As promised, here's the second installment of our Weekend Series #2!

Do you know that there's a place where Christmas is celebrated the whole year? And i love it how cute and artsy every corner of this house is. The Ginger Bread House located at Alfonso, Cavite is a place where you can feed your senses with Christmas vibes all year round. The chilly weather of Tagaytay makes you want to embrace the coolness of December anytime of the year. The colorful surroundings is already a feast for the eyes. The smell of freshly baked breads will make you crave for some. And their delectable food served inside the Ginger Bread House itself is but a treat for the growling tummies!

Hello there! Welcome to another weekend which was long overdue! Hahaha! This new episode on my Youtube Channel was filmed last January 20, 2019 and my apologies for the late posting! As you all know, the first month of the year is always hectic with so many deadlines to meet and so many planning to do!

Glad i was able to slowly finish one at a time and so here i am again, writing in my online journal about our weekend wanders as a sort of entertainment while creating or documenting memories with my family.

Hola! I'm back with some good news. Well, good news for my avid followers (wow ha, parang ang dami!) and maybe bad news for my bashers (hello sa inyo! i know you're still watching and reading my v/blogs!). Well, If not for the both of them, my social media presence, ranking and monetizing would have not been possible, so I love and appreciate both! :)

This is just a quick post about the newest series on my Youtube Channel and of course this blog page, which (i hope) I will be able to update constantly. Maybe not weekly, but atleast once a month.

Hello there! HAPPY NEW YEAR! I hope everyone had their share of a happy, healthy and a prosperous new year! How did you celebrate the media noche?

Some days are simply meant for playing. Being a child once in my life, i can say that I'd never live a day or week without experiencing play. I have gathered the most wonderful and happiest throwbacks in my memory bank from playtime. And even if I'm already a mom- having three wonderful kids around, i still love the idea of play. Like the saying goes, "we do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing". And i couldn't agree more! I'm always a kid at heart, specially when i have the kids in tow.

Hola! I made a promise months ago that i will be sharing some tips and tricks about pregnancy and parenting. But due to my overloaded lists of to-do's and schedules, i wasn't able to do so. As of this writing, i am actually multi-tasking. Joggling between my deadlines for blog assignment contracts due today, while reading and studying some legal documents and memorandums due for signing in a week's time. PLUS, nursing a little baby boy who's getting so active and playful. No, I am not complaining, because busyness means abundant blessings for me and this is life. I am embracing it!

It's the time of the year again when bunnies will be out to scatter Easter eggs and lets you find where the golden one is. Still, i honestly do not know what's the connection between Easter eggs, the Lent and the Bunny. (Too busy to do some research about it, hahaha!) But i am in the look out for some fun activities for my kids this year to celebrate Easter Sunday!

It's been a while since we last joined an Easter egg-hunting activity and i thought of gathering here some awesome Easter egg hunting destinations or events which i have found around the area and South of Manila. You may want to check this out and decide where to bring your family to celebrate the Easter.

VISTA MALL STA. ROSA

When i got pregnant with my two older kids years back, i really didn't care much about trying different products which are deemed safe for pregnant women. In fact, never in my mind did i thought of changing the usual skin care products i use before i conceived. I really don't know why, but maybe because i was not that meticulous yet with product ingredients for the skin that might harm me and my baby. Plus the fact that i really didn't have much problems with hormones, except for pimples! I guess they are the most common either pregnant or not.

If there would be lessons that has made an impact in my life and somehow contributed to my core values today, those were learned during my childhood. Just like everyone else, we had experience childhood. Nobody will get to his or her age without becoming a child for once in this lifetime. I can't say that i had the perfect nonage, but neither do i had a worst one. I had a normal and pretty good share of childhood memories and experiences that i treasure a lot. And I've always been so grateful because i am blessed to have a solid family foundation- my parents who had instill good moral values when i was a child.

More than the values they've taught me, i am thankful for the life experiences that they allowed me to face, it has shaped my character and has taken me to places that i never thought i'd be. And now that i am a Mom, I'd like to pass on these values and life lessons i learned from my childhood to my offspring and to all the children and my co-parents as well.

One of my resolutions for the year is to read more and surf less. I've been putting this thing on my yearly resolution but i always fail. I'd like to believe that it's normal for the kind of work i have right now- taking reading out of the equation. However, reading has always been my favorite thing to do. I read because i love reading and i love books apart from the knowledgeable take aways i get from it. And when i don't read, it makes me feel dull and empty. While e-books are much more convenient nowadays, still, nothing beats the feeling of holding a real book, turning pages, and the smell of it. Bookworms can relate to this, yeah? 

Being confined with routines and all the same things can be boring & so, i'm always in the look out for new experiences that can lead me to new hobbies and enthusiasm. I have always wanted to try archery, apart from the very truth that i am an avid fan of Oliver Queen, the fictional hero on the TV series Green Arrow played by Stephen Amell plus i'm an inborn Sagittarian by zodiac. While my kids admire Katniss Everdeen too, from the movie Hunger Games, i thought that maybe, it's about time to unleash our potential in the archery department yesterday after a disappointing itinerary.

It's been a lovely day at Tagaytay weeks ago, despite the typhoon forecast that was expected to hit Luzon area in the afternoon of that Wednesday. I was able to brave the 1-hour drive via Talisay Road from Batangas, with views of the Taal Lake from the zigzag road going up. 

Together with amazing bloggers, media personnel and the organizers of Avida X Make It Blissful event, our day had been blissful indeed.

(If you are an avid reader of my blogs) I have mentioned before that my kids are not a fan of grand celebrations or fancy birthday parties. In fact, during my son's 7th birthday he opted not to have a big party but rather chose to travel to Legoland. Two years later, my daughter's 7th birthday just ring a bell and believe me, i was the one excited for a grand celebration! But guess what? It didn't happen. Because just like my son, my daughter doesn't want to have a big party neither. No matter how many times i tried to convince her with a glittering tiara, a Cinderella gown, and a dazzling 7th birthday party theme, she answers NO. So, all the magical moments in my head just popped. Boom! No party! All she ever wanted was to travel to Disneyland (wiser choice) and that's the best birthday gift ever (all kids says that!). Fast forward, wish granted! But of course, as a mom, i did not want to just let her special day pass by without preparing something special, but not grand. After all, every natal day deserves a thanksgiving and so i thought of throwing a DIY party for her. 

Just a month before the school year ends, some institutions just like my kids' school were up to something grand, like the yearly foundation week. Our school's founding anniversary this year seems to be very special with so many highlights as they were celebrating their 10th year in the academe. In line with this remarkable milestone, my daughter was chosen to be one of those students in their class who will join a group poem recitation. Nothing seems to be very special about her role, but as a mom, of course, i knew i should be proud.

The past week has brought a lot of trouble and anxiety for parents, not only in our municipality in Bauan but in the whole Southern Tagalog Region. The alarming news about child abductions and kidnapping with reference to four police reports about missing children was really disturbing. As a parent, I couldn’t help but worry about my kids who were at school the whole time and I’m sure a lot of parents are just the same. 

Let me just share to you my thoughts about these current issues that are affecting us today as moms. Apart from my busy day to day schedules, I’ve decided not to open my facebook newsfeed because I never want to bother myself all the more with all the posts that the netizens are spreading on the internet. I’m not saying, I don’t care about the situation, but there are more reliable sources that are worthy of my time and attention. 

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The past week has been a busy week for me working for MumsDailyPH and the kids too. Adjusting to their schedules and school works plus my maiden bentosiasm in preparing their everyday lunch boxes is quite a tough job! But i thank God i just made it through the week and survived some business works all done ahead of my time schedule. So i find the weekend a perfect day to drive all the way to Alabang to visit ExpoMom Goes South- a MommyMundo event that I'm sure everyone is always looking forward to! I've got a few things to buy on my list and the whole Sunday is just enough for us to squeeze everything before the sun sets. So here's the highlight of our weekend!

Heading back to school signals a time of transition. For parents it could be the start of a midyear roller coaster because of the added routinary schedules of our day to day lives. But more than our own personal grief on transitions, the adjustment is actually most difficult for our kids. After a long summer vacation, getting your kids into the mood for studies can be an uphill battle. Their enthusiasm may be low or non-existent at all. But it shouldn't be something to be worried about, it's normal. 

"The righteous choose their friends carefully, but the way of the wicked leads them astray."

Proverbs 12:26

When it comes to friends, I am the CHOOSY one. And maybe at this age i can call myself one lucky girl who managed to win some friends. Friends that i can call my sisters at heart. Some have been there for decades, some were still in the getting-to-know-each-other level but we hang around like we've known each other since birth. And just like anybody else, I also got friends who laughs with me and admires me face to face like genuine people, and all of the sudden they'll change or should i say, it's not the person who changed, but it's the mask that falls off. Sometimes, i wanted to believe in the saying that "Life is a masquerade, everywhere you look are people hiding behind masks." As usual, friends come and go but i really feel blessed to be surrounded by a few but amazing friends in my life whom i know will be there for me and will accept me and love me in any circumstances.