Dad Speak: Six magic keywords
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.
Category: Raves & Rants
Things, issues, and happenings I rave and rant about.
The birth of Cebu Nanays for Nanays
I was happily doing the weekly Toddler Storytime sessions at the Children’s Corner of the Cebu City Public Library when an idea crossed my mind. What if I start out a community of caring mothers happily learning from each other?
How to be a Super Wise Mom these Tight Times
I was invited by Shopwise last June 2 to give a short talk to mothers about being a wise grocery shoppers. I had so much fun putting this presentation together and sneaked a little bit of storytelling that I cannot help but share the slides with my insights through this …
Masters and Massage
I am a nervous wreck. April 23. Two days before I will officially present my thesis proposal to a panel of UP professors in Los Baños, Laguna. I often appear collected and prepared on the surface but my insides is made of drums and cymbals making incessant noise of worry …
5 ways to stay sane in the midst of Mommy challenges
Staying sane on top of this motherhood job is near impossible. It does not come easy for single moms, stay-at-home moms, work-from-home moms and working moms. We all have our individual challenges and issues but it is up to us to do something about them. I’ve been a stay-at-home Mama …
Teacher Power
It’s been almost two years since I finished a graduate degree in Language and Literacy Education at the University of the Philippines Open University. I decided to take the course a few months after the twins were born. I was focused on being my children’s first teacher that I abandoned …
Toddler Storytime
So I finally worked up the courage and the time to implement, Toddler Storytime, a project I have long planned but failed to put into fruition. It came with the guilty feeling of spending two months and eight days of being totally silent in this blog with no post or …
Christmas Footnotes
I woke up with the realization that we are on the last week of January and I have not written about Christmas in this blog. So pardon the obvious lateness of this post as I share with you how our multi-cultural family celebrated Christmas.
A little unwell: A comeback rant on sick kids, stray cats and 24-hour shifts
Just when I thought that all the 2018 opening salvo drama is over, after an honest driver returned Jeff’s black bag fiasco, here comes hand-foot-and-mouth (HFM) disease. It started three days ago with a feverish Jeff Junior. Ate Joy told me that the resident cutie pie is sick and we …
Bedspacers
Jeff left home for another business trip in China and suddenly the bed is empty. Literally, empty. So I invited the kids to sleep in our room, a gesture only accorded to Jeff Junior when Daddy is around because he is smaller in size than the twins, which allows him …