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.

When Dream Come To Reality..

I have a dream.. a very simple dream…

to plant tomatoes, sigarilyas, okra and eggplant.. a few of my favorite vegetables..and to harvest them in a nice basket and feed my harvest to my kids..

and now my dream is slowly turning into reality!

That’s the seeds that we planted last March 3 (with the help of my kids!).. That’s sigarilyas seedlings. When it started to sprout I was ecstatic! Sigarilyas is my favorite vegetable and to be able to plant one is happiness for me. The other seedlings are tomatoes, eggplant and pepper.

Our Okra seedlings that we planted 2nd week of February.. I can’t wait for the day that my Okra will bear its fruit..

The Chinese Kangkong after more than a month.. My mom said we need to cut some to encourage more growth.. so we did today! and we’re having Kangkong for lunch!

Our very first harvest! (photo of the dish later)

I am so happy that I finally had the courage to do this planting project..that I was able to manage my time more and squeeze this one.. it turns out, it’s not as time consuming as I thought it is..

Next project: Make an alphabet and number poster for Chico and Sati and start teaching them.

EDIT: here’s our Kangkong Dish:

Thoughts On Dental Insurance

I always wonder why dental is not considered on most medical insurance or if ever it is included, the coverage is very limited. based on some of my readings, most dental insurance here in our country offers unlimited dental check up, unlimited (or limited) simple tooth extraction, temporary filling (most of the time limited) and cleaning. Complicated procedure such as root canal is usually not included on dental plans.

While reading about dental plans, I also learned that in some countries, most dental insurance is also limited. I think it’s the cost of complicated procedure that’s making it impossible to include it on dental plans. What I learned is that some companies offer dental plan for different dental clinic or oral health provider such as Aetna Dental Access Plan. It is a dental plan that provides discounted oral health care.

Is there something like that here in our country? The plan is simple, for an annual membership fee on your chosen plan, you will get discounts on any oral health procedure for the whole year. I think you also have an option if you still want to avail a plan the next year. What I am not aware, is if the dental plan’s coverage is limited too, like you can only have 3 or 5 discounted tooth extraction and your next will be on regular price.

If you have an experience with this kind of plan, kindly let me know 🙂

Stress Free Parenting Tips On Weaning

While Chico was feeding on his bottle and Sati on my breast, I asked Sati if she’s ready to move to bottle.. and a violent AYAW says it all. Chico on the other hand asked her if she wants to drink GATAS (milk) on the bottle. Sati answered, “Ayaw ko ng Gatas!” huh? ayaw daw ng gaats eh panay ang dede.. turns out, my milk is DEDE.. and it’s not Gatas!

That reminds me about weaning.. so for our Tuesday Parenting Tip, let’s talk about weaning.

Scientifically, weaning is the process where the baby stops nursing and also the time where in adult diet is introduced to the baby and all his nutrient sources is no longer the breast.

When is the right time to wean?

Reading would suggest that moms need to continue breastfeeding until the baby is 6 months. Our pediatrician also mentioned that and we should breastfeed exclusively for 6 months. After that, it is our choice if we want to continue or wean the baby and start feeding them with formula. I choose to feed them as long as I can.. but with my first born, pregnancy comes in the way and I had to wean him when he turns one. With my second boy, he was breastfed for 1 year and 8 months. My third son’s case was the same with my first born, pregnancy came in the way. As with my youngest, you know I’m still breastfeeding her until now.. she is 2 years old and 4 months.

My experiences weaning my kids led me to a conclusion that the right time to wean a baby is before they turn a year old. Anything later than that is not advisable. Why? As the kid turns one, they were old enough to understand but young enough not to argue. Just like what happened to my first born.. when I told him he can no longer have mommy’s milk as soon as he turns one, he never asked for it after his birthday party. It was quite sad for me.. I was expecting commotions.. The same thing happened with my third son, when I started weaning him, it took him only a week to get used to it.

The story of my second born was different.. in fact telling I have a hard time weaning him is an understatement. It was riot and the whole household can attest to that. Husband complains of lack of sleep… good thing he had to leave for US for 3 weeks and that’s how I finally won in weaning. What went wrong? He is old enough to know what he wants and knows how to get it through tantrums.

Stress Free Parenting Tips On Weaning

Start early. As I have mentioned, the age is very important as it can make or break the weaning process.
Start gradually. Cold turkey maybe effective to some but to me, gradually reducing the feeding is more effective. If you’re baby use to feed 3 times on day and 2 times at night, start reducing it one feeding at a time.
Increase the break time. If you’re baby love feeding every 3 hours, try increasing it to 3 hours and 30 minutes and so on.
Simultaneously, reduce the time that they spent on your breast.
Do not introduce bottle feeding yet, delay it for a few more weeks or until the baby is almost ready to give up your milk.

When should you delay Weaning? When the baby is sick or is experiencing a milestone such as teething or starting to walk, delay it for a few more weeks.

When a baby is old enough, like with my second born, the most effective way to wean them is to decrease their supply gradually. It takes time, sleep and a lot of effort. And it will take a lot of tears too, just remember that if you are determined to wean the baby, do not give up.

I’ll let you in to my little secret.. with Sati, it’s me that would needs weaning.. yes, I just can’tlet go of this little girl.. it’s a little bit selfish, what can I do? she’s my only girl *wink