A Space to Just Be

We survived our first year as a homeschooling family, woohoo! Before we took the plunge last July 2017, I remember following the advice of homeschooling mom Donna Pangilinan-Simpao, as written in her blog and I quote item # 1, 1. The first thing I’d like for you to do is to create a solid foundation for your homeschooling. Create a Mission – Vision – Purpose for your homeschooling journey. Take time to draft this with your spouse/ partner and children. Roy was hesistant at first because we were clear naman daw but still, I persisted and now, he got surprised that we have a mission-vision. 😂 Anyway, here's what we drafted last July 14, Mission: That as Isay grows through life, she understands that the knowledge and wisdom she seeks can be found through curiosity, persistence and working with others. Vision: That she becomes a self-directed learner. To launch an individual who is interdependent and can be self-sustaining. We have yet to update this after learn

I'm back!  So excited to have learned a new skill this week. :) It's my first time to make a video and in my humble opinion, the amateur feel of it is so refreshing. hehe. Looking forward to making more and eventually create videos of Isay and the rest of the family.  It would be nice to get rid of those dead skin cells and feel refreshed in this extreme summer heat! So today, I'm featuring the Epoch Glacial Marine Mud sachets which I got for free months ago.  Not exactly a new product, the EGMM comes in a full-size 200 mL tube. These 5 mL sachets are on trial packaging so if you want to try it, I'm giving away sachets to 2 lucky readers. Just leave a comment below and I'll see how these online raffles work. 😂 *you're welcome* Here are the products that I used: 1. Pure Cleansing Gel 2. Epoch Glacial Marine Mud 3. ph balanced Mattefying Toner

It's always a treat, oftentimes indulgent, to wear a red lippie in broad daylight. Nakaka- conscious if you know what I mean. People look at you with inquiring eyes, " San ang lakad 'te? " :D And that thought in your head, has it smeared? Did some go to my teeth? But oh well, it's fun being a girl!

Hooray for reaching 31 years! Birthdays really wouldn't mean anything if we know that we can live forever. These celebrations simply remind us to stay grounded and to spend time with the people who matter most to us because time on this earth, like everything else, has a deadline. Cheers to living younger for longer and with a purpose.

Taking a quick break from all the Spartan Transformation excitement and be kikay for a few minutes. Do you need a simple trick to look polished and different without looking too made up? Define your brows! Discovering what works for you is a process and there are hundreds of tutorials on YouTube for the how-tos. There are also hundreds of products - from pencils to liquids, powder to mascara and my favorite beauty bloggers are constantly on the look-out for great finds. So, google away! ^_^ Would just love to document here how it transforms me and somehow makes me feel more confident and ok-looking in photos. haha.  L-R: Daylight, Zero Makeup, Yellow (Coffeeshop) Lighting  Big difference, in my opinion. :)

4 years and 5 months. Hay, the inevitable has happened and so far, we're moving on. Hindi na nga lang ganun kabilis ma-wipe out ang labada. haha! Amymy had to return home to be full-time lola to her second apo.We're excited to have her back in the future! <3 

It's one thing to experience my own success and another thing to have my loved ones experience it as well. 3 months just seemed to fly by and here I am now sharing the success of my husband! *loud applause* I'm grateful to him for allowing me to enroll him in the program. Just like me before starting, he didn't see the urgency of enrolling because he could still get away with being overweight. No particular illness yet except for the pain in his feet and general discomfort when walking long distances. Now, he feels so much younger and looking much younger too! Here are his official 90-day success photos. :) Without exercise and starving, he achieved the following milestones: > total weight loss: 24.4 lbs > body fat loss: 11.7 lbs > body age: 7 years younger > killer visceral fat: 4 levels down > total of 5.5 INCHES trimmed from waist-hip measurements Amazing right? I'm so grateful to the whole Spartan Transformation family for cont