tales of the popular buntis

i am loud, talkative and i have many friends but i don’t think i was ever as popular as the time when i got pregnant. the round thing bulging in front of me, which made it hard for me to see my toes, made me an instant celebrity. it was late in 2006 when my [...]

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beach escape with kulot (+ some summer/beach tips)

some of you would probably say that this post is rather late for it is june already and summer is over. not quite! for my family and i who live in a vacation spot, summer is all year round! as long as the sun is shining right above our heads, nothing can stop us from [...]

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how to survive the horrors of bath time

bath time with mikkel means huge splashes of water on my face, wild screams that can be heard next town, banging of walls, throwing of shampoo bottles, drowning soaps into the pail, and the whole bathroom turned upside down, inside out. my overly energetic and mischievous curly top is just too fond of water to [...]

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how to distinguish toys with real educational value

how to distinguish toys with real educational value i must admit, a part of me secretly wishes for mikkel to become a prodigy. this is probably why, i give him all sorts of educational toys to make him smarter. he played with shape sorters, stackable rings, plush building blocks, and musical toys as an infant. [...]

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Protected: how to have a guilt-free time for yourself

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labor day: the great birthing experience

i was supposed to have my baby shower the day i gave birth to mikkel. who knew he’d pop out 13 days earlier? when i went to the clinic of my ob-gyne (who also happens to be my dear aunt/ninang) for my routine check-up, mike and i were still laughing about the names we thought [...]

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quirks of a big bellied woman (paglilihi)

i never really believed in things like “paglilihi” where a pregnant woman asks for incredulous things like a pineapple with no eyes or a smooth guyabano or a purple ponkan. i thought it was just a woman’s way of getting back at her husband for making her big and miserable. when i got pregnant in 2007–wait are [...]

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My other guy

http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20090526-207116/My_other_guy Youngblood By Wendi Peneyra-Garcia Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 01:29:00 05/26/2009 Filed Under: Family I really thought that my husband was the only man for me. But barely a year into our marriage, I met another guy and fell in love. And unlike with my hubby, there was no getting-to-know-each-other phase, no texting, no [...]

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struggling to learn the art of mommying

my first jump at mommy blogging. a little shaky, a little nervous.  kind of similar to the feeling i had when i first hopped on board to the journey of motherhood at the young age of 23 (of course, the degree of emotions i had back then cannot compare to this now). two years ago, [...]

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