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The Search for the First Numa Baby Brand Ambassador

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is looking for its first baby ambassador! 🙂

For more details, please go to Numa’s Facebook page . The contest actually started on July 1 and will end on July 31. Check out the entries (so far!) . My kids are too old to join, but I think I’ll ask my sister to join — our family’s miracle baby is ah-dor-a-bullllll!!!! 🙂 (Of course, being one of her ninangs or godmothers, and her aunt, I’m biased! LOL!)

On a related note, did y’all know that our little girl was a mow-del too, when she was younger? 🙂 (Not too long ago actually!) All thanks to the fabulous mompreneur behind  (who happens to be a friend and one of my mompreneur “idols”! 🙂

Our little flower modeling a piece from . 🙂
The same piece in pink. 🙂
OK, I was “forced” to join her in this photo, LOL! 🙂
It’s a good thing I was wearing white, too, at the time! 

(If you’re a reader of Frances’ aka Topaz Mommy’s blog, you’ll notice I couldn’t help pattern this post after her blog post here, where she also shares her “stage momma” moments! 🙂 LOL! Proud mommas unite! Teehee!)

So anyway, back to Numa! 🙂 If you think your little one has “baby ambassador potential,” join, join, join! 🙂 You could stand a chance to win a P5,000 Numa gift certificate, a package from and a full page ad on Urban Mom magazine! 🙂

P.S. Numa’s “sister” company, St. Patrick Baby (which is one of my newest blog partners — many thanks, you guys! — is holding its first ever giveaway over at Manila Mommy’s site! Check it out here.

{Sort-of} Freebie Friday: Join Fabulous Mom-Blog Giveaways from Dainty Mom, The Painter’s Wife, Chronicles of A Nursing Mom and Topaz Mommy!

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As a relatively newbie mom blogger, I’ve always been uber grateful for other mom bloggers who are more experienced than I am, especially those whom I have personally come to know online. I’m also amazed by how their blogs have grown and touched the lives of other people, perhaps even without the mom bloggers realizing it! 🙂

So, in relation to my recent decision to always be grateful, I’d like to say “THANK YOU” to these fabulous mom bloggers for their help, support, inspiration and friendship-brought-about-by-a-common-love-for-breastfeeding-blogging-babywearing-and-other-things-mommy-related by promoting their current blog giveaways here! 😉

Here we go:

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Martine of Dainty Mom has become one of my good online {and offline!} mom-friends. We used to chat a lot online and she is always someone I can go to for anything – whether mommy-related or blog-related! 🙂 We have a lot of things in common, one of which is our love for the Lord and our families. I’m especially grateful to her for her helpful comments and suggestions on how to improve this little blog of mine! 🙂

Anyway, Martine is celebrating her blog’s 2nd anniversary this month through a series of giveaways (every week of March), with prizes from fab brands, establishments and mom-owned businesses such as Sunshine Babies Boutique, Fancy Girl Designs and The Mom Writes, Dwell Studio, Bliss Nail Spa, Manila Baby Shop, and  (incidentally, did you know that Jen, one of the mompreneurs behind Sesou, is a homeschool mom? She’s part of ROCKERs, our homeschool support group! 🙂 Just sharing! LOL!). 


Here are links to the giveaways that have already gone live (as of this writing):
Dainty Mom at 2: What Makes You Pretty? {Celestina & Co. Contest}
Dainty Mom at 2: Win a Custom Blog Header and Badge Design from Fancy Girl Designs

I plan to join the Fancy Girl Designs contest (as soon as I’m done with my backlog of articles! LOL! OK, I know I shouldn’t be blogging now, but I can’t help it! Ha, ha!)

I can’t recall how I came to know Eliza of , but I am grateful that I did. She helped introduce me to SEO-writing and freelancing (which I don’t do much of nowadays because I’m already swamped as it is, LOL!) and we also used to chat a lot about motherhood, breastfeeding and the like. 🙂 I got to meet Eli in person during my first (and last! har har!) stint at the Expo Mom Bazaar in 2010 (I’ll always be grateful to her for being one of our customers at the bazaar, hehe!).

Anyhoo, Eli is currently hosting a post-delivery birth photography package giveaway worth P5,000, sponsored by . To join, check out the details and mechanics .


I stumbled upon Jenny’s Chronicles of A Nursing Mom blog when we were still on mission in Timor Leste. I was researching about breastfeeding, particularly nursing wear, at that time and found this post written by her. I’ve been a fan ever since and love how helpful and informative her blog is, especially for breastfeeding moms like me. I also credit Jenny and Mec of Mec as Mom, who are behind the Milk Mama Diaries Carnival, for indirectly helping build up this blog. 🙂 Most of all though, I thank Jenny for always being so nice and accommodating, especially when it’s breastfeeding, babywearing and everything-else-attachment parenting-related! 🙂


Jenny and Mi’ann of Babymama are currently having a giveaway for the FREE use of an Ameda Elite pump for one year, especially for working and pumping moms to use in their office. I totally commend them both for encouraging working moms to continue breastfeeding this way! 🙂 Check out the details and mechanics here.


Photo taken from Frances’ blogger profile here. Sorry, her blog doesn’t have a badge! 🙂

Frances of Topaz Mommy is another mom blogger to whom I am grateful. We’re not that close, but we do actually have quite a few things in common – we both love God, our husbands and babies, breastfeeding and Jay, my youngest brother, who also happens to work with Frances for OK! magazine. 🙂 I’m not as fashionable as she is but I love, love, love browsing through her blog! 🙂 I also love how honest and open and frank she is (OK, are those redundant terms?! Sorry! LOL!), especially with her posts on motherhood, being a wife and being a Christian. 🙂


This month, Frances and Rone of Mothering Earthlings (who I was privileged to feature here) are hosting a fab baby footwear promo – i.e. a pair of Tip Tap Soft Soles baby shoes plus a set of Funky Feet Not Quite Shoes socks! 🙂 Read more about it here.
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So that’s it! 🙂 Join these great giveaways now and show a few of my fave mom bloggers some love while you’re at it! Have a fabulous weekend ahead – and don’t forget to drop by Expo Kid 4 on Saturday! 🙂 We’ll be there with some of our friends from ROCKERs and HAPI! 🙂 
  

Marriage and Beyond’s 4th Blog Anniversary Giveaway!

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I first “met” Jennie, the mom blogger behind “Marriage and Beyond,” through her other blog about homeschooling (she has several – gosh, she must be really good at managing her time! Must get tips from her! haha!). She was very friendly and helpful especially about my questions about homeschooling in the Philippines, and even about working at home.

Admittedly, her blogs are more sikat (famous) than mine and she and her pastor-husband Jeff have been blogging for much longer than I have (check out their list of blogs here!), so she really knows what she’s doing.

Anyway, Marriage and Beyond is celebrating its 4th anniversary this month with a giveaway, and I thought I might have a go at joining! Who knows, God may want to bless our family through this giveaway! Here are the prizes at stake:

First Prize – Christian Books, DVD and Spanking Rod Package

Read Jennie and Jeff’s thoughts and guidelines on spanking here. Note: We occasionally spank our kids too, but I think we’re doing it the wrong way somehow. We’re still focusing more on more positive forms of discipline though, those that don’t entail physical pain/methods. 

2nd Prize – A Whole Line of Neutrogena Fine Fairness Gift Pack worth P2,200+

I’m not really into beauty products, as you may already know from my makeover post, but it wouldn’t hurt to try these out if I won right?! 😉

3rd Prize – $50.00 in the winner’s PayPal account

I’d LOVE to get additional cash in my PayPal account! (Errr.. hubby’s PayPal account! I don’t have my own coz I thought it’d be easier for him to get one, since he’s the only one with a credit card! Haha!)

4th Prize – Sennheiser MX 400 Powerful Bass-Driven Stereo Sound Earphones

If I were to win these, I’d probably give them to my dearest hubby, who’s been wanting to get a good set of earphones for the longest time! 😉

Want to have a chance at winning these fab prizes too? Head over to Marriage and Beyond now! 🙂 Thanks too to the blog giveaway sponsors Life as Experienced Daily and Church in Makati. (Note: My blog is very Catholic, but it doesn’t mean that I don’t believe in ecumenism. 🙂 Just saying. 🙂 
Praying for a blessed, beautiful Advent and CHRISTmas for us all! 😉




Desperate Times, Desperate Measures – Pls. help me win the Babymama Contest! :)

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(WARNING! IF YOU ARE NOT A WOMAN OR A MOM, YOU MAY FEEL A BIT UNEASY READING THIS POST. 🙂 HEHEHE. THIS IS MOSTLY ABOUT BREASTFEEDING. 🙂 IF YOU STILL WANT TO CONTINUE, BY ALL MEANS GO AHEAD! HELP ME WIN A BREAST PUMP FOR OUR ADORABLE BABY RYSSE 🙂

For those of you who have been following my blog (and know me personally), you’d know that I am . In line with my personally nursing our babies, we’ve always had to have them with us at all times. In our former mission area, this was quite possible. However, living in Manila, a lot of us know that going around with a toddler is very stressful, not just for the parents, but also for the child herself. Not just stressful but unhealthy too, considering our polluted and sometimes dirty, a lot of times filthy, surroundings (yuck!). Indeed, the times we live in can be considered DESPERATE by many.


Therefore, this missionary mom has resorted to DESPERATE MEASURES. 🙂 I want to meet my goal of providing the BEST milk for RYSSE until she turns 2 years and beyond, WITHOUT having to drag her along with us wherever we go. So I joined this held by Babymama on Facebook. This is a desperate missionary mom’s attempt to win an electric breast pump. 🙂 


And here is how YOU, dear reader, can help me win (you’ll need a Facebook account for this). Thanks in advance for your help! 🙂 And even if I don’t win, I’ll still continue nursing Rysse and I’ll still actively promote breastfeeding! 🙂


Just follow these steps: 


1. Go to Babymama’s page at this link 23748187654467?ref=search and click “Like” 


2. Go to Babymama’s Photo Album: Babymama Contest #3 Photo no. 14 (Tina Santiago Rodriguez) found atthis link 3296&id=123748187654467&ref=album and click “Like” below the photo caption.

You can also help just by copying and pasting this to your profile/wall: 

CLICK FOR A CAUSE! Help this missionary mom win the Babymama Contest so she can keep giving her baby Rysse Mama’s best milk even if they have to do mission work and leave her home. 

1. Go to Babymama’s page at this link 23748187654467?ref=search and click “Like” 

2. Go to Babymama’s Photo Album: Babymama Contest #3 Photo no. 14 (Tina Santiago Rodriguez) found at this link 3296&id=123748187654467&ref=album and click “Like” below the photo caption. 

It’s that EASY to help her win! Thanks so much! God bless you!

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