I end the month-long celebration of Moms with the last post for the series What My Mom Taught Me. For this last one, I decided to put together all the responses of the women who shared with me the important value or character trait their own mothers passed on to them. My mom showed me […] Read more…
This is the third of a series of posts that celebrates our Moms for the month of May. As a mom, I am hoping that we pass on the values taught to us by our own mothers to our children. I am hoping too that the younger generation will embrace these values despite the influences of friends, […] Read more…
When we mention the word, Mom, what’s the first character trait that comes to mind? Sacrifice. Sacrificial love. Selflessness. Moms are some of the most selfless people in the world. No matter the status of your relationship with your Mom, you would surely agree that at some point in your life, she has made sacrifices for […] Read more…
May, the month of blooms, of flowers. My favorite month after December. It was also the month my husband and I decided, 14 years ago, to make our commitment official. It was Mother’s Day when we committed to each other in front of our respective Moms. It’s also the month we celebrate our mothers. I […] Read more…
My family has been so eager to go on road trips and vacations but because of limiting factors we were not able to do that. After waiting on the Lord for many years, we finally drove ourselves to the nearby Southern Tagalog provinces of Cavite and Batangas. Our son, who recently had a field trip/team […] Read more…
After one school year, our eldest child, Jacob, completed seventh grade in a transition school. He was homeschooled for six years together with his younger sister. Too many times I wanted to give up on home education for varied reasons. Ask any homeschooler and they will all say, it’s not an easy journey but it was […] Read more…
My daughter and I became instant fans of Shy Shelly, a children’s ebook released last year by OMF Literature. It’s a story of middle-schooler named Shelly Trudy who keeps to herself most of the time, creates paper stars and plays with her pet turtle, Huey Louie. She longs to have a friend but she is just […] Read more…
Do you love reading? Not magazines or celebrity news, but the kind of reading that allows you to sit down for hours in a corner somewhere and burrow your nose in a good book. If you think reading is not for you then I challenge you to continue reading (pun) this post and you might […] Read more…
It’s Valentines on Sunday and I had no intention of writing a love-themed post…Until our 9-year-old daughter asked me to take a photo of the bracelets she created. What do these bracelets had to do with Valentines? Let me explain… Her Papa taught her how to braid using three different colored yarns. She tried and eventually […] Read more…
I’ve considered deactivating my Facebook account for 101 reasons …but I will not bore you with all of them 🙂 While contemplating on this step, I decided to create a temporary account that would manage both my blog and business page on Facebook. I only added three people, my 2 kids and my husband to […] Read more…
