My friend Cris and I went to volunteer for the Walls of Hope over at the Children’s Hospital in Quezon City. The Children’s Hospital was built in the 1980′s, one of 3 medical centers built during the Martial Law regime of Marcos. It had many murals painted on it’s walls to make it look friendlier [...]
Christmas is less than a week away! The biggest challenge this year was to think of what to give the Spawn’s classmates at school. There are too many of them to bake my mini cupcakes for and handmaking a present for each and every one of them would take us forever. *_* A bit of [...]
**This blog post is my official entry into Avalon.ph’s Win a Moleskine Colour a Month Daily Planner 2010! contest. Please visit www.Avalon.ph for details** Christmas is just around the corner and not too long after that, a brand new year. A brand new decade. At around this time each year I select my “theme song” [...]
Last summer, I made a major decision. I banned the TV from the Spawn. He was, of course, upset by it. He would find ways to sneak in even just a few seconds of Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon. Although I unplugged the TV in his room and tied up the cable, he would plug in [...]
As a follow-up to a post I had previously written about Homeschooling in the Philippines, I have been doing some more research into the topic as I play with the thought of homeschooling the Spawn next year. The decision is still up in the air and one of the major stumbling blocks I’ve encountered was [...]
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
~Victor Hugo
