How many of you are working, and wish you could be your own boss someday?  Or daydream to be the CEO of the current company you're working for?  Honestly I do.  And I also wish, if I were the owner of a company, my employees will share the same care and passion for the company and rejoice in the success and efficiency of the company, like I do.  If that happens, then we'll have a healthy eco-system at work, I'll be able to make my employees happy and stay with my company for many years.

But because that's just STILL a big dream (it will happen in the future hopefully!), I am currently playing the role of that efficient, caring and practical employee (Insert photo: Boss handing a plaque of Employee Of The Year to Me HERE!  hahaha!).  I am fortunate to be working in a generous and healthily competitive company, doing what I love (and what I think I do best.)  So this means, project budgets, as long as it's cost efficient and will bring better returns, are given to project proponents to be implemented at my proposed timelines.  If you're also this fortunate, you'd want to maximize the budget allowed for your project right?  In my earlier career life, I used to maximize the budget and even justify the need for more budget.  But now that I've matured and have a different perspective, I've learned to practice practicality, even at the work place.

I am not a model employee (I'm too far from being that), but I care enough to save the company's resources.  After all, whatever budget's saved will go back to the employees as bonuses or allowances right.  Here some tips for you:

Ever since my mom left us to a more peaceful and happier place with God, I realized a number of things about life.  No, not just realizations because the things I learned are the things I already knew by thought, but not by heart.  I got to see them clearly when I was faced by this reality about almost four months ago.

Some of the things I realized even more were these:

• Life on earth is temporary.  
• When your mission is done, God can summon you anytime.
• Be busier spending time with your loved ones, than making a living at work.
• When you're gone, people will talk about how good you were, not how rich you were.
• Say I love you, Thank You, and I am Sorry, as often as you can to the persons deserving to hear them.

And so on...

They had a top-of-the-world romantic relationship that they knew they were meant for each other.  So they got married and started a family but doesn't live as happily, as how they would like their story to go.  Not when our letter sender isn't at peace with her man's past and first most important woman in his life, his mother.

That's what our letter sender's dilemma is.  She does not have a perfect relationship with her mother-in-law (MIL), and a thing of the past with his husband.  She's afraid that this might affect her sanity and even her marriage.

Her email is quite long so I will just be sharing with you parts of her #DearMommyPracticality letter.  Here it goes:

Hello Loves!  I am very excited to share with you that Mommy Practicality had been chosen as one of three blogger partners in the Philippines by a very prestigious, exciting, and well-known global brand.

Pause, let me BREATHE!  WHEW!  Continue...

I posted this photo on my Facebook page already and I want to share with you the story behind this photo.

I love everything about this set, comfy chair, colored brick wall and the cute owl plush!

It's that time of the year again loves when we'd get all excited and creative to do a DIY Halloween costumes for our kids for the many Trick or Treat events they will be attending this coming October!  If you aren't creative enough, RTW Halloween costumes are also available in department stores nationwide.

As a tradition (been compiling a list since 2012) here again is the much awaited 2014 List of Halloween Trick or Treat Events in Metro Manila.  Do come back often because I will be updating this blog post as many other establishments like malls and hotels announce their Trick or Treat Events, Parties and Contests in the coming days! :)