My girls and I are allergic to nuts. In fact we are allergic to so many ingredients that its hard to eat out. We tend to stick to the restaurants we like in town and avoid most of those darn dishes with ingredients I am not familiar with. Mahal magkasakit, err, bawal magkasakit. Our medical bills escalated a few months ago because of the funky weather here and I blame it all to climate change and Nutella.  Nutella, that delicious hazelnut...

Its definitely summer.  Its scorching hot in Northern Mindanao and boy we are parch every 20 minutes. Coke, coke, we want coke!  With ice to the brim! The school year is over and the children are all around the house and I wonder how I can get to finish all my work this time around.  So here are some of the things that I need to do before the week ends: 1- Plan and create activities for the children everyday. 2- Look for paid activities...

I have just received news that the mother of my friend Melba has just passed away.  I sincerely know how she feels right now.  This news brings back memories when my own mother died two years ago. Not only that, this reminds me of the death of my older brother Joemen almost 5 years ago.  Death of a family member is not new and for the longest time, I can say that the feeling of loss eventually fade but the memories linger. I hardly remember...

Today my daughters Alis and Freida received their ribbons.  Pascalis is 5th in her class.  I am so happy that she managed to get a ribbon since she really worked hard this year and struggled with Filipino.  Freida made it to 4th in her class as well as Most Behave Award.  Naks… Anyway, to make it worse, I took the digital camera with me without the batteries… DUH… I also took the opportunity to drop by digitalhub to seek...

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), U.S. Poet I had a very interesting night. My second daughter asked me a striking question. “Will I die also?” Ofcourse the question did not come out just like that. It started with the conversation about rats and how we needed to keep our house clean so rats will not feast on our crumbs in the kitchen and bedroom (as my...