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My husband is not getting any better. Often times he would say he couldn’t breathe and that he needs oxygen but where we live is next to a plantation so there’s a lot of oxygen around.

I am very stressed because I have to attend to him 24/7 and money is also running out! Thank goodness I have bought us travel insurance. I am already in contact with them and they told me to send them the forms I needed to sign and so as the receipts of the hospital bill. I wish I had a document management system so that I can easily organize all the paper works we need for the insurance company.

We have moved to the Philippines, me my husband and our dog. I don’t know if it was the best decision because my husband is quite frail. We just slept one day in our new home and we had to bring him to the hospital. He had another stroke. He’s weak and bedridden. This isn’t really how we pictured our life in the Philippines.

For now, the consolation is seeing my grandbaby. I brought him some baby gifts but I haven’t even seen him wear them. Good thing my daughter made a picture. Look here, isn’t he adorable?

On a typical weeknight, you might find yourself tapping endlessly on your laptop keyboard, again surfing through Wholesaleinsurance.net instead of listening to your five-year old’s narrative on her busy day at play. Times like these should be saved for bonding with your family. They say that the best gift you can give your loved ones is time, because you cannot get back lost time. This couldn’t be any truer.

Set aside some non-TV bonding time with your kids, even on a busy weeknight. Take some time off from your online work to at least have dinner together with the rest of the family. Mealtimes are excellent opportunities for catching up on each other’s lives. This is the chance when you each can freely talk about how your day went, while sharing a sumptuous meal. Afterwards, you can play a quick board game just to bond with them.

It is every little girl’s dream to be a princess with a prince charming in tow. As we grow older, we women still hold on to that dream, but are a bit more obsessive about making it real. The mechanism of love is oftentimes seemingly as complicated as to understanding how thrust bearings work on a machine, but there are some fairly easy ways to make your love relationship last.

Learn to trust your partner. Love entails trust, so just believe that your partner loves you and won’t replace you for a hotter-looking girl in the blink of an eye.

Invest time in your relationship. Set aside some time to enjoy doing something with your significant other. Whether it’s just pigging out in front of the TV, or beating the hell out of each other at badminton, what’s important is you are able to create memories with the one you love.

Summer is a great way to catch up on long, quality bonding moments with your family. Ideally, it is the perfect time to plan that much-awaited swimming vacation you’ve been dreaming about for several months now. For a successful vacation, make sure to plan ahead of time. Check out the resort you’ve been eyeing. If you can pay an advance visit, much better, so you can scrutinize the place.

Make sure to check if they have facilities to accommodate children or other needs and special concerns, including ada compliant lifts, lifeguards and safety gears for children. Make sure that they also have enough provisions for everything that you might need while vacationing, like restaurants and cafeteria, or a playground for the kids perhaps.

I guess when you are a mother, you will be surprised that you will slowly learn to master the art of being a consummate multi-tasker in no time. You have to keep a healthy balance between all your priorities, including, first and foremost, your husband and children, your work (in case of career moms), the duties at home, the errands you have to do and the bills you have to pay on time. More so when you are a mommy blogger, you’ll probably learn how to feed the baby whilst doing something else in your laptop. You’ll probably juggle posting on your blogs while updating your status on social networks and checking out hydroxycut reviews online.

Cheers to us the queens of multi-tasking!

Most of us are always so conscious of cleanliness when out in public places. We shun those that we deem unsanitary, unhygienic, or downright filthy. But what we don’t realize is that our very own homes are teeming with disease-causing bacteria.

Imagine all the germs lurking in your refrigerator door handle which are then transmitted to the food that you handle. Even doorknobs, faucets and remote controls are breeding grounds of germs. It is thus very important to keep all parts of the house clean and germ-free by disinfecting those that are frequently touched or handled.

Another thing we have to regularly check in our homes is our air cleaner. Bacteria that cause tuberculosis, influenza and small pox to name a few are airborne and can easily be transmitted from one person to another through tiny droplets in the air. So do make sure that the air you breathe inside your home is clean and germ-free.

It’s never too early to plan a fun and exciting summer vacation. There’s an itinerary to prepare, camping grounds to scout, best routes to be charted, and food supplies to be bought. A trip to the mall has to be scheduled for the family’s summer wardrobe and for equipment we’ll need for our adventure. It’s also time to check our home-on-the-road for necessary rv repair. A well-maintained RV would, after all, make our vacation go smoothly. We wouldn’t want to be stuck on the road with a broken vehicle when we could be spending those precious moments enjoying our great family adventure for this year.

Sometimes, don’t you feel that whatever you do to make both ends meet, they still won’t? Makes you think that perhaps you just missed the “good luck” train. There still are other money-making opportunities out there to help augment our finances, and one business worth considering is a carwash business. More people are having less time to wash their cars, so this could be the answer to their dirty dilemma. So, how do we start a carwash business?

• Scout for a good location. You want to have a big enough space to accommodate at least 3 cars at a time. Put up your carwash in a place where cars frequently pass by. Setting it up somewhere near a cluster of condominiums is a good option.

• Get good equipment. For the basics, you’ll need pails of water, sponges, foaming soap, and an Ingersoll rand air compressor.

• Do a rain dance. Hope for rain. When it rains, it will pour money for you, as cars get muddy and dirty after the rain.

I was browsing the online baby store the other day because I am planning to buy something for my grandson. My “oohs” and “aahs” were endless because there are too many clothes for the baby. I even found baby footwear that looks like an equestrian boots. It is really very tempting to buy, but then again I realized that there are certain things to consider in choosing baby clothes:

• Appearance is not everything, baby clothes should be comfortable to wear. The material of the fabric is very important.
• It should be easier to change and wear, babies are quite messy and they require frequent change of clothes. Avoid buying clothes with too many buttons especially if you are always in a hurry.
• Find something that is very easy to care and would not require special instructions such as dry cleaning.