Traveling with Kids

The best of part about traveling with a kid is that you rediscover simple joys of discovering the world around you.

That's what I always feel when we get that little taste of excitement whenever we go home to Mindanao for a quick vacation. Trips with Dabby are always amazing. His endless questions are quite interesting that I find myself groping for answers to his queries that range from why a thing is of such color or to awkward questions about people around him. 

What I find most interesting is when we ride a plane. He is almost always seated near the wing and always get to see the propeller outside his window. He puts his hand on the window to show that he loves watching the propeller spin moving the plane to where we are headed to -- our hometown.

Philippine Airlines has chosen to sponsor the Mindanao Bloggers Summit in Iligan City on October 29 – 30, 2011 and this is a great way to show that the number one airline in the Philippines is supporting the cause not only of travelers like families with kids but also bloggers who want to explore the world.

Thank you Philippine Airlines for choosing to sponsor the summit!

The Mindanao Bloggers Summit 2011 is open to all Mindanao-based bloggers and to interested bloggers from Luzon and Visayas, with web logs or web journals hosted by any of the publishing platforms, social networking sites with blogging features such as: Blogger, Facebook, Multiply, Tumblr, WordPress,among others, and to those individuals interested in blogging. With 100 bloggers to converge, the Mindanao Bloggers Summit is already accepting registrations.

 

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Mindanao Bloggers Summit 2011

Registration and Accomodations

Partners and Sponsors

What Excites Me to Go to Iligan City Blogging Contest

Speakers

Programme

City Tour Itinerary

If you’re joining to become a participant, register now, or for those who are interested to sponsor, contact Iligan Bloggers Society, and don’t miss out on this chance.

Homeschooling and Mobile Internet

We homeschool everyday. Each lesson is divided into 2 days of work so we need to stick with a daily schedule to cover topics for school. With our current pace, we are very much on schedule. I even saved an allowance of about 15 lessons before June for situations like sick days or travel.

With our travel to MBS5 tomorrow to join the summit on the 29th, our lessons might come to a halt. I am joining the Mindanao Bloggers Summit in Iligan City to support Iligan Bloggers Society, Inc. And of course, I will be bringing my family with me.

Excitement of travel is creeping way too much that I can't go back to sleep at night. Seriously :p And who says we still can't study on the road right?

I was glad to know that Globe Telecom is a co-presentor of the Mindanao Bloggers Summit 2011. A big telecom like Globe surely deserves a pat on the back for support blogger societies.

What I learned about Globe is that they are currently promoting their mobile internet products with their release entitled "You’re On with Globe: Taking mobile internet to the next level".

It is interesting to know that they have Postpaid options for those whose consumption includes push notifications and instant updates at bulk consumption valid for 30 days. This PowerSurf is available in 3 denominations:

• PowerSurf 99 with 50MB allocation, 
• PowerSurf 299 with 300MB allocation 
• PowerSurf 499 with 1GB allocation

I do know that as a blogger and as a homeschooling mom, I need to be constantly connected to the net. So if you're also one, I bet you don't have an excuse anymore not to go traveling to summits like Mindanao Bloggers Summit 2011. You're always connected!

Experiments and Globe's MBS5 Sponsorship

What we love doing during our down time at school is to head over and check out Science Explorer kit. We check out what available activities we can do and enjoy doing the experiments.

For this one, we chose the color-changing activity involving acids and bases. It was a short and sweet experiment that gave us the thrills of seeing purple turn to blue or red. The fizzles and sizzles of the liquids when mixed gave that giggly feeling as if you are popping those powder candy on your tongue. I forgot that name of that candy though.

What I realized during these experiments that we have is that you can follow it up with videos and articles online that can boost (or in my case - refresh) your knowledge of the subject. And of course, you can easily get those online from Youtube or Google. A good internet connection is all you need and Globe is one of the top internet services provider here in the Philippines that can give you the joy of being connected online. 

When Globe announced and finalized the sponsorship for IBS' hosting of the Mindanao Bloggers Summit 2011, I was so glad. It made me realize that bloggers can certainly get the support of big telecoms like Globe in their endeavors. It made a blogging mommy like me realize that you can rely on Globe to offer nice services for our homeschooling needs.

The really, really good thing about Globe's offer is that you can now join MBS5 for FREE! Yep, you don't need to pay anything at all.

Globe has been generous enough to not only help Iligan Bloggers Society realize this event, but they want to extend their generousity to the participants of the 5th Mindanao Bloggers Summit! You got that right!

Globe has offered to cover the registration fees for MBS5 Registrants!!!

For those who have registered, or will register, you get the chance to avail the free registration for Mindanao Bloggers Summit 2011 courtesy of Globe Telecom!

Just click this link and  register to get your instructions on how to avail of it.

 

Understanding Length

Measuring how long using cubes

Local Online Shopping with AyosDito and a Grand Raffle Promo!

My husband could attest the fact that I love online shopping. 

Back at the time when we hoarded cards for our all time favorite Magic: The Gathering, I would be the one to handle all the online transactions from seller to seller and know a good deal about keeping myself secure during deals. I knew how to detect a good trade from a scam and pretty much proud about that fact.

And recently, with the online shops that have been established online, you can well say that it is pretty much easy now. You check their site, check their layout, find their contact info just in case, check testimonials and of course Google some feedback about them and you are now safe to transact. Everything is easier nowadays.

I have tried several online shops to purchase good and other gadgets and so far the experience have all been perfect. One good example of these shops is AyosDito.ph. It had been one of the top destinations of local sellers and buyers here in the Philippines to transact and find items of their liking with the comforts and filtering to your region. Isn't that convenient?

Today, I have browsed around to check if there are available costumes for kids this upcoming Halloween

I spotted a banner that told of a contest -- the AyosDito Connect & Win Promo. Of course, I clicked on it and see if it's a contest that I can qualify for.

Turns out it's pretty much easy to join this contest. You got a Facebook? You're good to go!

If you are wondering what AyosDito Connect is you can check more details about Connect here.

To fully register, you just need to complete your information saved on the form.

With just that, you now earn 10 entries to the raffle! So easy pie, neh?

This  AyosDito Connect & Win Promo will run from August 29 to November 6, 2011 so I guess better up to gather more entries.

A total of 30 x iPad 2’s, 20 iPhone 4’s and P1,000,000 in cash will be given away as prizes for the promo and will be distributed as in weekly draws and a grand draw.

Weekly Draws - The following will be raffled off in ten (10) weekly draws:  3 iPad 2’s will be raffled off to all eligible Participants with valid raffle entries for the week, 2 iPhone 4’s will be raffled off to all eligible Participants with valid raffle entries for the week.

Grand Draw - P1,000,000 will be raffled off in the Grand Raffle on Week 10 of the promo

I hope I will win 1 million. I never won any bigtime raffle before. Hehehhe.

Sorting Numbers 1 - 10

Sorting Numbers 1 - 10 on post its

Number 10

Working on Number 10 activity

Nine Pretty Tulips

Continuation for number 9

Number 9

Nine sharks to show number 9