Mommy Pehpot, Author at Mommy Pehpot

Best Of Both Worlds

I feel like I have my own day care center here.. 5 kids.. you can just imagine how it is. 4 of them are mine while the plus one is my sister’s who lives with me. Bathing them alone takes 30 minutes of my time. Every morning we need to prepare the 3 oldest to get ready for school and almost every afternoon I had to teach them to prepare them for the next day’s lesson.. wait did I say day care? I take it back.. I mean my own school! But I am not complaining. In fact I am more than thankful for having 4 kids and of course for having my nephew here. This is what I want to do ever since.. I really want to have a big family, lot of kids.. lots of laughter. I do not know where I got my patience, I enjoy playing pretend with them, doing art works, teaching them, spending an afternoon recreating their lessons for them to understand well. I love cutting papers and creating images that they will love or as simple as making an alphabet chart for them. I love doing it all but..

The thing is, sometimes I wish I don’t have to work online.. I do enjoy writing and blogging specially when I get to interact with stay at home moms like me.. work at home moms as well.. but the burden of having to earn makes it a bit hard for me. The pressure of deadline tasks against spending more time with the kids or doing some artworks for them is very stressful for me. I wish I can be like other moms who’s blog earning are merely for their hobby, travel or shopping.. if that would be the case I wouldn’t mind having no hobby at all or having not to travel or having no fashionable shoes to wear.. I would rather spend my time with my kids..

Part of my earnings also goes for my mom.. so even if I want to stop earning, I can’t. In a way, I am more satisfied now than I was before.. I get to earn a little and able to help my mom and still spend time with my kids since I work at home.. well there goes the saying, You just can’t have it all..

Unilab Ideas Positive: Turning Ideas Into Reality

How do you sow Nutrition and reap hope? Team BIGGKAS from the University of the Asia and the Pacific knows that. Their proposal was awarded as Grand Prize from last year’s Unilab Ideas Positive T heir “Buklod Bukid: Sowing Nutrition, Reaping Hope,” concentrates on addressing the malnutrition among children in a Baranggay in Pasig City through a hydroponics gardening project.

United Laboratories started the Ideas Postive because they believe that the growing health and wellness concerns in the communities are best addressed if more people are involve with it, specially if two or more organization are involve working together in true Bayanihan spirit. Unilab seeks out on youth for their creativity, grounded idealism and sense of social purpose for innovastive solutions for the growing concerns on health and wellness in the communities. Ideas Postive also provides the youth a seed fund to turn their ideas into reality.

Unilab Ideas Postive 2011 brings another batch of innovative ideas from the youth. Out of 56 entries from over 20 schools in NCR, Camanava, and Calabarzon 11 Social Marketing Ideas were chosen as the 2011 semifinalists. Five finalists teams will then be chosen to defend their plans on Sept 18 before a multi-sector panel of judges that will pick the team that wins the seed money from Unilab.

Here are the 11 semifinalists:

The Cloud ++ Project- Team AweEights
End Malnutrition: Be Healthy for You and Me- Team CIEMers
ECO-BIZ Inc. for Sustainability- Team ECO- BIZ Inc.
Maboteng Bahay, Mabuting Buhay- Team Green Minds
Hawak Kamay Sabay Sabay 3B Laban sa TB- Team High 5
Hitong Buhay Hitong Buhay- Team KaBaLiKat
Juan community uniting values realizing hopes- Team MaNiKa
KKK: Kalat, Kapaligiran, Kalusugan, Rebolusyon sa Malinis at Malusog na Kinabukasan- Team PHATA
DeoFer Solution (Animal Manure Deodorizer & Fertilizer in one)- Team SEND
Balsang Bulaklakan- Team Lypad
Pradyek Pa-Sibol- Team Timalaya

What can we do to help in this Bayanihan? Like your favorite video here: http://www.unilabideaspositive.com/videos.html and help us in spreading the word about it. Let us help in making these ideas turn into reality. Voting ends September 7. Like your favorite video now! You can vote only once on a video but you can vote more than one entry..

A total of 250,000 PhP seed money to start the proposals of the winners:

One (1) grand prize team winner and two (2) team runners-up will be chosen as the Ideas Positive 2011 winners. The prizes at stake are as follows:
Grand Prize Winner
– Ideas Positive Trophy for their school
– P100,000 seed money for the implementation of their project
– P50,000 cash prize for the group members
– P10,000 honorarium for the group mentor/faculty coach

Runners Up (2):- Ideas Positive Trophy for their school
– P75,000 seed money for the implementation of their project
– P30,000 cash prize for the group members
– P5,000 honorarium for the group mentor/faculty coach

You can also find more information in Unilab Ideas Postive Facebook Page

September Top Commentator Giveaway

Top Commentator Giveaway will now be monthly. Last August, we had two winners, one being the Top Commentator and the other one as lucky commentator. The prizes were, a Nivea Gift Pack for the Top Commentator and a Maybelline BB Cream for the lucky one. This September, in line with Toblerone’s Global Pinoy Awards, I will be giving away Toblerone gift packs, one for the Top Commentator and another one for the lucky commentator.

So what do you need to do? Just comment below that you are participating in this giveaway and comment all you want. You can comment in all my posts. The top commentator by end of September wins.

For the lucky commentator, all the commentators who expressed their interest to join this giveaway (just comment here if you are joining) will be included in the raffle, granted that you commented to at least two of my blog posts.. I love reading what you have to say on my blog entries.. mas mahaba mas enjoy ako 🙂

This giveaway will be monthly from now on and right now, I am really excited to plan out the items that I will give for October, November and December and the coming months. I was thinking graduation announcements might be a good giveaway for March no? Or flowers for February? what do you think guys?

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