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Sunday, January 8, 2023

A Beautiful Sunday Morning


Enjoying the morning view with my flowering plants in full bloom.

Taking time to relax before starting the household chores for the day.

Whatever we do, let us enjoy the rest of the day.

A blessed Sunday everyone. God bless.

Monday, May 25, 2020

Young Living Essential Oils

For the past few years, I was reading books and articles online regarding overall wellness.  I don't know, maybe I'm already at the age where health issues are already starting to manifest ... aching joints, elevated blood pressure ... just to name a few.

Actually, I am already taking maintenance medicine to control my blood pressure since 2011 and I don't want to add more maintenance medicine for other health issues that may manifest in the future.  So maybe that's the reason why I was enclined in reading anything regarding overall wellness these past few years.

Through those years of reading, I have already read about essential oils and there are many stories testifying that their overall wellness was improved by using these essential oils. 

I tried buying essential oils in malls trying to diffuse these oils using candles but unfortunately I did not continue using it because I just can't stand the smell.  I used lemon and lemongrass during that time and it really have a strong smell that instead of being relaxed, I felt suffocated.

Last year, one of my neighbors invited me to visit her booth that she set-up during our community get together.  It turns out that she is a member of Young Living Essential Oils.  I tried smelling the sample oils and I kind of like the smell of some oils.  There are really some oils which are not pleasing to the nose.

After visiting her booth, I tried to search the net regarding Young Living essential oils and also visited Young Living's official websites.  I learned that Young Living is the biggest producer of essential oils, having their own farms and distilleries and use multi-level marketing (MLM) as their marketing strategy.

I'm not really a sales person but I have tried joining MLM companies especially on products that I know me and my family will be using regularly.  Just for my family's consumption, I think that joining MLM companies will help me save on our regular consumed items in the long run.

In short, I joined Young Living's wide number of distributors by buying their Premium Starter Kit through online registration.  Young Living's online registration is user friendly and it didn't take me long to finish my registration.  You have the option to have your kit delivered to your address or if you are just near any Young Living Business Centers, you can just opt to pick it up so as to save on delivery fees.  In my case, I just picked it up since our residence is near the YL's business center.


Young Living's Premium Starter Kit for the Philippine market is worth 9,180 pesos.  The kit includes the following:
     - Dewdrop Diffuser
     - 5 ml Lavender Essential Oil
     - 5 ml Lemon Essential Oil
     - 5 ml Peppermint Essential Oil
     - 5 ml Frankinsence Essential Oil
     - 5 ml Copaiba Essential Oil
     - 5 ml Digize Essential Oil Blend
     - 5 ml Panaway Essential Oil Blend
     - 5 ml Raven Essential Oil Blend
     - 5 ml Thieves Essential Oil Blend
     - 5 ml Stress Away Essential Oil Blend
     - 5 ml Citrus Fresh Essential Oil Blend
     - 5 ml Christmas Spirit (Promotional Item, not a regular part of PSK)
     - 2 sachet of Ningxia Drink
     - leaflets and other promotional items

If you will buy the above items separately, this will roughly total to 19,600 pesos.

Premium Starter Kit (PSK) differs from other countries. 

It's more than six months since I started Young Living Oils and so far I am happy that I have started using these essential oils before this COVID-19 pandemic.  Somehow it's comforting to know that we have something that boost our overall wellness which makes our bodies resilient to diseases.


Sunday, May 10, 2020

Mother's Day 2020

Today is the second Sunday of May and it's a special day for all mothers.  Whether you're a biological mother or you're a mother at heart, today is our special day.

In the past years, me and my family celebrates this day either by going out of town or by eating lunch or dinner in a restaurant.  Usually no gifts or flowers ... we're not really into gift giving ... we're more on service and presence.

This year is very much different.  National Capital Region (NCR) is still under the Enhanced Community Quarantine so there is no way that we can go out of town or go to any restaurant to celebrate.  We just stayed at home, did some household chores and watch random shows in Netflix.

In the afternoon, my husband really wanted to treat me to some restaurant food so he asked my daughter to order through Grab Food but to his dismay, the app just says "Waiting for Available Driver" or something to that effect ... after more than fifteen minutes of waiting we decided to close the app and instead my husband prepared a simple vegetable dish.  That was already a treat that we enjoyed as a family.

As a special treat, I requested my children to pull out the white hair on my head and clear my underarms with that stubborn hair ...  it's really the right time to make such request to my children  .... they just can't say no.

We have celebrated the Mother's Day in a very simple and inexpensive way but just like before, it is a meaningful one since we have celebrated it as a whole family. 

God bless everyone.  Til my next post.