A Week Full of Love

"Who can find a virtuous wife? For her worth is far above rubies. The heart of her husband safely trusts her; so he will have no lack of gain. she does him good not evil all the days of her life." 

-Proverbs 31:10-12-

As I am working on my goal for 2016, which is being intentional, I spent time to take a closer look at those areas in my life in which I want growth and betterment to occur; one of those is my marriage. This year, it is really my intention to take our marriage to the next level. I don't want an ordinary marriage. I want a strong and a happy one. I asked the Lord in prayer to help me make our marriage something He planned it to be. I talked to my husband about making our marriage stronger and happier by doing things that we have not yet done before. So, to spice up our love for each other, we come up with this idea of " A Week Full of Love" . We set a week when we do extraordinary things for each other like we did before when we were still courting. This is to bring back the "kilig" after all of the things we have undergone in our marriage life. God is so good to us and we would like also to show Him that we are taking good care of the marriage He created.

Below is the sample of our , "A Week Full of Love":

Day 1: In a day, tell your spouse 10 sweet-nothings .

Day 2: Make a heartfelt letter for your spouse.

Day 3:  In a day, tell your spouse 10 things in him or her that you are proud of.

Day 4: In a day, tell your spouse 10 things you love about your spouse.

Day 5: Dine-out with your spouse.

Day 6: Write 10 things you pray for your spouse ,put it inside a picture frame, put it somewhere you can always see and pray for those things every day.

Day 7: Give your spouse something he or she loves.

For those who want their marriage to "level up" , maybe you would like to try this as well. And for those who have suggestions on how to spice up a marriage, please leave us a comment, we would like to hear from you. Thank you very much. 

Make Time:Time Management Tips for Busy Moms

"For everything there is a season,  a time for every activity under heaven."

- Ecclesiastes 3:1-

For a busy mom like me,it can be very exhausting just thinking on how to joggle and stretch my time in order to cater to everything that needs to be done in a day. Sometimes, I feel that 24 hours is not enough for a day. I need to find time for all of my tasks at hand as a wife, mom of two, connect leader,employee, blogger, mompreneur,  home manager and financial manager of our household. Actually, I realized that I don't need to find time, I need to MAKE TIME. 

Well, for moms who are in a situation just like mine, maybe these tips can be of help to you.

1. Get Organized - Get yourself a nice planner wherein you can assess your time, write your to-dos and schedule your events and activities. Plan ahead and think how you can lessen the time to be spent on each task. 

2. Prioritize - While planning, assess and categorize your to-dos and think what needs to be done first. As for me, I learned the following sequence of prioritizing my tasks in a day.

         1st: Urgent and important things

         2nd: Not urgent but important things

         3rd: Urgent but not important things

         last: Not urgent and not important things

3. Multi-task - Women are multi-tasker. We can do multiple tasks at a time. So think of the things or tasks that you can multi-task. 

4. Sow Time  - The bible is telling us  in Galatians 6:7 "Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows." So if we sow our time, we shall also reap our time.  We sow our time when we spend our time doing God's works. We sow our time when we spend our time with people in need. 

5. Make Use of Internet - Check all your bills and see if you can pay them online so there is no need for you to spend your time going out from the house to pay the merchants. You can also buy stuffs from online stores which offer good deals and services. This can save your time as well. 

6. Get Help - If you can afford to get a house help, get one. Effectively delegate the other household chores to your house help so you can spend more time with your spouse and kids. 

7. Pray - In Matthew 21:22, it says, "If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer." So go ahead, ask God for wisdom on how to make time.

So, these are the things I do in order to make time for everything. How about you? Maybe you have something that you want to share with us regarding how to manage and make time for everything. Feel free to leave a comment. We also love to learn from you.