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I Want to Try Baking Again

Posted on October 14, 2008 by greenbucks| 2 Comments

I participate in the Food Friday food photo meme every Friday in my other GreenBucks blog which I feature food that we have had, either bought and eaten in a restaurant or prepared and cooked at home.

If I have enough time, I would prefer trying new recipes for my family instead of the usual food preparation that we have for our daily meals.

One thing that I would want to try would be baking.

We do bake sometimes but we just use the ready-mix cookie recipes in boxes so I do not particularly enjoy these because the mix is just too sweet. Matter of fact I have a container of brownie mixture waiting to be baked. I would rather do some measuring and mixing even if I have to buy the materials for this.

I have always been fascinated with baking, having enrolled in a baking course one summer many, many years ago. I have tried doing chiffon cake, cookies, mango pie, dough for pizza and siopao and a host of other things like making sugar flowers and decorating celebratory cakes.

One thing that I would like to try would be muffins and cupcakes for my children’s snacks. Loaf bread would be nice too, as well as cornbread dressing or maybe, pandesal.

No, I do not want to be a pastry chef because that would probably be the farthest thing in my mind. I just want to try to do things from scratch so that I can serve healthier food for my family.

And besides, serving warm and freshly baked goodies would be great, isn’t it?

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Without a Maid

Posted on September 24, 2008 by greenbucks| 1 Comment

The norm in most homes in the urban places here in the Philippines is to have a maid or a house helper.

We don’t have one. We have been without a maid for what, five years now, almost six years.

People ask me always, how do we cope?

It takes a lot of time management to be able to cope, especially to a part-time working mom, part-time stay-at-home mom and full time homeschooling mom like me.

Here are some ways:

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Tara Na! Pasyal Tayo

Posted on August 14, 2008 by greenbucks| 46 Comments

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Sundays are family days. Families usually take this free day to bond by doing different things for fun or for other purposes.

Ang araw ng Linggo ay para sa pamilya. Ang mga pamilya ay ginagamit ang araw ng Linggo para magsama-sama at maging masaya o kaya naman para sa ibang dahilan.

We usually stay in during Sundays for this is the time we just stay in the house and relax with the kids. They don’t want to go anywhere so we just hear mass in the afternoon and have dinner somewhere.

Kadalasan, nasa bahay lang kami kapag Linggo upang makapag-pahinga kasama ng mga bata. Ayaw din nila umalis, magsisimba lang kami sa hapon at kakain sa labas.

Sometimes we go out and when we do, we usually go to the nearby UP Diliman for nature walks and biking and for a plate of Rodic’s tapsilog.

Kung minsan umaalis kami pero kadalasan, dito kami sa UP Diliman pumupunta para maglakad-lakad at magbisikleta at siyempre, kakain ng tapsilog sa Rodic’s.

Going to UP feels incomplete for the kids without a cup of taho and some sweets.

Parang hindi kumpleto ang pasyal dun sa mga bata kung hindi sila bibili ng taho at ng mga pagkaing matamis.

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Pssst! Kuya, pabili ng taho!

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Siguro, may magsasabi, “Ang sarap naman niyan…”

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Birthday Celebration

Posted on July 13, 2008 by greenbucks| 24 Comments

We have just discussed about that EXTRA HOUR and most of the answers were to be spent this hour for themselves.

Now, since this is my birthday week, I would like to focus my question on thoughts related to birthday celebrations. So the Weekly Question for this week would be…

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WEEKLY QUESTION # 8

How would you like to spend your special day, your birthday?

My answer:

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That Extra Hour

Posted on July 6, 2008 by greenbucks| 29 Comments

I have used this quote in a post I made with Photo Hunters Time theme in my special education blog. This gave me the inspiration to write the question for this week.

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“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.” -Rabindranath Tagore

In this busy world we live in, we do two or three things simultaneously. We cut back on our sleep. We clean the house while the food is simmering in the stove. We rush here and there. There never seem enough time to do all the things that have to be done. We never seem to have enough time.

Now I ask you this Weekly Question #7:

If we set aside an extra hour each day to do what we would rather do and not what we should be doing, what would you choose to do?

My answer:

If I have an extra hour each day, I would spend it with my husband and the children and for myself. My two younger children and I spend our days together because they home school but we spend this doing school work and learning.

With my husband, I will spend this time alone with him, just like when it was just the two of us. We spend time together daily, during breakfast or dinner and the whole three meals during weekends, watching a movie or TV series at home, working side by side, but most of the time, one or two kids are hovering around.

With my children, I would spend this time talking with them, exchanging jokes, listening to their thoughts and their dreams. We could probably spend this hour doing something creative, a project that we will enjoy doing.

With myself, I would spend this time, even just a few minutes, to reflect, to talk to God and to just “listen to my thoughts”.

Time is probably one of the greatest gifts we can ever give to anyone. How long does it take to express your love? To call your parents and asking how their day was? To send a text message to friends, greeting them?

Of course, the greatest gift we can ever give is love.

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing. – Brian Tracy

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