Meet the E.K.’s
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These are my kidz: Elhav Kristoff, my first born and Elgene Karsten, my youngest.
No, their names aren’t German but Hebrew, Elhav means gift of God. (El means God and Hav means gift). Though my wife has a retroverted uterus, God blessed the fruit of the womb. After 5 years, we saw our miracle (you may read our story of faith here). Elgene meant God of beginnings, El for God and Gene is a variant of Genesis, the first book of the Bible. She came to this world in the midst of a family crisis. Her name is a reminder that God, despite our stupid decisions in the past, can bring new beginnings.
Being part of a dynamic and prestigious firm, the temptation to bring work at home is high. But I see to it that I practice work-life balance and also spend quality time with family. My rest days are precious and would spend these with them. Time flies— they grew so fast, just yesterday, I cradle and put them to sleep in my chest. Now, I they are beginning to have their own world, thus, needs their own space and independence, slowly but surely.
I made it a goal to invest more time with them (now), so I have plenty of deposits to withdraw when they hit their teenage years. Raising kids and leading a family to have the “fear and respect for the Lord” is pretty tough in our times, we need all the graces of heaven to succeed. Husbands and fathers have no excuse before God for whatever will happen to the family.
They are also the reason why I will not leave the Philippines. I saw the effect of distant parenting to some. I would not want this to happen to my family. This is not to put any family down, leaving your family to work in a foreign land is a bitter pill to swallow. This is a sensitive social issue, only if the past and present gov’ts could have……
While making this blog entry, my daughter saw me. I kissed her and allowed her to read the entry and said “When you’re a little older, I want you and your kuya to go back and read this so you would know how precious you are to me and your mama”..
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It’s hard to live though, what we preach. But work-life balance must be done, otherwise we might regret it when our kids are already grown up. It’s a scary thought to think they will leave you one day.
Hi! I am Felize Mendoza, a 2nd year student from Philippine Science High School. I just want to show you our project in Social Science (Pisay Meets World), We Hold the Future. It shows how students like us can make a difference.
Please click the link below (my teacher\’s blog) and please also click the video frame which links to YouTube, please leave a comment there, you need an account to comment (in YouTube). We need comments.
The video will take only about 5-6 minutes of your time.
Would you mind putting our video on our site? It would be very much appreciated. It will really help for our grades.
Thank you very much for your time. Ü
Felize,
As requested, I visited your teacher’s blog, watched your video and left a comment. You’ve got great concept there! BTW, I also visited your blog.
Keep your creative juices flowing and build this nation of ours.
What a wonderful family!May God bless you,you wife and the loverly children too.What an inspiration.I know that God enable you to continue bringing up you two kids in Godly ways in this 21st century which is filled with all manner of imoralities.Yes,your childern will make it since you are playing your roles faithfully as parents.God will do His too.
Well,am in anticipation that when my time comes to be a wife and amother,i will do my best to bring up a God fearing family.
God bless you mightily.
Maggie
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Thanks for the reminder to spend quality time with our children, no matter how busy we get. They should be the priority of our lives and our time. It would have been infinitely easier for us and our work to have our daughter taken care of her Lola in the Philippines while she was a baby, but we opted to keep her with us despite the difficulties. No regrets.