From Dawn Till Dusk

I was jumping in joy at one night Nico drank his glass of milk straight without any sign of resistance.  I thought I can already say: Thank goodness, finally! Not too fast. I think I spoke too soon.  That was just one of those very rare days the Little Boy does that.

He simply is testing my patience, making the drinking of milk from a glass an ordeal.  Hay, susme! My acne breakouts are increasing by the day just convincing him to drink from a glass. And I told myself, this can’t be happening forever, or I’ll give up.  I was kinda desperate and even considered getting back to the bottle. What silly idea! But that’s because I’ve tried anything and every trick there is to make the drinking session a little harmonious but I haven’t had any luck yet.  Until one fine weekend, my Little Boy was watching his fave shows on Nick, I saw this advertisement where it was shown the kids are enjoying their milk with the use of a special straw—the Sippah straw, the fun way to drink milk!

I stored in mind what it looked like and promised myself I’ll go look for it when we do the groceries.  And I was successful in finding the product. It was located in the racks near the growing milk products. To my excitement, I didn’t looked at the nutritional facts, and gave it a go.  I bought a couple of boxes, (the chocolate flavored one) and immediately by the minute we’re home, I tried it with Nico.  And the result: Continue Reading »

Foreword: I have been longing to publish this a long time ago, but didn’t have enough of courage to do so. This post has been sitting in my drafts for a month or two, I think. But each day that I revise, the more I become hesitant. I thought that it’s best that I blog about this later. “Saka na lang when Nico’s really well”, that’s what I thought. But a very recent post of Noemi about her daughter M moved me so much that finally, I decided that this post has to make it in my Blog really soon. Thus, this post.

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Once upon a time the life of a Mom, you dream for your child. Perhaps any Mom out there would agree with me in saying that the moment we conceive our children, we started hoping and dreaming for them—that they’ll grew up into being someone we envision them to be.

But how does a Mother continue to dream for her child when she is faced with a daunting dilemma? A tight spot, an impasse, a worst fear that you knew is coming all along, but caught you still unprepared when reality hits you at a time expected. And when this happens, how do you cope? Me, I stopped dreaming. But only for a while… Continue Reading »

I was originally searching for St. Martin villa rentals, when clicks of the mouse led me to a very thought-provoking article by by Brenda-Marie Hoffman. I so agree with everything she said. Parents definitely have a direct effect on the esteem of children who look to parents for their self-confidence development. And there are certain things which they should never hear us tell them! Here’s why…

All of us know that children are quite impressionable. For this reason, they are in need of a certain amount of praise and appreciation from us so that they can grow into emotionally healthy adults.

When your child makes a B+ on their homework, do you find yourself asking them, “Why didn’t you make an A?” While some of us may find ourselves making this mistake, I hope that we truly realize that it is a mistake. I am sure that we would much rather see an A, but we must never fail to realize what a great job the B+ truly is! We must also tell our children just how great a job that B+ is. We might even go so far as to display our child’s accomplishment by hanging it upon the refrigerator just to show them how very proud we are of them.

If we take the other stance, choosing to punish or look down upon our child for not having received an A instead of a B+ this may cause the child to starting thinking poorly of themselves. This may cause feelings such as, “I am not too smart.” Or the child may even begin to think, “I am just not good enough to make a higher grade.” Once either of these statements enters into a child’s mind, their quest for knowledge will become stale which will lead them to no longer care what grade they make in school.

This is just one small example of how our words can do either a lot of good, or a lot of damage. It is our choice how we choose to use our words. Will we choose to use our words to build our children up? Or will we use them to tear our children down?

Since we as parents truly want our children to be happy and to have a positive self-image, then we really must stop to monitor every word that comes out of our mouth when we are talking to our children. Specifically, there are five key phrases that we must never say unto our children. Continue Reading »

Nico’s been experiencing an on-and-off fever since Saturday and for fear it might be dengue, off we went yesterday afternoon to the nearest hospital in our area for a complete blood and platelet count. We had the results interpreted by the doctor early this morning, and thankfully, the values were within the normal ranges and no cause for alarm. That would however be, as of now.

As it is known, this dreaded disease that often is prevalent during the rainy season is a waiting game.  The progression of dengue occurs after 3-5 days of fever and the time when the fever has often come down, this may mislead many to believe that the patient is heading towards recovery. This is the most dangerous period that requires high vigilance, which is why, we’ll have another round of blood tests tomorrow to find out if the values had change and if these are significant to conclude it’s really dengue.

We’re keeping our fingers crossed that the results tomorrow will be insignificant and that it’s just nothing but a plain viral infection that would wore out of Nico’s body on its own soon. It doesn’t help that Nico’s still in his kulit self the whole day, only to be more worried later in the afternoon when his temperature rises to 39 to 40. Continue Reading »

Mitch and Rach passed on me here and here this very hilarious comic tag—Mom’s real spa treats.

Eyebrow Threading :: Microdermabrasion

Aromatherapy :: Body Wrap Continue Reading »

We’ve prepared and dressed up 15 minutes early today before the school bus arrives.  And so for the lack of anything to do, my Little Boy posed for the camera and did his some of his pa cute and pa pogi antics.  Great way to keep him occupied, though at the latter part, he somewhat became a little impatient and asked of the bus’ whereabouts.

Mommy, ayos ba shades ko? Continue Reading »

Weng, my one hot and sexy Momma friend (yes Weng, from now on, this description of yours will stick with me after seeing your preggy photos, so daring!) from Austin tagged me here to post a photo of me during my pregnancy days and yay, was I hesitant.

First off, I think I don’t have anything decent to share. And second, I have that one and only photo, but it’s kinda blurry. No thanks to my quite high-risk pregnancy back then (just imagine, the Hubby turned into an instant nurse at that time, giving the meds and supplements to me intravenously for so many months, ugh!) documenting everything textually and pictorially weren’t done accordingly. Good thing, we accidentally passed by a Kodak Photo Center one time Hubby and I were at a Mall just for a quick run for some errands. Well, Hubby had his passport size IDs taken at the photo studio and the photographer insisted to take a photo of us together and that was the story of my one and only preggy photo: Continue Reading »

I’ve already mentioned in a recent post that going out with my Mommy friends is one of my simplest pleasures in life.   Well, I’ve had one again last Friday night. In the company of Cookie, Cess, Chats, Lynn, Teacher Julie, and Wenchie. And true enough, it was once again one of those greatest times.

After squeezing in a little shopping on the side (shopaholic tandem Cookie and Chats got themselves new pairs of ballet shoes), we spent the time chitchatting (of course, swapping stories about our kids topped the list!) and talking just about anything that our talkative and bratatatatat Mommy tongues led us to. On top of that, we’re also eating, taking photos of the great food at Burgoo (our second time there, BTW) and each other. Heehee, that’s just how multitasking-inclined Moms are. You know. Continue Reading »