Everyone Sleeps Better with Halo! Everyone Bonds Better at Mom & Me!

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Experts agree that sleep is the most crucial factor in a child’s development.  As parents, providing a safe and healthy sleeping environment is the single most important thing we can do to ensure our children get a good start in life.  That is why the HALO® SleepSack® is a MUST-HAVE for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers.

Halo SleepSack Swaddle 2-in-1

Halo SleepSack Swaddle 2-in-1

The HALO SleepSack® is a wearable blanket that eliminates the risk of a baby getting entangled with clothing and loose bedding during sleep.  It is worn over pajamas or a t-shirt in place of loose blankets that can easily be kicked off, thus ensuring a cozy warm and sounder sleep.  HALO provides a practical alternative to loose bedding like quilts and bumpers, which are not only unsafe for babies, but expensive and difficult to clean.  More importantly, it enables
safer and sounder sleep, which is a pre-requisite for growth, learning, and brain development.  It’s no wonder HALO is the no. 1 choice of parents and hospitals!

The scary SIDS!

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is any sudden, unexplained death of a seemingly healthy infant up to an age of one year.  SIDS claims over 8 babies a
day and 2,500 lives year, making it the leading cause of death in otherwise healthy babies after one month of age.  There are several theories about the potential causes of SIDS.  However, several known risk factors are associated
with increased probability of the syndrome, including the baby’s sleeping environment.

Loose Bedding Makes Us Lose Our Babies!
U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission warnings against loose bedding in the crib have made many parents unsure about how to keep their baby comfortable and safe.  Bedding that bunches up around a baby’s mouth can cause dangerous re-breathing of carbon dioxide –– a leading risk factor for SIDS.

Halo SleepSack Wearable Blanket

Halo SleepSack Wearable Blanket

The Solution: The HALO SleepSack [Read more...]

Mom I Love 1: Rhia Frio (Mother’s Day 2013)

As I am typing now, it’s only about 30 minutes to go before Mother’s Day.  So to all the moms out there, happy mother’s day to us!  Never thought this’d be a big deal for me but I am giddy about it for some reason.  I guess that “some reason” is this squirming sleeping baby boy beside me.

Anyway, I salute us moms for being, well, moms.  We’ve seen a bazillion quotes depicting how much of a Herculean task being a mom is and all.  I’ve met so many amazing moms both personally and in the blogosphere, but two moms amaze me so much that I have to feature them here.  They are real people, and I will write about them not because they’re selling something and I want to use the “good mom” angle and then I will slyly add, “…and oh, she also owns this blah-blah-blah company”, sabay link ng online shop.  Ahahaha!  Basta sobrang from the heart ito. :)

First mom I’d feature is my spiritual mother, Rhia Frio.  Here she is with hubby Art Frio ladies and gentlemen:

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Rhia and Art Frio

Saan lumabas ang mga bata?  Saan?!?

Would you believe she’s past 40 (sorry Rhia!!!), and that four boys came out of that body?!?  And that two of her boys have already graduated from UP, one is a student leader in the College of St. Benilde, and the youngest has just graduated from grade school?  I love her but I hate her for maintaining that figure!  To think she’s not even exercising regularly.  And as far as I know, she’s not dieting.  Grrr!

May lumabas na 4 na batang lalaki jan?

May lumabas na 4 na batang lalaki jan?

So aside from her figure, why else do I love her (no I don’t hate you, silly! :) )?  Because her husband and kids are crazy about her.  Sobra.  And because she’s crazy about serving God.  Sobra rin.

The Kikay Christian [Read more...]

Last Mother’s Day…

…Raviv and I played in the rain!  T’was a hot Sunday, and we were sweating profusely.  But the heaven poured its heart out for this mother and son tandem.

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playing in the rain

So let’s sing!!!

Ooh, I hear laughter in the rain
Walking hand in hand with the one I love
Ooh, how I love the rainy days
And the happy way I feel inside….

Ladies and gentlemen, that by the way is from Neil Sedaka’s Laughter in the Rain  Neil who?  THE Neil Sedaka.

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On Disney Channel! SOFIA THE FIRST: ONCE UPON A PRINCESS

Disney will introduce its first little girl princess with the debut of “Sofia the First: Once Upon A Princess,” an enchanting, music-filled animated Disney Junior television movie for the whole family, SUNDAY, MAY 19 at 11.00am on Disney Channeland MONDAY, MAY 27 at 1.00pm on Disney Junior.   A “Sofia the First” television series will premiere in July 2013.

"Sofia the First: One Upon A Princess"

“Sofia the First: One Upon A Princess”

Set in the storybook world of Enchantia, the movie introduces Sofia, an average girl whose life suddenly transforms when her mother marries the king and she becomes a princess, Sofia the First.  Sofia must learn to navigate the extraordinary life of royalty while holding on to her own hopes and dreams. Her journey to being the best she can be also paves the way for those around her to realize how special they each are.  Disney’s Cinderella makes an appearance in the movie to offer Sofia some words of wisdom – princess to princess. [Read more...]

The Real Estate Company is Called Greenfield Because They’re Greenhorns.

 

I am taking a time out of my busy schedule for this blog post.  I am so freaking angry I’ll burst if I don’t write!

Greenfield Development sucks bigtime!  I’ve never been this fuming at any other establishment before.  Despite the long day I had (my day started at 5 am and work ceased at 7 pm) yet what I would like to right now is go to Metro Manila and give the people at Greenfield a piece of my mind! Its engineers are rude, its HR does nothing, and even its top honchos act arrogantly! Mas mabilis pa ang government workers sa kanila! Daig pa ang gobyerno sa red tape at bureaucracy!

First, the contract of the land we bought from them was delayed big time. To think we paid in full right (cash) right away! In the scheduled month we were to get the contract, that was the only time they processed it. This delay impeded our construction last year and we had to face angry parents who enrolled their kids to our building in Greenfield!  We kept silent and troubleshot the kapalpakan.  It meant begging the principal of Caritas Don Bosco to take us in at such a short notice, and buying four split type airconditioning units to install and uninstalled in Caritas Don Bosco for a month.  You probably know how much the installation and uninstallation alone cost!

Second, we were the only ones requested to put up tarpaulins on their lampposts (which have been vacant for the last years).  After a long time of waiting for the approval it was rejected because suddenly may ikakabit daw sila sa lampposts.  It has been more than two months and yet until now vacant pa rin ang lampposts.

Image courtesy of jobstreet.com.ph

Image courtesy of jobstreet.com.ph

Third, I’ve been contacting an engineer who just ignored my calls and texts after a matinong usapan and a promise.  Deadma, as in deadma!  All I was asking him were the contact numbers and email addresses of the people concerned as, like I told him, I did not want to bother him if he cannot answer my queries.  He promised to give me those simple requests and when I was following up, he no longer replied!  Never picked up my calls too!  When I expressed my disappointment over his (in)actions, deadma uli. [Read more...]