Author: mamabok

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Birthday With Friends

Jessica is 7 years at the end of the month and to celebrate her birthday, this year she had it at the bowling alley and the party at her own restaurant of course.  Makes no sense to have food somewhere else when you have your own restaurant right?  Both Chloe and Jessica grew up pretty much together and even though they don’t play a lot together at times because she had to look after her brothers, we still try to bring her out as often as possible.

This year we’ve done a lot with her compared to previous years because she had a cousin over from China and her grandparents were here for part of the summer, so she didn’t have to look after her younger siblings as much.  We even got to go to Upper Clements park with her and the cottage that we just bought.

I hope to be able to celebrate Jessica’s birthday with her every year and so does Chloe.

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Computer Problems

Sorry I haven’t been online for a lot this summer, been busy with the lil’ brat of course and also had some computer problems, so was  reformatting hard drive  and doing all sorts of virus scanning before we said, I give up and reformatted the computer.  But while we were at it, we decided to look into a new laptop for me and sell the old one but we still had to reformat the hard drive because I didn’t want someone else to see what I had in my old hard drive right?  So yes, so in between reformatting the hard drive and getting the new one set up and transferring all my old stuff to my new laptop, that’s the reason why I haven’t been updating a lot.  But now that everything is almost set up, I should be good to go.

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Not Very Domestic

I’m not very domestic and worst when it comes to gardening.  After living in my house for 8 yrs, I finally have a flower bed and it had to be made by someone !!!!  failure – hahahhahaa!!  too expensive to pay for a flower bed like that $200 but I guess everything cost money – therefore, I’m only getting one for now till I can afford to get another one.  Well, afford isn’t the right word, just when I feel a need to get another one to make my front yard look better I guess.

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Talent Show In Town

The annual talent show is coming to town again this October and we are to source for some USB microphones for the talent show and thus far we found some usb microphone at musicians friend that are of professional quality and affordable for the organizers. Of course, we do have the cheaper ones but they are mostly for personal use, these ones that we’ve found are of a better quality. So next week, we are going to present them to the organizers and then will order it for them if they are agreeable with it. We are happy to be a part of the talent show this year and even though we are not making any money in sourcing the microphones for the talent show, we are happy to give back to the town. It’s not all about money for us you know.

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Fireworks

Fireworks was yesterday and we had to go of course, since Chloe was all excited over it.  But since nobody said anything to meet up or not, we didn’t care to organize anything but to go on our own.  But of course, my dear g/f was looking for us in a panic mode when we were all ready to head out and i didn’t bring my cellphone of course.

Anyhow, we enjoyed the fireworks although PB sat to have his sandwich, such a spoil sport but Chloe had a lot of fun and of course, I was wondering the whole night if my g/f was alright.  Now why can’t people make arrangements earlier?

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Tall & Skinny

When Chloe’s new doctor told her that she was at risk of being overweight – she was so paranoid she learned to read – how much calories every thing she picked up to eat.  Yes!  horrible isn’t it and we didn’t even teach her to do that, she just did it on her own.  But no she wasn’t overweight or anything near it – kids go thru’ growth spurts and we tried to explain to Chloe about it.  So if your family doctor tells you something along the same lines about your kid – please don’t get overly excited because they do grow up and the baby fats do go.

But of course, having said that, there are kids that really need to watch out like one of chloe’s friend but how can you tell a kid that she is overweight or obese right?  Nor am I gonna tell her parents because for all you know, she might have a health condition.  But as a parent, I’m sure you know your kid best, so if they are really in that category, do something now before it’s too late.

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Growing Money

Of late I haven’t been saving a lot of money because I had been helping a friend for over a year now.  And I really don’t mind helping my friend but one have to think of the lil’ brat’s future too right?  so the spouse said to me the other day – so I’ve decided that I should do right by the kid again and grow some money for her.  So I hear you asking – how can one grow money?  you can by saving a little here and there and not eating out so much and buying things that you don’t need or going on vacation when you don’t need to. This is how I do it – by buying a little gold at a time – when I have some money to spare –  so how to buy gold  i hear you asking?  You can do what I do – buy them online and save them up and every ounce of gold that you buy or even gold coins is a bit of saving for your kids.

How else can you save money?  you can squirrel them away into a savings account – or you can buy shares but of course those are a lot riskier and I wouldn’t want to lose any money because I’m a sore loser.  So I prefer to buy gold or silver because for centuries my great – grandparents had been doing that.  Saving up is a very satisfying thing let me tell you and securing your children’s future is a must for all parents.  Don’t need to wait till they are older – do it right now – like we do since Chloe was born.

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True Friends

I never really got comfy with a lot of people for a long time till Lynette came along, she has a heart of gold and she is constantly trying to do nice things for everyone.  She might not have a lot but if she is ever a millionaire, you can bet on Lynette to give away half her fortune to friends, family and the needy.

I’m so happy that we got to celebrate her birthday with her this year, and I  know that she is really happy this  year because her daughter has the bestest  boyfriend who is not only a good boy  but a good influence to her.  I wish happiness always for Lynette and loads of money.

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Summer Begins

What better way to start the summer than with a BBQ at the house with friends and family.  This was exactly what we did yesterday and of course, the guys had to have their  alec bradley cigar. While they enjoyed their cigars, we girls enjoyed our wine and watching our children play together in our newly hydro-seeded backyard.

I can’t wait to landscape it this summer and have many, many more BBQs and gatherings with good friends and family.  I think it is about time we spend some money and enjoy ourselves.  We have been thrifty all these years and managed to save enough to do the landscaping and anything we want to improve the house and the store.  I feel pretty blessed at this point of our life and cannot thank God enough.

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Bed Hunting

I went bed hunting with my girlfriend today because her ex- mother-in-law wanted to get back the bed frame that she is currently using.  Yes, even though she knows that it is her son’s fault that she is losing everything, this ex-MIL wants to get as much things outta her as possible – yet, she still thinks that her ex- MIL and her ex-in laws are good people.  *slap forehead*.

Anyhow, we didn’t find the right bed for her nor frame, so in the end we decided to save money, she can buy the headboard and she can use our double bed that we have spare in our basement for now. I love my g/f like a sister and if I can I wanna help as much as possible.  But she really do need to be stronger and take a stand for herself but how do you teach someone to be a B.I.T.C.H.