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Budget Parenting

The whole family (all the five of us, except for my mom) is sleeping inside one room – a very typical sleeping setup of an average Filipino family. As much as I wanted to get my children their own bedroom sets and teach them independency, I don’t have the luxury of spending another thousand on another air conditioning unit and on its monthly bill that it is going to generate in the future. We stay all together in a room for economic reasons none the less.

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Home Buddies in Us

My husband and I are really fanatics on home entertainment. We wanted to make our home a center of every entertainment we can afford so that we could stay at home (me and my kids are real home buddies except my hubby). Staying at home lesser expenses and more home bonding!

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Updates on Baby Bella Grace

Since I have been so busy last March 2010, I was not able to blogged about Baby Bella’s six month progress but I had a post at her blog, Bella Grace.

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Bella’s First Fall

Last Sunday was one of the most unforgettable moments of our family’s lives. Bella suffered her first fall. She fell from the bed causing a big bump on her forehead and a black-eye at her eyelids, all at the right side of her face.

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Ideas on How to Spend Family Time

Finding family time in this day and age is really hard to do. The fast paced life of my two school age children and a husband with a 12-hour job (not including my power blogging plus a baby) makes it difficult to find time and money to have constant time to bond and talk. Sometimes even eating together during dinner time proves to be futile with our time constraints. So, I decided that we will have a family time or a family date at least once a week.

Since we always don’t have money, somehow I developed a way for us to pursue such family time without spending too much money or at least zero money out. Here are some things that we usually do to spend family time:

1. Park Playing – Going to the park proves to be one of the healthiest family time we have, at least for the kids. The children spend time running around the park’s playground while my husband and I talk about anything under the sun. We just buy food from the nearest fast food restaurant or bring our own (make sandwiches and all).

2. Fireworks Display – This depends on some places but here in Bacolod, we often have fireworks display. We just go to the area, buy some food and watch the fireworks lit up the sky!

3. Lazy Afternoon – If everyone has no class or work and we have no budget to spend time out, we usually have a lazy afternoon. We spend the afternoon watching movies while munching homemade sandwiches and sipping our favorite cola or hot beverages.

4. Cinema Time – If the money is right, we go and watch movies on the big screen while we leave our baby behind with my mom. Watching movies on the big screen is one of the family’s favorites.

5. Grocery Bonding – I do grocery most of the time but when it calls for it, we do it all together. We spend time roaming around the grocery store talking about what to buy or not to buy. Everyone has a say on what we should place on the grocery cart. This is also the best time to tell your children about family budget and money.

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