'The Mommy Journals' archive

The day I stop enjoying life is the day I start to grow old

We had pork and chicken adobo for dinner a few nights ago. When I took a piece of pork from the serving bowl, Alex commented that I shouldn’t eat the fatty pork belly because I do not have a gall bladder anymore. I said nothing and she continued in a slightly louder voice and higher [...]

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Pesticide in breastmilk

A couple of nights ago, Speedy was watching a documentary about how Japan turned around its food production and economy after World War II with the use of pesticides. Few people don’t know about pesticides. They are sprayed on crops to kill pests and the residue is absorbed, and stays in, the soil. It’s a [...]

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All-Filipino menu

You can’t make Sam wear a T-shirt that doesn’t make a definitive statement.

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I have a lot to thank manga for

Many people say it isn’t good to provide children with their own computers and internet access. More say it’s a mistake to let them go online unsupervised. I say that depends on how you teach your kids to use the computer and the internet. And it depends even more on what example you show. If [...]

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A different kind of wallpaper

While I’ve been spending days poring over the wallpaper swatches I’ve collected prior to the dining area project, Speedy had been obsessing over a different kind of wallpaper relative to a project of his own.

He is so into his project that he actually found the time to update his blog after neglecting it for over [...]

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Holiday paper crafts

For the past two years, we have been making personalized gift tags for Christmas. Two years ago, the gift tags were simple computer printed affairs but especially designed by the girls. Last year, it was something more. We cut figures from colored paper and glued glitters on the gift tags. I love doing projects like [...]

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Dorm or driving school?

With both girls a few sniffs away from going to college (okay, one for Sam; two for Alex), the issue of transportation has inevitably been discussed for the nth time. Will Daddy bring them to school and pick them up after classes? Will they have to commute? Or will they have their own car(s)?
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Revisiting Manderley

I’m reading Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca for the second time. The date on the flyleaf of the book says I bought it when I was 15 years old and I must have read it not too long after I bought it. When you buy books out of your school allowance, you tend to buy one [...]

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So, how are you coping with the global financial crisis?

There was a time when domestic economic woes did not bother the chunk of the population that relies on dollar remittances from family members and relatives working abroad. Their only woes revolved around exchange rates, expired contracts and not much else. With the global financial crisis, relatives of overseas Filipino workers can no longer be [...]

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The day we went shopping

If we could shop for everything we need without driving to Metro Manila, we would. But the few malls there are within a few kilometers of Antipolo leave much to be desired. When we had to go out last Saturday to buy new school school shoes for Alex, the first stop was Sta. Lucia East [...]

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