In less than five days, our whole family will be off to a 60-day Island Travel Adventure--a road trip to see the whole Philippines!

Therefore, to put things in order, I would just like to point out that most of our blogging and updates during this 60-day period will be posted in our travel blog-- Island Travel. However, you can see/follow our latest tweets in the box labeled "Island Travel Tweets" at the sidebar, together with the Island Travel contest banner that you can click on to bring you to our travel blog.

As much as we'd like to regularly update you here at Fatherhood Adventures, we have to be more realistic in our commitments. So please bear with us. And instead, let's just enjoy the Island Travel Adventure together. Some of these limited blogging time/efforts during this summer break will also go to our other blogs, namely: Parenting Journey, Daily Happiness Tips, Daily Laughs and Happy Quotes Happy Images. Mama Sez and Papa Sez on Hubpages would also slow down a bit.

Here's to FUN in the SUN this summer...CHEERS!






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Even though we only have a few days to go to prepare for our Island Travel Adventure, we still continued with our blogging activities, perhaps knowing that some of our blogs might have a reduction in posting frequency when we're on the road for 60 days.

Three of the four posts in Island Travel were about our activities in Davao City: Friends Swarm to Davao City, Fruits In Time for Araw ng Dabaw and Crab Buffet Treat. Expect to be reading more about Davao City this week as the city celebrates its 73rd Charter Anniversary, popularly known as Araw ng Dabaw. The fourth post is a travel resource for travelers to Surigao del Norte where contact information of tourism-related local government offices were posted.

Two of the three posts in Parenting Journey were about our seven-year-old son.  Mama Sez blogged about how proud we were about his excellent Show and Tell performance that his own teacher (Mr. Michael) confirmed under the comment section.  I voiced my concern about the kids' interest on Manny Villar and the impact of his advertising/propaganda blitz on the Filipino children and parents alike. The final post during the week that was is the fourth article on the series on discipline methods, where Mama Sez discussed prevention and tolerance.

As for Fatherhood Adventures, the past week's posts have all been on contests: A Contest Post for a Friend and the contest's major sponsors; and YouSayToo's campaign to support relief efforts in Haiti.

For Hubpages, Mama Sez published about what's hot this summer in fashion trends for swimwear.

The Happiness Blogs posted the following:

• Find an Alone Time (Daily Happiness Tips)
• Bad Trees (funny cartoon)
• Brother-in-Law (funny joke)
• Gossip (funny picture)
• Hilarious Pictures at the Right Moment (funny video)
• Happy Images of the Day

• Happy Quotes of the Day

"If it is a new thought to you that gratitude brings your whole mind into closer harmony with the creative energies of the universe, consider it well, and you will see that it is true." -Wallace Wattles

"Those who thank God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, whatever the experience." -Albert Schweitzer

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ATTENTION BLOGGERS!

Here's your chance to contribute to a humanitarian cause and get all benefits at the same time.

First...
SUPPORT RELIEF EFFORTS IN HAITI and EARN A CHANCE TO WIN CASH PRIZES by PARTICIPATING IN THE YOUSAYTOO SOCIAL BOOKMARKING CHALLENGE FROM MARCH 8 – MARCH 22

While helping Haiti, you also have a chance to win prizes!

How?  You just need to tweet, buzz or share YouSayToo's post about this contest.  When you’ve specified the URL of the bookmarked page, you will be assigned a number on the Awards page. These numbers will be used by a random numbers machine to select the winners from each bookmarking service: one Twitter winner, one FaceBook winner, one Yahoo Buzz winner.

What is the prize?

$100 Twitter winner
$100 Facebook winner
$100 Yahoo Buzz winner

Prizes will be sent via PayPal.


Second...
Unite to donate $30,000.

You can also support the effort by adding your blogs at YouSayToo.  All AdSense revenue including YouSayToo’s share generated by your added blogs will be donated to Haiti. Plus for every blog you add to support Haiti, YouSayToo will donate $1.

Every single dollar is important for the people of Haiti.

C'mon join the campaign because when you come to think of it, we're all in this together.

YouSayToo is an ad revenue sharing program that also supports charities around the world.








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Below are the four MAJOR sponsors of Kaye and Pehpot's Blogversary contest:

I Am Buraot
A blog about politics, the environment, religion, philanthropy, and everything else that is life. Author is known for his generosity in sponsoring contests. The home of the famous EntreDropper.

Anak Ni Kulapo
Yet another blog of Buraot. If you want to die laughing, then go visit Anak Ni Kulapo. His life in the US and hilarious stuff about his home country are only two of the must-sees in this blog.


Seiko's Diary
The blog title says it all. This is Seiko's journal about being a mom to her five gorgeous kiddos, her take on life in general, and random musings of a woman who loves life.

Mom Conversations
A new blog about everything concerning mothers: pregnancy, health and fitness and babies are the current categories, under which are detailed articles containing tips and valuable information for moms everywhere.

Please drop by these blogs if you have the time and see why they are worthy of a special mention. :)







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Being relatively new to online activities, I got help from a friend at YouSayToo in deciding to go with Adgitize for advertising.  She has joined this contest and I am supporting her win.  So for my readers/visitors who are bloggers, please help me support her by going to her site and join the contest through her referral.  It's quite easy to join, just look at this post and the next one...most of it are given as codes to copy and paste.

Thanks for your support.

Level 1 Sponsors:

I Am Buraot : Anak Ni Kulapo : Seiko's Diary : Mom Conversations

Level 2 Sponsors:

Brisbane Australia : The Latest Buzz : 113Tidbits - Social Feeds And Daring Commentary : Thoughts And Obsessions : Just About Anything : Blog Appetite : Home Buddies
Level 3 Sponsors:

His Unfailing Love : My Memories and Crystals : Bacolod and Beyond Journey

Azumi : Fab Momma : Mara's Personal Bubble : Mara's Appetite : The Pinay Blogger @ Home : Diva Fabulosa : Best vacation Places : Momma Wannabee : Advising Writers :United World Poets : A Mom's Life and Loves : Travelin' With Marie : Happy Thoughts : Stalking Mind : Living Life To The Fullest : Online Mommy's Corner : Her And History : Careless Whisper : In My Psyche : My Quality Day : Just Throw Money : My Journey To Life : Cotton Candy Buzz : The Mommy Journey : Super Gulaman : Pen, Paper and Pan : Niko's Blog : Lover's Mushroom : Yena's World : Girls Rule! : Trendy And Heartily Yours : Husband of A Blogger : Glitter Page : Here Comes The Bride : Heart Random : Novice On Blogging (Noob) : At Home Here : Sexy Blogging : My Camerasexy : Dishes By Pehpot : Wonder Wifey : Coffee, Anyone? : Clarisse After Dark : Jena Isle's Random Thoughts : Where The Moon Shines : Crossroads.. Where Ideas Meet : Simple Pero Rock : it's not always about me... : Pinay Mommy Online : How I Earn Money Online :
A Woman Remembers : Beng's Entertainment Spree : My Thoughts, My Heart, My Turf : Yashiro : The Blogger Hub : Embrace Life

Red, this one is for you. Cheers!






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This week marked the start of the hectic month of March. Hectic in that Mama Sez and I had to take care of lots of stuff before our Island Travel Adventure.

These are elaborated in the first post of our travel blog and another post that announced a revision of our kick off schedule.  Calls to Surigao del Norte is a post about my coordination activities for the first two days of the 60-day road trip.  A shoutbox to facilitate interaction with visitors/readers was also added this week in the travel blog.

An achievement this week that I am proud of is the release of a promotional video in youtube that also announces a contest to share the video and get a chance to win MDPlus Golden Shield with SPF50.  Check out the said video below:

Related to Island Travel is a launch of Pinay Beauty Care featuring MDPlus Products. Highlighted first is MDPlus Golden Shield with SPF50.

Mama Sez posted a popular article on how to prepare healthy school lunches. The third article for the discipline methods series was published on Friday as scheduled. This time the topic is on time-out and reverse time-out.

I posted a timely note about bucket filling and bucket dipping. Before adjusting the countdown widget placed in Parenting Journey, I offered an explanation for the changes.

Mama Sez published two articles at HubPages:

• Maria Montessori Method of Teaching and Our Children 
• Infant Baptism, Christening, Baby Naming Ceremony and Baby Dedication

For the Happiness blogs, here's a list of postings:

• Be Happy and Be a Success 
• Gated Community 
• Black Eye 
• Photos Taken at the Right Moment 
• Car Accident 
• Happy Images:


• Happy Quotes:

"Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy." -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"I hope life treats you kind; And I hope you have all you've dreamed of; And I wish to you, joy and happiness; But above all this, I wish you love." -Dolly Parton (I Will Always Love You)

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Hey Bloggers! Wanna earn easy money doing what you do best?...Blog It!

In Island Travel, you'll have a chance to win $5 in a raffle and/or $5 for having the best blog promoting any of their kick off contests.

Easy, isn't it?

Just click on this link or the icon above and grab an icon code promoting one of the three kick off promo contests. Embed it in your blog post and write anything to attract your readers to join the contests. The full explanation is found in the site you link to so you don't have to worry about explaining details to your readers.

You can have more chances to win! How? Blog the three contests separately. If you more than one blog, you may post announcements about these contests separately in these blogs and earn additional raffle entries. When you're done, just email the link to islandtravelphilippines[at]gmail.com so your entries can be validated.

So blog right away. Join the other contests as well! The more you join, the better your chances of winning!

Sample blog posts promoting Guess Where We Are Challenge and Blog It Contest were provided by Island Travel. So now you know how easy it is!

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