Home Hacks Design

Home Hacks Design for the bathroom such as Simple Hacks To A Prettier Bathroom. Similarly, this also feature Toilet Shopping Tips.

Another Home Hacks Design are for kitchen like Cleaning Tips For Your Dirty Kitchen and cleaning products that is perfect for cleaning.

Kitchen Hacks You Wish You Should Have Known Before like the other great use of paper towels.

Creating an effective cleaning schedule; divide it into categories; daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly.

Cleaning schedule that you also need to consider are those that is done every 4 months such as air conditioner cleaning, pest control, and deep cleaning of windows.

Cleaning of roof and rain gutter are done every year. Cleaning/draining of the septic tank should be done every 3 years or 5 years.

Cost of home make over and DIY for cheaper make over ideas.

Bedroom decorations ideas and where to buy the cheapest bed lines.

Kitchen make over ideas and DIYs for cheaper make over ideas.

Tropical living room themed and where to buy cheap tropical plants.

Home make over ideas in the Philippines. Home interior ideas in the Philippines

Mommy Blog with home hacks topic in the Philippines.

Where to buy cheap wood furniture in the Philippines.

Price of Aluminum Screen Door in the Philippines. Price of the brown aluminum and silver aluminum.

Furniture stores in the Philippines. Abad Santos furniture store address.

Uratex foam custom cut online. Uratex foam price online.

Rainy Season Checklist: Keeping Your Kids Safe & Healthy During Rainy Season

Rainy Days! argh! it’s so hard to wake up on rainy mornings(yet it was so hard to get back to sleep during heavy rains.. paranoia attack!)..it’s rainy/typhoon season once again.. and as always, we have to be prepared.. not just for typhoons but as well as for other things this season brings..

Here’s my Rainy Day Safety Checklist:

For the kids:

Vitamins! Vitamins! Vitamins! This season is very friendly to bacteria and other microorganisms.. and the spread of diseases and that is why we need to boost the immune system more. Nothing is scarier than rainy season+ weak immune system (fiesta for the viruses). Their vitamin C intake is now doubled as compared to their regular intake. Aside from their growth vitamins, I also added energy boosting supplements, to help my boys cope up with school activities and my little ones to maintain energy even the weather is telling otherwise.

Rainy Season is also Dengue Season.. and to keep my kids safe from mosquitoes, I bought insect repellants, lotion and patch. The patch will be put on strategic places such as under the computer table, under the study table, their playhouse and inside their small activity gym.

Hooded Jackets is also a must. Theirs was a lil small now so we’ll be buying bigger ones. And I know where we are heading to buy jackets.. Greenhills Shopping Center (sana lang tapos na sila maglipat lipat ng stalls nila).

For the house:

We need a dozen or so umbrellas. Actually I already bought some when I went to Divisoria for school supplies shopping, I also have some umbrellas from events I attended (times like these, you’ll thank PRs who give umbrellas as token).. my kids.. they thought those umbrellas were samurais.. sigh. I need another trip to Divisoria for some serious umbrella shopping.

Flood Control er Flood preparation.. having experienced Ondoy, we’re quite paranoid of what rainy season has to offer.. and if ever that happens again, we have to be prepared. Orient the kids on what they should do…make a checklist of what’s needed to be saved and what we can let go.. and with a household of 4 kids and no helpers, we have to be systematic if ever another flood happens. Good thing my boys are bigger now and is more responsible. Aside from that, I do not want to experience the same hunger we had during Ondoy, so I am preparing a basket of goodies (water+biscuits+ vitamins).. which will be placed upstairs.

For Mommy and Daddy:

Of course we also need to boost our immune system (di lang naman bata ang nagkakasakit no!) and with that, we’re also doubling our vitamin c intake and we drink lots and lots of water.

and for me not to miss my pill.. bed weather.. hahaaays..

How about you? what’s your rainy season check list? How do you make sure your kids are safe and healthy during rainy season?

Flowers In My Garden

Quick gardening update 🙂 today is laundry day, I only have few minutes to blog 🙂

While enjoying a cup of my favorite cereal drink, I always make it a point to say good morning to my plants. And it never fails to give a smile on my face whenever I see flowers blooming from my garden.. imagine mornings with this:

That’s an Okra flower..I have 3 active okra plants, flowering everyday and giving me okra fruit almost everyday.. harvest since Wednesday gave me more than ten okras, perfect for lunch today 🙂 (nilagang okra + pritong tilapia + bagoong na halubaybay with calamansi and sili!)

Aside from okra, beside my garden office/coffee corner is a tomato plant.. I always look forward having breakfast with this:

ang hirap nya i-capture! tuwad, dapa at kung ano ano pa ang ginawa ko.. but these tiny flowers are really lovely. my photo did no justice to these flowers ahaha

The most interesting/ amazing thing happened on my garden is this:

That’s my sigarilyas and I am guessing that it will soon start to flower.. ayayay! I’m so happy when I found out.. jump for joy!

Sigarilyas is very close to my heart, my grandmother used to plant this. I remember as a child, we used to marvel at the sigarilyas vines as well as its fruit..I guess that’s another reason why sigarilyas is one of my (few) favorite vegetable.

My silis are very active too:

and starting to bear sili!!! waaaah

I am a fulfilled gardener this week!

but, I need to manage pests.. specially for my sitaw (which is strting to crawl).. someone mentioned about Marigold… where can I find those coin bearing plant?

Unilab Run United 2

Lesson learned: leave the toddlers at home unless they will be joining the run – Run United 1

And because I do not want to leave my two Ceelin protektodo toddlers at home, both joined the 500m dash!

It was raining that morning and I was actually thinking of not going..and because of that, I was late for the 3k run..Ganoon pala ung feeling pag di ka nakatakbo.. nakakiinis 🙁 Good thing, the rain stopped and we were able to make it for Run United 2 500m dash.

My two older boys went ahead as they fall under the age category 9-12.. or more like, I told them to join that category instead of joining 4-8 category..para solo kame nila Chico at Sati (LOL) and so that they can run without me. Chico was the only registered runner (they won’t register Sati kase below 4, kaines) so we fall on the boys 4-8 category. We were advised to be the last one to run, but of course! Takot ko lang madaganan ang mga chikiting ko!

So there we were, running/walking and having the time of our life.. and we did finished the 500m dash but not without Sati asking for Karga! (di man ako nakatakbo sa 3k, bawing bawi sa bigat ni Sati! gang ngayon sakit ng braso ko ahuhu). Muntik na kame buhatin ng organizers haha..

Remember when I said last Run United when parents have to walk a few meters just to fetch their kid to the safety booth (the place where kids go right after the race and that parents have to claim their kids before the staff let them out, it’s also the place where the finisher’s kit was given)? Well, I was glad that the organizers did something on it, parents don’t have to walk far to fetch their kid/s. I guess the fact that the 500m track for Run United 2 was different from the last leg made it possible. Last run, the starting line and the finish line was located in different areas, Run United 2 500 dash track maximizes the use of U turn, thus the starting line and the finish line was located on the same area. But because of that, the place was more crowded, then again, we parents were less worried. We can monitor our kids from the start up to the finish line up to the safety booth. Ang saya! Another good thing, the run started on time!

Aside from the good changes I noticed at the 500m dash, here are other things that’s worth to mention:

Kudos to run United 2 organizers for putting up a Kid Zone… you nailed it! Or is it just me who’s very happy about the zone? I bet all family runners are!

Active Kids Zone offers a lot activities for kid runners such as Fight Sakit from Enervon, Speedy Game from Dolan and a shooting game from Ceelin (waah I forgot to ask what it’s called..)

Kids can also have fun posing at Museo Pambata’s poster caricature and read some books at the mobile library:

But our most favorite part of the Active Kids Zone was the Active Health Day Care.

There was story telling, balloon twisting, a clown, art & crafts activities and a corner covered with rubber mats with bean bags.. entering day care will make you think you’re not in a running event but in a children’s party! My boys had a great time making mouse puppet:

The kid had a blast at Ceelin’s inflatable.. it’s free when you purchase Ceelin. I bought two chewebles and my kids got 8 minutes of play on it (5 minutes lang talaga, makulit lang akong nanay haha):

Oh! I also have to commend the organizers for giving a belt bag as part of the kit.. o di ba keri ng mag photo ops while running, instant camera bag! or cellphone holder 🙂 And it’s a good timing for me, running with two toddlers is not easy, the least I want to worry is where to place my camera (at hindi naman pede na hindi ako magdala no! first time kaya ni Chico at Sati).

The finisher’s kit was nice but my first born commented that most of the items/ freebies on the bag were for ladies wahaha in fairness he do have a point, it would have been better if the finisher’s kit for the 500m dash would include products/ freebies specially for the kids, just like last leg’s 500m finisher’s kit.

That’s the contents of 4 finisher’s kit, except for the Dolan tumbler which we won from the Speedy game and two Ceelin chewables bottle which we bought at Ceelin booth.

I hope Run United 3 will have Active Kids Zone too! As for the Run United expo run.. although I enjoyed going there to get our race belt bag, bib with timing chip, and Riovana 10% discount stub (and the kid’s singlet).. it would still be more practical if we can get it all when we register.. so as to save on time and gas.. or maybe online registration would be better (haven’t tried it though).

All in all, we enjoyed Run United 2 more than we did Run United 1. I hope Run United 3 will be as much fun! or even more..

For Unilab 2012 Run United 2 race results, I think official result will be published on Unilab Active Health and RunRio Facebook fan pages one week after the race just like last Run United leg.