In April earlier this year, I was hospitalized with severe dengue fever, a mosquito-borne illness that has reached epidemic proportions here in the Philippines. It’s just recently that I feel like I’ve fully recovered. There are 5 different strains of dengue and once you have a particular strain you are immune from it, but not […]
Archive for tag 'summer'
This is my first, and possibly only, summer staying at home with my daughter, 5-year-old Snowy. I plan to take full advantage of it, and have a lot of plans for things for Snowy and I to do together. I plan to write regular weekly posts on what we did during that week so you […]
July is probably my least favorite month of the year so I try to do things in July that motivate me and get me to August. I am not a fan of summer because I hate being hot and I don’t love the long days, so I can often feel myself getting a little down […]
Although Toddler Pencil is at a full-time private school/daycare, I decided to opt out of the summer program. His school is very academic based, and I figure this is the last time he will be able to just hang out and do nothing as a kid. Next fall, he will be starting pre-K! My husband […]
I love summer, even with the heat and humidity. In part, I personally just hate cold weather, but what I really love about summer is all the great activities. Here in the DC metro area, it seems like there are festivals just about every weekend! While there are fun (and often free!) things to do […]
When Lil’ Miss Louboutin started Kinder, one of the most daunting tasks was figuring out camps. This was new territory for me because her preschool only ever closed for major holidays, and all we had to do was pay a small extra fee on top of our regular tuition to cover the extra fun summer activities […]
I know swimming is probably the last thing on most of your minds, but we’ve been building a pool and it’ll be done in a couple of weeks! Charlie and Olive can hardly contain their excitement because it’ll be ready just in time for Charlie to have a birthday pool party. Since we live in year […]
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