Learning knows no place or time

There are those days that our kids are prodding us to do something or go somewhere, but it seems our creative juices  have momentarily dried up and there's shortage of tricks up our sleeves, or it's simply a "I don't wanna bother a lot" days. Here's a suggestion: Look around you!

A couple of mornings ago, I discovered something. There's a beautiful view on our very backyard. A rice field! With white birds flying around it! It's not that I haven't looked at the backyard before, maybe it's a case of not really "seeing" and appreciating.

And so i called my daughter  and just as i expected, she loves it so much more than I do.

Books with Love ♥

Books! I love lavishing my daughter with books and that's something I would love other children to have as well! I'm aware that many parents especially here in our barrio doesn't fully understand the value of reading because they themselves wouldn't even bother to open a book, there's the TV, there's the internet who needs books nowadays? I want to break this cycle even in the smallest possible scale. Here in our third world nation, libraries outside school are rarities if they exist, most are just decrepit rooms wherein books means encyclopedias, dictionaries, textbooks and bible story series. Reading is magic, it widens our horizons, it captivates imagination! Imagination is a beautiful beautiful thing, for me it's almost synonymous with genius. It is one thing I would like to impart on my child and other children. And this is only the beginning... I want to turn it into my advocacy... decent libraries for every town!

So here's what I have to do first.
1. Do legwork, discuss it with government agencies or NGO's
2. Solicit donations.
3. Set distribution date, venue, and other additional activities.
4. Send invites, ads, coordinate with barangay officials and other agencies. 

Best of luck to me. I hope the passion will keep burning in my heart!♥

#1 Destinylittleprojects

At first, we went to the municipal library to familiarize her with a library and of course, to read. To my dismay there's only two shelf worth of books mostly encyclopedias and bible story series. We scanned some of the books, view the Encyclopedia photos of mostly amphibians, reptiles, and fish.Our public library are in dire need of attention and donations. I promised myself, if Destiny's outgrown books will be given to this library. But are our townspeople really coming to this library to read? I scanned the log book and visitors are mostly from the nearby public highschool doing research.

Second, we did some weaving at home.

Materials: 

Scissors

2 or more sheets of color bond paper of different colors

The weaved paper later became a skirt, shreds became bracelet, pambugaw ng langaw, magic wand. Imagination is surely the limit.

Fun day for me as a mommy and a photographer ♥