It has been a while, two months to be exact, since the last post was published on this page. I apologize for my laziness. My life has been filled with so much professional and personal responsibilities, most of which are self inflicted, so I had to take a back step …
I have never read this version of “The Gingerbread Man” by Jim Aylesworth until last April 21 during the Summer Saturday Storytime session at the Children’s Corner of the Cebu City Public Library (CCPL). Aylesworth’s take on the classic story is a rhythmic masterpiece that is best enjoyed by children …
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 …
Ang Pambihirang Sombrero (The Amazing Hat) is my recent favorite storybook from writer-illustrator Jose Miguel “Jomike” Tejido’s creative endeavors. I was hooked to “Dindo Pundido” when the twins were barely a year old. Ang Pambihirang Sombrero tells the story of a girl named Mia, who loves old things. One day, …
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 …
Handwashing is a family culture at Casa Ruffolo — and it is largely because of Jeff who emphasized to the children the need to have clean hands. Nicholas and Antoinette wash their hands before and after eating, after using the toilet and after every playtime or activity they participate in.
I had second thoughts about reading Eric Carle’s Papa Please Get the Moon for Me to my children. The story is about a girl named Monica who wants to play with moon so she went ahead and asked Papa what she wanted. Papa did everything in his power to give the moon …
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 …
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 …
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.
