Monthly Archives: January 2019

Your Best Friend’s Wedding: Help Her Cope

Your dear BFF has been burying herself in endless preparations for her upcoming wedding that you feel she’s forgetting to do one thing: relax. For days on end, she goes through her invitations and frets about her dear aunt’s choice of corsage. Although it is normal for any bride-to-be to fuss over the minutest details of her wedding, it can sometimes be unhealthy- especially if all that worrying keeps her up at night. As a concerned friend, there are some things you can do to help ease her burden.

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Take her out for coffee. She may just need a breather. If she’s not into caffeine, take her to dinner, or to lunch at her favorite joint. Even just an hour a week will work wonders.

Take on some of the duties. If she has delegated some of the wedding preps to you, do your job (for her sanity’s sake!). If you can still manage, volunteer to do more. Going the extra mile for her will make her appreciate you more as a friend.

Remind her that it’s ok if things don’t go as planned. We don’t hold the key to the future, so mishaps are bound to happen. However things turn out, tell her to just smile and keep looking gorgeous.

Be there for your kids and listen

For parents like us, it’s devastating to think that our precious kids would fall into bad habits of smoking, drinking or doing drugs. But an early intervention and unrelenting support from parents can help save the young ones from bad vices. There are effective interventions being offered in both private and government hospitals for sure.

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We can’t always be with our kids 24 hours a day, but at least spend time to reach out and talk to them. Asking them how their day was assures them that you are ready to listen to whatever she or he would like to share, be it happy or sad news.

One year of employment

Days went by too fast for our dear daughter who just celebrated her first year of employment this month. She is working from home as graphic designer. She is slowly realizing her dream one step at a time.

You may have witnessed her improvement in terms of her artistry – from the time I posted her earliest drawings on this blog up to her recent works.

Samples of her earliest drawings
One of her latest works

There’s this dream (of hers) that I wish she’d realized one day, that is to be able to work overseas and to live there with us. 🙂