My Life in US at 7 Months

It’s hard to believe that I’m here in the US for 7 months now, it’s even harder to believe that I’m finally here, at least for me. It wasn’t an easy process to come here in the US, everyone knows that, but I consider myself as one of those lucky people who had the chance to step on the land of opportunity. Being here is not as easy as everyone thought it would be, but generally, I am happy being here cos finally I’ve found the love of my life who’s actually the one who brought me (us–with my son) here.

If you are wondering how’s my life here now in 7 months, well aside from I am happy being with my love, I can tell you more specific things I am up to during my whole stay here.

Unfortunately, in 7 months, I don’t have a job yet. I was really hoping to get a job here so that I’d be able to help my parents who are still in the Philippines right now. The reason why I don’t have a job yet is because we still haven’t applied for my adjustment of status which is from K1 (fiancee) visa holder to temporary residency (green card) holder. Neither me and Andy knew how much it cost until after our wedding and it’s not cheap, it’d be a total of $1,610 USD for both me and Abi to get the card alone, that doesn’t include the miscellaneous stuffs we needed for the process. We’re still saving money for that, and hopefully by the end of this month or at the most, next month, we’d be able to take care of that.

Though I don’t have a job yet, I am still earning money, ONLINE. I blog, like what I’m doing right now and I’m earning money through this. If you want to earn money through blogging, check out my Money Maker blog. Actually, if I didn’t spend a lot for material stuffs, I should’ve been able to have the money we needed for AOS, but again, I didn’t realize that I’m spending too much. Because, it’s me, Jona, the spender, as always .

Now, I am not earning just with blogging, I am starting a business online too. I’m selling good quality and affordable apparels in my own simple store, Jona’s Apparel Store. Slowly but surely, I’ll do my best to make this business successful cos I really want this. Ive started this business for more than 3 weeks and I already sold 2 items. I guess, it’s not bad at all.

Then, in my 7 months here, I realized the difference between my life with and without my parents. When I was with my parents, I was so dependent. To be honest and I’m not proud of it, but I never did the household chores unless I want to (which is very rare) or I REALLY need to (if we don’t have house helper and my parents can’t do it). I am really a spoiled brat. I don’t think I did anything good for my parents. I have always been a pain in the butt for them. That’s why now that I’m here, I really wanted to help them so bad. I wanted to give them a better life, something that they don’t need to worry about anything, specially financial stuffs cos my parents had worked so much just to give us a better life. Somehow, I’m proud of myself that I didn’t fail them in comes to my education and that’s the only good thing I did for them.

In my 7 months here, it finally sank into me that I’m a mother now cos I never really took care of my son back when I was with my parents. I’m still living the same life when I didn’t have Abi yet. Went home whenever I want to, spent my money with whatever I wanted, had fun and didn’t think about anything cos I knew that my parents were taking care of him. Now, I am taking care of my son 24/7 while hubby is working. I was grateful though that it happened cos it feels good being a mother, it feels good to think about someone special in my life, someone that I really have and no one can take away from me, my son, Abi. I love him to death and I’m thankful that he came into my life cos I changed in almost everything about me and I can really feel that I’m a better person now.

Finally, I’m still living my life without regret and I’m happy as ever, more than how happy was before, actually. The only sad thing about my life though is I’m not with my parents anymore and I miss them so much and my close and true friends are not around me anymore and the rest is good thing for me.