Moving
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by Sigrid Perez
6M ago
Photo by James Wheeler on Pexels.com After all these years, I have decided to get back on my blog and write. There were many attempts to write but they’re all in my drafts folder and have never seen publishing day. So many things have happened since my last post last November 2021. Almost two years after, I can almost say life had given us many surprises! First, my whole family moved to Canada! We are currently in Calgary, Alberta since November 2022. Photo by Lisa Bourgeault on Pexels.com We had been exploring the possibility of moving abroad for quite sometime now. The motivation of course ..read more
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Leaving The Nest?
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by Sigrid Perez
2y ago
The wheels of life continue to turn, and much as we want to, we cannot keep our young ones forever under our wings. There comes a point in life when we need to let them go off on their own and create their own experiences as young adults. We can only hope that we have ingrained in them the values we would want them to live by and that they may eventually find the tribe that shares these values and will help them thrive in in this challenging world. Last August, we’ve had to learn to let go when my son Seve flew to New York to study in Fordham University. This meant a whole new adjustment for ..read more
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Top 70 Philippines Mom Blogs and Websites
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by Sigrid Perez
2y ago
Last November 3, I received an email from Feedspot CEO Anuj Agarwal congratulating me for being part of their list of 70 Top Mom Blogs and Websites in the Philippines. I was surprised as my blog was not really one of the busiest blogs one would see on the web. I’ve kept most of my content to writing about family, experiences and discoveries, my thoughts and ideas and perhaps just a few would resonate with it. Also, I didn’t really have advertisements onsite so naturally I was curious as to how the list was rated. He was quick to reply and he said: “ “Feedspot editorial team extensively searche ..read more
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Heart of Homeschooling
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by Sigrid Perez
2y ago
Oh wow, I can’t believe this just happened. I’ve always thought as a kid how wonderful it is to be an anchor on the news, or a reporter. This fascination eventually led me to take up Communications in college – a course I genuinely had fun doing. However, life sometimes takes you to different places and somehow, that fascination didn’t find realization in my life. Instead, I went into early childhood education and play: causes that I am so passionate about. Fast forward to 2021 – amidst a global pandemic, we find ourselves with a situation and an opportunity. As for me, it’s also an opportunit ..read more
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How I Homeschool While Working Full Time
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by Sigrid Perez
2y ago
Homeschooling is not an easy task. It is not for everybody. But if you truly believe it is what is best for your child, then it will take commitment on your part as a parent to ensure it goes on in the way you intend it to be. A big part of homeschooling also depends on how you’ve built your relationship with your child. I personally believe that if you created an environment of trust and respect for your child and constantly nourished it, then trust and respect become their currency. It will not be perfect, but it becomes the seedbed for the virtue of responsibility for your child, as well as ..read more
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Transition
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by Sigrid Perez
2y ago
My sister and I caught up with an uncle over dinner last Saturday. We had dinner in a hotel near the airport as he only had a few hours to spare before he flew out to his wife’s hometown in Borongan, Samar. After dinner, since they were going different ways, my sis decided to book a Grab car for them going to their hotel. It amused me that the Grab car that fetched them at the hotel entrance was driven by this hip lady in shorts, sneakers and hair pulled back. It was quite unusual for me to see a lady Grab driver. It is usually the men who take on jobs such as these. But as it turns out, in t ..read more
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Homespun Breakfast
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by Sigrid Perez
2y ago
When you have a large family like ours and when the children start their teenage years, life really becomes a little more hectic than before. This is because they start associating already with a different set of people – their friends. In our generation, we called it our “barkada”. My parents called it “the gang”. Of course nowadays, they call it by a different term – “the squad”. If you don’t G this, then you’re jurassic. Interesting twist of the times really. According to Erik Erikson, one of my favorite developmental psychologists, this is the fifth stage in his Theory of Psychosocial Deve ..read more
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An Oasis Right Where You Are
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by Sigrid Perez
2y ago
Oasis Aromatherapy Spray I just love aromatherapy! The scents always whisk me to a realm of complete relaxation and calmness. Among the 5 senses, I somehow think that perhaps my olfactory senses are a notch higher than the other 4. I can smell things from a mile away.. from awful cockroaches inside a dark room to the smell of the beach even when we’re still driving to one. My husband Paul often laughs at me at those moments when I refuse to enter a room simply because I sense the smell of a roach that is ready to fly and attack. But aromatherapy brings you exactly to that place where you nee ..read more
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Christmas Morning
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by Sigrid Perez
2y ago
Christmas eve ushers in a flurry of excitement because of family reunions, partaking of the Noche Buena or evening meal in our culture, the opening of gifts and late night chats over a glass of wine. It’s truly the busiest time of the year (at least in my country) especially as the traffic builds up in the metro and malls are open till midnight leading up to Christmas eve. This is also the time our calendars are filling up with get-togethers and parties of friends and family that we have not seen and will probably not see for the rest of the year. Busy is an understatement, really. Maybe chaot ..read more
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Printables are heaven-sent!
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by Sigrid Perez
2y ago
As a mom to 8 kids, 5 of whom I homeschool, it’s quite a challenge keeping up with what each of my kids are learning at a specific moment. For my homeschooled kids, since I pretty much have shared activities, it’s easy to keep track for those subjects. As for their individual work, I just get updates from the homeschool center they go to. They are so organized that they prepare a journal for me to check on a weekly basis to get an update on what they have accomplished for that week. Homeschool settings really allow for parents’ involvement in their kids’ lives. I feel somewhat of a challenge f ..read more
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