Category: Amusing/Musing

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If I Were A Stay – At – Home Wife

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I salute those who made the decision to give up their jobs and stay home to take care of their kids and family because it isn’t an easy decision and that would entail some financial shift in the family.  For those women out there who’ve done that, you are definitely my heroes.

Many think that being a stay at home wife is easy but I can assure you that it isn’t.  Staying home and being isolated most of the time and not having a lot of adult interaction is not a situation that I want to be in.  When Chloe is sick , I have to stay home with her and I tell you , it wasn’t an easy task for me.

If I were a stay at home wife, I figured, I would be a very lonely one, because I don’t drive and need to wait for the spouse to bring me everywhere.  When I was in Asia , we drive on the right hand side of the road and for many years, I’ve been so used to it, I find it pretty difficult to get adjusted to drive on the left hand side.

Of course , I love my child and want to do stuff with her every minute of the day, but unlike Asia, where transport is so easy and so cheap, I can’t just travel and shop on our own or bring her to Sentosa on my own or Universal studio.  There is no Gymboree here, nor are there public swimming pool or indoor gym for kids to be and a cafe inside the gym for parents to interact with each other.

So for those stay at home wives in this town , I really salute them because I really couldn’t do it, not because I don’t love my child and home but because it would drive me nuts, not to have any intelligent conversation or stimulation for the mind.

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Choice Or Necessity

While many had casually mentioned that I didn’t need to work so hard online anymore , since the spouse’s business is doing so well, I figured I should let everyone know that it is my choice to continue doing what I do and it isn’t a necessity for me to continue working online.   The only reason why I loved doing it , is because I loved writing and vlogging and I loved that I can make money from doing it, plus I get tons of free stuff from advertisers and readers of my vlogs and blogs.

While most people do it for the money, I mostly do it for the love of it and being able to interact with people online.  You do not know how many people who reads and watch my vlogs/blogs, the immense love I get from these online friends is priceless.  Even the postman/woman tells me constantly how much I’m loved because of the many packages that arrives at the store every other day.

So yes, I don’t need the money that comes with what I do online but I do it because I loved it so much.  Both my advertisers and online friends/fans are such wonderful people , I would hate to stop what I’m doing.

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Thankful

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It’s hard to find good help as we found out after 16 years in business , the good ones leave for a better paying job and the not so good ones leaves just because or for various reasons.  But we do try our utmost best to treat our employees with the best intentions but I guess we are just not good enough employers.

So when a friend/customer came to help us since last year summer, we are anything but grateful.  After having lived in this small town for such a long time, we really don’t ask for a lot from our employees, so we are really not hard to work for.  But of course, some ex-employees will beg to differ , so when you find one that has a good head on the shoulder, you are grateful.

And when you find out that they are having a baby, what do you do?  go find them a present that is useful to them and the baby.  And one thing I regret not getting for chloe is a baby swing , to swing her to sleep.  The one that we had borrowed from a friend, needed cranking with hands and didn’t have a reclining position.  So poor chloe although went to sleep finally, didn’t have any neck support.  Therefore, we got one of those for our friend who is having a baby.

And a thank you note was given to us this morning, so sweeeeetttt!!  see these are the people you wanna do things for and is happy about doing it.  I’m so gonna love this baby.

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Making The Best Of SnowDays

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There has been a lot of snow day of late because we had been getting some whip lash from Mr Winter.  I guess, we are getting all the snow that we didn’t get for the last few years, so it’s payback time for us while Toronto seems to have gotten better weather than us.

So what do one do when you have a snow day?  of course, go out and play with the snow with the kid.  Chloe loves going out in the cold and snowy weather and PB would go out with her like a good daddy when no one is out there with her.  And when the neighbors come out and play, he would leave them alone.

Kids loved having their parents play with them.  Chloe especially loved PB to go out and play with her  because he is the more active parent between the both of us.  When she is at her Grampie’s , her grampie , PB and her aunt helena would go out sledding with her, she looked forward to sledding everytime we get some snow.  This years, she had been out sledding a few times already, so she is one happy kid.  But she doesn’t like too many snow days, because she wants to go back to school.

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Vancouver Lush

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I was in Vancouver for work and had the opportunity to visit the Lush workshop there.  Very happy to network with other bloggers and vloggers , learned a lot and of course, Lush was so generous and lots of gifts we were sent home with.   Too tired tonite to write about my experience but it was an awesome trip. Thanks to my advertisers for flying me out on Business class.

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The End Of 2014

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A few more hours and we will be in 2015.  What will 2015 bring for us ?  I don’t know but 2014 had been a great year for us in terms of business wise and my online work.  The store had been really busy the entire year and my online work had taken a new turn because I started on vlogging with an American brand magazine for woman after 50.  It had been an extraordinary ride and I enjoyed all my assignments tremendously.  I doubt I would be able to finish using all the skin care and cosmetic that I’ve received thus far but I really am happy with experimenting with everything and being paid for it.

Chloe is doing awesome in school, she have the best teachers and this year I’ve also taken a step back and let PB do most of her school stuff with her since I had been traveling a bit for work.  On the home front, besides investing in a cottage near the beach, we also bought another property in the city because we’ve been going up there more often than usual as we have a great part time help from now on.

We also got to spend time with family and concentrated on doing family stuff but of course, I got to go out with my friends as well.  I’ve also met some really nice new friends along the way and did more charitable work this year.  Well, globally and not so much locally, although we did donate to some good causes this year locally as well.

Now health wise, I have to say that my legs is still giving me problems, so I’m gonna go take care of it next year but PB’s and Chloe’s health have been good, no major illness here.  My father – in – law and brother – in – law are also doing well , so I’m really happy about it.  But we have aunt helena to be thankful for too , for she took on the “grammie” role ever since the passing of my mother – in – law a few years ago.

This year, we focus a lot more about doing charitable work for different organization that both PB and I are passionate about and to my foster kids.  We also wanted to teach Chloe good values about being grateful for what we already have and not want more than needed.  I think overall, we did a pretty good job with managing our personal lives as well as money for 2014,  i hope you had as great a year as us.  Happy New Year !

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Simple

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Our theme this year for the holiday season is simple.  Yes, I told everyone from home not to send anything to chloe for both her birthday as well as Christmas.  And if they are planning to give Chloe something, to please use the money for her pressies and give it to a charitable organization.  If they feel inclined , they can donate using Chloe’s name.

Why? because we are teaching Chloe that it’s good to give others and not just do things for herself as she is the only child, we want to make sure that she learns to care for others as well.  This year because of how busy PB and I are due to my new assignments on vlogging and meeting up with new advertisers, I cannot do as much for others as I hope to either.

So to keep our sanity and to focus on the most important things in our lives, we’ve decided that this year, we are going to take time for ourselves first. This year, we want to look at the bigger picture and give to a worthy cause around the world.  So Chloe’s birthday was celebrated last week at Grampie’s with only immediate family and fund raiser at her school was done by her alone as well as picking up her teacher’s presents and wrapping them all up on her own.  I’m very happy that we are doing this because it is very less stressful for me and we are really happy giving to help an organization to safe other people.

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Christmas Deco Hunting

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I don’t know about other folks but in our family, we shop for Christmas decors every year and we keep adding but sometimes we don’t even put them up because it doesn’t go with the theme.  This year , we had to go simple because both PB and I are so busy with both the store and my work online.  But Christmas ain’t Christmas without adding one or two new ornaments or decor at home.

There is a place just a little way out of town that have all these wonderful Christmas decorations and for reason/s that I cannot fathom, we don’t go there often enough.  This year, I had to go there and found quite a few things.  Did I tell you that our Christmas tree at the store is white this year?  this is the first time I have a white tree for Christmas.  In the last 14 years with PB , our Christmas trees has always been green, so this was really a nice change.  Loved the new Christmas tree at the store and love all that we bought.

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Halloween Fun 2014

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Sorry i took so long to put up pictures of Chloe and her Halloween Night.  She had loads of fun in school as a cat girl and in the evening, we went on our usual route and popped in at Gerald’s and Adele’s and chatted and had candies and so much fun.

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Look who’s the Alien this year.  We had so much laughter with the Leblanc’s.

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Epic Drawing About My Family

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Muahahah!!!epic!  I am gonna frame this up and put this in our cottage , so that everyone can have a good laugh.  How candid is this?  and so much like us at home and at work.

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But what I loved most is what Chloe wrote at the back of the drawing.  I love her to bits.