I have written here that we love to go to Power Books TriNoma.
While the children are reading in the children’s section, I go over to an adjacent section and look at the recipe books while my eldest daughter browses shelves filled with books she is interested to read.
One time, I overhead a group of teenagers whispering and giggling about looking for books about skin care. One mentioned something that sounded unfamiliar. I searched for it when we got home and found out the name: accutane. Definitely sounds new to me.
Anyway, I would want to get a copy of a certain recipe book when we get back. I’m sure my eldest daughter would again ask me to get that other vampire book for her (rolls eyes).
Tags: books, children, Philippines, Power Books, reading, The Magic Treehouse series, words
I wrote about my son helping out in the kitchen in this post.
Presenting the finished product: our Jell-o No Bake Strawberry Cheesecake dessert:
Yes, it was a finger-licking, lip-smacking and two thumbs up dessert. What bliss!
After putting away their textbooks for the homeschooling lessons, the two kids are pretty much free to do whatever they like and sometimes they either go out and play or help out in kitchen/home chores. Cooking and the smells associated with it always draw them in the kitchen to offer a hand or two.
I bask from the compliments they freely give 🙂
Tags: children, cooking, family, food, food photo, Frugal Christmas, Photo Hunter
Outdoor fun is my other entry.
Scrapbooking is fun, if not perceived as a challenge to one’s creativity for creating cool photos more interesting. It is expensive too, for not only one needs to buy different papers but varied embellishments too. Yes, and there is this thing about storage.
Good thing there is digital scrapbooking.
Sure, one buys stuff too but there are sites that offer free digital scrapbook “services” like Scrapblog.com (an online digiscrap site, where I made the page below) and Shabby Princess, a site where one can download free kits.
This is a bigger photo of that bright sunshiny sunflower.
Now, one can make pretty digiscrap pages easily. Hurry and visit the sites and make wonderful digiscrap pages! 🙂
Happy Photo Hunting!
Tags: digiscrap, flower, nature photo, Photo Hunter, Photography, summer
Or should those Christmas cards been mailed a few weeks ago?
I think the art of sending handwritten Christmas cards and letters is now lost because of the new technology that keeps people connected in more ways than one.
I love receiving Christmas photo cards. I told myself that the kids will do these handwritten cards but the truth is, we haven’t started yet.
Last year’s Christmas craft projects like photo ornaments and gift cards went underway early. I know I am to blame because I have been too busy with not so important things and have neglected this aspect of our routine.
I hope it is not too late to start these projects.
Tags: Christmas, family, Frugal Christmas, Purse Strings, technology
Walking birds in this other entry.
Here is a photo of a fun and colorful toucan balloon, taken from a party of an extra-ordinaire party organizer/friend/”kumare” Kim.
Ooops! Major blunder, wrong URL in the photo. Anyway, photo IS still mine, lol.
Sorry son, had to blur that wonderful smile on your handsome face 🙂
Here is another photo of the said party in this post.
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Tags: balloons, children, family, Philippines, Photography, toys
