Mommy Ning

When I was young, I was bullied. I was bullied because I had a dark complexion, I don’t have perfect teeth, I am living far from school and so on and so forth. Honestly, at a young age, I didn’t know what bullying was. What my innocent mind can grasp that time was my classmates don’t like me and that there is a standard to be in a school. I never knew it was already bullying. I was hurt. I told my mom that my classmates calls me “Negra” and I equate it as ugly, but my mom keeps on telling me that no one is ugly that everyone is created beautiful. What she did was to boost my morale and told me to ignore them as much as I can. I remember that she would always tell me, “Do not do unto others what others don’t want to do to you.” Through the years, I lived by that saying. When I reached high school and college, with all the trials in my life, I became tough. Mom always reminds me to be strong and be at my best so I cannot be belittled by people. She was right. I gained that conf...

Being a mom to three children with no help is really a challenge for me. Everyday I have to think of ways on how to manage time in between household chores and feeding them properly, on time and giving them the best and healthy food there is. No matter how I try to be at the top of everything, I always fail at some point. Because you know, I only have limited mommy superpowers. When my eldest started school, it was a big challenge for all of us. I had to adjust everything since we were just laid back and not having to worry on all we do here at home. Things suddenly changed when I had to wake up early everyday to prepare him to school. Time is fast paced.  The most challenging part also of having to be a mom of a school aged kid is to prepare him healthy food at school. My son, who became a picky eater has limited food choices too. He doesn't eat all what I give him. Good thing, he likes bread so much that he cannot live a single day without it. One thing that I have ...

If I have the choice of not washing the dishes in our house, I wouldn't do it. It is one of the chores that I do not like doing eversince I was a kid. I'd do it as a result of necessity or else I/we will use paper plates which is not practical by the way and not liking the idea as well.  Few months ago, we were given a local brand of dishwashing liquid from our mommy blogger group's thanksgiving party. But it is only now that I will be able to put my thoughts into writing. You know I love anything local most especially if this was a product of mommies like me.  One thing that sets them apart from other brands in the dishwashing soap line is their unique variants. They came up with three unique scents that I really love because it leaves a clean fresh smelling utensils. Their scents are gentle to the nose that is not too annoying. Their product is a result of their three years research and partnership of the perfumers and chemists in Spain. The scents are extracted ...

It has been five days since heart's day and I haven't written anything about it or posted anything on my social media accounts. It's not that we didn't celebrate it at all, but I was just stuck with my clingy youngest and sick children that I could barely get my hands on the keyboard. Okay, inhale and exhale.  My take on Valentine's make-up look  We officially celebrated Valentine's day a week ago to avoid the hustle and bustle. We know for sure that every corner of the metro will be extremely busy and we do not want to be part of it. We had staycation at Privato Hotel (my thoughts and review will be posted on a separate one) and we had so much fun. If you remembered, I posted on IG and mentioned that I won a staycation last year from eGetinz and I believe it was the perfect time for our staycation.  So a lot of my friends from my social media accounts have posted their VDay celebration. Do not get me wrong though, I love looking at it and I am very...

If there is one thing that you need to do before leaving Baguio is the Strawberry Picking. I wouldn't want to miss the chance to let the kids experience pick Strawberries. From Baguio, we travelled approximately 10 kilometers from our accommodation. But since we are the family who is always late, we arrived there mid afternoon wherein the parking lot is packed with crowd. They said the best time to visit Strawberry farm is in the morning so there would be less crowd. Looking for the entrance of the Strawberry farm was quite confusing but because there were a lot of tourists that time, we just went with the flow. But as we went inside, we were still clueless as to where we can really pick strawberries. Most of the farmers were busy tending to their crops. But as we walk through the middle of the farm, we saw some caretakers and thankfully offered us if we were there to pick strawberries. Each of us were given a basket and instruction on how to pick strawberries properly. Gl...

If you have been a reader for the past years, it has been a tradition in my small family that we get to celebrate holidays outside our home. That way, we inhale a different ambiance during the holidays and a practice eversince my eldest was born.  Last Christmas 2016, my mom, my siblings and nephews got to celebrate with us last Christmas so I booked a hotel within Metro Manila. Honestly, I have been eyeing this one for quite sometime because it is near SM Moa where we can watch fireworks display but unfortunately, it is always fully booked during New Year's eve. So instead of waiting for New Year's eve, I booked it on Christmas.  For hassle free booking, I book our hotels at Agoda site and get discounts as well as rebates for our next booking. I booked a two bedroom apartment hotel, without breakfast. I wouldn't mind not having breakfast included in our hotel because my kids always wake up late and we always miss breakfast offered by hotels!  The apartment h...