I was stunned for a minute right there when I was posting away updates recently and this domain redirected to a parked site. With the company where I bought this domain from not sending me a notification via email, I kind of panicked for a while.   Read this article »

Just one of those random recollection whenever we watch videos we took of our son since he was a baby. This little guy of ours started talking at around 10 months. While other parents would thrill over their children uttering, “Mama” or “Papa,” for their first word, our son blabbered the word “car,” for his first word. No wonder, as he was pretty fixated on everything about cars, from the images from his soft picture books to the actual toys that he played with as he started to get mobile.

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photo taken right after our son’s Karate class

Our son is growing up so fast. Just recently, as I once again have to get some of his outgrown clothes sorted out of his closet, I found that there are only a few left that can actually fit him comfortably. We have long ceased shopping for clothes in the toddler section. Read this article »

When my husband and I decided that we will no longer continue giving our son synthetic vitamin supplements since he was around six months old, my son since has not tasted the regular multivitamins that are usually given to babies.

We decided to put him on natural diet. Organic brown rice, fruits, vegetables, meat. Now at 5 years old, he has the appetite of a grown up. He is not obese but he is bigger and taller for his age. Whenever we buy clothes for him, the only ones that will fit him are the ones from eight year old and up. He has never been sickly. For which we continually thank God for.

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…until he takes a wife, but a daughter is a daughter of the rest of your life.” I first heard this Irish saying, I think, from my mom, which I found very true, to a lot of people that I know, at least. There are always exceptions to the rule, as we know it.

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Our little homeschooler has been appealing to God whenever we pray for a little sister. Yes, he is very specific whenever he prays. My husband and I were stunned when he prayed aloud just when his papa was to close the prayer and he said,

“God, please give me a little sister. I pray that you will let mama get pregnant with a baby girl, not a boy, right away. I will take care of her.

Bless mama, bless papa, bless Kuya Jed, bless our family. Keep us away from robbers and thieves, from rocks, burning, flood and other accidents. We love you, we pray this, in Jesus name. Amen.”

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After having lost a lot of photos during typhoon Ondoy last year, we have come to treasure and properly label pictures that we were able to save, digital or otherwise. Last month, I showed my son the photobook I made and he was thrilled. We loved leafing through the pages, as digital as it is. I recently received a notice that the photobook is on its way here. Meanwhile, allow me to share with your a few pages of it.

the cover album

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After checking out a couple of malls, this is all we could get a hold of for last week’s children’s birthday party our son attended at Bubba Gump Restaurant in Makati. The theme was pirates.

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Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs writing project is now on its 4th year. The goal is to identify new and emerging blogs who are making an impact to its readers in 2010. Blogs that are qualified to be on the list are those that started anytime from March 1, 2009 to the present.

Here is my list of Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs for 2010:

1. Christian Homeschooler – an attempt to journal bits and pieces of our family’s homeschooling journey. I am a licensed teacher by profession but deviated to staying at home to be able to homeschool our 4 year old son (he’s 5 now) and work from home at the same time.

2. Gadgets and Tech – a blog where you can read about the latest on gadgets and just about every tech.  Yes, this is my husband’s tech blog and he recently just raffled off a Samsung mobile and a Power Mac GC worth P2, 000. We will be meeting up with the winner this weekend!

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As a homeschooling family, I admit to the benefits of the internet when it comes to finding good resources about homeschooling. But there are quite a number of sites that we should all be made aware of. Like Omegle.com, for instance. It is a chat site that encourages people of all ages (no restricition, there is even no need to register) to talk to strangers. The exact thing that we have been taught when we were little not to do and the very thing that we right now, as parents prohibit our children to do.

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