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• Are You Feeding Your Family Sickly Chickens? Feed Them the Best!

  

  I live in Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines, and the neighboring towns are mostly farming communities that raise all sorts of crops and animals. Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2014 FAMILY, PARENTING, RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Great Finance Lesson from Plants Vs. Zombies...thanks to This Gem of a Book

  

  Learning how to manage your money is among the most important skills one should know. However, I strongly feel, and I think you’d agree with me, that Filipinos... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2014 FAMILY, PARENTING, RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Throwback Mother’s Day Tribute and Wonderful Gifts for Moms

  

  Thanks to my article on the amazing story of Joy tan-Chi Mendoza, I had a LOT of new people on my Facebook page and who followed me on Networked Blogs. Most of... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2014 FAMILY, PARENTING, RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Find Hope After Infidelity

  

  The Legal Wife. If you live in the Philippines, you'd know that the three words I just mentioned comprise the title of probably the country's most popular (or... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2014 FAMILY, PARENTING, RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• From Rape and Tragedy to Forgiveness and Victory: the Joy Tan-Chi Story

  

  I hope you all are having a great Holy Week / Lenten season.  As for me, it’s a staycation (staying home vacation) where I just simply rest—which I badly... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2014 FAMILY, PARENTING, RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• My Middle Child, Mesoo's Graduation

  

  A big congrats to my middle child, Monica Andrea (nicknamed Mesoo) for graduating from Elementary school. Now, I have two children as my students! How awesome... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• God's Design for Marriage

  

  February is always a very tough month to post blog posts, because it’s the 2nd to the last month of the school year here in the Philippines, and that means we’r... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2014 FAMILY, PARENTING, RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Are You Giving Your Family Good Milk? Find Out!

  

  Right below is an infographic from www.weedemandreap.com on the GOOD-BETTER-BEST principle when it comes to buying food. It is an excellent resource on how we... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2014 FAMILY, PARENTING, RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Heartfelt Student Testimony

  

  I'm currently enjoying one great perk of being a teacher: if there's no school, there's no work (well, reporting for work, anyway) and today, classes are... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 FAMILY, PARENTING, RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sleep Deprivation: It’s Hazardous to Your Health.

  

  As I am writing this, I am home on sick leave.  I see great wrong in this, because I take great lengths to keep myself healthy. Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2014 FAMILY, HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, PARENTING, RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Look Back at 2013 Through Facebook Status Messages

  

  Happy new year to all my readers out there!! Thank you once again for staying with me for another 365 days, and it has surely been quite a year. Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2014 FAMILY, PARENTING, RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• One of the Best High Schools in Developing Over-all Excellence in Our Teens.

  

  Sorry for not writing much (well, at all) lately.  Been very busy with work (I am a teacher by profession, in case you didn’t know) and had absolutely no time... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2013 FAMILY, PARENTING, RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• How You Can Help the Victims of Super Typhoon Yolanda / Haiyan

  

  Just in case you guys were worried about me, seeing all the news about how typhoon Yolanda (international name Haiyan) has devastated the Philippines and all, w... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2013 FAMILY, PARENTING, RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• 6 Great Items That Relatives Abroad Can Send Through Balikbayan Boxes

  

  If you are like most Pinoys who have relatives abroad, you likely receive a Balikbayan box full of goodies around the end of this year or the beginning of next... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2013 FAMILY, PARENTING, RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Hilarious Jaeger Names

  

  I noticed I haven't done a humor post in a long, long time.  So, here goes... Being the semester break, it’s natural that me and the fam would have movie... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• HIS GIRL Was Beautiful. Now It's Time for REAL MEN

  

  Several blog posts ago, I talked about a youth event called Becoming His Girl, hosted by Elevate CDO (click here for said post). Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• And the BEST Milk in Cagayan De Oro City Is…

  

  Right below is an infographic from www.weedemandreap.com on the GOOD-BETTER-BEST principle when it comes to buying food. It is an excellent resource on how we... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2013 FAMILY, PARENTING, RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Much Needed Take on the Miley Cyrus VMA Performance Debacle

  

  I decided to go online to take a break from checking my mountain of school papers (It's CDO's Fiesta.  Holiday?  What holiday?) and I came upon the beautiful,... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2013 FAMILY, PARENTING, RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Win Free Tickets to ParenTEEN with Mr. Francis Kong and Dr. Peter Tanchi

  

  There’s this joke that starting and running a business is WAY easier that parenting a teenager.  Well, my eldest child is at the tail end of her first year as... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2013 FAMILY, PARENTING, RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Parents of Teenagers Should Attend ParenTEEN

  

  In the school I work in, the high school students do journaling, where they write down their honest, candid thoughts for the day. Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2013 FAMILY, PARENTING, RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION