A pregnant friend is starting to worry about who will take care of her child after her maternity leave. She is contemplating on resigning, or well, retiring to take care of her child. I told her that they could make use of, not that I tried wireless cctv cameras in the market.

I remember an officemate telling me they just had to call a number to watch their baby real time. While I see a lot of “hidden camera” videos of nannies getting caught red handed, I think it’s in best interest of the child to inform the nanny that she is being recorded. This way, she will never attempt to do something unacceptable as opposed to “will not be doing it anymore after being caught”.

I am supposed to be sleeping now but still not finished packing our stuff for tomorrow’s offsite. Bringing sunscreen for the skin and another sunscreen for the hair. There’s sunscreen for the lips, right? I should buy that too. Haha. And oh yeah, better not forget my back acne treatment or it would be super uncomfortable at night.

I’m bringing our little girl with me. I saw this nice kiddie activity area from the venue’s website. I just hope I am not in any way fooled by that photo. Or I’d be very disappointed. It would be very hard to bring a toddler to an offsite so it better be worth it.

Today, my daughter (together with kids of friends) had a grand time playing at the newest branch of Active Fun located at the 3rd level of SM Annex.

The kids had fun swimming in the pool of balls, going up and down the padded steps and stairs, and sliding down the giant slides, while mommies had fun taking pictures paparazzo-style. These are just some of the many fun things for the kids in the place.

Wouldn’t it be nice to spend your kid’s birthday in such fun place?

Active Fun have several party packages for the perfect party with invitations, lootbags, cake and of course, unlimited play! Click on the photo below to view the packages.

Click on the thumbnail below to see a wide-angled view of the place.

More photos will be uploaded to my Facebook and Flickr soon. Stay tuned.

Today, we visited our team mate who just gave birth. It made me miss holding a newborn. I remember when our daughter was just a little baby, sleeping soundly in her Bob stroller while hubby and I leisurely wander around the mall. I sort of miss the smell of a newborn too.

But later tonight, after doing some accounting of the family monthly expenses, I suddenly changed my mind. I realized that I do not miss holding a newborn at all!

I guess I’ll just have to wait for my sister or sister-in-law to have theirs. I’m sure after just a week of sleepless nights, the new mom would gladly allow me to hold her baby for her.

Going to a shower party, baptismal party, or a first birthday party? Or you simply want something for your baby? Why don’t you buy baby gifts?

I stumbled on this cute site, the nest shop where I saw cute Pajama sets, ultra nice brag tags, tub toys and so much more! It is so easy to shop. Everything is so neatly categorized. Categories include nap time, meal time and bath time among others. So many baby needs, you can find here!

And for photo addict moms like me, you can find tons of different frames and albums on the site too!

Of course, they have items on sale too! You can subscribe to their special offers and get a 10% off coupon. Shop now!

Yesterday was yet another time to mingle with my equally beautiful cousins. (Yes, in spite of being ugly on those pictures, I still think I’m pretty hehehe) One cousin gave me a package of beauty products with Ephedrasil hardcore. This was because I once asked her what she has been using on her face because she looked radiant.

While two other cousins were the mothers of the two other flower girls in the entourage. Believe it or not, we didn’t agree on what we were to wear on the event but yesterday three of us were wearing purple. My reason for wearing purple was in case BG didn’t want to walk down the aisle I could accompany her without looking off (and still complementary to the wedding theme). It turned out, they were thinking of the same thing.

Most moms, in my opinion, have some sort of sideline job to help augment the family budget. Maintaining the family’s financial health can be tricky. Sometimes you loan for money just to cover another debt. And then, before you know it, you are deep in debt.

I saw the Debt Free, LCC site which can help you get out of debt. They have debt elimination and wealth building system. Whether you have credit card, mortgage, auto or student loans debt, this company can build a plan to help you pay off your debt in few years. You may download your customized roadmap to being debt-free. Try them now.

On my way to our meet-up, I realized how early it was. Yes, it is Friday but it used to be that at that hour, I am likely to be still in bed. Meet-ups were scheduled usually at 8pm the earliest. But now that mommies were meeting up, it wasn’t a night out. It was lunch and coffee meet-up.

It turned out that I wasn’t the only one who have this observation. One mom related that once she went out with friends on a late night to be “in” and cool. But instead of “chillaxin”, she was yawning at 10pm.

Expectedly, at 6pm, everyone was in a hurry to leave.

Trick or treat! Smell my feet! Give me something to eat!

Last Monday, the Trick-Or-Treat teaser was sent out to all employees in our company. I know single employees would probably ignore the email unless it indicates free audio books, perhaps of the Twilight collection or something. Honestly even I who has a daughter just sort of scanned the teaser, saw that it was scary enough and moved on to another email. We received so MANY emails a day, teasers like this one I rarely take more than 3 minutes to read.

One concerned parent reacted on the teaser last Wednesday though. (I am a member of a parents’ club in our company so I was copied on the said email.)

Take a look at this and check if you can read the hidden yet disturbing message too:

Not? Let me rotate it for you:

A revised teaser along with a public apology was sent out immediately.

Yes, I am so BUSY today with a capital B… With work, of course. I need to finish all these soon because we are in tight schedule plus I am on leave next Monday. This is so that I can rest after two days of partying (Twitter EB and MBAP party, no, it won’t be hard partying but since these are family-oriented parties, I’m pretty sure I’d be dead tired). Hubby works from home on Mondays so he can rest too.

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Anyway, BG has runny nose. So I kept giving her water. She loves drinking Del Monte Fit ‘n Right Four Seasons but since this has L-Carnitine this is really NOT recommended for toddlers. So what I did was, buy Del Monte Four Seasons in cans (without the L-Carnitine, just the simple fibrous juice) and pour its contents to a Fit ‘n Right bottle and add some water. Viola! BG loves drinking her juice!

Mommy tricks.

Mothers want the best for their kids. So we try to get all the help we can get. When our kids watch TV, we choose the educational ones. We read them books at night and teach them as much as we could. Same when choosing kids games. We want them to enjoy playing but at the same time, learn from it. Aside from mac games, there are games that teach environmental issues awareness like the global warning game, teaching easy tips on how to contribute to the solution.

upon arriving at the office, and opening your laptop bag, you find a little “remembrance”

I love blogging. It’s just that I’m swamped with work. Plus BG’s yaya is on vacation for 3 weeks. So I’m juggling between work and motherhood. I didn’t even twitter today.

Guess what? I’m still working at this hour! Tsk, tsk.

I’ll just get myself adjusted then I’ll be blogging and bloghop again like crazy. After all, I am bloggerhappy.

1. Finish work. I’ve started work late today because I knew that I need to be working till tomorrow morning. Geez!
2. Rest. And feel the fresh bed sheets that have gotten cold from the “bed” weather.
3. Party. Uhm, not a drink-like-crazy party but a very conservative reunion with hubby’s relatives. Now I better think of something to wear besides shorts.
4. Scrap. Got some kits that haven’t been used. Still in need of pictures to scrap. I should go out of the house more often. Tsk, tsk. (Too bad I missed going to our team outing in Fontana today. Still not allowed to go on long drives.)

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I honestly think I’ve been twittering too much. Why? ‘Coz I can’t think of anything to write today that I haven’t twitted. (Is there such a word? If you’re on twitter, you’d say yes! Hahaha)