My wife, Tina has been stressed these days, not because I am her stressor, LOL 
but due to inevitable daily hassles -both at work and at home. Primarily, we don’t have a housemaid for more than a month now! Our maid got pregnant, so she and her husband left to their province down south to give birth next month with uncertainty of reporting back to work. God knows how difficult it is to find another trustworthy housemaid.
Other than people living independently abroad or solitaries in dormitories, I am not sure if you have experienced a life without a maid or at least to have ideas how hard it is to juggle work and household chores. I, myself do some laundry especially on my days off at work; thanks to the fact that our ‘jurrasic’ washing machine with spin-dryer is still functioning! Tina and I also take turns in accompanying and fetching our son, Gabby to and from his preschool and whenever we’re both unavailable, we can always import my dad from my folks’ place in Pasig to pitch in for us.
I want to give Tina a break from all those loads she usually get from her job as an Operating Room nurse-Clinical Instructor, and from fatigue-inducing roles she does at home.
Unlike most women, she hates shopping (How lucky I am to be her husband, right?). She will only buy clothes and shoes whenever there’s a need or an urgency to do so, say for an event or an occasion that we have to attend. She’s like my mom when it comes to prudence and practicality and admittedly, I am their total opposite. We compliment each other and we like it that way Tina prefers to eat out with us rather than buy herself a new pair of shoes or jewelries. She hates spending too much and wouldn’t want anything illogically priced.
Certainly, my wife deserves pampering. I would like to take her to a spa and treat her to a massage. Then again, if I get to spend more than our domestic budget, she might not enjoy the entire experience. Good thing that few days ago, Doc Grace of Doctor is vaIN, the 2009 Philippine Blog Award Best Beauty Blog, wrote a comment on one of my recent posts, inviting me to participate in her blog contest in which she’s giving a lucky winner a chance to experience Terra Wellness Spa in Discovery Suites, Ortigas, Pasig City.
What’s up for grab from this contest?
Terra’s Signature Massage – this deeply relaxing massage combines slow and graceful gliding strokes that are applied to the different key pressure points of the body to relieve tension and aid blood circulation. The experience is enhanced with the use of specially blended therapeutic oil.
Take a peek into Terra Spa…
Note : All photos were sourced here.
I do wish I could win this for Tina for I know she’ll definitely appreciate it; not only because it’ll give her the full-75 minute sublime relaxation (worth PhP 1,700) from Terra Wellness Spa but even affordable as it is, she loves anything FREE! Who does not want freebies? 
If you want to join this blog contest too and would like to know more details and mechanics, click here. And to Doc Grace, thanks for the invite and more power to your site, Doctor is vaIN.
If luck won’t be on my side, I’ll just do the massaging for my wifey, but it might lead to something else, hehehe “evil grin”...
Excuse me, I need to go to ‘work’.
(sigh) i hope i get frequent massages too. as you may know i have a maid-free home since we got married (2006). its liberating and a pain the butt as the same time. we dont have to make ‘pakisama’ but we have to do the dishes. my hubby grew up with an army of maids so it was hard for him to do house work during our first year. now he wash and sterilize bottles, wash dishes and clean our room and i do the rest.
i hope ‘luck’ is on your side docgelo. (evil grin)
it’s comforting to know that we’re not alone in experiencing (and enjoying) life without a maid; i mean it’s good that many undertand our ‘daily challenges’ with household chores.
like your hubby, i also grew up amongst maids and a driver and grandparents who took care of everything for me and my siblings while my parents were at work. i can relate to him, absolutely. and it’s never too late for us to learn the works inside the house.
“but it might lead to something else”
Great news… you want another baby ?
So definitely I hope you don’t win the free massage… YOU doing the massage looks like much more fun for you guys.
sidney, i know you know that doing massage whether ‘it leads to something else’ or not doesn’t mean there’ll be an addition to our family, lol
but i so agree with you that it’s more fun to do it with each other, hehehe.. 
I like getting a massage and I envy you out there in the Philippines because it’s so affordable! But I also think it’s better if you give each other a massage – no matter if it will “lead to something else” ha ha ha! That’s funny.
who doesn’t love a good massage, dennis?
it’s a nice reward to ourselves especially after a long day at work or a pleasurable something to end a week… and it’s also a good activity that husbands and wives can share and enjoy 
hi doc gelo, thank you so much for joining. i’m really excited to know who gets to win.
being lead to “something else” makes it a it’s a win-win situation for you. lol.
you’re so right, doc grace. it’s really a ‘win-win’ activity!
thanks for throwing in the contest. more power!
I want a free massage, too. I’ve never tried a massage here in UAE. Primary reason, it’s too expensive.
luxurious pleasures don’t come cheap, witsandnuts.
go go go! tina deserves a massage from you! ayeeee! hehe! those picture look inviting and tempting!
*those pictures pala hehe
every woman, moreso a wife should be treated like a queen at all times,(tina will LOL if she happens to read this) and that includes giving her all rights to papmering, right dyanie.
I hope you’ll find a maid soon. Mahirap nga talagang walang maid while both of you are working. Like us, we never had a maid lam mo naman sa US mahal ang maid then kahit dito sa Japan. Di ko nga alam how I still manage those tasks: household chores, cooking, washing clothes, maintaining my 2 blogs, facebook (farmtown, farmville, restaurant city, bejeweled, scramble hahaha ang dami) while my husband is just reading Pacland forum LOL. Hey, wag mo na wait yun panalo mo, just go to massage and spa na no afford mo naman yun and treat your wife hehehe. I think I need that one too, pero mahal dito pag uwi ko na lang ng Pinas.
for you to handle those multi-tasking activities, it only proves one thing, missy – that like my wife, you really are a ‘superwoman’!
I am maidless for many years now and I have adjusted accordingly. It’s true that it’s very hard to find a good maid.
I hope you win the contest so that Tina can enjoy what looks like a good place for massage. And indeed, mas masarap talaga pag libre.
glad to know that we’re on the same boat, dennis. but unlike you, we’re still on the adjustment phase of adapting to a life without a maid. we look at it as a blessing in disguise that we become more independent each day. and yes, everyone deserves a good relaxing massage after a whole day at home and at work.
Since we are childless, the idea of having a housemaid was never been rose. We love doing the household chores on weekends. Like my husband would do, the dishes and the laundry while I am assign to cook and press our clothes. We alternately clean the house and both us take turns in taking care of our pets.
at least opinions now of most pinoys about the concept of men doing household chores have changed. it’s now considered a part of the growing relationship between a wife and a husband and isn’t regarded as being ‘under -da-saya’ which is a narrow-minded view of the past. true that I, perhaps like your husband too, can do justice too in the kitchen and laundry areas especially in the absence of maids.
…gee, the topic of spa and free massage and having no maid at home has grown into a larger one.
thanks, january for sharing.
Good luck, docgelo. hope you’ll win. I’ve been to a few and it’s a heavenly feeling when those “knotted” muscles are relieved.
ms. nance! how’s winter in ny? there’s nothing better than a good massage after a long day. i can’t agree less.