Beyond The Silver and The Gold » Life at Home http://www.beyondsilverandgold.com An online diary of a Filipino Homeschooling and Work-at-Home Mom Fri, 08 Nov 2013 16:25:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 Our Dream Music Room– A Legacy for Future Generations http://www.beyondsilverandgold.com/our-dream-music-room/ http://www.beyondsilverandgold.com/our-dream-music-room/#comments Fri, 08 Nov 2013 16:11:32 +0000 Michelle Padrelanan http://www.beyondsilverandgold.com/?p=1900 Music is a major part of our family’s life.  Gary D. and I met during our teens when we sang in our church choir. Here’s the oldest photo I found of the two of us singing in our Christmas Cantata in 1986. Can you guess where we are? That’s right, I’m the one in yellow, […]

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]]> http://www.beyondsilverandgold.com/one-week-of-rest/feed/ 1 Pregnant and Exhausted http://www.beyondsilverandgold.com/pregnant-and-exhausted/ http://www.beyondsilverandgold.com/pregnant-and-exhausted/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:01:00 +0000 Michelle Padrelanan http://www.beyondsilverandgold.com/2011/12/05/pregnant-and-exhausted/ There have been no blog posts from me for the last three weeks. Ever since I became pregnant, exhaustion and sleepiness have been my partners. The ordinary act of giving my two children their baths would leave me so tired and out of breath that I’d have to lie down and rest. Can you believe […]

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]]> http://www.beyondsilverandgold.com/im-having-a-baby/feed/ 2 Working For Mom to Stay At Home http://www.beyondsilverandgold.com/working-for-mom-to-stay-at-home/ http://www.beyondsilverandgold.com/working-for-mom-to-stay-at-home/#comments Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:38:00 +0000 Michelle Padrelanan http://www.beyondsilverandgold.com/2011/10/21/working-for-mom-to-stay-at-home/ I have gotten some emails before inquiring as to how we managed financially considering that we are a single-income family. These are the ones who want to homeschool their children but both parents are still working full-time. The mother would like to stay at home but both parents are worried as to how this decision […]

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]]> http://www.beyondsilverandgold.com/working-for-mom-to-stay-at-home/feed/ 0 How I Taught My Children to Love Reading http://www.beyondsilverandgold.com/how-i-taught-my-children-to-love-reading/ http://www.beyondsilverandgold.com/how-i-taught-my-children-to-love-reading/#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:01:00 +0000 Michelle Padrelanan http://www.beyondsilverandgold.com/2011/10/18/how-i-taught-my-children-to-love-reading/ This photo courtesy of Phaitoon from freedigitalphotos.net When I found out that I will become a mother for the first time, I thought of the many things that I will teach my child. One of those is that she will also learn to love reading just like I do. This is very important to me […]

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]]> http://www.beyondsilverandgold.com/a-time-to-rest/feed/ 0 Our Sweet Valentine’s Celebration http://www.beyondsilverandgold.com/our-sweet-valentines-celebration/ http://www.beyondsilverandgold.com/our-sweet-valentines-celebration/#comments Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:44:00 +0000 Michelle Padrelanan http://www.beyondsilverandgold.com/2011/02/17/our-sweet-valentines-celebration/ Gary D. and I had planned to celebrate Valentine’s Day by visiting the Manila Ocean Park during the day and capping it off with a romantic dinner at a nearby hotel. Both of us were looking forward to a relaxing day enjoying the Oceanarium’s collection of sea creatures and getting our feet’s dead cells sloughed […]

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