Category: Great Finds

How's the weather today to where you at? I hope it's not freezing compared to where I am now. The locals claim the weather for the past few days were a bit milder compared to what they had last year during this season but still I find it too cold making my knees shake and my teeth clenched. I guess my body is still adjusting to my new environment. I got to buy new sets of thick clothes to warm me up. Let's just say this is the tropical Momma's adjustment period. Alright, I promised to do some beauty products... Read More

Before moving to a another place to start a new job, I spent my remaining free days with my family. Who wouldn't want to do that especially if you know it is going to take quite a few months or even a year to be together. God bless my heart to endure it. Last Monday was my scheduled flight and a day before that, while waiting for my airline ticket confirmation, we decided all to visit SM City. It's rare for me to visit a mall without having a concrete plan on what exactly am I going to do there.... Read More

While  busy packing for my things, I had to break and do something to relieve my stress on what to include in my luggage. If you only had witnessed how many times I packed  then remove all the stuff to hit the target weight allowed and do it all over again, you'll see how tiring it was. The twenty five kilograms weight for my luggage as directed initially to me which is the allowable weight I can have, seemed not enough for all the things I needed to bring. If you're from a tropical country going to somewhere with a... Read More

How are you pretty mommas? I hope you’re all doing great today. I seldom publish a post in akynfullhouse. It takes about a week before a new entry is available because I’m taking my free time spent with my Mon and Akyn. When you’re anticipating of being away from your family due to some work demands, you’ll really drop almost everything in your schedule just to be with them. I can do this! That’s how I convince myself to be tough once I’ll be part of what they call as LDR (long distance relationship). =( I brought my toddler with... Read More

Sundays never failed to make me happy in enjoying an uninterrupted family time. Apart from no traffic congestion, everybody is in the house because it’s their rest day. Yey! What’s your favorite day of the week? Is it Saturday, Friday or depending on your scheduled time off from work? For sure everyone wants a relax time away from the everyday pressure in the work place. You deserve it. Please remember not to hesitate in splurging yourself with what they call as your “ME TIME.” So, how was the first Sunday for this love month spent? We aren’t certain whether we... Read More

How does it feel staying at home without thinking of getting early the following day to report to work? Absolutely relaxing. I've been wanting to experience this to get some free time away from stress. I should savor this moment while waiting for something to get me going facing the reality again of a working Momma life. So what keeps me busy at home? Nothing, just spending a quality time with my family especially with my Akyn. I've mentioned to you in one of my post about my experience of getting my arm muscles sore after I manually used a... Read More

I received Akyn’s photos on his third birthday celebration weeks ago and still haven’t posted them all in my Facebook account. Since I started creating this blog, I prefer to post those memorable photos here than in my social media. Why? Because I just don’t feel like sharing it. Duh! Lol.☺ Seriously, the main reason why I love posting them in Akynfullhouse for the fact that I can express more details about the pictures here. I can go detail by detail on what’s the story behind the shots. Isn’t that a better way of letting the viewers know a little... Read More

A birthday party can never be complete without a cake. Of course, it’s the highlight of the event that everybody is waiting for the blowing of candles. Have you observed it when someone sees you buying a cake, the first question will usually be, “Who is celebrating his birthday?” Nobody will ask you if you are celebrating a town fiesta with a cake. Try asking it and let’s see how they would react if you'll ask, ”Where’s the town fiesta for this cake order?” Sounded so awkward! Lol☺ For Akyn’s birthday, I had two suppliers for my dessert. My Toy... Read More

It took me a while before I created a post regarding Akyn’s third birthday party suppliers. Sorry guys. This working mom’s schedule got so hectic rushing to complete all requirements needed for me to comply. Let’s start with our balloon decoration supplier. As I mentioned in one of my post, my grade school classmate is the sole owner of Simply Jessie Balloons, Miss Jessie Lee. While scrolling with my Facebook news feed, her business page came up. The sample designs from her previous customers looked so nicely prepared with the positive reviews from the clients. I contacted her without knowing... Read More

After the dental appointment, Akyn's Godmother, Emma, had agreed to meet us to see her Godchild. It's been a while since she last saw our Akyn. Yesterday was the perfect time to meet up when both our schedules were available. Yey! I'm thankful for the free time granted for me to spend time with my dearest friends. Unlike those days when I was still studying where I got all the spare time to go wherever I wanted to. The only concern was I got no budget to do so. And now, I may have the funds to splurge for an... Read More

As scheduled by Akyn’s dentist, we went for his tooth extraction appointment yesterday. During our first check up I was advised to set Akyn’s mind regarding the coming dental appointment to at least calm down my toddler's feelings and lessen his fears. That’s going to be a challenging task for me then. My boy is so playful which would mean every conversation we have doesn’t necessary follows his full attention is with me talking to him. Most of the time, he is only enjoying having a mommy-baby playtime moment without paying attention to the details of the discussion in between . I still tried... Read More

Since October of 2018 during Elaine’s house warming, my college circle of friends already agreed to have our mini reunion celebration on the same date of Akyn’s third birthday celebration. Thank you guys for sticking to the agreed plan. It’s less costly because our food, the venue and the entire preparation shall be done all at once. We talked a little bit of our plans ahead of time on what we were supposed to do during the event such as our games, the exchange gifts and the time of the gathering. I got voluntold to be the host. I got... Read More

How was your Christmas celebration? I had one of the happiest, simple yet memorable. As agreed, we stayed in our house to celebrate the Holiday season. Yey! For the very first time, finally our little home was filled with happiness during the most joyful season of the year. We used to celebrate it in my parents home. I’m thankful everyone was happy about my suggestion. Because I am the host for tonight, I had to take charge of the preparation. My list for the grocery items were all prepared at the back of my head. Do you also do that... Read More

Doing a pre-birthday shoot may be a little bit pricey if you’ll contact a professional photographer to do a personalized photo session. I’ve tried inquiring one and the initial charge was for a package of P10,000. The output samples were nice but I find it too expensive. What Mon and I did instead was to find something cheaper where we can save more. We bought a Woody costume through Shopee.  Akyn’s overall get-up including the hat was about P500. Then, we went to a photo studio, chose their glamour shots with free picture frames already. Our total expenses was only... Read More

I promised in my previous blog topic (My Personal Tarpaulin Maker) that I will be posting a separate post regarding our Akyn’s birthday souvenir. So, here it is. We had several ideas on what to use like mugs, key chains, fridge magnets, etc. There are so many options leaving me confused to decide which one to choose. During our Akyn’s Christening we had a do-it-your own teddy bear made of bath towels. The souvenirs perfectly matched with our brown Teddy Bear theme. The tags were also made by Mon. A project made with love for baby Akyn. [gallery ids="8581,8580" type="rectangular"]... Read More

We couldn’t hold back our excitement to see our Akyn’s happiness in getting his new Woody toy. If you can remember in my previous blog post, we promised to give his surprise gift on his third birthday. I’m sorry to admit but we gave in to our urge to surprise him early. It’s our frailty as his parents to witness his genuine joy every time. I know parents can relate to this. ☺ We gave him his talking Woody last weekends. Can you imagine how the little Woody fan reacted seeing his favorite Toy Story character? It was priceless! I... Read More