By sweetmom on February 3, 2010
My husband and my brother-in-law had a nice bike ride this morning. They told me that it was a good exercise ,and along the way they were discussing if we, me and my sister, – can tag along. They felt that most at-home moms doesn’t get the right kind of exercise. Aside from shopping we need exercise too!
Let’s face the facts. Many women have an extra challenge when dieting – Motherhood. We all know how difficult it is to stay in shape and find time to exercise — but most especially for women with babies or small kids. But there has to be a way to fit exercise into your motherhood routine if you want to lose weight, without losing your sanity. Below you’ll find some suggestions for calorie burning activities real moms can do to fit exercise into their lives.
Hit The Road
Once the school age kids have hit the bus, take a brisk walk for an hour. If you need to, bring your child along in a stroller. Pushing the stroller while taking a brisk walk will actually increase the calories burned, not to mention that your child would probably enjoy it.
Exercise Videos
When the younger kids go down for a nap, pop Barney out of the VCR and insert an aerobics or workout video. You can also try getting your kids involved. At a young age, kids are usually willing to do anything that mom finds interesting. If you have a step workout video, try setting your child up with their own step (child -sized of course) so they can do it with you.
Cut The Grass Continue reading “5 Easy and Simple Exercise Tips for At-Home Moms”
Posted in Health, LifeStyle, Mother, Tips | Tagged exercise, Health, mom, Tips
By sweetmom on January 27, 2010
The Network for Enterprising Women (NEW) is hosting the 3rd Annual Women Entrepreneurs Conference from 8:30am to 12:30pm on January 30, 2010 (Saturday) at the Asian Institute of Management Conference Center (Benavidez cor. Trasierra Streets, Legaspi Village, Makati City ).
Get inspired at this informative, fun half-day conference, with concurrent sessions for existing women entrepreneurs, business owners and those wanting to start a business.
First 100 people to register will receive a FREE gift from our sponsors!
There will be business counseling and networking opportunities at the event.The conference aims to give women and small and medium-business owners the tools to start or grow their businesses.
The conference will include topics on: building your business foundation, financial planning and funding, marketing/selling to get results, legal aspects of managing your business, social entrepreneurship and finding the right networking group.
Our guest speakers are Ms. Emily Abrera, Chairman Emeritus of McCann, Ms. Chit Juan of Echostore and other prominent entrepreneurs.
Participant fee is only Php 600.
Program Outline:
- Keynote Address: Maintaining Motivation – Having the Right Entrepreneurial Mindset in times of Crisis by Emily Abrera, Chairman Emeritus of McCann
- About NEW – Judith Cinco
- How to Market Cost Effectively – Dr. Leonard Garcia
- How to Promote Native Products to World Class – Ms. Alice Guerrero
- From Profit-Seeking to Social Entrepreneurship – Chit Juan
- Open Forum
RSVP: For reservations or further inquiries, you may contact 710-3711 / 754-8058 / 0917-5408697 or e-mail info@newomen.net. You may also register online at www.newomen.net.
Posted in Events and Shows, Uncategorized | Tagged conference, entrepreneurs, networking, women
By sweetmom on January 20, 2010
This is the continuation of our previous post - Ten Ways to Add Romance to Your Marriage by By Nancy Wasson, Ph.D.
6. In the romance department, flowers, plants, candy, or a special home-cooked meal never go out of favor. Many females love to receive beautiful fresh flowers or a box of delicious chocolate candy. Both husbands and wives can appreciate the efforts of a partner to put together an intimate, special home-cooked meal by candlelight with music playing and flowers on the table.
7. Surprise your spouse with a framed picture of the two of you in a setting that will bring back pleasant memories. Another option is to frame a picture of your spouse that shows him or her in a flattering way and let your partner know how much you love the photo. Keep it on your nightstand, computer, dresser, or desk and let your spouse see you looking at it admiringly.
8. Take the initiative to plan a surprise weekend outing. Continue reading “Ten Ways to Add Romance to Your Marriage Part 2″
Posted in LifeStyle, Marriage, Tips, Uncategorized | Tagged Marriage, romance
By sweetmom on January 18, 2010
Every marriage needs a healthy dose of on-going romance to add spice, delight, and fun to the relationship. It’s not enough to just start out with a sizzling romance. You have to find a way to keep the romance alive as the months and years accumulate.
One of the marital challenges many couples face is how to live together without losing that special romantic spark. It’s all-too-easy to lose the role of lover along the way. When this happens, spouses often start relating to each other as they would to a friend or a sibling. Parents can begin to feel they are only “business partners” joined together to raise their children and keep the household running.
How can you keep romance alive when your daily work schedule is grueling, you’re always short on time and energy, and you’re not sure what to do?
Sprinkle Romance into Your Marriage
Here are ten ideas to help you add a spark to your relationship:
1. Pay attention when your spouse mentions things he or she likes or expresses interest in something that could make a good gift, such as a new CD, a book, or theater/concert/sports tickets. Be on the lookout or ideas for birthday, holiday, and anniversary gifts, plus “no reason” surprise gifts. It’s very flattering to know that someone really tried to find a gift that was just what you wanted.
2. Frequently offer foot massages, shoulder massages, and full-body massages to your spouse. You’ll get plenty of romantic brownie points in your “relationship bank account” if you keep some great-smelling lotion handy and take ten minutes to massage your spouse’s tired feet at the end of a long work day. Note: If you expect to be rewarded for your e orts by sex, you won’t accumulate any points for being romantic. Your spouse will just think you have an ulterior motive when you o er a massage in the future.
3. Giving sweet cards and letters to your spouse can be romantic Continue reading “Ten Ways to Add Romance to Your Marriage Part 1″
Posted in LifeStyle, Marriage, Tips, Uncategorized | Tagged Marriage, romance
By sweetmom on January 13, 2010
My kids playing in the beach of Blue Lagoon, Pagudpud
We all love to travel don’t we? We love going to other places, travel to a new location or simply, we just want to break our everyday (sometimes boring) routine by spending our time in a fantasy island. Alright, not a fantasy island, but cool places we really love to go like beaches, resorts, disneyland and other destinations.
Did you know that the Philippines has 11 long weekends for 2010 (10 more to go)? It simply means, more time for vacation!!!
Last holiday vacation, we spent our time in Pagudpud. We had so much fun traveling in Ilocos Sur and Ilocos Norte. We visited most of the major tourist destinations in that area such as the famous Vigan Heritage City, Bantayan Bell Tower, Baluarte, Fort Ilocandia, Malacanang of the North, Marcos Museum, Bangui Windmills, Cape Bojeador Lighthouse, Kabigan Falls, Patapat Viaduct, Agua Grande, Blue Lagoon and more!!!
Traveling is more than just visiting beautiful places. Traveling is an incredible family experience. It’s educational, memorable and also gives us (my husband and my 2 “kulet” kids) a lot of time for bonding.
Some of you may say “but traveling takes up a lot of our budget”. Well, maybe yes…but there are actually secrets on how to enjoy an unforgettable vacation with your family within the budget. Continue reading “Proven Tips On How To Save For Your Family Vacation”
Posted in Children, Events and Shows, LifeStyle, Money Matters, Tips, Uncategorized | Tagged budget travel, cheap travel, travel tips
By sweetmom on January 4, 2010
Let this New Year boost your confidence to finally cut down those fats you have always wanted to trim off. Why don’t you include in your New Year 2010’s resolution list losing weight?
Make sure to tabulate your daily diet with all the nutritious foods and calorie free meals for a fit and fab body that you can expect by the time the next New Year comes. Excuses are no excuses! This is the perfect time to do it! Promise to lose weight and feel great.
Follow these 3 easy steps to help:
- Exhaust your all your energy catching up with all the chores that you haven’t done during the holidays like gardening, cleaning the guest room, etc.
- Ask your best friend to join efforts with you in maintaining a new diet this year. It is what they are for. Together, you will have a superb body in no time at all!
- Build your hopes on the first week of the new year on how well you will be in shape if you start dieting right away. Use it as your motivation all year around.
A perfect New Year won’t be complete without a terrific body! I hope you celebrated the festivity with a good heart and enkindled spirit!
Posted in Health, LifeStyle, Money Matters, Tips, Uncategorized | Tagged lose weight tips, new years resolution
By sweetmom on December 31, 2009
We thought our previous post on “Basic Tips for New Years Eve Party Planning” will be the last for this year 2009, but we still have one more to go before the year ends, and this is just a reminder for all of us who are planning to celebrate the New Year with a Bang! Just a reminder – Don’t Use Firecrackers this New Year Please!
The Department of Health (DOH) strongly advised parents not to allow children to use firecrackers or fireworks whether of the legal or illegal kind.
A nationwide call is to stop using firecrackers this time around during New Year’s Eve. When the clock strikes twelve, the emergency rooms of hospitals gets fully packed from the numerous cases of firecracker injuries, which have been reported of having its lowest count last 4 years of holiday seasons in the Philippines.
To this, our health authorities greatly caution the public to finally end using firecrackers and fireworks. It will be worth it. Celebrating New Year will be brighter than ever if these serious injuries are finally put to a halt.
If you don’t know, there are actually no safe firecrackers and fireworks ever made, Continue reading “Do Not Use Firecrackers this New Year Please!”
Posted in Children, Health, LifeStyle, Mother, Tips, Uncategorized | Tagged firecrackers, injury, new years
By sweetmom on December 29, 2009
Are you hosting a New Years Eve Party? Let us tell you that hosting a New Years Eve party can be a lot of fun.
Traditionally, New Years Eve is an exciting holiday in which most people participate in parties with friends and family members. It is definitely a lot of work to plan a memorable party but it is a great deal of fun as well.
For PinayMom.org’s last post for this year 2009, we will offer a few basic tips for planning a New Years Eve party. These tips should be useful for both novice party planners as well as those who have a great deal of experience in planning parties for their friends and relatives.
1. Consider your guest list. This is important because it will help you to determine where to hold the party. For example if you have a fairly small home and want to host a party for over one hundred people, you will obviously have to consider hosting the party either in a much larger house or even in a catering hall or restaurant.
For Filipinos, the party is traditionally being held in one family member’s house, more often at grandparent’s old house.
2.Decide how you plan to invite your guests. You have a number of options here. The most traditional way to invite guests to a party is to mail out invitations to each individual guest or married couple you plan to invite to the party. The invitations should include all of the pertinent information including date, time and location and should also include instructions for responding to the invitation. These instructions should include a deadline for responding and a method of responding such as calling by phone or sending an email. Continue reading “Basic Tips for New Years Eve Party Planning”
Posted in Children, Events and Shows, LifeStyle, Tips, Uncategorized | Tagged family party, party planning
By sweetmom on December 15, 2009
Bazaar, tiangge , bargain, sale, midnight market, discount store – they’re all around us specially this season. The season of shopping. The 13th month pay and the Christmas bonuses are all shouting from our pocket. Yes, it’s the season of shopping to the max.
With the ongoing (still) recession not only in the Philippines but almost around the world, including the oil-rich Dubai, there’s nothing we can do but to be practical in our shopping. We need to, as much as possible, extend the buying power of our hard earned money.
We all love to shop, don’t we? Shopping is very addictive. Most of the time, the household budget is sacrificed once you go shopping. Shopping should not give you headaches as long as you know how to budget..and we’re good on this, aren’t we?. If not, here are the things that you need to remember when you go out or even before you hit the store:
1. Always remember to spend your money wisely whenever you go shopping. Bring only the exact amount of money you need in buying your items. Remember “impulse buying” is a powerful force. To ensure that you only buy the important things, you have to make a list of the items that you need to buy. You may then budget your money wisely and will prevent you from buying things that are not that important.
Don’t be tricked into spending more than you plan when entering the store.
2. It is advisable that you compare prices from different stores before buying an item. If you have time, do not limit yourself to just one store. There are stores that offer the same quality but can have a lower price. A smart thing you may do is to be attentive to the prices of the items that you buy regularly when shopping. Make a comparison list if you can. There are instances that a store has an untimely changing of prices on different items. Continue reading “5 Super Tips On How to Save Money When Shopping”
Posted in LifeStyle, Money Matters, Mother, Shopping, Tips | Tagged sales, shopping tips
By sweetmom on December 8, 2009
Yep, finally after almost a week of transferring all the furniture including the kitchen sink, we would like to announce that PinayMom.ORG has been moved to a new house (server).
The transfer was a bit tiring (with some pains too) but with the help of our mover (blogdemanila.com), we were able to do it in almost no downtime. I guess most of you didn’t even notice it.
There are still some items that are in transit like the forum and other stuffs such as images, etc. We’ll let you know when they arrive.
We’re also planning to add fresh paint and put on some new decorations(install a new theme). What do you think is best?
And yes, we are exciting to meet some new friends and neighbors too (exchange link anyone?).
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged moving house, webhost transfer
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