How are you mummas? I cannot believe that this month is almost over and it has been rather silent around here. I guess that happens when life happened.
Some say January dragged on longer than they’d imagined, but I couldn’t quite agree. It seems it zoomed by rather quickly. I am still left with a number of unfinished things from my January to-do list. But I am sure I can take care of them another day.
How did this first month of 2023 treat you, mummas? I hope it will leave you with content, gratitude, and just about the right dose of optimism and positive vibes to embrace February with full enthusiasm. May we all leave this month with thankfulness in our hearts and with invaluable lessons to carry on to the next month ahead.
Giveaway alert
To jumpstart February, I am hosting my first ever giveaway for this year. Check out our Facebook and Instagram Pages for the easy peasy mechanics.
Am giving away Php500 GCash to 1 lucky follower from Facebook and Instagram. Good luck, mummas!
May we all have a legendary February! {sorry can’t help it, my not so little man and I just finished re-watching one of our fave series!} 💜
Finding simple ways to stretch your budget especially in this trying times is a must. Inflation is going up and prices of basic commodities and services are rising along with it. Soon it would be a challenge to live on one’s paycheck alone. Therefore, it is imperative to find simple and easy ways to stretch your monthly budget.
There are numerous ways that we can stretch our monthly budget. Here are a few ideas that you might want to try this month:
Plan and cook your meals
With the alarming rate prices of food items are increasing these days, one simple way to cut down on your monthly budget is making a meal plan. Plan your weekly or monthly meals and work your grocery list around these meals. This way you will not only avoid over-budgeting when you do the grocery, but will also help you avoid ordering food. You will not only be hitting budge t goals doing this, but will also enable you to serve more delicious and healthier home-cooked meals to your family.
Earn from you passion
Our passions can also take a good chunk of our budget. If you are a plant mumma like myself, you allot a portion of budget each month to buy plants or gardening-related items. If you are into arts and crafts, you set aside a portion of your salary each month to purchase supplies and materials. But what if you can actually find ways to also earn from these passions? If you are a fledgling writer, you can offer writing services to your blogger or online influencer friends. As a plant-loving mum, you can propagate your plants and sell the propagations to other fellow plant lovers. As an arts and crafts enthusiasts, you can earn extra by selling your crafts or making crafts for other people.
All year-round everyone in the family is always busy with something. Parents can be very busy with work while the children are preoccupied with school or school-related activities. Christmas break is one of those few occasions when everyone can gather at home and do something fun and exciting.
The few days that you are at home with your children present exciting opportunities to create core memories with them. It is a chance to have long, lazy conversations with them to get to know them better. It is also the perfect time to catch up on your favorite TV shows or that new puzzle.
I have listed a few fun things you can do with children this holiday break:
Write Christmas cards together
Writing and sending Christmas cards and postcards is a fun tradition you can start doing with your children this holiday. Send cards to relatives in far-off places or to your little one’s godparents. You may even choose to send one to his friends, or even to a stranger. You can check online posts looking for people to send cards to the elderly in nursing or retirement homes.
And if you are looking for interesting cards to send, these beautiful Larry Alcala Christmas cards from UNICEF are perfect. You can get them for free for a minimum donation of Php1,000.00.
Play online games with them
MortgageCalculator.org’s Cooking Fever
MortgageCalculator.org’sLego City Adventures Build and Protect
The kids will appreciate it very much if we will spend time with them doing the things that they love. These online games can be tricky, but we will score a thousand “best mum” points if we will simply try. I tried playing Fortnite, one of my not-so-little man’s favorite online games and it was quite the experience. I am clueless about these games myself. But I did manage to survive a few minutes and got 45th place before another player managed to kill me. So it’s all good!
MortgageCalculator.org’sBitcoin Tap Tap Mine
You can also introduce them to new online games, like these interesting money games from MortgageCalculator.org. They have a wide array of fun and educational games that you and the little ones can enjoy. Choose from colorful cooking games like Cooking Fever or try the Math-related games like Supermarket Numbers with the little ones. Introduce your older kids to more complex games like Lego City Adventures Build and Protect or Bitcoin Tap Tap Mine.
