Mom's special magic palms - Infant/Child Massage

The most stressful days a mom could ever have are when her child is sick.  Seeing your child not acting his usual happy, active days would be the most grueling experience a mom could ever feel.

But, what I know best are my most natural loving asset - my bare hands.  Hands that care and produce miracles.  This is the main reason I discourage any parent to use their hands to discipline or spank a child.  Because, hands are for loving and nurturing and God gave moms the  power to ease her child's pain through her hands by hugging or a loving touch by massages.

I have read a lot about infant massages. It has been a great sleeping potion for my kids especially those cranky moments when they were still babies.  It's like a shot of sleeping capsules at night and a wonderful fever busting relaxing moment during those nasty days of colds or flu-like symptoms.

Just this afternoon, my 6 year old son suddenly had a fever.  It was almost spontaneous for anyone to give medicines to lower a fever, but I know it would be a lot better to relax my son first, and give him a nice short "no pressure" massage.

My son is used to massages, I've been doing this since he's a month old.  Where I would occasionally (at least 3x a week) give him an after bath short massages using Epoch Baby Ylang Ylang Massage (Which, I couldn't get anymore here locally).  The moment I signal my open hands to him (our sign of massage), he'd already look at me and almost agreeing with delight, waiting for a good rub.

Naturally, nothing is more precious to me but to see my magic palms become a loving moment to my son.  I asked him if he wants a massage, he said yes.  I've prepped the room to be very calming and relaxing for him and I took the Human Heart Nature Eucalyptus Massage Oil and applied it on my palms.  I love this product, it doesn't contain any harmful chemicals like petroleum or mineral oil.  I also love the mild scent.

Human Heart Nature - Organic Eucalyptus Massage Oil  is the perfect massage oil I've used for my baby massages

Started with his back, with nice circling "NO PRESSURE" massaging strokes.  Then, his legs and toes, Palms and fingers, then finally his head and face.  Areas they love would be the earlobes, hair/head, feet.

A lil' of it goes a looong way!

After a few minutes of massages and a nice soothing Eucalyptus oil, my little boy falls asleep at 6PM and woke up with an unforgettable massage from mommy.  So memorable, that he told his dad my massages killed the bad guys inside his body.

This is my reward - my son's restful sleep only my hands could give.

Massaging kids should be relaxing.  No pressure at all, it is not work.  They have to allow you to massage them, if they don't seem to like it - don't or stop.  If you are tired and you feel it is just a necessity to do it for whatever reason, then don't do it.  Massages for kids should be pressure-free.  From the time you spend with them, to the time your hands touch them, up to the time you actually massage their skin.  There should be no pressure on mommy and child.

Love the moment and you will savour it.  See it as tedious and stressful or unnecessary - then yes, it will be.  But, for what I've experienced with my children, it is rewarding and very therapeutic for them and especially for me.

There is no trick to a good massage, just light, loving touches.  You would know it's good when you see that they're liking it too.  The only thing that will be hard is when they all want you to massage them all at the same time.  Well, gotta go... my little Callista needs one in a while.

If you want to learn how to do some simple baby massages, you can follow this link:

• http://www.parents.com/baby/care/newborn/how-to-massage-baby/
• http://www.childbirthsolutions.com/articles/postpartum/infantmassage/index.php
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ4HPREfBgo

Erin et Vivien - Tutus for your sweet lil' princess!

When I was a little girl I never really liked dolls, I looked and acted very boyish. But, there were times that I wanted to wear girly girl clothes too that I once tried to fit myself in my 4T sized dress when I was 7. Even how short and terribly unconfomfortable it was, I just loved that moment where I could look like Annie with the short (panties-showing-kind) of dress.  I played with it, danced with it and I just felt like a real graceful little girl.

I feel that little girls can be little girly girls until the time they start to really decide for their own fashion statement.  Because, deep inside every little girl wants to freely bounce, dance, twirl, run, and pretend to be the most graceful little lady as she plays.

Erin et Vivien is my new baby.  It's customizable up to 4 colors and fits infants from 0-8 years old (we can also do a bigger size for bigger kids or even adults).


Our collection:

Classic Colors:
Pink Dust - Pink colors
Berry Bush - Lilac / Lavander
Blue Powder - Blue and Turquiose
Emerald Belle - Green and Yellow
Lemon Zing - Sunny Yellow
Punk Baby - Hot Pink

Color Collection:
Callista
Dashielle
Kaiea
Lia
Danielle

Other colors, photos to be uploaded:
Pink Punkstar - Hot Pink + Black + Ivory
Citrusy - Orange + Lime + Yellow
Rainbow Spark - Turquiose + Hot Pink + Yellow + Violet

Or you can send us max of 4 colors you like.

Here's the sizing chart:


XS (0-6 months) - 4" Length for 12-14" waist
S (6-12 months) - 7" Length for 15-16" waist
M (12-24 months) - 8" Length for 17" waist
L (3T-4T) - 10" Length for 18-19" waist
XL (5T - 8T) - 12" Length for 19-21" waist

They are also customizable!!!

Choose from a variety of colors (up to 4).  Send us an email at miamissary@yahoo.com or text me at 0917-7944525 (no calls, please!) with the following info:


Name:

Address:

Mobile No.:

Land Line:

Color (max of 4):

Size:

Add Embellishments? (add P100):

Kid's age:

Qty:

Callista

Lia

Let us know your questions and please be patient as we're still cooking up great tutus and other girly stuff for you and your lil' one!

Danielle

Dashielle

Kaiea

My homeschool adventures!

What's under the sea? Book

Wonderful! Simply wonderful, those 7 months just seem so fast. About a year ago, I was in a turmoil. The burden of walking even for just 5 minutes is simply like carrying 2 pails of water but balancing it on my buttocks! Being pregnant with twins is far, far different than a normal pregnancy would be (yes, believe me! I know!) ;)

I've finally decided to homeschool my son. After 5 years, I've had a go for it. I was excited, ordering from Sonlight (www.sonlight.com). It took me 2 months just to research on the best curriculum, manipulatives, subjects. Then, finally... I was able to checkout and pay! Wow! I'd say, it was all worth it. Not exactly cheap, almost the same as enrolling in a regular school, but the best part I get to grab the cool books, and games plus I can pass it on to my twins later on.

Our Box day has arrived from Sonlight!  Inside is our 1 year of homeschool adventures!

Books, Books, Books and colorful (not photocopied/boring books!) textbooks!
We enjoyed everything from our box day! Imagine... all these for school!? Every kid would love this, isn't it?

Singapore Math is our Math Curriculum

We're already at 4 weeks! How wonderful that I can discover every bit about my son. The best way to grab his attention, his learning style, why he's a bit anxious when he makes mistakes, to seeing improvement on his writing style (why he sometimes reverse the letters that people even thought that he's just dyslexic, which is not! The strokes where he starts writing was the main culprit why this happens).

I learn as well from homeschool. I learned to relax more and not pressure my son to learn. We have a year to do it (and even extend if I'd desire to). Just today, I bought another language arts series ClickN' Read (www.clicknkids.com) since he loves PC games. The very reason I pulled him from regular school is because I don't want him to be pressured into reading, when he's just being ready to read. All kids are different and unique. My son loves stories, he's an auditory learner. He can grab hold of information accurately when he does things simultaneously (ex. Story time while playing with his Lego). I didn't pressure him to read, instead, we went back to basics learning the letters and its sound. Started with letter F for a week, then E, then just inject some other letters between the week. At week 3, he started to show interest in all the other letters. Just filled his mind pasting, coloring, of the letters we've learned for 3 weeks. At week 4, wow! He asked me to teach him how to read! I almost cried. I thought, we were too slow or is he getting bored with me. But, hearing this is like getting a free, all-expense paid trip! Haha! then, I showed him a word that he'd first identify... the word DAD! we made sounds, then blended and finally he caught it! He said.. DAD!!!

He was so proud, he kept that piece of paper and ran to his DAD and told his dad, he can now read! He said... "look, dad! Duh-Ahh-D! DAD!" He was shouting and telling everybody about his new word. I reap these rewards from even the simple things that my son discovers. I'm excited that next time it will be more than just simple words that he'd discover.

Homeschooling is not a very easy thing. Discipline, flexible consistency, and lots of patience is entirely needed to be successful. It is not easy, but it is simple. We start at 9:30am and done by 11:30pm! With those hours, Ice would be so tired he'd rest almost automatically after we do goodbye school hugs (which we do after we end school for the day). I'm Taking it one day, one year at a time. I'm hoping to do this as long as I can even with the twins.

What excites me more is that one day, my son kept on asking me to do school on a weekend, or when school was once cancelled because of a typhoon for 2 days. Of course, we don't do school also if DEPED cancels regular school! (We are a school after all). But, he'd simply begged for more. I love it when I see that he wants to learn. We are now reading chapter books instead of the picture books we've been reading before. I thought, he'd get bored with books w/o pictures, but then, his comprehension on books is way too advanced for a 5-year old.

This year is a year of breakthrough, release and an outpour of God's loving kindness to our family. His provision is enormous, no one in his own mind could even understand how we were able to manage the things that has happened to us. But, last year's trouble is a double portion of his provision this year. To be a homeschool, work at home twin mother, I'd say truly that all things work together for good to those who love Him (and are loved by Him) and are called according to his purpose.