Public toilets can sometimes be unhygienic. Since it is open for everybody, you don’t know how the toilet is used especially if it’s a common toilet for both men and women. To save yourself from having to hold that toilet seat again, a new and innovative product is out! It’s The Shandle: Toilet Seat Handle – a nifty toilet seat handle should I say! It’s a tiny piece of material that you attach below the toilet seat which is treated with antimicrobial protection that stops the growth of icky invisible bacteria.

It works well for homes too. I can see big grins in women who have stubborn men at home; those who always need to be told to put the seat down! Right? Well, this solves your problem ladies. With the hygienic power and the various pretty designs of Shandle, you wouldn’t mind at all lowering the toilet seat yourself.  And you don’t have to remind them yourself too, coz Shandle will do that for you!

See these lovable designs:

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=(  Silly me!  I shouldn’t have left my eyeglasses lying on the table within little C’s reach.  Now it’s broken - my 4-month old photochromic eyeglasses!  I was watching a movie that moved me to tears, so I took off my eyeglasses to wipe my wet eyes.  Then I forgot all about it, until I noticed the silent little C playing with it.  Duhhhh! How can I be so reckless? Remind me not to watch tear-jerker movies again.

Few more days to go before our trip! You bet, I will be missing a lot of things. Aside from the yummy seafood and Filipino delicacies, all sorts of fruits (especially mangoes!), the beaches, the malls, I will definitely be missing our garden! huhuhu… nope I won’t be missing my parents since they will be coming along with me to Prague, yipeee!
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Not all parents are capable of taking care of their kids personally. Sometimes both mom and dad have to work hard to provide for the needs of the family. Leaving their kids in the care of a nanny is their only choice.

There’s nothing wrong with that, but with many cruel and bad nannies around (they got caught with nanny cameras!), parents should be vigilant and careful in choosing the person who’ll take care of their kids while they’re away.

Need a nanny? Got some tips for you before you hire one.

Check out the records of the nanny you’re hiring. Does she have a good record as a nanny? How long has she been working as one?

Hire only from reputable agencies. They screen the nannies before sending them out to work.
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Little C is too young yet to help us in household chores but she’s very observant whenever we’re busy running around the house, cleaning up. I’d sometimes tell her, “You better take a good look how it’s done so when you’re older you already know how to do it yourself.” All I’d get is a smile in return. I don’t know if she understood me and the smile is her way of agreeing.

Training our kids to help at home is actually for their own benefit when they grow up. When they leave home to study or work, they’ll know how to fend for themselves. It’s alarming to see teenage kids who don’t even know how to do simple tasks such as fold their clothes, or tidy up their beds or wash the dishes. That’s why it is important that kids should be taught how to do their share with chores at home, that should teach them to value work.

To keep track and manage the chores done by our kids, cool chore charts are available online which you can download for free. It can motivate kids to participate more especially if their work is recognized and their good behavior is rewarded. Get your own chore chart at chorecharts.com!

If our garden has been ignored, other more pressing matter is being taken cared of at home while it’s still summer. The current home improvement undertaken is the installation of window awning at the patio to protect the window especially during rainy days.

We plan to change the windows to sliding glass door and put patio furniture in the patio (where else?) where we can dine if we want to breathe fresh air or simply enjoy the outdoor atmosphere. Sooo many things to do! And with little time left before we’d fly back to Europe, it’s another project that has to be put on hold again. Till when? I really don’t know.

This patio furniture looks comfy!

One of the things I looked forward in my short stay in P.I. was to tackle the plants in our garden. They’re all screaming to be arranged, landscaped, transferred to pots, replanted, trimmed, etc. It seems they have to stay the way they are coz I’ve been too busy. I guess one can’t really expect to have a relaxing vacation when you have a little creature to take care of and loads of other important things to do.

So here’s the sorry state of our plants under the windows.

One of the many garden projects that needs to be worked on!
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