18May

Blog Purposefully, Cymplified!

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Why do I blog? I started blogging in 2003 over at cazzapoeia.blogspot.com. It was just my online diary of random thoughts and feelings, much like how Twitter is being used nowadays. I even wrote my rants and raves in Taglish! A few years after, I thought of monetizing my blog a little with ads, paid [...]

15Apr

Babies To Toddlers {Giveaway}, Cymplified!

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Babies are so fragile, so helpless, so soft and so dependent! They are so precious to us parents that anything to help us take better care of them would be most welcome. One of the challenges (challenge talaga?) I faced when my children were still babies was the trimming of their nails. I was scared [...]

12Mar

International Women’s Day, Cymplified!

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March 8, 2013 was International Women’s Day. I have been receiving newsletters from World Food Programme. If you advocate for or support fighting hunger worldwide, please do take time to visit the site. They work doubly hard when countries are affected by calamities or even war, when food security is compromised. WFP Philippines calls for donations [...]

30Jan

Encourage Our Children, Cymplified!

We, as mothers, want to encourage our children, right? We want their beautiful and unique personalities to shine, exactly how God had made them. Yet, there just are most some days when my 5-year-old Elle and I seem to have a power struggle. I would see the fiery defiance in her eyes and feel that [...]

19Dec

OMF Literature, Cymplified!

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I could feel the quiet excitement bubbling within me when I entered the OMF Literature bookstore on Boni Avenue, Mandaluyong City at around almost three in the afternoon of December 13, 2012. I hitched a ride with my hubby, I didn’t mind being early since it’s a bookstore and I could spend countless hours in [...]