Have you ever found yourself stuck in front of your computer looking for the perfect gift for someone special? I’ve had experienced it for so many times. Why? Because most of the shops I go to either doesn’t have the items I want or that the gifts I wanted to buy are being sold abroad. Sometimes I am tempted to ask my relatives abroad to just buy something similar for us, and ship them with their “balikbayan” boxes. The sad thing about it since I am only asking for a favor, I have to wait for them to ship their...
Do you know that February has been declared by the Office of the President as the Philippine Heart Month since 1973? We are very glad to know that because our heart is one of the most important yet most fragile part of our body. Heart attack has been one of the most prevalent diseases in our country even though most of our population belongs to the poor bracket. I’ve also read many cases of heart diseases in young people. I believe this is because we don’t care much of our hearts. Yes, we are affectionate and caring, but physically,...
I’ve been working at home for almost a decade and because of that, watching noon time shows is sometimes inevitable for me. Hindi maiwasan kasi while we eat lunch, we turn on the tv and watch what’s in there. Don’t take me wrong, the current noontime shows can be entertaining most of the times. We laugh at Jose Manalo’s jokes and sometimes, when we switch to ABS CBN, ok na din minsan ang mga jokes ni Vice Ganda. After all the jokes and the thousands of commercials in between the segments, I thought, what do these...
Absent ba lagi ang anak nyo sa school? Try giving them a serving of pineapple a day. Yes, actually, a clinical study was held recently to check the effects of canned pineapples as immunity booster. For 9 weeks, a group of 98 students from Paco, Manila were chosen to participate in a case study where a number of them were not given any canned pineapples and compared them to the rest who were given Del Monte Pineapple tidbits. After the test, those students who ate pineapples showed increased resistance to disease and infection. Good news...
Thank you Joy, my mommy-blogger friend who owns the beautiful blog Joybites.com, for nominating me for the “Give One, Get One” Blogger Award Contest. Joy is my idol when it comes to her figure. She doesn’t look like she has four kids already! She also lifts weights, cooks and bakes delicious recipes, take photos which are all magazine-worthy, and many more things that I can’t do. She inspires me as a mom, a blogger and a friend. To answer Joy’s question on what makes me a passionate blogger, I have actually three: 1....
Attending Brotzeit Kinder Koche kiddie baking class was definitely one of the highlights of our summer vacation. It was our first time to attend a workshop like this where me and my kids had a great time learning how to bake. I’m a frustrated baker myself and even if I had planned a thousand times on enrolling to a baking school just to learn basic baking skills, I still wasn’t able to do so. So this workshop is a win-win for the whole family. Kinder Koche (German for little chef) is brought by Brotzeit Philippines, a restaurant...
When I was younger, I’ve always thought that fruit salad is the only kind of salad in the world. I always look forward to Christmas because of fruit salads. When I became a mom and you are given the task of preparing something different for your family at least monthly, I think I’ve seen a hundred different kinds of salad already. But of course, being a work at home mom, I often look for 5-ingredient max recipes or else, I’ll take the recipe as complicated and discard it right away. To cut it short, I’m sharing...
Summer break of the kids won’t mean that work at home moms like me will also be taking vacation. We still have to work for a living like everybody else working in offices. Summer vacations can be less stressful because there will be less task in preparing the kids for school, hubby doesn’t have to wake up early to prep the car and bring the kids to school, plus we have a break in reviewing lessons. The dilemma comes over the days when we have to work and my grown up kids are all free and they have to stay at home. So I’ve...
