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California Pizza Kitchen celebrated its 18th anniversary last August 14 and 15 and they had a National Pizza Day promo so after our grocery we immediately went to Alabang Town Center. 

I love puto but I seldom cook this at home because the recipe that I have yielded 26 pcs of puto. That is too much for two people since my son is not really fond of kakanin. Last week, I decided to make puto with cheese using Maya pancake mix. Since there is no recipe at the box, I just followed the recipe of pancake. 

Ingredients

1 medium size egg 
2 tbsp oil (I used melted butter) 
3/4 cup water 
1/4 cup sugar
1 250g Maya Hotcake Mix
Cheese 



Procedure 

1. Beat the egg. Add oil (butter), water, sugar and hotcake mix.
2. Mix the ingredients and put the batter in puto molder, I use silicone molder.
3. Add cheese on top of the batter. 
4. Place the molder in the steamer. Steam for 10-15 minutes depending on the size of your molder. 


I love the result of puto with cheese and I will definitely use hotcake mix again. Next time, I’ll add salted egg. 

Read: Leche Flan Puto
White King Puto

June 28, 2012

After my therapy last Saturday we went to Alabang Town Center to buy a gift for my goddaughter and then we took advantage of the SG50 promo of Wee Nam Kee. 


Singapore was celebrating their 50th Independence Day last weekend and Wee Nam Kee offers “Buy 1 personal set for P175 and get another set for P50”. Extra rice is P50. Great deal! 


The personal set includes roasted or steamed chicken, chicken rice, and soup. Three sauces are available on the table such as pounded ginger, chili, and dark soy sauce. You can mix and match according to your preference.

This is the fourth year that my son is going to school but for the first two years, I did not hire any school service because the school is just one tricycle away. In addition, my son is too young and I’m afraid to let him ride the school service without me. 



Since he was still in Preschool, I accompany him in school and wait till his dismissal time. But when we transferred him to traditional school, my husband and I decided to hire a school service. Honestly, I was scared to leave him in school service because my son is only Kinder and for me, he’s still my baby.

There are advantages and disadvantages of having a school service.

Advantages 

1. It is economical. Yes, I can save more if I avail the school service because commuting is more expensive.
2. It is safe. If we will commute, we have to ride two tricycles to reach the school. We have to cross the highway before riding the other tricycle and there is no stop light in that area so it is really scary.
3. It is comfortable than riding tricycle. It is not easy to commute during the rainy season.
4. I can do more chores because I don’t have to go to school anymore.
5. If there are a suspension of classes, the school service is just there to pick up your kids.
6. My son will learn to be independent and understand that I can’t be with him 24/7. I can’t always wait for him at school.
7. My son meets new people and has new friends.

Disadvantages 

1. I have to wake up my son early because he needs to be ready before the school service arrives. Our house is the first stop so I don’t want him to be the cause of the delay.
2. There are times that school service is late so your son is also late in school. It happened to us because the school service is really late or because the school service was stuck in traffic.
3. You cannot deny that your son will meet other kids that are not nice. Spell bully.
4. You just have to trust the driver and assistant that they will take care of your kids. I’m a paranoid mom, so it is hard to trust especially what happened to my son last month. Read the story here. All I can do is pray for his safety.
5. There are times that my son stayed in the lobby for more than an hour before the service will pick him up and it takes another an hour before my son arrived. It happened to us and I was paranoid because my son's dismissal time is 3:55PM so I was expecting that he will be home at 5PM but he arrived at 6:10PM. I was not happy about it, kawawa ang bata, dinner time at pagod na tapos need pa mag-aral.

I have mozzarella cheese in our fridge, I wanted to make pizza but I don’t have pizza sauce so I just made a pizza without sauce. Hehehe! I sauted the bacon, onion and mushroom. 



Every time I want to have a snack, I just put cooked toppings +mozzarella cheese on the bread and toast it in the oven toaster for few minutes until the cheese melts.



Voila! I have a yummy bread. I can eat two slices in one sitting. My family loves this snack, they enjoyed it even without the pizza sauce. It so addicting that I eat it every day until I ran out of toppings.

Australia, more than ever before, is a magnet for both tourists and prospective immigrants. Every year, the idea of emigrating to New Zealand or Australia and starting a new life becomes irresistible to many Brits. But why exactly might this be? 


Let’s consider Australia. It’s a country comprised of six distinct states. The largest of these is the westernmost one, which is called, imaginatively enough, Western Australia. While much of the province consists of arid, uninhabited desert, the border regions have proven a tremendous draw for settlers throughout history. In this article, we’ll provide a brief introduction to Western Australia and discuss what the region has to offer.

History 

The province was first visited by Europeans as long ago as 1616 when a Dutchman named Dirk Hartog charted the island’s west coast. The first Europeans to make landfall would do so just six years later – though not, it must be said, of their own volition. 

The East Indiaman Tryall of the British Navy was en route to Bantam, a sultanate on the Pacific Island we now call Java. A navigational error took the ship a few hundred miles off course, toward the Montebello Islands, an archipelago near the north coast of Western Australia, comprising 174 small islands. There the ship collided with some underwater rocks. The surviving crew would salvage a skiff and a longboat from the doomed vessel and they made their way to Bantam. Of the 143 who had set out from Portsmouth, just 44 made it to their final destination – and few of them were keen on the idea of returning to Australia. The guilty rocks, as it happens, went on to be named the Tyrall rocks, after being identified in 1969. 

It wasn’t for several centuries after the Tyrall’s unplanned mooring that the British finally colonized Western Australia – for the understandable reason that they suspected that the French might beat them to it. The Swan River Colony was the first colony, established in 1829 on the Swan River by James Stirling, a British naval officer who went on to become Western Australia's first governor. This colony contained two separate towns, one of which went on to become the modern capital of the province, Perth. 

From those humble beginnings, the colony expanded to cover most of the western coastline, with sheep farmers enjoying particular success during the 19th century – but this success was nothing next to that sparked by the discovery of gold in the 1880s, which sparked an enormous wave of immigration. 

Geography

Western Australia covers a vast distance, and only a small fraction of it is inhabited. While the coasts are teeming with human activity, the interior is a vibrant wilderness where few settlers have ventured. 

You might deduce from this that Western Australia's climate is not particularly welcoming – and you’d be mostly right. But that’s only true of the center of the state. In sharp contrast, the south coast enjoys a more Mediterranean climate, while the north is almost tropical – in fact, Kimberly, the state's northernmost region, enjoys monsoonal weather over the hot winter months between November and April. 

Much of the natural beauty on offer in Western Australia is contained within the borders of more than a thousand specially protected areas, and more than ninety-eight national parks – which between them total more than fifty square kilometers – more than 2% of the state’s entire area. The Kalbarri National Park, for example, features a fifty-mile gorge that runs along the end of the Murchison River, with spectacular rock formations on display all around, along with thousands of different species of wildflower and abundant animal life – including the famous kangaroo. 

Those looking for something a little more mountainous might consider the Stirling Range National Park, named after James Stirling himself. This park contains the state’s tallest mountain range, as well as an enormous variety of plant life. The WA tourist board’s website proudly boasts that the park is ‘home to more plant species than you'll find in the entire British Isles’. Those looking for an invitation to move to Australia will struggle to find a more direct one!

Much of the culture in Western Australia is centered within the major cities, of which Perth is by far the largest. The attractions on offer there include King’s Park, a thousand-acre park complete with botanical gardens. It is among the largest inner-city parks in existence and millions of people flock to visit every year. Alternatively, if you’re after a closer look at some of the wildlife, then you might also consider Perth Zoo or the Aquarium of Western Australia, both of which are located in the heart of the city.

Summers in Cheshire is a pleasure. The county is carpeted in lush, green countryside, and filled to bursting with points of special historical and cultural interest. The county is also home to a wealth of hotels, most notably Carden Park, which as well as offering world-class spa and golfing facilities, is also among the best conference venues in Cheshire. From grand, sweeping manors out in the country, to the world-renowned zoo in the heart of Chester, Cheshire offers something for everyone. 

But as well as all of the permanent points of interest the county has to offer, let’s be fair and also consider the shows and other events coming to Cheshire this summer. In this article, we’ll take a whirlwind tour of three of the most intriguing. 



Carfest North

Carfest North is a festival which brings together live music, food and – of course – cars. It comes to Oulton Park in Cheshire on the weekend of the 31st of July and sticks around for the entire weekend – an all to raise money for children in need. 

There is a truly enormous amount of different activities packed into the weekend and so the entire family will never be short of entertainment. The roster of musical acts contains some sure-fire crowd-pleasers. Seasick Steve is bringing his brand of stripped-back blues to the festival, alongside much-beloved artists like The Boomtown Rats, Paul Heaton and Jaqui Abbot. 

But of course, the biggest draw of the weekend will involve the cars themselves. The cars on display are hugely varied, covering everything from immaculate classics to the very latest supercars. As well as simply looking at cars, visitors will also be afforded the opportunity to drive around in them as well, with experiences behind the wheels of both rally cars and 4x4s available. 

Tickets are in high demand, but there are still a few left over for the Friday. If all of this sounds interesting, then don’t wait around – book now and avoid disappointment. 

RHS flower show 

Between the 22nd and 26th of July, the Royal Horticultural society brings its flower show to Cheshire's Tatton park and with it a whole range of different gardening delights. 

Over the course of the show, the park’s grounds will be divided into three distinct zones, each with their own theme. The first is the 'feast' zone, which celebrates the growing trend of growing your own produce. In this area, visitors will find inspiration and ideas to inject into their own gardens. This area's focus lies predominantly, as one might imagine, with growing and eating food and as such it offers plenty of edible delights as well as visual ones. There will be live cookery demos, a market with stalls from more than thirty specialist producers, and a range of allotments in which the masters of the craft will exhibit their skills. 

The second zone is the 'grow' zone, whose focus lies with getting seeds to grow into fully formed plants. Here visitors will be able to take a look at a wealth of potting benches, nursery displays, floral marquees and show gardens and talk to the experts who know how to make it happen. 

The third and final zone is the 'inspire' zone, where the experts get to really show off what can be achieved when modern gardening techniques and technology come together. Here is where you’ll find the competitive gardens, including the contenders for the RHS Young Designer of the Year award, which will be presented to the best garden based on the concept of 'English Country Gardens'. The competition is sure to be fierce this year, and so, if you’re a lover of all things green and flowery, the show is not one to be missed! 

Creamfields 

The seventeenth annual Creamfields festival comes to Cheshire this August and brings with it titans of global dance music like Knife Party, The Chemical Brothers, Tiësto and Fatboy Slim. Revelers will be treated to three days’ worth of relentless dance music – in a variety of styles, stretching from the restrained to the euphoric to the eardrum-exploding– spread across a smorgasbord of stages. 

The organizers have seen fit to put on a range of different luxury camping options for those who can't cope with the additional stress associated with camping. These include luxury tents which can accommodate as many as six people – though, for the asking price, you might consider one of the many hotels in the area, particularly as the festival is just a short trip from Chester. If you'd like to stay locally, there are a range of luxury hotels near Chester, most of them just a short taxi ride from the grounds themselves.

Where is my son? These four words made my world stopped yesterday. My son has been riding school service since last year. It was our decision so my son would learn how to be independent. That he would understand that time will come that I can’t accompany him in school and I can’t stay in school until his dismissal.

I did not have any problems until yesterday. Every day, at 2:30PM I will just stay in the living room waiting for the school service. The service stopped in front of our house, I opened our gate and waited for my son to get off. I was waiting for a few minutes and I find it unusual. I was already nervous because the assistant and the kids were just staring at me without saying a word.

I called my son “Ethan”, I was wondering bakit ayaw bumaba. Then the driver came to me and asked. Driver: Ma’m pumasok po ba si Ethan?
Me: Oo
Driver: Sabi po kasi ni (insert name) absent daw po.
Me: Ha? E paano naman niya malalaman na absent hindi naman sila magclassmate.
Driver: Ganun po ba.
Me: Wala classmate si Ethan na kaservice niya ngayon.
Driver: Pasyensya na po ma’m. Tawagan ko na po si (insert name), mga 3:15 nandito na po si Ethan.

I said ok then the service left. My world suddenly stopped and there were so many things running in my head. Where is my son? Nakarating ba siya sa school kanina? Hindi na nila nakita sa school? Nakuha ba nila pero di nila naisakay sa service? Nakalimutan nila sunduin?

If the driver knew that my son was absent, why bother to go to our house. They knew that I always text them if my son is absent or if I will fetch my son in school.

Yes, I’m a paranoid mom but you can’t blame me because Ethan is my only son and I’m not prepared to lose him just because someone forgot to pick him up. I called my husband to inform him and texted all the drivers of school service to check my son in school. My husband asked me kung pupuntahan na ba niya sa school, it just so happened that he was in their Cavite office so it was just one tolgate away from my son’s school.

I felt relieved when the driver replied “dito na po sa kin si Ethan” and “on the way na po sila, late kasi pinalabas ng teacher”. I texted my husband na nakita na si Ethan so wag na siya punta school.

When the service came, the operator of the service said sorry. “Pasyensya na po ma’m, bago po pahinante ko, pinagalitan ko na na po. Kasi may list naman sila ng mga bata kaya dapat wag aalis hanggat di kumpleto.”

I just told her, “wag na sana mauulit ito, aatakihin ko sa puso”. I wanted to get angry with them because of what happened, I entrusted my only son to them and ito lang mangyayari. But I know it is useless na magalit pa, my son was home.

After we talked, I went inside the house and saw my son crying. I asked him why are you crying?

Ethan: Iwan ako sa school. No more kids and no service. I’m alone.

He was just crying and crying and all I can do is to comfort him and I told him, if mangyari ulit yan. Do not go out, stay inside the school. Baka kunin ka ng bad guys.

Ethan: I did not go out. I just sit on the floor. I’m alone, no more kids and service.
Me: Don’t cry na, I have pasalubong for you. I bought you a donut. He smiled and ate the donut.

Nang mahismasmasan na, I asked him.

Me: Did you see (insert name of his friend)?
Ethan: Yes, I saw (insert name) kuha siya service.
Me: After nun, bumalik pa service?
Ethan: No, no more kids and service na. I cried.
Me: Why are you alone? where is your teacher?
Ethan: Wala teacher.
Me: Wala si (name of teacher)? Eh kanino mo binigay class number.
Ethan: Wala class number kanina.

Hmm, if my son saw his friend bakit sasabihin ng service na late pinalabas. Nakita nga niya na kinuha ng service so nakalimutan talaga na balikan. It really saddened me to know that he was really alone and it seems that he is waiting for nothing. Naawa talaga ko sa kanya. So I wrote a letter to his teacher to notify her of what happened yesterday. I don't know what is their SOP pero dapat hindi iniiwan ang bata ng wala pa sundo, e paano na lang kung iba sumundo sa anak ko, wala makakapagsabi kung sino kumuha. I drew a picture of their lobby and I asked him, can you show me where you stayed? Then he wrote the word floor and drew a stick figure.



I told him, next time talk to guard and tell him na wala pa service or sundo mo so he/she can inform me, may number naman ko sa ID mo. His daddy told him that he will give him a cellphone so he can text or call us but he said, no cellphone sa school.

I can hardly sleep last night because of what happened. I guess I will always be a paranoid mom. Dati, paranoid na ko pagnalelate ng dating ang service and now kahit nandyan na service, kakabahan pa rin ako, iisipin ko kung nasa loob na ng service anak ko.

I really hope that this won’t happen again. My son is so precious to me and I hope teacher and school service will take care of him. They are also parents so they will understand my feeling.

I would like to end this post with a quote, Elizabeth Stone said, “Making the decision to have a child - it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”

Italy is a place where everybody will find something to love. It is such an amazing place that you will probably want to return again and again, and you will still discover new things each time. Indeed, the wide variety of Globus Tours to Italy shows just how many options are out there. However, as with any country, you do need to know a few things about local customs and laws to get the most out of your visit.


General Tips 

1. Museums and many other tourist attractions do not allow photography.
2. Do not walk around in your bikini or other beachwear. 
3. While there are now many multi-region DVDs, if you are bringing discs with you, they may not work. 
4. Italian stores don’t often allow you to return things, so make sure everything is in order before you pay for something. 
5. Some stores do not let you try their clothes on.
6. Italy is not very accessible for people in wheelchairs. 
7. The central and northern beaches in Italy allow topless sunbathing. Most beaches in the south do not. 
8. Most hotels do not have pools and very few programs on television are in English. 

Health and Safety 

1. Everything you eat is likely to contain olive oil and wine. These are laxatives, so be aware of that. 
2. The emergency telephone number is 113. 
3. The Italian word for ‘help’ is ‘aiuto’ (pronounced ay-you-toe). 
4. Crime levels in Italy are low, but larger cities see their fair share of purse-snatchers and pickpockets. 
5. Try not to drink tap water, as it contains a lot of chlorine. 

Dining Out

1. It is uncommon to ask a restaurant to make changes to whatever is on their menu, like fries instead of rice. 
2. Ask for the check when you are ready to go.
3. A very small service charge is sometimes added to your final bill, but a cash tip is more common. 
4. Breakfast tends to be about 8am, lunch about 1pm and dinner around 9pm.
5. You can buy and consume alcohol anywhere at any time, regardless of your age. 
6. Restaurants don’t have kids’ menus. Ask for a half a portion instead. 

Holidays and Opening Times

1. Banks tend to only be open in the morning until 1.30pm. 
2. Churches are usually open on the morning and after around 4pm till about 6pm. 
3. Most museums close on Monday. 
4. Lunchtime means shops close. This is usually between 1pm and 3.30pm. Most shops are also closed on Sunday, as it is a Catholic country. 
5. Don’t go to Italy in August if you can avoid it, because most Italians are on vacation then, meaning almost everything is shut. 
6. Some of the main holidays aside from Christmas, New Year and Easter include January 6 Epiphany, April 25 Liberation Day, May 1 May Day, June 2 Festival of the Republic, November 1 Farragosto, November 1 All Saints Day, December 8 Immaculate Conception and December 26 Feast of St Stephen.

After my phototherapy session last Saturday, we went to Festival Mall to pay bills and buy stuff in National Bookstore for my son’s experiment in Science. While going to the bookstore, we saw Sbarro, I thought they are already closed, they just moved to new location lang pala.



It’s been a while since our last visit so we had lunch here. We availed their cheese promo pizza, NY-style 17-inch pizza for P289. The Pasta Tortellini is P144.75 (I think 25% off). 





My son is not fond of pizza before, most of the time he will just eat the pizza toppings but ever since he watched the “Home Alone” movie where Kevin ordered cheese pizza, he now loves pizza. He wants cheese pizza and if it is not available, we will order pepperoni.

As expected, we enjoyed our pizza and pasta. The cheese pizza is so big so we took home the left over for our snacks.

I have Happyplus Card since 2013 because I really eat in Jollibee, Chowking, Greenwich and Red Ribbon so I earn points every time I load and buy using my happyplus card. 

Read: How to Get and Renew Happyplus Card

But we get more points from Caltex, I love the P100 = P1 promo of Caltex and Happyplus. When we went to Acuatico Beach Resort, we dropped by in Jollibee San Juan Batangas to buy food for our lunch. I told my husband to check our points and pa-happy transfer na rin.



It was really a happy transfer because we already have 678.14 points or P678.14 that we can use. Yehey for free food. 



When we got our food I was also surprised to see a note “Keep smiling.” Wow, may note pa sila. Kudos to the staff.

There are so many resorts in Laiya, San Juan, Batangas, as in sa dami niya I don’t think I could try them all. So far we’ve visited four resorts including Acuatico Beach Resort and Hotel. You can check here the other resorts that we’ve visited.  


Acuatico is one of the popular resorts in San Juan, Batangas so it is really in my bucket list for so long. I want to reserve a room but I find it expensive for my budget since I've read a lot of mixed reviews so I was really thinking if it is really worth it. Secondly, it was hard to book a room because it is always fully booked, as in you need to book ahead of time especially summer season.


Imagine my excitement when my husband told me that we will go to Acuatico Beach Resort. He received a confirmation voucher last month from a friend and it was already booked. I want to insert happy dance here but when I checked our calendar, it is my son’s first monthly exam. Spell R-E-V-I-E-W time. 

In addition, there were no classes for 3 days due to bad weather. So a week before our trip, I was praying hard for good weather, sayang naman if hindi matuloy and like I said mahirap magpabook. 

Fast forward to our trip, we went to Asian Hospital first for my 12th session of phototherapy  then off we went to Batangas. Travel time from Alabang is more or less 3 hours including our drive-thru at Jollibee San Juan Batangas for our lunch. 

Arrived at the resort at 12:12NN. They gave us welcome drinks and since check-in time is 1PM we need to wait but we can already use the amenities and facilities while waiting. 

Finally, I saw the beauty of Acuatico Beach Resort and Hotel and it is indeed picturesque. Click here for the video

Twin bed

Complimentary drinks and cookie (uraro), complimentary coffee and tea,  mini ref, safety deposit box, bible and cable tv and phone.

It was holiday last Friday so we went to my grandmother for a quick visit and we immediately went to Asian Hospital for my phototherapy session but unfortunately the Dermatology Laser and Light Center was closed. Waah! I forgot that they are closed during the holidays too. 

We went to Festival Mall to eat our lunch, we ate at Super Bowl of China. I’m not fond of Chinese food so it took me a while to try this restaurant. It was already past 1PM but the restaurant was still packed. I thought it was just a small restaurant but I was surprised to see a lot of tables inside. 



While perusing the menu, they gave us complimentary tea and chips which my son immediately ate. So they gave us another chips while waiting for our order. Hehehe! 



The meal is good for 2 to 3 persons so we just ordered Lechon Macau P350, Rice and Drinks. Since our bill is more than P500, we got this Pancit for P1 only. 



Well, the food is just ok for us, the lechon macau is crunchy but a little bit salty and dry. It is very far from the Lechon Macau that I’ve tasted in Macau.  The Pancit is just ok too. 

The service is good, even there were a lot of diners, it took them several minutes to serve our food. The staff will greet you once you enter and leave the restaurant.

Every year, I always look forward to the list of Philippines holiday and school calendar so I could plan for our long weekend. I want to know if we could plan a travel trip or home renovation on those dates. It is really nice to take advantage of those long weekends for a family trip if budget permits. Anyway, we still have six remaining long weekends for the second half of 2015. #walangpasok

July 17-19 - EID’L FITR on July 17 (Friday) 
Aug 21-23 - August 21 is Ninoy Aquino Day (Friday). 
Aug 29-31 - August 31 is National Heroes Day (Monday) 
Nov 28-30 - November 30 is Bonifacio Day (Monday) 
Dec 24-27 - December 24 is Christmas Eve (Thursday) and December 25 is Christmas (Friday) 
Dec 30 - Jan 3 - Dec 30 is Rizal Day (Wednesday) and December 31 is New Year’s Eve (Thursday).

I’ve just learned this yesterday so mark your calendar. Though this is not a long weekend. Palace declares November 18 and 19 as Special Non-Working Days in NCR for the APEC Summit (Proc 1072).

For the longest time, Feb. 25 is always a working holiday but the school has no classes but this coming 2016 “Palace declares Feb 25, 2016 as Special Non-working Holiday for 30th anniversary of EDSA revolution.”

Time incredibly flies so fast and I didn’t notice that it’s been seven years already since I resigned from my work. I can’t imagine that I will find joy in being a stay at home mom because I never planned to be a housewife. 


When I resigned from my work and I need to fill up some forms, it took me a while to write HOUSEWIFE in my position. It is not that I’m ashamed of it but I’m not just used to it. But that was before because now, I don’t mind writing housewife and telling people that I’m a full-time mom.

Since I’m not used to not having my own salary, I became a mompreneur, I sell books, organic products and preloved stuff in Multiply site then I stopped. After that, I tried working as a ghost writer. I was a work-at-home mom for less than a year only because I felt guilty of not having enough time with my son. I spent most of my time on my laptop, trying to finish all my deadlines so I reminded myself the reason why I resigned from my work. So I decided to focus on my son and be a full-time mom. 

For the last seven years, I always say I’m a housewife, stay at home mom or full-time mom but I have no idea that some working moms were annoy reading and hearing “full-time mom” because for them there is no “part-time mom”. They are working moms but it doesn’t mean, that they are no longer mothers when they are in the office. If there is no such thing as a full-time wife or part-time wife then there is no full-time mom.

I got their point but have they also consider the feelings of stay at home moms whenever they hear “I’m a working mother”. Do you think that housewives are not working? Like Jane Sellman said, “The phrase working mother is redundant”. 

We may not be in the corporate world but it doesn’t mean that we are not working. We have a lot of work to do at home like cooking, cleaning, tutoring and many other tasks. The bottom line is all mothers are working. 

Working moms, work at home moms and full-time moms are all mothers. Let us not focus on the labels. If moms who are working in the corporate world want to be called working moms, so be it. If moms who are working at home and taking care of their children want to be called work at home moms or mompreneurs, so be it. If moms who chose to resign from their job and want to be housewives, full-time moms, stay at home moms, domestic goddess, a homemaker and whatever labels they wanted, so be it.



It is just label. At the end of the day we know that all mothers have the same goal in life, we want to be the best mom that we are meant to be. We need to love, teach, discipline and guide our children on the right path. Let us be happy and respect mothers in their own chosen career whether working moms, work at home moms and full-time moms. #mindyourownmotherhood

"Motherhood is not a battle against mothers. Motherhood is your journey with your children"

My friend gave me Garlic Salt and Italian Seasoning last week so I decided to have roast chicken and beef steak this week. I already cooked roast chicken last Tuesday but when I saw our beef steak, it was cut like breakfast steak or bistik tagalog. Waah, my husband thought I will cook bistik tagalog. 

You might be wondering why I was shocked when I saw the beef. Well, I’m so blessed to have a husband who goes to the wet market every weekend to buy our weekly stock. All I need to do is write our menu and things to buy. He will asked the vendor to cut the meat according to our menu. 

So I have no idea about the current price in the market, feeling ko tumataas kasi konti sukli or wala na sukli after mamili. Hehehe! Anyway, because the cut is to thin, I decided to cook steak bites instead. 

I sliced the beef into bite sized, seasoned with garlic salt and cracked pepper. Melt the butter in a pan and make sure you cook the meat in high heat. Cook according to your degree of doneness.


My photo doesn’t give justice because it looks like beef tapa hehehe! But my family loves it.