My Favorite School Teacher
During my school days, I had favorite teacher that stimulated, inspired, encouraged and guided me to become what I am now. To me, she was the best teacher I ever had in all of my school days. Truly, teachers were the paragons of good education in its truest essence. Surely, I shall always cherish their memories throughout my life.
In primary school, I had a teacher who was like a mother to me. Actually, she was a close relative of my father. She was my teacher in Grade 1, and she was so kind and loving to us. She would share her lunch with me, and she bought crayons, pencils and notebooks for me. She lauded my woks at school, buys me something whenever she gets reward cards and encouraged me to develop my inborn talent in arts. I learned from her to have self-esteem and self confidence.
During my Grade 2 year, she gave me a part for the closing ceremony – a long poem of our national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal, “My Last Farewell” translated in our dialect. It was so long that I could barely memorize it. Thanks God, I was able to deliver it successfully. That was the best mental exercise that greatly developed my good memory throughout my school days from primary school up to college.
I had other favorite teachers in the elementary school too, but for me she was the best, and always will be in my memory. She was a very good story teller too. She would tell me tales of legends and myths. She taught music too, and she had a very good voice. She was a strict disciplinarian, but loving and caring.
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Beautiful Souvenirs From Australia
Australia is a country of beautiful spots for tourists and travellers. Visiting Australia is an enjoyable thing, and coming from there won’t be complete without buying some beautiful souvenirs to remind you of your visit in Australia. Although my daughter fancies having new equestrian boots, since she plans to start riding lessons this summer, I told her to choose something related to Australia, so it will remind her of the visit.
Australia is famous for hopping kangaroos. It is fun seeing them for the first time. But sometimes they attack and can be dangerous to human beings. Koala bears are also famous in Australia. These round-faced animals are harmless, and love to munch grasses and leaves of trees. But of course, the most fascinating ones for kids and adults alike are the boomerangs. Playing with these toys are very exciting and exhilarating. It brings more joy and happiness especially when you can throw it correctly and skillfully to have it return to you and be able to catch it again.
Be sure to buy souvenirs from Australia when travelling there. Your kids will surely love to play the boomerangs. Your lass will also be happy to hug the soft stuffed koala bears. You can give them clip of kangaroos too.
When coming from Australia, do not forget to bring home souvenirs such as aboriginal symbols and other aboriginal arts for display in your living room. Buy keychains for your loved ones and friends to remind them of Australia. The will always remember Australia, and of course, the giver too.
Category: Family Holidays & Special Occasions, Travel and Places
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Salad Dressings Basic Ingredients
A light French dressing (oil, vinegar, lemon juice, and seasonings) is appropriate for almost any salad. Mayonnaise, whipped cream, or cooked dressing should be used according to your own taste. Don’t be afraid to experiment. Out of the basic salad dressing ingredients, you may be able to create something special.
Salad Dressings Basic Ingredients that you may use:
Oils. Fruity Italian oil, olive oil, or french type such as vegetable oils made from corn, cotton seeds, peanuts, soybeans, and canola.
Vinegar. Strength of vinegar varies. That’s why it is important to add vinegar to the other ingredients a little at a time until your desired taste is reached. Old-fashioned vinegar has a wild taste. For a distinctive taste in your dressing, you may either use vinegar from tarragon, wine, pear, garlic, onion, or specially seasoned vinegar.
Seasonings. Use regular table salt. Black pepper is at its best when freshly ground. Fresh garlic should be minced, otherwise, you may opt for garlic salt or powdered dry garlic. Use dried or fresh herbs sparingly. With herbs, a little goes a long way.
Other Salad Staples. Keep these condiments at hand: garlic, celery salt, onion salt, minced salt, and onion juice. Horseradish pickle relish and seeds like caraway, sesame, celery and mustard add a distinctive flavor to both salads and salad dressings. Don’t overlook fresh and dried herbs such as sage, mint, chive, basil, oregano, and dill. Use sharp table steak sauce and red pepper sauce for zesty tang. Crunchy nuts and raisins give pleasing texture and taste.
Category: Healthy Cooking With Wise Mom
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Green Thumb
Green Thumb
Green Thumb
(Noun) Green Thumb (plural green thumbs)
(idiomatic) (a green thumb) A natural skill for gardening.
Little Miss Greenthumb, Where did she go? Out to the garden Where green things grow. She waters the parsley, Lettuce, and peas, Then puts down her pail And gets on her knees The Green Thumb.
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First Time Vegetable Gardening
Gardening is one of the most productive hobby that me and my family share. We plant different kinds of vegetables, so we don’t have to buy them in the market anymore. Besides, home grown organic vegetables are healthier than those that are commercially produced and sold at the markets.
Are you interested to put up your very own vegetable garden at home? If you are a first timer in gardening, there are a few things that you need to know to start a vegetable garden, but it’s not really a difficult thing, however, it requires a lot passion and patience, because once you start gardening, you will have to work on it, take care of your plants, for as long as they exist and or as long as you want them to continue growing and producing.
First, think about what kind of vegetables you’d like to grow, then buy seeds from a reliable source. Second, you need to find a perfect spot for your vegetable plots. You need to have a space that has adequate sunlight, and fertile soil that is able to absorb the water well. You also have to remove the weeds and all other plants in that spot.
You don’t just plant your seeds right away. First you need to condition the soil for planting. You have to make it fertile and well irrigated. If you plan to do organic vegetable gardening, use fertilizers made out of natural materials such as decayed vegetables, and other animal compost products. It will take a few weeks before your plots are ready, and once they are you can start planting your seeds, and then make sure to water your plots once a day. Do not pour too much water, just enough to keep the soil moist.
You may notice weeds growing even before your seedlings do, make sure to remove them immediately because they absorb the soil nutrients that are meant for your seeds. After a few weeks you will notice tiny sprouts starting to grow. At this stage, you should not pour too much water in them because they are sensitive and may die of too much water.
Growing vegetables gives me a sense of fulfillment that I can’t describe, and when harvest time comes and feed your family with your own healthy product of your own labor, the happiness it brings is lasting — and you get to save money too, because you don’t need to buy those vegetables from the market.
Category: The Green Thumb Mom
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Teaching Your Kid The Lesson Of Forgiveness
Real forgiveness is something that can be learned by your kids through you. As parents, it is our duty to ensure that our kids learn the most essential things in life, and one of them is how to forgive.
The lesson about forgiveness can be taught or un-taught, sometimes even without you knowing, in your way of dealing with your child’s improper behavior. Before you can effectively lead the child into forgiving others who have wronged them, you need to genuinely forgive the him for what the mistakes he has committed. In the absence of your genuine forgiveness, you lead the child with an attitude of bitterness, which incites the kids’ distrust, defensiveness and even defiance.
Forgiveness of the kid is set on understanding the factors that contribute to a kid’s wrongful conduct, including the kid’s tiredness, hunger, exposure to excessively harsh discipline, experiencing of too little close connection with others and too much cold direction and correction, as well as exposure to someone modeling the bad behavior, etc.
Understanding the contributing factors and forgiving your kid does not mean that you do not deal with the conduct problem. Normally, the advisable way to handle an improper behavior is by ridding of the surrounding influences that contribute to it and giving the child a distinct sign about the conduct you will and will not tolerate. But it is critical that the way you deliver that clear signal in no way causes the kid to feel so hurt by you that she feels to a greater extent aggressed than truly supported.
Respecting your kid’s feelings is a fundamental practice for instructing your kid to recognize and honor innocence and everyone’s worthiness of love. As you show consciousness of and respect for your child’s feelings, you nurture, strengthen and support his ability to recognize respect the sacred heart of innocence in himself and others.
Family Weekend Fun with board games
Are you running out of ideas on what to do during family time? There are many ways to have fun during weekends. At home, what my husband and I do to spend time with the kids is play games with them where everyone can participate.
Your kids’ attention is likely to get diverted to their handheld gaming consoles, or playing xbox, ps3, or simply watching the television. So, the first thing to do is to turn off the TV, put away the laptop and pull out a board game that the entire family can play. The kids may object at first but they will eventually change their moods soon as they realize how fun playing boardgames is. Family board games have provided hours of entertainment for generations and will continue to do so for many more generations to come. Simple, classic, and fun family activity.
During weekends, we usually reserve it for our family game night. We fix a light dinner, clean up and then we pull out the games. It is constantly a night loaded with a fun — without spending, except when we want to eat some tasty treats. Everyone in the family looks forward to our game night every weekend, which has become a part of our family tradition.
Whether you’re searching for a different family favorite game or activity, playing family board game is definitely one of the best family fun past times ever.
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Growing herbs in pots
Growing herbs in pots is just among a lot of other alternatives available to a natural herbaceous plant enthusiast. An interior herbaceous plant garden involves a lot of work but growing herbs in pots requires simple and easy care and generally involve less maintenance than herbaceous plant gardens grown outdoors. An ornamental hanging basket or window plant box may also be an attracting add-on to your interior surrounds. Let’s take a closer look at a few of the aspects involved with growing potted herbs.
Potted plants, or every plant for that case, require 3 basic components to flourish – controlled sunlight, good soil, and an adequate water supply. New-sprung herbaceous plant gardens are no exclusion. Proper placement and regular care will see to it that your plants thrive and produce on a regular basis. The amount and variety of the herbaceous plant you produce will determine how they ought to be lighted.
Where would you place potted herbaceous plant to provide the most adept sunshine? Obtain a room with a window that fronts south or west. This direction yield the most favourable light. Some make use supplementary light source like fluorescent lamps that provide more consistent, even out lighting for plants in pots . These lights do work well in sequestered, temperature-controlled areas, if there’s interior place to arrange them up in good order.
In conditions of soil quality and chemistry, new herb gardens flourish in soil that Is not excessively fertile and has got enough drainage. This is attained by compounding sterilized potting soil with a mixture of perlite and coarse sand, in a 2:1 ratio. There should also be a base quantity of gravel in the bed of each pot to allow water to run out easily from the soil.
Adding up a small quantity of lime to potting soil likewise aids equilibrate the pH level for best growing conditions. A teaspoonful of lime in a 5-inch pot is a practiced rule of thumb.
How you water your herb plants also makes a difference in how good they thrive. Some individuals use a spray bottle to mist the leaves of herbs and keep the surface soil damp without drowning the soil with water. This helps prevent over-watering the plant or drenching the roots of the plant with excessive amount of water. Look At how water is distributed to herbs in outdoor gardens through rainfall.
Growing herbs in pots indoors also gives you the chance to move perennials outdoors in the summer, while holding the more delicate yearlies mostly inside. With but a few exceptions, as in the case of herbs like tarragon, chive, and mint, all of which can endure an early mild frost, most herbs should be brought indoors before the first frost in wintertime.
Some herbaceous plants do well in pots or containers than others, and the variety you choose to grow will determine the strategy you use to bring the best outcomes. Some of the more popular options for container herbs are things like pot marjoram, lemon balm, chamomile, sweet basil, oregano, and rosemary. Mint can be a little tricky, since it tends to dominate the soil and reproduces quickly. In these cases, a little extra maintenance may be necessary to isolate certain plants and keep your containers under control.
With appropriate pruning and regular maintenance, growing herbs in pots returns great results. Several trial and error is necessary to determine the best techniques, and most herbs do best when they are repotted and harvested on a regular basis. Herb gardening is a rewarding experience that provides fresh ingredients for your favorite meals and provides a long-lasting hobby for years to come.
Passport Renewal and Travel Plans
I plan to go to the Department of Foreign Affairs to have my passport renewed. It is already due for renewal. It’s just the right time because the new passports are already being released by the said department. The whole family is planning to travel abroad again for a vacation, but I guess we will have to wait for my other son’s exam to finish, and for my youngest daughter to finish all her projects and exams at school.
We want to get out of the country before my eldest daughter starts working. Now, that my husband is with us and is self-employed, we have more chance to go out, but it would still be different if we will get to have a getaway in a far place even just for a week or so. We’re planning to go to either Thailand or Macau, but the first option is Thailand, because a family friend is inviting us over. Their whole family is already there, and we would probably go to Singapore afterward before going back home.
I hope all our travel plans will be carried out, but for now, I hope that my two younger kids will do good in their exams so there will be more reasons to celebrate. My brother-in-law has been convincing me and my husband to visit them in the US too and even said they will buy us Las Vegas Show Tickets, so we can enjoy watching artists performing live in Vegas. That would be really amazing, but for now, I will have to wait until all is settled with the kids.
Coping With Boredom
What do you do when boredom strikes? I have my own ways of coping with boredom. When I have nothing to do, I think of happy timesand the blessings that God has showered me and my family. Often, I stay at home or inside the room and play or listen to sweet music. Music uplifts the soul. Every strum on the guitar strings, or running my fingers on the black and white piano keys, gives me that sense of freedom.
I don’t know, I don’t really get to have those super dull moments. When things and time seems to be going really slow, I savor every moment I experience them, because for me, it is more like an opportunity to relax and be stress free.
Sometimes, I work on the kids’ scrapbook, or spend time reading a good book. Sometimes I write on my diary, all the great things that happened to me and family. At the end of the day, I realize that God give us time to stop, think, then relax and meditate.