Below are two of Lili’s and Baby Eleanor’s photos..
When she was three, Lili wanted to be called Ate.. I had 2 assistants at Honeysweet who came and worked for me while they were pregnant and Lili often became excited for their babies to come out.. When Carmz came to live and work with us, she was pregnant, and Lili was even more excited because she knew the baby will live with us too, or so she hoped. When Carmz left to give birth at their province, Lili became sad and asked me why we couldn’t keep the babies of my former assistants, and Carmz as well. So I had to explain and tell her the truth about the said births and she somehow understood. Then she asked me that I should also have a baby in my tummy so she will become an “Ate”.. All the more I explained the impossibility of the said request for the moment. And told her to pray instead. A few days later, her prayer was answered, because Carmz came home when Baby Eleanor has not yet reached her first month from birth. Well, blame it on or thank the “Manigbasay” that killed women and girls in the province where Carmz was from.. For fear of their lives, her father told her to come back to us instead of coming home after 2-3 months after birth.. So now, Lili is Baby Eleanor’s Ate..









