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Something that I missed is the 5% off on food purchases at McDonald's. The promo has been running for about a year now, and it is extended until the 6th of August this year. Check out the mechanics and the participating branches at the Pag-Ibig website . Promo is valid on take-out and dine-in purchases only. Bring your Pag-Ibig ID. To get the 5% off, the minimum amount of purchase must be P200 and should not exceed P500. Enjoy!!!

Last Sunday, as we were having breakfast in Starbucks, one of the kids kept on asking if we can go for a long ride. Since we were planning to go to Our Lady of Manaoag for sometime now, we dedided to go right then. We left before lunch, sometime 11:00 and reached our destination around 1PM (with one stop-over at MickeyD's for lunch. It was a tolerable drive, not too hot and very light traffic. We headed on straight to church, and we found that parking was a bit of a challenge. We had to park in a vacant lot and paid P60 and walked to church. We intended to pray, pay homage to Our Lady, but it was totally chaotic inside. With people chatting about, taking pictures and selfies. I mean really, remember the story about Jesus and Cleansing of the Temple? Fast forward to our time, 2019... peddlers may be outside but it became one tourist spot. I understand there wasn't any mass  at that time, but still, it was so noisy I couldn't even concentrate on my prayers.  It is quite s...

School has started and hubby also started working in a proper office and had to bring lunch and snack to work everyday.  It is quite a challenge having no household help to work with me prepare food for in the morning. They had to leave before 7 in the morning and their food for school and work plus breakfast has to be ready by 6am. This requires me to prepare ahead of time, probably over the weekend, Sunday nights most preferably so the food is still as fresh as much as possible. To make it a little bit more difficult, processed food isn't allowed in school, pastries are allowed though, only once a week. So no easy to cook hotdogs, or ham, and sausages. Don't get me wrong, I love this, I love how the school has a strict healthy food policy. This practice radiates into the entire household and it sort of "forces" us, (in a good way of course) to do the same. I'm not really a big fruit eater, but now, my day doesn't go by without eating some. Pa...

Classes have started and weeks before we prepared for the requirements. One of them was the Emergency Kit. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council recommended for each student to have their own personal survival kit. Since they already had one last year, we just checked the expiration dates of the perishable goods and replaced them. A friend of ours asked where we can buy them, but being the thrifty mom that I am, I chose to assemble one for each of the girls. Here's what we have: Bottled Water (300mL) 3 easy-open canned foods Small LED Flashlight (Check if the battery is working) First aid kit (containing plasters of different sizes, small bottles of betadine and alcohol, cotton and medical tape) 3 pcs of dusk mask Facial tissue Wet wipes Disposable gloves Emergency Thermal Blanket OR A large garbage bag Emergency Contact Numbers If you have a little one, you can put in a box of crayons and some coloring sheets too. It's really e...