Jovell A.'s Blog (42)

WAHM Tips: How To Make Your Kids Love Studying

Have you received your Amazon Deals email yet?

Do you have your gift list done already?

I ask because I have been getting a lot of personalized recommendations from Amazon for gift ideas to my email lately. This made me more aware that the holidays is just around the corner and this made me really feel the change of the seasons again.

What’s the Amazon…

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Added by Jovell A. on January 17, 2013 at 11:47pm — No Comments

How To Receive Your Pay When You Work At Home

Mama do you withdraw your salary from the computer?

My son asked me this question when they, my children, we’re trying to understand how I earn from my work at home jobs.

My answer is both yes and no.

Yes, I withdraw my income. No, I…

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Added by Jovell A. on January 17, 2013 at 11:46pm — No Comments

What Work Can You Do At Home? Top WAHM Jobs

Yes, these are the top jobs we, mothers can do to be able to work from home.

These jobs will allow you to take care of your families and earn a good amount of income already.

While many suggest that we put up a home-based…

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Added by Jovell A. on November 26, 2012 at 8:29pm — 2 Comments

Bite Into A Strawberry and Marshmallow Smores Cobbler

When children are on vacation from school, they always look and ask for ways on how they can spend their free time.

Here in our home, the best way they spend it is by…what else…eating!

So during their last semestral break, my husband and I got busy in the kitchen and we thought of different meals to keep the children engaged.

Here’s one…

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Added by Jovell A. on November 18, 2012 at 4:42am — No Comments

Family Bonding ~ Things That Make Us Stick Together

Every year around the last week of October, students in the Philippines have their semestral break.

Today is the last day of this week long vacation for my children.

During the past days, we had lots of bonding moments which we intend to do again when time permits. Some of the stuff we did were quite unusual but I think some other whacky families may be…

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Added by Jovell A. on November 18, 2012 at 4:38am — No Comments

Presenting ~ The WAHM Jobs Page!

Finding legitimate work-at-home jobs is a daunting task. There are SO many sites out there which claim to give opportunities to work-at-home but all they ask for are fees for users to have access to other job boards.

I know…been there…done that…

It’s exhausting and sometimes, you can’t help but lose all hope of one day finding a job which you…

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Added by Jovell A. on November 1, 2012 at 7:06pm — No Comments

Keeping The Colds Away This Brrrr…Months

The weather is starting to get colder now here in Baguio City. It changed from sunny to windy and cold overnight. In other cities in the Philippines, I heard it has started to rain again even if the rainy season is supposed to be over.

When this cold temperature approaches, I expect my children to come home from school one day with…

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Added by Jovell A. on October 28, 2012 at 6:46am — No Comments

Helping Shape Children's Expectations

We parents often have high expectations from our children. It is a natural way of thinking because we take pride in giving much of our time and energy in molding their characters.

Just a few weeks ago my children had their 2nd grading final exams. Now in only a few…

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Added by Jovell A. on October 20, 2012 at 6:39am — No Comments

Peanut For A WAHM In A Stew

A WAHM’s life is not always a pie-in-the-sky.

There will be moments when finding the balance between work and family life almost seems impossible.

Like these last days, I faced the final exam days of my children. And they sure were hectic ones!

These final exams occur 4 times in a year every year. These are also the times of the year when I feel balancing…

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Added by Jovell A. on October 20, 2012 at 6:37am — No Comments

Understanding A Teenager’s Brain

Some of you may know the TV show “The Doctors” aired on CBS.

I love watching it when I get the chance. I’m just a fan of medical shows which help common people like me understand complex medical terms and conditions and know how to apply their medical advises in real life.

One of their segments last week captured my attention the most because it involved understanding how different a teenager’s brain is from that of their parents and other adults.

This difference…

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Added by Jovell A. on October 20, 2012 at 6:34am — No Comments

Easy Steps To Better Relationships

The night before I received the Liebster Blog Award, my hubby and I had an argument.

When I think back, I think it's so petty but we really became heated in our conversation that eventually it led to an angry bout.…

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Added by Jovell A. on October 3, 2012 at 5:55am — No Comments

How Did I Become A WAHM?

I've been asked this question many times already, both by friends and acquaintances, online and offline. And recently from a comment in my blog from a fellow mommy blogger.

It's been a tedious…

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Added by Jovell A. on October 3, 2012 at 5:52am — No Comments

Liebster Blog Award

"When you're down and troubled and you nee

d a helping hand and nothing, oh nothing is going right..."

I'm sure you all know the song...:)

Been feeling a little down…

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Added by Jovell A. on September 28, 2012 at 7:48am — No Comments

The Best Stress Relievers

Yesterday, I woke up a little cranky because I slept late the other night. I also learned of some bad news through an early phone call.

So my day was really not starting out well.

My younger children were not helping make the morning better too, with their constant quarreling over little things while they were…

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Added by Jovell A. on September 25, 2012 at 10:02pm — No Comments

The Right Approach -- To Weight Loss

Not all of us, women is endowed with sexy, voluptuous bodies.

Well...voluptuous with curves maybe...but sexy?

Let's admit it, most of us, especially after giving birth have gained some weight. There are even girls who, despite not giving birth, pretty much have a hard time keeping those ugly FATS off! Ugh!

I often tell my husband, if only Dr. Vicky Belo, a popular…

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Added by Jovell A. on September 21, 2012 at 7:15pm — No Comments

Children's Vitamin Intake Has A Limit Too

Just got home from the pediatrician.

My son has had a cough for more than a week now and the past 2 days he's had a slight fever. His cough seems to be worsening even with taking cough medicine so I decided to ask for the doctor's help already.

Our pediatrician has been a big help to me for the past 11 years I…

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Added by Jovell A. on September 21, 2012 at 7:11pm — No Comments

On Identity Theft ~ A Caution

Do you have an enemy?

I believe we all can't help but have enemies in our lifetime, whether we choose to or not.

We just can't please everybody and there will be, even just once, an incidence where somebody wouldn't like us at all...even if we are not doing anything bad to them.…

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Added by Jovell A. on September 15, 2012 at 2:07am — No Comments

The Best Flowers for Your Wife’s Birthday

When your wife’s birthday is approaching , you have to start thinking about the best present for her. Just like your beloved lady is special and one of a kind, your present has to be unique and meaningful . For such a special day, you have to give your wife the most wonderful gift she has ever received, and there is nothing more magnificent than…

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Added by Jovell A. on September 13, 2012 at 12:42am — No Comments

Share Your Chicken!

Between 2 pm - 3 pm everyday, well...almost, I cook our family's dinner. For today, I cooked Chicken in Tamarind and Tomato Stew (Sinampalukang Manok in Filipino) and I wanted to share the recipe to you all.