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…
When was the last time you prayed for someone? When was the last time you interceded for others? After a week of Prayer and Fasting in the church, I realized that I needed to start interceding for others more. Not that I don’t but there is a burden in my heart to pray unceasingly not only […] Read more…
2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. James 1:2-4 NIV I saw a sticker of verse 4 of this chapter in […] Read more…
Every now and then, my husband and I would clean up and purge the rooms in the house. I thank God for pairing the two of us because he is Mr. Clean and Mr. Organizer while I am not! So after a day of de-cluttering and organizing, we have bags and boxes of things to […] Read more…
