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Beach Problems: Sand, Sunblock and Water in the Ears

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Photo Credit: Google It's summer!  And summer for me always means the beach.  So far, we've been to Paradise and had gone island hopping since summer started.  And we're still planning our beach trips. Do your kids love the water?  My kids do!  They are water babies! This was a term coined by a British pool mate of theirs who were amazed on how they love the water so much, even if they were still less than a year old. I think they took after me.  But going to the beach meant some minor problems for us (but a major problem for the kids). When the twins were a bit younger, they were not comfortable with the sand.  This was our first problem.  Of course, the beach means sand, sand, sand! However, they did not like the sand.  It was, as they say, "Yucky!" (hehehe).  Eventually, they began to like the sand and play with it.  We bring toys for making sand castles.  But up until today, they have this "no sand  on my slip...

Make-up Love, Reignited!

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I'm going to admit, I am going gaga over make-up lately.  I credit this to my good friend  +Jasmin Caballero  who reignited my love affair with make-up.  I used to like applying make-up when I had all the time in the world to do it (aka before motherhood).  But when I had kids and I am running late for a hearing, a class or a meeting, I had no choice but to just use face powder, blush and concealer.  The lesser application, the better. So what reignited this love affair?  It all started with the Mac Archie Collection- specifically, with the lipstick.  When I bought the Betty Oh Oh Oh (I ordered from Carefree Shopper ), I just started falling in love with make-up once again.  My good friend is a make-up junkie (admit it +Jasmin Caballero!).  So I had to ask her all sorts of questions to start building up my make-up collection.  She ordered me a Vichy Corrective Foundation and Ben Nye Luxury Powder from Digital Traincase . ...