Hi! We're here to share with you our family's L.I.F.E. thoughts, tips, and stories about raising boys and girls (and that includes me and my husband.) May what you find here be a blessing to you today.
Love,
Carmen Gutierrez 💜
Thoughts, Tips and Stories
Sharing with you our 15+ tips and experiences from our Boracay trip last Feb 23-27, 2022, for your next tour there in one of the best islands in the world!
My Top 5 Essentials For A Newborn
I'm on my 3rd time around in caring for a newborn and I realized na ang daming HINDI KAILANGAN, and the things I DO NEED have to be the perfect kind for its function, hindi enough na basta cute lang. I will share with you my personal list and I hope it would help you to have a sulit beginning in choosing what to purchase.
On Kids’ Gadget Usage & Video-Watching:
Tips & Confessions!
Did you also struggle with the decision-making on: "Do we allow them, yes or no?" Here are our Why’s, How’s, When & What’s, with mistakes in between, encouragement, and prayers for us and for you as we guide our children in this screen generation.
When God's answer is not what I expected...
Are you desperately asking God about something and hoping He would confirm to you what you want to hear... but He tells you something else? I was... and BOOM. Hindi yun ang hinihiling kong sagot, cos He kind of said that I will definitely encounter my fears instead of what I hoped which is that He would cancel the very fears I had... INSTEAD, HE SAID EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED to hear...
If ever you’d like to try reading the Bible,
how to start?
It's GCQ already but all the how-to’s that we're looking for about it kind of makes us more anxious than equipped, restricted than free to go, afraid than secured, noh?
But now that you’re here, I’m so glad! Because for me, this is the BEST HOW-TO TOPIC that I mega promote you search about lalo na in this discouraging times—reading the Bible ♥️
And I’m so hopeful for you to be encouraged and refreshed by it!
This is why I wrote this for you...and/or for your friend whom you want to help to start reading her Bible. 🙂
50+ indoor play ideas for little kids
Hi, dakilang inay! Still on quarantine so I thought of sharing with you some of what we play in our home. I said “some” cos there’s really a loooot we parents can play with our kids. I know that you and I sometimes just need a little inspiration to SPARK ideas in our bright minds. 💡
The most important reminder for me this quarantine season...
I guess there’s never a time that people have more hours logged in on social media apps than during this quarantine season. Everyone’s scrolling and scrolling, and that includes me when my kids are asleep. If I won’t be intentional, I’d lose my precious 1 hour of rest just on acquiring mostly junk & points of insecurity from my social media newsfeeds.
