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Thankful Thursdays: The Power of Community

November 15, 2012 by Tina Leave a Comment

Since posting the truth about my pregnancy earlier this week, I have been overwhelmed by the love, support, prayers and messages coming in from people everywhere — including complete strangers! 🙂 Truly, God is good and faithful, and in behalf of our entire family, we thank Him for the blessing that ALL OF YOU are to us! 🙂

Thank you so much! 🙂

Needless to say, for this Thankful Thursdays post, I am grateful for the power of community — of people coming together for a common purpose, of people relating to each other in one way or another, online AND offline! 🙂

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To everyone who has reached out to us through blog post comments, Facebook comments, posts and messages, Tweets, emails, text messages, this is what I have to say:

Philippians 1:3-4

And remember:

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God bless us all! 🙂

Thankful Thursdays: Just When You Want to Give Up

October 17, 2012 by Tina Leave a Comment

I realize I haven’t been made a “gratitude” Thankful Thursdays post in ages! There are actually SO many things to blog about… but I always feel like there’s so little time! *sighs* So, if you’ve contacted me before about blogging about this or that, or I haven’t even replied to you, please forgive me.

Anyway, this Thankful Thursday post is inspired by an online chat I had with a good friend and fellow homeschool mom blogger, Mariel of The Learning Basket (oh, please do check out her blog here for oodles of fun literature-inspired learning activities for your kid, and so much more!). We were chatting yesterday about a couple of things, one of which was the messages we’ve been getting from people because of our blogs.

Like I said in and on this blog post, I love blogging, but I haven’t been blogging as often as I’d like to. However, there are many, many times when I feel like stopping.

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Yes, you read that right. Sometimes, I just want to give up on blogging altogether. I want to stop having to deal with thoughts of how to make time for writing regular posts, of the “hassle” of updating and , of replying to emails and messages from businesses and PR agencies and readers (oh, please forgive me!).

I actually chatted with another friend and fellow mom blogger (and “mentor-of-sorts”), Martine of Dainty Mom, about this same topic just last week… I told her what I said above and she encouraged me to keep at it and to just do my best (thanks, Marts, for always being so supportive! So excited to see you and the other ladies at the WAHMderful Life Workshop on October 27!).

Then, there are messages and comments like these, that truly warm my heart, uplift my spirits and encourage me… They also humble me and remind me why I started this blog in the first place — because I want to reach out to other people, especially to other moms… and to share what is good. I hope that, by blogging, I am able to inspire others to live their best lives… to live out God’s mission for their lives… even as I am still striving (and sometimes, failing) to do the same…

(This was sent to me through my Contact Me page. I didn’t include the mom’s name in case she wants to remain anonymous. Thanks just the same, Mommy A.!)

(This was a comment left on one of my earlier blog posts, about the Blissful Babes Warehouse Sale.)

I know to some people/bloggers, messages such as those above may be very common and admittedly, there are more “famous,” more inspiring bloggers out there. But to li’l ol’ me… they mean a lot. In this case, they are quite encouraging and provide me the motivation to keep on writing/blogging.

Thank you, dear readers. Thank you to everyone who’s dropped by and visited this blog at one point or another. Thank you for your messages, emails, comments, Tweets, Facebook posts, and more!

This Thursday, I thank the Lord especially for each and every one of you. 🙂 May God bless you and yours abundantly! 🙂

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{Not-so-}Wordless Wednesday {Thank God for your support!}

March 20, 2012 by Tina Leave a Comment

Thank You, Unilever (and all the other companies/individuals/businesses that recognize my blog)!

November 13, 2011 by Tina Leave a Comment

I have a confession to make: my blogs are not super sikat (famous). So I am always PSYCHED whenever I receive certain e-mails in my inbox because of my blogs, like invitations to media launches for certain products (like Aprica’s earlier this year):

or invites to blogger events (like the one about Play Pilipinas, which I sadly wasn’t able to attend):

Or invites like this (usually from my wonderful mompreneur friend Janice of Mommy Mundo – sadly I wasn’t able to attend this either):

or invites to cool events like the formal unveiling of Lego Pilipinas (again from Janice – and yes, I wasn’t able to go AGAIN, because of work):
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I have even been asked to write about certain events like Philippine Spring Cleaning Day, which I mentioned in my weekly blog post on Philstar.com here, and was able to watch Kung Fu Panda 2 for free with hubby and Tim at an exclusive screening c/o ! (Yes, I AM happy with stuff like this, hehe, I live simply that way!) Incidentally, I missed this event by Intel Philippines too (haaay!) because I was busy with our community’s 30th Anniversary preparations:

So, I was SUPER happy when I got this a few days ago:

My first ever “loot bag” due to blogging! Thank you Lady’s Choice and Unilever!

I’m not the only one who was happy! hehe!

Yipee! (I told you I am happy with little things right?!)

Now I have what I need to try out some of the recipes on Lady Choice Mayonnaise’s YouTube channel, just in time for Advent, and in preparation for CHRISTmas! 😉 Yey!

Thank you Unilever! And thanks too to everyone – businesses / companies / mompreneurs / individuals / PR people / fellow bloggers, etc etc – who believe in my blogs (this one and my homeschooling one) and support them! 😉 Be blessed always!