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Operation Budget: Options For Financing The Christmas Holidays
Suddenly it’s the Ber season. Yes, I’m writing this in September. A friend online is already sharing his Youtube playlist for Christmas. You think it’s too early for me to write about budgeting for the Christmas Season? Every time the holiday season rolls around, everyone seems buzzed with happiness. Megamall is already playing Joma songs. It is an amazing time of year where everything changes, new decorations are thrown up everywhere, sales in every store, even the attitudes of people seem brighter and happier. But all of these changes are not free and they actually come with a rather hefty price. The holiday season is
PEPT Test Schedule and PEPT Reviewer for High School
PEPT Test Reviewer for Elementary
A Kalamay Is a Kalamay Is a Kalamay
Sweetness has always been one of our ways of enduring. It arrives in many forms in Filipino kitchens, rice coaxed into chewiness with coconut milk, sugarcane boiled into molasses, bananas
Santol Is Peeled In One Long Strip
It’s amazing what your mind remembers when you pause long enough. This is the season when santol trees are generous, heavy with round, woolly fruit from July to August. The
Quiapo In My Mind -Of Faith, Folklore, and Stopovers
The first thing that hits you is the density. Quiapo has its own gravity. The basilica rises like a fortress of devotion, its yellow façade soot-streaked and stubborn against the
Pasko sa Pilipinas: Four Months of Christmas?
I was nine years old, living on the island of Marinduque, when I first heard the curious claim: “Sa Pilipinas, Setyembre pa lang, Pasko na.” In the Philippines, Christmas starts
Shaved Ice Fusion in Binondo and a Binignit Halo-Halo Experiment
A bowl of shaved ice in Binondo is doing the most — and somehow pulling it off. At Uncle Fish Balls Coffee Collection, taro and sweet potato balls, grass jelly, snow fungus, and goji berries swirl together in a cold, creamy fusion of Taiwanese, Cantonese, and Filipino dessert traditions.
The Taste of Typhoon Season
The Storms of Memory I remember the darkness after the typhoon – the electricity gone, the skies strangely clear, and the smell of woodsmoke rising from neighbors’ kitchens. In late
ABOUT ME
Hi I'm April!
I write from the heart of a Filipino home, where every recipe has a backstory, every hack is born of necessity, and every tip is tested by real life.
RelaxLangMom is my evolving diary of practical homemaking with flavor: tipid cooking, smart home tricks, honest reviews, and quiet reflections from the kitchen to the keyboard.
I’m a writer, mom, and weekend food alchemist who believes that simplicity is about doing what matters.
Let’s make life easier, tastier, and a little more intentional.
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