I pride myself for living a suburban life in the outskirts of Liloan town, which is located an hour (or two/three depending on the traffic situation) from Cebu City. But on occasions when I do take my children to the ciudad (city), which now often falls on a weekend because they are regular school children, I make sure to take them to Ayala Center Cebu.
It’s a no brainer.Continue reading“3 Reasons to Join Ayala Center Cebu’s KIDDO Club”
I really need to write this.
There are storybooks that are so delicious to read to a group of children; and there are those that are just better read to a child.
You see the difference?
Reading to a big group of children — “big” being a relative word — entails careful selection of a story in which the text are not long and verbose. The story needs to be entertaining with the pace fast enough to render the children excited, but slow enough to entice them to listen. Continue reading“Recommended Read – Anita: The Duckling Diva”
Look at that.
They grow up too fast.
I took the photo above at 2:02 p.m. last Saturday (October 6). There was no electricity in our neighborhood, Jeff was out to replenish our food supply and the children and I were playing Bingo to while away the time.
Dear Jeffrey,
I am writing another love letter after a long time to tell you that I was patient today to actually not mind my running nose while thinking about what to say to you on your special day.Continue reading“Happy Birthday, Jeffrey!”
We passed by the children, in their white and blue checkered uniforms, on our way to the gymnasium of Barangay Taptap for “Food+Stories+Books,” a three-in-one event which marks the second initiative of Cebu Nanays for Nanays since its inception just last May 2018.
Inside the Golden Prince Hotel van was Mrs. Louella “Tita Loy” Alix; Basadours Doreen Sy Maloloy-on, John Espinoza, Jennie Elloran and Jo Belle Marabiles; my daughter Antoinette and myself.
Continue reading“Food+Stories+Books: The Monday that was in Barangay Taptap”
Too many nights we have read “Goodnight Moon” and “Where the Wild Things Are” and it gets pretty boring.
I have been reading these books to my children since they were inside my belly and have practically memorized them and can recite the texts in my sleep.Continue reading“Book Reco/Review: Wow! Said the Owl (by Tim Hopgood)”
I had a list of activities lined up for the twins’s fifth birthday and one of it was an overnight stay in Tabuelan, a municipality located 103 kilometers from Cebu City, which boasts of white sand beach and laidback vibe. The goal was to spend P6,000 for the Tabuelan trip for a family of three adults and three children.
We stayed at the Golden Prince Hotel and Suites on the day of their birthday and then left for Tabuelan on a Monday to avoid the weekend crowd. I picked Tabuelan because I have always wanted to go there but have never found the time to go there.Continue reading“How we spent Php 6,000 on a family trip to Tabuelan”
We found something special in Cebu. It’s the Golden Prince Hotel, located on Acacia Street – at the corner of Archbishop Reyes Avenue – and is completely unlike other properties who boost of this and that amenity to entice you to stay; perhaps it is free Wi-Fi, or your kids …
Managing a multi-lingual household means reading books in different languages. Storybooks in the Binisayang Sugbuanon language are mainstays in our bookshelves at home. One of my favorites is the big book version of “Ikaw Ba Ang Akong Inahan?” This is the Binisayang Sugbuanon version of “Kayo Ba Ang Nanay Ko?” that is written by …
If you were to able to score your child – how would you measure their development and growth? Here at our home, we do so by constantly guiding our three little children in the art of etiquette and manners.
