The Mommy Homilies

I want my kids to be financially independent when they get of age.  I know I have to start somewhere simple if I want to teach them the baiscs of money management.   So, I surfed the web and came across this article from Inquirer.net which I’d like to share with you.
 
Question: As my three kids get ready [...]

In every bloggers life comes a special day - the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else’’s blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader - you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, [...]

The world is in crisis and most middle-income families are trying to find ways to earn extra cash.  For moms like me who want to put up a home-based business, we usually find ourselves overwhelmed with the problem of applying for a small business loan. But, we need not worry anymore.  One company knows exactly what to [...]

I’ve always thought that for a family to stay whole, the kids are always the topmost priority.  That was what I thought until I heard a relationships expert say that that isn’t so.  In a family, the relationship of the mother and the father is the most essential.
While most are trying to strenghten ties with the [...]

(Because it was Mother’s Day yesterday…I’d like to share something I wrote about my Mom…The following article was my first shot at having something published…hehehe! It came out in Code Red Magazine sometime in 2005)
Martes nang tanghali dakong alas 12:30, nakatanggap ako ng isang tawag mula kay Kuya Manny. Kailangan ko raw sumulat ng [...]

FAMILY MEMORIES : PHOTOS OPTIONAL
Mona Leyran-Ulaye
“Mom, were you able to take a picture of me on stage?”
“Uh-oh…Sorry. But don’t worry I took pictures of you and your friends while we were in the assembly area, remember?”
“Parents were taking pictures near the stage while we were dancing…Where were you?!!
So, how do I explain to a [...]

(I wrote the following article for Code Red Magazine a looooong time ago…)
All through the first eighteen years of my life, I’d lived as if I was immortal. And why not? My maternal grandmother lived for one hundred years, six months and six days before she felt it was getting pretty lonely here [...]

I received this by email from a friend…Thanks, Kuya O!!!
You will never look at a cup of coffee the same way again.
A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and [...]

As a mother, first and foremost in my mind, will always be my kids…
It would sure be nice to leave them a HUGE inheritance. (HAHA!)
BUT, I’d rather not.
I’ve seen it one too many times with relatives and friends.
They work their bones off to provide their kids’ every single need and want.
Some would say they should [...]

Some people are lucky to have been born with money or the innate ability to understand and handle it.
Thus, financial freedom comes as some sort of birthright.
Sad to say, I’m not one of them.
I have to take the stairs.
…I dream.
…I work.
…I make my own little successes.
…I trip.
…I fall.
…I fail.
…I learn.
…I get back on my feet [...]