So many little people standing around looking busy in this Lego Construction Site.

Photo taken from a Lego exhibit at a mall. How I wish we have more of these Lego toys for my kids to play with.

Here is my blue and silver Hoopnotica Travel hula hoop, propped against the sliding windows.

The colors are not that clear since the photo was taken against the light source outside the windows. The size is ginormous!

At first I thought I won’t be able to use this since I don’t know how to hula hoop. Well, I did and I thoroughly enjoying hula hooping everyday.

I hope I won’t be needing the apidexin review yet that I bookmarked as I hula hoop my belly fat away *crossing my fingers*

I still can’t do the hooping skills featured in these Hoopnotica videos yet but I know I will get there if I strive harder.

We’ve been experiencing cool weather for several weeks and let me just say “I love the cool nights and even cooler mornings”. Sometimes it is so cold I think we even need socks to warm the feet while bathing. Am kidding of course.

Last week we got the children extra socks for warming the feet. Every time I go out I see people wearing arm and leg sleeves to ward off the cold. These will not exactly function like compression stockings though the appearance are almost the same.

What can parents do to protect their children from getting sick due to the cold weather? continue reading this entry »

One of the more important things to teach our children would be to learn to say “NO” to others.

Before they learn to say “No” to others however, it is important that they learn to accept it when others say “No” to them too. A refusal to do a request by them, especially if it is a difficult one, is one way of doing it. As parents, be prepared to explain why request is being refused. Another way would be to impose rules (like they can watch cartoons but choose only 2 shows a day to watch and anything in between those two shows are not included).

• Saying “NO” to others will teach our children how to discern the good from the bad.
• They learn to be decisive and be firm about what they believe is right.
• They learn to see who their real friends are because they said “NO”
• They learn to become assertive.

At first of course, they have to be taught how to say no and the different ways to say it: continue reading this entry »

Sometimes we complain too much about what the challenges and problems happening in our lives that we fail to see the good that make our lives blessed.

Just the other day I was thinking (AGAIN!) of ways how to get rid of belly fat when it dawned on me that when I had my blood pressure taken last week, I got good results, better than hubby’s slightly higher than normal results. Now that is something to be thankful for.

This morning I was not so keen on having to wake up at 4am everyday to prepare packed lunch for the kids who leave the house at 5:30am. Shortly after the school service arrived, I went online and saw this sad news: “Mom Jailed for Enrolling Kids in Wrong School District“. Oh no! That is a devastating piece of news.

Here I was grumbling and this mom is going through so much!

Her felony conviction will bar her from being licensed to teach in Ohio. Sigh…

Since I am not familiar with the laws where this happened, I just want to say that, as a mom, we moms only want the best for our children. If giving them better opportunities like better education, even if this means involving spare change to pitch in the expenses, we will do so because we believe that education is one of the best investments moms, or parents can give their everything.

Nowadays it is easy to do “research”. Students resort to just Googling their topic, copy the text they need, paste where they will use these text and print. Easy-peasy, yeah right? Nah…downright lazy, if you ask me.

Back in the day when students need to troop to the library if there’s no 24 volume encyclopedia at home to read, research is well, research. And writing means literally writing because there are only two options: handwritten output or typewritten ones (double spaced and with one inch margin on the sides).

At least we know then that what we are reading the real deal and not just written articles stated as “facts” when in fact these are not only misleading but wrong as well.

For example, water retention remedies yielded 466, 000 entries in Google. So for research, which is the best site to read? The first 20 entries?

What if some of these are not accurate? What if some of these are auto-blogging sites which the researcher cited but in fact, data originated from somewhere else?

What to do?

I told my eldest daughter, your teachers should require all of you to email your researches/reports so that she/he can check online if these have been copied and where.

It IS possible.

And yeah, while I’m at it, eldest daughter said they need to make a newspaper. And entries will have to be handwritten, LOL!