidst all the sour notes being directed towards us, we’re sending them back. nevermind that we could no longer get the initial amount we’ve put up for their fare, I just want all this to stop. we’ve got our plates full as it is. the only thing I am miserable about is us being forced to ones again leave the kids with my mom.and I have sworn it would only be a week at most. I would be bringing them back to my parents’ house tomorrow, and it’s all I could do to stop myself from crying nonstop. I have only been with my daughter half a year, and my son is only 5 months old. I couldn’t bear the thought of being far away from them. not a day, lest a week. but it’s the best choice we’ve got, while we finalize the hiring of new, and hopefully this time, way better yayas.I still haven’t had the ehart to finish packing the kids’ things. tomorrow morning I would see to it. for now, I would have to content myself watching the angels sleep. I might as well not sleep, I can’t imagine how much I would miss them. people might say I am overreacting since it would only be a week. though to me, it might as well be a year. a day without them is just not the same. granted I get to spend very few hours with them each day when I get home from work, but that’s a whole lot better than nothing. I can only tell myself, this too, shall pass. *sigh*