This is the most difficult thing to handle when kids now have a lot of free time. It may be more difficult when they don't have friends to play with or can't simply go outside to play. They may get bored easily and there is a need to distract them.

How To Distract/Entertain Your Kids/Holidaymakers This Long Holiday (Third Term Holiday)

My tips here are to; 

- Entertain them with TV or interesting shows online. Yes, there's nothing bad with kids having more screen time this holiday. The only thing to do is to make them have breaks in between. Don't let them eat in front of the TV so that they can have a break. Also let them help you out with chores around the house like cooking, setting up the table, and cleaning so that they spend some time away from the screen. Don't just let them watch TV or Youtube for very long hours without any short or long breaks. Cable TV providers like Canal Sat and DSTV have channels that are meant for kids. You can try them out depending on where you are. Canal Sat is found in most French-speaking African countries and DSTV in English speaking ones. In Cameroon, there is Canal Sat and also cable guys who connect the cable TV at a cheaper rate.

- Another way to distract them is to take them out to a children's fair or just to eat out. Kids love this and will keep talking about it for weeks. They will also find the holidays cool when they tell their friends about them.

- You can distract them with games. It must not be PlayStation. There are simple educative games or toys kids can play with solo or together. You can also let them play games on a phone or tablet. Also, make out time to play with them or tell them stories or do games together.

- Teach them a skill or pay for them to learn a skill like painting, cooking, sewing, embroidery, hairdressing, computer, baking, a language or gardening. If they have a hobby help them to develop it. It will keep them busy for long hours.

- Travel with them to visit new and interesting places. You can take them to the village or another city. 

Those are my tips for you. 

Affirmations For June

 Hi guys and a happy new month to you.

Happy Month Of June

I hope you guys are doing well. I pray for God's blessings to fall on us every day of this month.

Last month was neutral to me. There weren't special moments but it was fine. The one thing about last month was that I took the time to do some content planning. I feel so good about that. I have never planned my content like this and I did this for all my online platforms. I feel so proud though at the same time I wish I had done more. 

This month I will try my best to do some catching up on things like the self-love challenge and other things. 

I feel proud of the plans I have made so far. What about you? Have you made some plans for your career or your life or for the last half of the year?

Yes, we are already in the middle of the year which freaks me out sometimes when I think about it. 

But I am willing to make it count and that's all that matters. 

I pray for us to have testimonies this month of June in Jesus' name. Amen!

How To Cook Sweet Njanga Rice | Cameroon Recipe For Palm Oil Jollof Rice

Ingredients

Onion

Leeks (optional). I only added it for more flavour.

Njanga (Mulolo to be precise)

Palm oil

Salt and Maggi

Pepper (optional)

Cooking

 

                                

                             

Terminator 3 en 1 Soap Review | Brightening & Exfoliating 

What is Terminator 3 en 1 Soap?

It is a bathing soap made from snail slime extract which brightens and exfoliates the skin. 

I honestly don't know why it is called 3 in 1 because only two qualities are mentioned on the package.

What does the soap look like?

It is a multicoloured soap that comes in three types. The one I used is made of snail slime extract and it has a soft yellow colour with grey marks. The texture of the soap is coaxed or rough as you use it. 

How does it feel on the skin?

How does the soap work?

- This soap washes well. It washes off the dirt and oil on the skin easily and gently.

- It gently exfoliates the skin. I expected it to work faster because of the way people talked about it but it was quite gentle. During the first two weeks of using it, I thought it wouldn't work. But by the third and fourth week, the results were visible. 

- It makes my skin brighter naturally. The fact that it exfoliates gently makes my skin still stay natural and brighter.

- It softens the skin. My skin feels soft.

- It deeply cleanses the skin.

How to use the soap for best results

Apply the soap to your wet skin, scrub and wait for a few minutes then rinse.

Do I recommend this soap?

I do recommend this soap "Terminator 3 en 1". I got it to confirm what people were saying about the product and I am not disappointed. 

It is a good soap and I will recommend it. 

I have been using the soap for over a month now and I like the progress I have with it. 

This is what the soap looks like after using it for over a month now. I bought the 200g and I must say it doesn't finish fast.

How much does Terminator 3 en 1 cost?

Money Lessons I've Learnt From Debt

Hope you guys are doing well. These past few weeks have been made up of organizing my life. As you guys know I just had my second baby two months ago so I've been trying to organize my life and trying to adapt to the new life that I have now. 

My life is changing 

When I had just one child it was easier I would say because I could manage just her and myself easily but now that I have two kids even though one is quite young, both of them have needs and these needs have to be met at the same time. This has brought about a very huge change in my life and most times I have to attend to their needs at the same time. I have to manage my time well so that I'm able to be available to both of them. Those are the changes that I'm experiencing now. This really hit me a lot these past weeks and managing the kids with work has not been easy.

My daily activities these past weeks included braiding my daughter's hair, feeding my baby that's breastfeeding, and also cooking. Well, I've not been going out much but I've had a few times where I have to go to the store to buy something or to throw the trash. Most of my activities these weeks have just been home-based activities and doing chores and then trying to work on my content creation on my social media as well as on my blog.  I created a new blog recently (https://africancelebritieslife.blogspot.com) so I've been trying to see how to create content there. I have also reviewed the niche and the direction of my content here.  So yeah those are the things that really kept me busy.

The one difficulty I face now is finding time to work. Honestly, this has made me think about getting help. When I just put to bed, my grandmother comes over and she actually helps me for 2 months. Since she went back I have been on my own and it's really difficult for me to manage the kids and work at the same time. Being a content creator requires that I come up with ideas and I need uninterrupted hours of brainstorming at times. But now I have to always be at the service of my kids it's not easy to actually keep up with that because sometimes I lose my ideas or cut my brainstorming moments and go attend to them.

 When they wake up from sleep or they're hungry or the baby needs to be changed and I am in the middle of work it affects my productivity. I've been thinking of a nanny but I'm really scared of nannies. When you don't know someone it's not easy to trust them with your kids. So I'm really having doubts about that but I really wish that I'm able to find a solution. I also considered a daycare or we creche but I really don't know if I should trust them more I'll prefer that they stay at home and someone watches them at home. Most times I get tired when I get the chance to work at night. And that has really been bothering me these days.

One advantage I've gotten from this is that I have lost some more weight. It's true that it's not the right way to lose weight but I feel lighter and motivated to lose more weight. My belly was so big even after giving birth since I had a C-section. I couldn't tie it or do anything for it to go back so it's just been so big. But these days since I've been struggling on my own and all of that, I really lost weight and I also caught a cold a week ago which made things really difficult for me. I caught a cold, my daughter also caught a cold and I was just praying that my baby doesn't catch a cold too. It was a stressful weekend and all of this has helped me to lose some weight. My belly has gone down. Though it's still quite big, compared to before it has gone down. I'm really not happy that I'm using this method to lose weight but I feel motivated to continue by doing sports to keep getting back in shape. My doctor said I can get back to working out at 3 months postpartum so I have like three more weeks to begin. I'm really eager to start being able to do physical like do sports for real like jogging so yeah that's the one thing that I'm looking forward to. 

All the same, I'm trying my best to find a routine that works for me to be able to be consistent in the things I do. There's always a period where we have to struggle to adapt. When we adopt it becomes smoother and finding a balance becomes easier. I want to get used to the things I have to do and find the best way to do them. So far I'm struggling to produce content for all my social media accounts and blogs and I hope that I'm going to be consistent with time.

About our 30 days self-love challenge; I'm really sorry guys, I wish we could resume last week like I said. I wanted to take some time and make it go on without interruptions but with all the things I went through this past week, I couldn't work on that so I'm planning to work on that as soon as possible to make sure that our challenge goes on without well. I would announce when it's going to be ready and when we can resume.

I believe friendships or relationships, in general, are easy to keep when you are young. As you get older and life becomes more and more complicated it becomes hard to maintain any kind of relationship. Be it with family, friends or a lover. 

That's why today I'm sharing with you a few tips to help you keep your relationships strong as an adult.

How To Maintain Strong Relationships As An Adult

Ask yourself if the relationship still serves its purpose

Every relationship we have or keep has a purpose. The purpose of your friends is to keep you company, share ideas or advice or help each other out one way or the other. For you to maintain a great bond with them you need to find out if over time your relationship still serves you or them. Same with family and other loved ones or acquaintances. 

It's not necessary to keep strong relationships if they are of no benefit to you financially, mentally or morally. 

Keep in touch as much or as little as you can

Staying in touch is obviously the best way to maintain a relationship. But it can be tricky because as we get older we become more occupied or we travel so far or we don't have the means to stay in touch.

So just try to maintain your relationships by staying in touch as much or as little as you can. Some relationships don't need everyday calling and visits while others need that. So give the right amount of attention to each relationship. 

Prioritize your relationships and make an extra effort for the most important ones

You need to know which relationship is the most important and put in the right amount of effort to make it work or to maintain it for your benefit.

As we grow older we have less time to spend so it is important to give our attention to the right relationships. I hope these tips work for you and you build strong relationships with people.

If you are in a relationship or aspire to be in one, it is very important to consider the love language of your partner.

Understanding Your Partner's Love Language

How to know your lover's love language

Can you love them according to their love language?

I'm currently listening to many songs but the one I was listening to while starting to write this post is No stars by Daré. It's amazing jazz. 

Wishing You A Wonderful Week Ahead And Some Small Talk

Today is Sunday and I'm trying to make it a chilled one. My week has been a stressful one even up till Saturday. I'm adapting to a new job and it's not easy sometimes. It's still in my domain and passion of social media but it's in a domain I am not used to. I have tried my hand at it but gave up a few times because it is quite demanding. But this time I'm trying to adapt and learn from it. I also need the extra income so we need to make this work.

If you read my post on the weather, you will understand that the rains have been playing with us these days in yaounde. But yesterday it rained like it meant business and this morning it felt good to wake up to a fresh environment. I hope the rain stays consistent this time.

Talking about being consistent, I missed going for my walk yesterday. I mentioned in this post here that I go for daily walks to care for my mental health. I believe it was caused by the rain and work.

Apart from the rain and work that have been occupying me this week, I have been really occupied with the thoughts of what to do with my hair. I feel like my current hairdo is overdue and I want to change it but I don't know what style to do. I have been going back and forth between raster (braids) or another pass-meche (cornrows). My head is paining from thinking about it. I finally just decided to not change my hairstyle for at least another month. But a moment ago I still felt like doing my hair. I'm just confused.

One thing I wasn't confused about doing today was making breakfast. We did some general food shopping yesterday and among the things we bought were some bananas. Today it inspired me to make some banana puff-puff or beignets as I called it in this post where I shared the recipe. We ate our delicious banana puff-puff with some cornflour pap or fufu pap. It's been ages since I ate fufu pap so I enjoyed it.

I'm happy I had the time to talk with you guys today. I want us to go to our daily blog posts but at some point, I just didn't know what to say to you guys. Since my blog is about my lifestyle, thoughts and knowledge I just felt there was nothing new happening for me to tell. My life is made up of breastfeeding, diapers changing, work and worrying about my financial future. It feels like a routine most times that could be boring if you keep hearing me talk about the same things all the time. But I intend to find the little details that make my day or week and share them with you. Like I did in this post. 

If you have some time you can check out my youtube channel where I have lifestyle vlogs and personal development videos for African women. I also recently uploaded a vlog about my journey to having my second baby by CS. And while you are at it do subscribe if you like my content. Thank you.