The Joys of Having a Kid

I always miss him everytime work takes me away home. I always feel incomplete if I don't get to kiss him at night. He is surely somebody I couldn't live without. That's how I feel about my nine-year-old boy.

I had him at the age of eighteen while in college. Not exactly the best time to hav a kid I know, considering that I'm taking up a degree which, would always keep you up until the break of dawn in order to pass. Yes, I must admit, when I learned that I was pregnant, I thought of teminating it, but having been brought up as a Catholic, my conscience prevented me from doing so. I didn't know if it was a good idea to continue with the pregnancy or not, considering that my parents didn't want me to marry the father of my kid and I have to raise the kid alone while still studying in college.

But as years passed, I have realized that it brought me more joys than hardships, and am proud of myself the more that I decided to have him in my life.

How nice it is to come home (and always looking forward to it), knowing that somebody is waiting for you at your doorstep, all excited to shower you with hugs and kisses.... and always asking you if you brought him something to eat. Boy, he always has this very huge appetite and the fear that his cute belly with shrink, and always threatening me to bring KFCs or Mc Donalds or else he might lose his cute belly!

Of course there are times, and I'll say a lot of times when he would try out your patience, and I couldn't help myself but spank him (which I feel very guilty of), and he would go on ranting that parents who spank children should be reported to Children's & Women's desk, and from there he would cry, the loudest and the meanest he could manage; until you'll feel very guilty and you would try to comfort him. From there, he would act like he won't talk to you and he doesn't need you, in which case, if you try to act out as if you're angry yourself, he'll try to creep behind your back and steal a kiss on your cheek. And guess what will happen next? Voila! You won't feel angry at all as if the kiss erased all the bad things he has done.

I guess that what Moms are all over the world. One minute, you want to strangle your kid, the next minute, in a snap of a finger, you would even ask yourself what made you angry with this cute little angel looking at you with big, round, teary eyes and is ready to give up anything just to have you give him a hug and a kiss and the assurance that your "friends" again.

I guess that's the ultimate JOY of having a kid.