Devoting Time to My Children

Since I’ve resigned from my work almost a month ago I’ve devoted my time to my family especially attending to my kids’ school activities. Lucky that the time I was permitted by my boss with my resignation the activities in my daughters’ school began to multiply. Now it’s occupying most of my time that sometimes my online work gets noticed and done at night. I was happy with my life’s pattern now and can honestly say giving not only quality time to my kids but quantity as well. School time gets the most time of my kids so I visit them on lunch breaks every other day to assist them in any way I can. As this is the first periodical period in primary school they have plenty of projects to finish and parents should help them in some projects that need online research.

I can see that Gen and Ruth became more dedicated in their academic and extra curricular activities owing to the fact that I’m always there for them whatever and whenever. I’ve always been this way but hours spent in my office works deprived me from other assistance they need. Now they know I’m just working at home and they feel confident that I’m only a phone call away just in case they need something. Children love being pampered most of the times. They also liked it when parents provide them with all the things they need.

Actually it’s also a privilege to us parents to provide them with school supplies, shoes, bags and everything they need. Sometimes if we can’t do the shopping outside because of busy schedule we can do our shopping online. There are online stores like doittennis.com who can provide busy moms with kids’ essentials like School Backpacks and other items for our dearest children. Shopping there can save you time and effort compared to shopping in malls. I’ve checked the site and found that there are many available styles and designs to fit my children’s requirements with brands that spell durability and quality.

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:Thursday Challenge - Rare

Rare Coins

My entry for this week's theme are some of my collection of old coins which for me are rare these days as these coins were replaced by many generation of silver coins. These coins were made in early '70s and my collection dates from 1972 to 1974. These coins are very different with the latest coins as it has money value. I've learned from one of my former office mate that in their place these coins were bought at P600 and up. Actually they sell some of their collections. When I was still in primary and secondary schooling it's my hobby to collect stamps and old coins. These One-Peso coins are my favorites as it has a deep engraved face of Jose Rizal's, Philippine National Hero. You can gauge from the picture that it's really rare, just see how old it is.

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New Eyeglasses For Me

I just happen to notice that my eyeglasses has served me for more than a year now and though it’s still in the best form as when I’ve bought it I’ve been wanting to have a new one. I’ve been wearing glasses since I was in college and I’ve gone through many styles and fashion of eyeglasses. My first set of eyeglasses was a big-framed one because that’s the fashion way back some years ago but now the fashion statement for eyeglasses seems so varied as you can wear a big-frame, small frame, semi-frame or frameless style and not be left out by the latest trend. It’s more flexible now than in the past several years so you can pick your preferred style without worrying that you’re out of the latest trend.

I’ve been browsing a lot online these days for my own personal things and I’ve included searching for design of my new eyeglasses. I’ve found GlassesShop.com which enables me to have virtual try-on on different shapes of face and various frame style to choose from. I must admit I enjoyed searching on Wide Selection of Eyeglasses from the site and using virtual try-on to see which styles suits my face shape. It’s really exciting to see how it fits the models. It helped me in choosing the best style for me. I know that glasses will really look good on the models because they’re beautiful but the idea of picking the same shape of face is very helpful in choosing the best eyeglasses for me. I’m also glad to know of their return and refund policies which make your purchase risk free. See what I’ve got here, I’ve posted one of their eyeglasses.

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We Think We Know The Ones We Love

Carry On Tuesday #13

The prompt this week is the opening sentence from
The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer

We think we know

the ones we love.

Use all or part of it at the start or somewhere
within your poem or prose.

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Here's my self-made Poem

We think we know
the ones we love
Like the simple gestures
of sweet nothings
The simple warm look
of caring and loving
The simple acceptance
of partner’s imperfections
Like knowing when
to give your understanding
To the one you love.

I think I really know my love
Come what may I’ll still love him.

I think it's not what you think or what you know about your loved ones, we should really accept them as they are even if we discovered that they're not the perfect human that we think they are, it's part of the thing called 'love', Love is acceptance and understanding. Remember God love us even if we're not perfect!

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I Love Personalized Flash Drives

I’ve always been dependent on storage devices for my office works and online jobs. It makes my jobs easier because I can carry multiple images and files wherever I go. As I’m a blogger sometimes I go to different places and if I have some due dates on my assignment I’m confident enough that I have my files and pictures with me. It makes my life convenient and my job easier as I sometimes hop from one computer to another whenever the need arises. I was happy that my friends gave me flash drives as their souvenir gift for me when they went abroad for business conferences. They know that I love gadgets and tech accessories not at all feminine though.

Because I really need multiple files and pictures for my writing jobs I wanted more than two flash drives and I also want to give my kids their own flash drives for their school projects. I was actually looking for Personalized flash drive which was given to me last holiday by one of our telco providers as their Christmas gift to me. It was a nice remembrance as the name of the company was etched in the flash drive. I have a friend there also and I know she picked that gift for me. Now I’ve found online that you can have personalized flash drive with variety of choices on the color and material. I felt very excited browsing different designs, style and color of flash drives and I particularly liked the one encapsulated in leather. It’s elegant and very beautiful.

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Inter-School Journalism Competition

Early in the morning both my daughters joined the team that will compete in an inter-school Journalism contest, it actually started yesterday but the real competition is only today. I didn’t go with them as it’s a whole day affair and Josh will be alone with my Mom the whole day and he needs to review for his last day of examination tomorrow. Anyway I taught my kids on the basic of writing a good post with some relevance to journalism.

Ruth just joined the Filipino journalism club last Saturday and she was picked to join the group yesterday. Actually I just learned it in the afternoon when I visited their school. They had a late notification that Filipino journalism will be competed together with English. I can feel the rush preparation of school teachers assigned to head and manage the team. It’s hard to work like that especially if you’re dealing with kids. The other English journalism competition is a little bit prepared as Gen has been joining journalism classes for one month now on a twice in a week schedule. Hope the school will meet a good competition and bring home awards or ranks at the least. Good luck to the whole team!

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Outer Banks Rental

Wow I never thought that being a Mom can be so busy that it surpassed my work when I’m still in the office. Yes I’m just referring on my kids’ school activities which are taking so much of my time. I’m happy that I can assist and concentrate on them now. They have so many activities including that inter-school academic competition which sometimes need to give some time dedication. I even went with Gen last Friday on Math Camp and I had a great time with few friends there, also the parents of Gen’s classmates. It’s a different feeling that I felt last Friday, I somehow thanked that I’ve already resigned from my office job or else my kids wouldn’t be so active now. I felt that they gained strength from knowing that I’m always there for them whenever and wherever unlike when I was working away from home that my time is only limited.

As their periodicals is also approaching fast we really have a very hectic schedule and I’m longing for next week when I can rest from too much school activities and concentrate for awhile on writing inspirational posts on my sites. I’m also hoping for some nice and relaxing vacation on a place by the beach like what I saw on Outer Banks rentals vacation packages. It really excites me seeing those accommodations they have which provides a nice vacation rental where you can enjoy the beach, savor the convenience of a rental homes and cottages that will make you relaxed and comfortable while enjoying the beautiful scenic view of dunes and ocean. What a lovely thought!

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Meeting on Induction of Officers

We had a meeting in my kids’ school where all PTA officers from all grade level and sections were invited. We held it in the school library to have a quiet atmosphere, as always attendance is only 50% of the expected attendees. The meeting is for the upcoming induction of officers on Friday where high officials will officiate. This is the first induction that will be attended by both our town mayor and provincial governor so we’re preparing (even if a little rush) some programs and food for the occasion. We were promised by the mayor’s staff that we’ll have official clothes for the occasion but due to some delay we’ll prepare our own designated clothes, we were again given an orange color for our level.

After an hour or two of discussing the program layout and food each grade level shouldered different food, we’ll cook chicken hamonado for 200 plus people and we’ll discuss the meeting and agenda with some of our co-officers in other sections of our 5th grade level. We’ll finalize our assigned food on Wednesday as we’ll wait for the other officers. As it’s about kids’ departure time I waited for them. They’re in the district school where they had journalism competition, together with some of their classmates (around 6 per subject) Gen will compete for English journalism and Ruth for Filipino journalism.

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Best for Your Skin

As I’m working at home now I don’t have much exposure to direct sunlight except for the times that I’m going to school to check on my kids’ activities. When I was working in the office with nine to six working schedule I was always exposed to sunlight and that gives my skin a rather dry look. I’m blessed with a skin that’s not prone to pimples but not with sunlight because we all know the earth’s ozone layer was heavily damaged making the UV rays of sun very dangerous to skin.

Too much exposure to sun can gives us wrinkles that can make us look older than our real age that’s why we should be careful with our skin and better yet we should use the best wrinkle cream perfect and suited to our skin. I’m glad that my godmother gave me her best moisturizer cream which she brought along when she went home from NJ, it makes my skin soft and supple. Actually it’s originally for my Mom because it’s also an anti-aging cream but she later gave it to me and my sister when Mom didn’t want to use it, lucky for us!

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:Photohunt 173 : Low (Grounds)

Well as I'm thinking early this day what will I post for the photohunt theme I came across my friend Win's picture of their domestic flight to Aklan. He actually gave me this picture because he took the picture for my collections lol! He's also learning photography like me.

So now this is my entry because the plane is on the LOW grounds before it will go up on high grounds, see my picture is just right for the theme! Anyway I really liked the shot from where Win stand because it captured the beautiful sky above with white and gray clouds, perfect background for the plane.

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