Wifely Steps

Tweet The Nuffnang Asia-Pacific Blog Awards launched two years ago in Singapore. It was a wonderful and successful celebration among the blogging community, and it honored the best of the bloggers from across the Asia-Pacific region. This year, the awards ceremony will be held in Putrajaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia! 500 bloggers will be invited to [...]

Tweet When in restaurants, waiting for orders can be a test of patience for the toddler. To keep him occupied, I have a bunch of items in my bag to distract him. I’ve got toy cars, crayons, action figures and the most effective distraction — stickers on a drawing pad. Timmy has a bunch of [...]

Tweet I’ll go straight to the point. This is how you should eat this dive bar: Salt side down. Sebastian’s Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Dive Bar intrigued me. I first saw the ad in Sebastian’s Facebook page and here’s how they described this frozen delight: “… hand-dipped into our special Dark Chocolate and sprinkled with [...]

Tweet Last weekend’s Play Pilipinas event was a lot of fun. Congratulations to Paul and Sigrid Perez for spearheading a wonderful weekend. The speakers were insightful, the activities fun. Not bad for a first time event of such magnitude. Next year ulit! I had the opportunity to conduct a workshop on “Keeping Playtime Safe: The [...]

Tweet Get your play on! PLAY PILPINAS is the very first international play festival. It encourages everyone to promote and enrich playtime as part of kids’ growth, development and learning. Because PLAY=FUN, you can expect this festival to be a lot of fun for both kids and parents! WANT WORKSHOPS? We’ve got international speakers from [...]

Tweet I’m thirty four years old. And I’ve never: 1. Baked a pie. 2. Lived on my own. 3. Been to Nice or the Isle of Greece (while I…) 4. Sipped champagne on a yacht. 5. Gambled in a casino. 6. Had a cat. 7. Seen “Father of the Bride” without getting choked up. 8. [...]

Tweet Welcome to the third edition of It’s A Wife’s Life! Thank you to everyone who joined this carnival! Ibyang presents Long Weekend Treats posted at A Wife’s Charmed Life, saying, “Long weekends are always a blessing! With the help of a balanced schedule, a wife and home manager like me can make the most [...]

Tweet Tintin and I go way back. I first met her online in 2003. We were both newlyweds and into blogging. Random blog visits turned into an 8-year friendship. We’ve seen each other evolve as wives and women for almost a decade now. We’ve learned from each other. I’m very happy to have you, dear [...]

Tweet I’ve invited Cess of Cessna In Flight to do a guest post on her own wifely steps. Her heartwarming piece reminds me of the song “I Wanna Grow Old with You” from The Wedding Singer. Reading glasses It happened a few months ago but I still remember every detail as if it happened only [...]

Tweet Batuan is a traditional souring ingredient from Iloilo. While I’ve heard about batuan before, it was only last week that I got to try it in Sinigang. I really enjoyed the dish, and am now a huge fan of this little fruit. This pack of batuan was being sold at the Negros Trade Fair. [...]