when mom speaks

Bandang alas 6 ng umaga habang pinanonood ang pag sikat ni haring araw sa Bohol, isang araw ng Abril taong 2006. Noon pa, talagang gustong gusto ko ng dagat, tunog ng agos, ang kulay bughaw na tubig, mapipinong buhangin, tunay na kahali-halina…

My daughter trying to get out of our gate

Please see my other entries:

walkonred, buhaymisis, kathycot

Snagged from Aggie timing because I just myself a new pair of flats

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What’s your shoe size? Are your feet the same size as your mom’s feet? How about your sister’s feet? Can you borrow shoes from each other?

Post a picture of your latest shoe buy. Tag the number of women of your shoe size, i.e. size 5 = tag 5 friends. Don’t forget to drop a line in this blog when you’re done.

1. Jenny and Belle
2. SAHMdom and Beyond
3. The Journey Continues…
4. Mommy Talks…
5. When Mom Speaks
6. Walk On Red
   
7. your blog here
   

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My Mom’s Shoe Size: 8 or 8 1/2

Sister Shoe Size: 9

My Size: 8!

** Actually my mom and I frequently share The flats above were bought last week, while I was waiting for my laptop to be reformat by the computer technician, it really made me sad, losing all those unsaved photos and some files, so I gotta have something as a fall back

how about yours KRISTINE, LITZIE, JHONA, KELLY, MICH, APOLS, THET, EMZ?

snagged from Vannie

eyebrow threading

microdermabrasion

aromatherapy

body wrap

blowout

Insights from the Grocery Cart | My Simple Joys | Fun.Fierce.Fab | Kidd Designs | Me,Myself+2 | Ozzy’s Mom |When Mom Speaks | Walk on Red | Kathycot | Buhay Misis | Kathycot Cooks | YOUR BLOG HERE

passing this to all mommies in my blogroll!

Thanks Eds and Jhona for this
It really made me think of myself as a good person, just in time when others think the opposite about me It made me feel welcome and loved by my blogger friends. Oh my, I sound so mushy already! stop the crap kathy! Alright then, so how was your weekend everyone? In our case, we just stayed for a couple days in my parent’s house, nope, we did not go to the mall or made pasyal. After hearing mass we just opted to bond with my mom, sis and tita the whole day, less gastos but it was fun! And yeah, I was able to clean my closet in my previous bedroom, I had to let go of the clothes I’m not wearing anymore, or shall I say that doesn’t fit me now! I also found my bunch of corsets that I wore in my College days, I was trying to lose weight then, thus opting to wear tight under garments like that for a slimmer effect

Thanks Aggie!

Here are the Rules:
1. List 6 things that describe yourself today or yesterday.
2. Add your blog to the list. Feel free to add all your other blogs.
3. Tag other online friends you know.

GailAdi/Momeen/Emmyrose/Dennis/Dette/Jirl/Janny/Nanay Belen/Carol/ Something Purple’s cucina / Vanity Kit / Mind Bubbles / Stripe&Yellow / Something Purple / Em’s Detour / Mommy Talks | Aggie Shoots. Aggie Scraps | All Kinds of Me Stuff | The Salad Caper | Winding Creek Circle | InkBabyStudios | When Mom Speaks | Walk on Red| Kathycot | Buhaymisis |Kathycot cooks | YOUR BLOG HERE

YESTERDAY, I:

1. Woke up super late around 11 am almost the same with my daughter

2. Was able to finish half of my tasks, online

3. Cooked Tortang Giniling at my parent’s place

4. Waited and Welcomed the motorcade of  our Patron Saint Augustine, it rained but it was a blessing for the farmers

5.Talked to a friend regarding application of passport for Olin

6. Watched tv the whole day and had a long talk with my mom, aunt and sis… it was a whole day bonding for us…

How about you? how was your day yesterday or today? PEACHY, MAI, LITZIE and JOY

What to do

Don’t lose your cool. A tantrum is not a pretty sight. In addition to kicking, screaming, or pounding the floor, your toddler’s repertoire may include throwing things, hitting, and even holding his breath to the point of turning blue. When your child is swept up in a tantrum, he’s unlikely to listen to reason, though he will respond — negatively — to your yelling or threatening. “I found the more I shouted at Brandon to stop, the wilder he would get,” says one mother of a 2-year-old. What worked instead, she discovered, was to just sit down and be with him while he raged.

Staying with your child during a tantrum is a good idea. Stomping out of the room — alluring as that may be — can make him feel abandoned. The storm of emotion he’s going through can be frightening to him, and he’ll appreciate knowing you’re nearby. Some experts recommend picking up your child and holding him if it’s feasible (i.e., he’s not flailing too much), saying he’ll find your embrace comforting. But others say it’s better to ignore the tantrum until your child calms down, rather than rewarding negative behavior. Through trial and error, you’ll learn which approach is right for your child.

Remember that you’re the adult. No matter how long the tantrum continues, don’t give in to unreasonable demands or negotiate with your screaming toddler. It’s especially tempting in public to cave in as a way of ending the episode. Try not to worry about what others think — anyone who’s a parent has been there before. By conceding, you’ll only be teaching your child that throwing a fit is a good way to get what he wants, and setting the stage for future behavior problems. Besides, your child is already frightened by being out of control. The last thing he needs is to feel that you’re not in control either.

If your child’s outburst escalates to the point where he’s hitting people or pets, throwing things, or screaming nonstop, pick him up and carry him to a safe place, such as his bedroom. Tell him why he’s there (”because you hit Aunt Sally”), and let him know that you’ll stay with him until his negative behavior stops. If you’re in a public place — a common breeding ground for tantrums — be prepared to leave with your child until he calms down.

“When my daughter was 2, she had an absolute fit at a restaurant because the plain spaghetti she ordered arrived with chopped parsley on it,” recalls one mother. “Although I realized why she was upset, I wasn’t about to let her disrupt everyone’s dinner. I took her outside until she calmed down.”

Talk it over afterward. When the storm subsides, hold your child close and talk about what happened. Acknowledge his frustration, and help him put his feelings into words, saying something like, “You were very angry because your food wasn’t the way you wanted it.” Let him see that once he expresses himself in words, he’ll get better results. Say with a smile, “I’m sorry I didn’t understand you. Now that you’re not screaming, I can find out what you want.”

Try to head off tantrum-inducing situations. Pay attention to what situations push your child’s buttons and plan accordingly. If he falls apart when he’s hungry, carry snacks with you. If he has trouble making a transition from one activity to the next, give him a gentle heads-up before a change. Alerting him to the fact that you’re about to leave the playground or sit down to dinner (”We’re going to eat when you and Daddy are done with your story”) gives him a chance to adjust instead of react.

Your toddler is grappling with independence, so offer him choices whenever possible. No one likes being told what to do all the time. Saying, “Would you like corn or carrots?” rather than “Eat your corn!” will give him a sense of control. Monitor how often you’re saying “no.” If you find you’re rattling it off routinely, you’re probably putting unnecessary stress on both of you. Try to ease up and choose your battles. Would it really wreck your schedule to spend an extra five minutes at the playground? And does anybody really care if your tike wears mismatched mittens?

Watch for signs of overstress. Although daily tantrums are a perfectly normal part of the mid-toddler years, you do need to keep an eye out for possible problems. Has there been upheaval in the family? An extremely busy or harried period? Tension between Mom and Dad? All of these can provoke tantrums. If after the age of 30 months your child is still having major tantrums every day, talk to your doctor. If your child is younger than 30 months and has three or four tantrums a day and isn’t cooperating with any routines, such as getting dressed or picking up toys, you also may want to seek help. Your doctor can make sure your child has no serious physical or psychological problems and suggest ways to deal with the outbursts. Also, talk to your doctor if your child has frightening breath-holding spells when he gets upset. There’s some evidence that this behavior is linked to an iron deficiency.

This I got from BabyCenter site.

thanks JODY

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1. Copy from start to finish
2. This letter should be pass on to your closest friends online.
3. Add your name and URL blog HERE!! .
4. Get back to Me [HAZEL] and leave a comment once you’ve passed on the letter. Will then visit your site to make sure your links are complete and proper.
5. To ensure everyone receives equal link benefit, UPDATE your list regularly!

1. Wheng 2. Hazel 3. Janeth Vicy’s Life Journey 4. A Sweet Taste Of Life 5. My Simple Joys 6. Seize the Day 7. My Online World 8.In This Game of Life 7. YOUR NAME HERE

It’s true I have never seen you
and we have never met,
Never shaken Hands or
even truly hugged and yet!
I know for sure you care for
me by the kindness that you give.
And our keyboards keep us
together doesn’t matter where we live.
So I give you this gift to
put a smile on your face
and to let you know in my
heart you have a special place.

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passing this to all twitter friends!

Thanks Ed’s for this

Let’s learn what blogger’s favourite meal (Breakfast) is. Simple straightforward meme and great for link love. Have a good Breaky! Good thing I have a photo of my hubby’s favorite morning food start, because I’m not a breakfast gal actually

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The Longest Breakfast Menu List

Everyone likes to start their day with a comfort food for breakfast. What kind of food do you take? This would be a good way to find out your blogger friend’s favourite food for breakfast.

All you need to do is to put your name down, the country you are in and your favorite breakfast meal. Let’s see how we can have this breakfast ‘menu’ travelled all around cyberspace and learn what each blogger living in different country and what they eat for breakfast. This meme was created by a little lady with a penchant to spy around little baskets while marketing. Her favorite breakfast of the day is none other than Roti Prata, an indian flat bread. What about you? What is your favorite breakfast meal of the day?

1. Spymama, Singapore - Roti Prata 2. Janeth Vicy’s Life Journey, Philippines - Ham and Hotdog with Rice 3.As The World Turns, Philippines, Milk and Biscuits. 4.Just Me.. Eds, Philippines- Sausage and Egg with Garlic Rice/Fried Mash potato 5. KATHYCOT, Phils, Fried Spam, Chicken and Scrambled Egg paired with Fried Rice 6.Your Name, Country, Food

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passing this to LITZIE, MAI, ANN, LIZZ, PEACHY, APOL, ABIE, JODY, JOY, MACY, BUGE, JACQ, CHIKAI, VANNIE and EMS

As I told earlier about my laptop that were invaded by the hideous virus from somewhere, it is such a good thing that I was able to burn most of my photo files a week ago, maybe I got a feeling that something bad would happen, oh, there were a lot of bad things that happened actually besides my laptop act up. Anyways, so now that my lappy is back on track, I again transferred some of the photos that I would be needing for my blogging purposes on my hard drive, and I saw this pictures.. one of the many fun moments of my daughter and her cousins Stephanie and Juliana taken last summer, having fun in their inflatables wearing their cute swimwear you might notice that they are not sharing the same pool, because we have to segregate them or else my daughter would be smashed out by the two older kiddos! cute isn’t?

My goodness! It’s a Saturday and I am here, stucked in front of my laptop, I have so much to do thus making me not able to go out for Pete’s sake. I am such a loser. I should have finish everything before it hit the deadline, and now I’m cramming to the nth power! And yes, blame it on the virus that entered my lappy which makes things worst, I had to slash out about a thousand bucks for the repair and reformating. Terrible week so to speak, very unforgettable week actually. And dig this, my internet connection is so slow, it is actually crawling like a turtle! Everything is not in its normal state! Just when I need a speedy connection so I can search on about those travel insurance packages that my father asked me to inquire. Oh well I guess I’ll have to reboot my unit after this post. And hope for a faster connection. God Save me!

Snagged this from Em’s which she also got from Texas Tanya — version of Fridays Feast

Appetizer: When was the last time you had some bar-b-que?
A week ago, when Hubby cooked for our dinner

Soup: How many pairs of cowboy boots do you own?
I don’t have one, though I’m thinking of getting a pair actually, to pair with my skinny jeans

Salad: Finish this sentence: Mommas, don’t let your babies __________.
dirt!
Main Course: Name a song that makes you think of Texas.
Wild Wild West

Dessert: Cowboy hats - Black or White?
White! cool!

Lubha akong nahirapan sa tema ngayong linggong ito… kaya eto ang aking lahok, mga pagkaing nagmula sa dakong kanluran ng Amerika –padala hahaha! pasok diba?!

While blog hopping, I found this day tag from Aggie

PLAYERS: CHIKAI | AGGIE | KATHYCOT | WHEN MOM SPEAKS |YOU!

1. Do you think you can last for an hour without talking?  Before, NO! but now… it’s Yes! I need to, so I can work on my blogs
2. When was the last time you saw the last person on your Friendster featured friends? Just two hours ago - I’m staring at them right now my hubby and daughter. My sister whom we met up at Mc Donalds and my friends Glen, Leah and Cha a few weeks ago
3. What do people usually compliment you on? I’m bright
4. What is one thing you hear a lot?  “you’re not that fat, compare to what you say”
5. Whats one thing that you want right now? I want a choco mint bomb from Gloria Jean’s, a  collection of Nautica watches and of course moolah too!
6. Do you have a lot of regrets?  There are some but not that significant
7. Have you ever regretted letting someone go? NO.
8. Is there anyone who doesn’t like you? Oh definitely but you see, I couldn’t care less
9. Do you miss someone? My dad
10. Next time you will kiss someone?  in a minute after this, when we’ll hit the sack
11. Are looks important?  at times, but it really doesn’t matter you know, what is looks when brain is empty?
12. What are you wearing?  shorts and tank top
14. Do you like getting things from others? not exactly
15. What is your current mood? tired but overwhelmed.

passing this to LITZIE, MAI, PEACHY, LIZZ, ABIE, JODY and JANE

Tagged by Jacq.

Prayer for the MV Princess of the stars fatalities and survivors.

Dear God, we pray that you comfort each bereaved family everyday as they grieved for their loss, we pray that you will supply all their needs, we pray for the survivors that they may have a good life after the tragedy, that you will bless them and let them know in the deepest part of their heart that in spite of what have happened, you LOVE and CARE for them. This we pray in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen. I encourage everyone to keep the prayer going. LET’S P.U.S.H. (PRAY UNTIL SOMETHING HAPPENS).

We Prayed: 1. Through The Rain 2. God’s gift 3. The Adventures of Dong and Jing 4. Me, Myself and I 5. malditang bunso’s journal 6. Underneath It All 7. 100% Kelly 8. My Colorful World 9. InkBabyStudios 10. TheSaladCaper 12. MommyTalks 13. All About the Memories 14. Enchanted Play 15. I Am Mommy 16. MY Happy Place 17. IamDzoi 18. ClikTrik 19. I Love the Thirties 20. walk on red 21. when mom speaks 22. kathycot 23. buhaymisis 24. kathycot cooks 25. YOUR BLOG HERE

passing this to AI, MACY, TRACY, TRINITY, THET, LIZZ, KRISTINE, JHONA and JONAH

I got two close friends who are pregnant and about to give birth by November, plus a lot of online friends who are about to lay eggs too in the coming months, this preggo news makes me want to have a baby! lol, not now though, but in another years to come. I remember when I was still pregnant with my daughter, it took me like forever to come up with a name for her, you see I even search on the sites of famous baby names around the world and even found myself scanning through celebrity’s kid names hoping that one or two names would catch my attention. Though it was a really fun thing to do, still I wasn’t able to snag at least one. Maybe because the names are so westernized sounding thus it made me feel so unreal if I would name my child after their names, although there are a few that sounds striking but when combine with our last name, it sounds so unreal. So I just make the most time out of it, and finsish reading and scanning every single names in the site. I was cool really! For coming up of a website wherein the future expectants can check out to help them in choosing names. My friend even asked me for suggestions, so what I did was forward to her the sites that features names and the like, I just hope she can make use of that And for Olin Rei? what I did was get letters from her two grand father’s name and put it together

Snagged from Joy

1. When you are stressed, what is the first thing you do?
I drink cold water or Iced tea. Basically I just eat, big time!

2. Does crying really make things better or worse?
For me, it makes me feel better. One drama queen here!

3. Is there anyone you can tell everything too?
At this point of our marriage, I tell everything to my husband. He does the action, if I’m pissed or whatever

4. What calms you down the most?
Olin and the Husband, my real friends at times

5. Any kind of music that makes you feel better?
My collection of hiphop songs and dreamsounds

6. Are you generally a happy person?
Yes

7. What or who puts the biggest smile on your face?
My daughter, the husband and my extra moolah! woohoo! keep it coming!

8. Do you ever over-react on the smallest things?
No, but others feel and see that its just small things that can make me over react, well for me, It’s not

9. Ever suffer from bad depression or anxiety?
I guess when something so hard is bothering me

10. Mad about something?
Hell Yeah! the twits know about this ;p

11. Happy about something?
Yes, moolah! oo mukha akong pera! eh ano ngayon?! hinihingan ba kita?! lol **me on antipatika mode**

I envy my dad’s television room set up, fully geared with Bose’s surround system, I believe that it is one of the best home theater speakers! Actually, it took him years to be able to buy his dream set up, but it’s really worth the wait. With the huge screen tv and Denon A/V receivers, watching your favorite flick is such a heaven! I wish we have this too. Well, there’s still a lot of time for us to save, who knows, we might be able to buy this type of cool entertainment stuffs in the future. But for now, I just make use of the time whenever I get the chance to watch my favorite movies here in my parent’s house! lol. Been surfing and reading sites like www.thespeakercompany.com for the latest and the most affordable home theatre set ups available in the market today, if you are looking for good quality speakers for your computers, receivers and for car set ups just what the husband is a pro, you can check out this site and look for the best and cheapest unit you might need. Oh well, this post made me remember the DB Drag competition my husband had joined in the previous years, he actually excels on this part, sounds, base, music clarity and all that jazz!

Sometimes when I have nothing to do and when my mind suddenly goes on a backward trips, I usually see myself in my previous company, no not working but talking nonstop with my officemates turn into close friends. You see, those people are some of my precious friends, people that I can talk to about anything, my rants, raves, excitenments among many other things. Anyways, since we do not see each other very often we just get in touch through online messangers. Actually the company prohibits them to, but as you know, there are numerous ways to use that service without the management noticing it! lol. Anyways, where am I heading? Because, I’m afraid that we may not continue our daily rendevouz because they are soon be having a system or team collaboration solution in a month’s time. In fact, they are undergoing seminars and further studies at the metro so they can learn to use the solution well, on the other hand, it will really benefit them all, for sure it will make their work loads much easier to do. I even heard that more and more companies are embracing such system works, it cost a lot we know, but when learn to use it well, the whole team will surely benefit and the company too. I just wish that we can still have time to get in touch with each other within the day I know they’ll can find ways to sneak in! lol

My daughter that is! The husband and I suddenly crave for an Asado Siopao from 711 a few nights ago, it was almost 12 midnight, but Olin was still wide awake so we just decided to bring her with us to the convenience store. And look where she immediately headed, at the candies and chocolates shelves! Oh my, we got a sweet tooth baby! The attendants and the guards were fascinated with our blabbing tot in her jammie! she even insist of bringing home some of the choco muchos and tofi luks from the shelves, no we didn’t bought it for her, instead we just got her some mini marshmallow packs look how she seems to read the food facts in the packaging, so cute!