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With winter settling in across the United States, many parents will be thinking of how to best keep their children’s bedroom a comfortable temperature throughout the night. Children, and especially babies, are sensitive to temperature changes. Luckily, there are many ways to keep your children comfortable at night that don’t involve making the rest of the household too warm to sleep. Use Electric Blankets Image via Flickr by Bonsoni.com Electric blankets are blankets that plug into an electric outlet and can adjust to create...

Who doesn’t want a cleaner home with less effort? Do you want to spend your precious free time cleaning your home instead of enjoying it? Investing in any of these products will help you make the most of your free time. Robotic Vacuums Image via Flickr by Eirik Newth Don’t have a robotic vacuum yet? Still following your kids with a dust-buster, or pushing your heavy vacuum around behind your pet?  If you want a robotic vacuum that does it all, the iRobot Roomba i7+ is WiFi-connected and features automatic dirt disposal. It...

There’s good news if you want to help protect the environment and save money at the same time. Many home energy conservation ideas can trim your utility and shopping bills. Replace incandescent lighting with energy-efficient LED light bulbs. Incandescent bulbs release 90 percent of their energy as heat, which makes them burn out and waste energy. LEDs last longer than traditional bulbs so you’ll spend less money replacing them. You can recycle LEDs too, which means you’ll contribute less waste to local landfills. Using...

Moms like me are well aware how much better in terms of everything (price, quality, quantity and nutrition) freshly home cooked food are than processed food. But we are also aware that  most ingredients for our “lutong-bahay” can be best bought in fresh/wet markets. This is a great problem for most of us who, for lack of the terms to use, “doesn’t have too much time” to actually go to a wet market to buy ingredients. Like in my case, as a working mom who works two full-time shifts in a day, it will already...

Ever since we got married, my husband and I opt to surround ourselves with at least several potted plants where we live. We just need to have plants to surround us and luckily, my husband has a green thumb and he is diligent enough to take care of our plants. We’ve always believed that plants give us something more than oxygen. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul. — Alfred Austin Just recently, I was invited to the top-off ceremony of the third building of Larossa. Larossa is the premiere project of Primehomes,...

Feeling anxious, envious, sad and lonely are all routinary and part of my daily life. Don’t think that it’s only you. Everyone of us, even the happiest and most successful woman in the world experience this. Don’t think that it’s sour graping at the same time. Nobody has a perfect life. Even that sexiest mom I’ve just seen in Facebook, who had just been in a cruise with her rich husband, and very pretty children, must have felt empty in some days. We all struggle and we all feel that somehow, we lack here...

I’ve never seen such a generous campaign when it comes to health and wellness products other than Robinsons Supermarket. In fact, this August, it’s already in its 4th leg of its year-long Route To Wellness journey with its loyal shoppers. I’m so happy to be able to join its August Celebrate Wellness caravan in Eastwood City last weekend. Despite the humid weather, the event was exciting as the tent was filled of booths containing discounted products from Robinsons Supermarket brand partners. It was a great day to shop...