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Slide Show Of Home

While I was enjoying a day at the park with ducks – Chloe had asked me more about home and my parents. I thought of a slide show that I can make for Chloe and decided to do it – to let her know abit more about my parents/siblings and more about where I come from. I gave it a little more thought – as to what I want to show Chloe and thought about my mom and Chloe. You see – Chloe and I are brought up quite differently – Chloe’s childhood if shown on a slide show to her grandchildren in the future would be nothing but happy memories – where else mine wasn’t so much like that.

While i grew up with a screaming mom – who would cane us in public – Chloe has never been harshly dealt with in her entire life. But do I want to show her a slide show of my childhood with so many bad memories? of a childhood without a parent or grandparents to love? A childhood without any toys nor bed to sleep on? I only started to have a decent life after i turned 26 – when i decided that I didn’t want the past to hold me back. That was when my life changed – for the better – but how do i tell my child – who is currently so curious to know who my parents were? I don’t even really know my own father – for he was never home – my slide show for my childhood – is but a very short memory to me. It is a past – i rarely want to remember but it gets trigger back once in a while.

As much as I would love to tell Chloe the whole truth – i feel that she is still very young to understand – my past. For now – I’m putting together a simpler slide show of my past for her – a simplified version just for now. I’m just happy that Chloe’s slide show – of her childhood will be a so much happier and blessed one – for her dad and grandparents are nothing like mine.

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Upgrading Home & Store

It had been a really busy summer for us – in fact – so busy I had to cancel my pedicure a few times now in the last 2 months. The store is doing some revamping with new fixtures and our home ? we are getting our patio all fixed up with mosquito nets – so that we can enjoy sitting outside without the buzzing of mosquitoes and bugs. The zapper that we had bought a few years ago – didn’t seems to help – so I told PB that we really needed to get the mosquito nets up. Afterall, what is good with having a patio and a golf course for scenery when one don’t get to enjoy it. So off we went looking for some Baldwin hardware for door knobs and other accessories. As for the store – we got new fixtures for the movies and games and cabinets as well. The store is beginning to look “proper” now and most of the handmade shelving by PB were taken down. I think he is a little nostalgic about them – hahahha!! for they had followed him for 11 yrs now. So yes! if i haven’t answered your emails or gone on Facebook – it’s because we are busy running around looking and shopping for stuff to fix up our house and store.

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My Kid Loves To Read

My kid loves to read – i even have a picture of her in the toilet reading a magazine – muahah!! I am guessing – she loves to read because she sees us reading a lot – they say the apple don’t fall far from the tree eh. We get all her books from school, or the local book store here but PB uses Amazon books to get his special books that you have to order – like the Forgotten Realms & the Wheel of Time series (we can find it in this small town).

The school encourages us to read to her and we do it every night before she sleeps – she loves for us to read to her – but she refuses to read on her own. So ever since she started “real” school, we were able to acquire some books that was in her level – and she is now able to read simple books. And though she doesn’t read too much yet – she loves buying books and we never refused when it comes to books. My grandfather used to say that books should be our best friend – and at that time – i thought it was so corny – but now i can fully understand why my grandfather preaches it constantly. What about you? does your kids love to read? where do you get good and cheap books ? pray tell.

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Weddings & Flowers

Living in Canada for the last 10 yrs doesn’t mean that I want to lose touch with family and friends – in fact – i think we are a lot more closer now that we don’t get to see each other that often. But it is sad when the nieces/nephews or the best friends celebrates a special occasion and you can’t attend. But like all Chinese, we believe that we have to show that we think and care about them. Asked Barb who started work this year in January after taking a long break looking after her daughter. But what was most awesome was – all our friends from all over the world came together and used Proflwers to send her a bouquet of roses – to boost her confidence -she was thrilled i am pretty sure.

So the niece who got married last week was very touched to receive this from us all the way from Canada – we couldn’t be there you see – too long a flight – but we wanted her to know we care for her and loved her. Thank God for services like these eh – but it’s not new to me.. because some 15 yrs ago – i was using this service to send flowers to PB while i was in Singapore and he in Canada – i even have pictures of them to proof it.. hahahha!! Ahhh.. love.. what better way to show it then with flowers eh. Did you send flowers to your spouse lately??? or someone you miss ..?? I did received some from PB not too, too long ago – but that’s another story for another day.

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Dressing Up For Summer Camp

As you all know – Chloe is in summer camp now – at least 4 days a week – and this year – we see a lot of difference in Chloe and her summer camp. How so ? last year – she won’t go to any camp without the babysitter – this year – she doesn’t wanna miss camp. This summer camp is also very far and as you all know we bring her in late and bring her out for lunch and then send her back for play time with other kids. Plus – they also play dress up at Summer Camp – so i stopped doing my review on phentramine and helped her pick up the dress and accessories for her dressing up day tomorrow.

Can you guess what the theme is? Yes – is a Blast from the Past – back to the 70s. So we tried many dresses ( from her Kai Mah *godmother* in Singapore) and her hair do too – thanks to Auntie Jenny from Down Under who sent her the polka dot scarf to be used as a hair band. I told Chloe how lucky she is – because during my time – my mother had no time to play dress up with us. But how can one blame her when she was the only one bringing the bread home – and looking after 4 kids with no help. I still cannot fathom why my mother would have so many – even though my father refused to help with the first and second one. Parents who does that – are so irresponsible – if you cannot give the best and your time to your kids – you shouldn’t have any.

Even though we send Chloe to summer camp – we still bring her back for lunch, therefore, it doesn’t make for such a long day for Chloe and it sure doesn’t make me feel guilty like i’m farming her out. Even when we do send her to her grandparents it is only because we want her to bond with her grandparents and that she will be safe there. I’m glad I waited for the right person to come along to have Chloe – else i might not have end up with someone who would help with Chloe too – now that would have been too devastating for me. What about you? does your spouse help? did you have kids with the right person..??

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Summer Fest 2010

So Canada’s Day is over and we are waiting for Seafest 2010 to begin – which is in the middle of this month. So far the weather had been hot and humid and doing my nuphedragen reviews can take a while because with the heat – i just can’t concentrate much. But yes – Chloe starts summer camp in a few days – and we can only hope that she wants to go there after the first day. You see – previous years – she was afraid – she needed to bring her babysitter a long – which defeats the purpose of training her to be more independent.

This year will be the first summer – we don’t have a babysitter – and yes – we are grateful for all the years our sitter was with us – 4.5 yrs – but Chloe had grown so much 6.5 yrs old now and she really needs to be independent – plus i cannot afford the drama-rama. So yes ! it worked out pretty good when the sitter asked for her separation papers last year in October – when we didn’t have much hours to give her.

Has it been different without the help? Yes – but not very much – because the sitter is always with us – except for nights she brings Chloe home for a few hours to feed her but we managed for the last 8 months and we did pretty good but that’s not to say we are not grateful for the sitter’s help for the last 6 yrs. But it all worked out really good – as you can see – Chloe is a lot more independent and we get to save a bit of money – and in return I don’t need to do so much work online. So yes! have a great summer everyone! if you have a babysitter – good for you – if not – it’s still good.

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Summer Camp For Chloe

Summer camp started for Chloe today and i had kept my fingers crossed in hope she would take to camp and that she won’t say she don’t want to go. You see I had it all planned out – 2 days in summer camp – 2 days at Grammie’s and 3 day with us – 2 at the store and 1 at home – that makes a week. We figured that getting her active and out in the sun and fresh air is the best sleep aids we can get – because she will get all the exercise she needs and the interaction with other kids and get to bond with her grandparents.

So she came back from camp today – not without any glitches of course – a little but she still wants to go back tomorrow – woohoo!! so yes – we will send her to day camp tomorrow – since Grammie can’t take her tomorrow. We will wait for the next day to send her to her grandparents then. And if she wants to come home for lunch – she can – it’s already a milestone on Chloe’s part in my opinion.

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Summer Holiday Begins 2010

So the summer holidays begin for us here in Canada and tomorrow will be Canada’s day. PB is going to be so busy – he won’t be able to visit enzyte very often because he has to look after the store and also look after Chloe. And yes, we do have plans for the brat – but we don’t know how it is going to go.

Summer camp is in plan – but like the previous years – we don’t know how she is going to take to the summer camp. We planned to send her to her grandparents – but they are very busy in the garden too – and if we send Chloe – they won’t be able to do much because Chloe doesn’t like to be outside. But we had planned to put a trampoline at her Grampie’s but that didn’t happen because her Grampie fears that there may not be a flat plain for the trampoline. In the end, we have it up at our backyard instead. We had bought another bike for her – so she can have one at her grandparents but again, it’s hard to ride on grass and in the end we brought it back – because the neighbour’s kid had theirs out the other day and won’t share with Chloe.

So yes, we did have plans – but like usual even the best laid plans may not turn out the way we want – so we are all keeping our fingers crossed – else I would just have to stop what i do online and take care of Chloe on my own.

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My 6 Yrs Old Is A Sassy Kid!

Yes ! everytime a customer walks into our store – they would say – “ooooohhh! she is too cute!” and my reply? “she’s a brat!” in which everyone laugh. Love my kid more than my own life – i cannot remember the day when i was this sassy with my own mom. I tell yer – my mom had it easy and so did my good for nothing father. My 6 years old is so sassy – i have acne popping up everywhere.. i kid you not. I told PB for Christmas – he needs to get me the best acne treatment!! My 6 yrs old has an answer to everything and an excuse for every thing she wants to do – that we don’t approve.

Did she get sassy overnite..?? or did we teach her to be sassy? in our own unconscious manner – because we deal with some bad customer/s at our store and she overhears us when we talk about them. And the funny thing is – my sassy daughter loses her tongue when she is in school – she is so afraid to do or say anything wrong in school – totally angelic at school. So what gives..??

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Relationships

As I sit and admire my contemporary sofas in my tv room, i cannot helped but also admire the beautiful pictures of a friend – Alexis’s family outing in Vancouver with her beautiful family. You see, Alexis was someone I met thru’ PB’s buddy – they used to date and while they are no longer together -Alexis and I kept in contact. You see Alexis is a very wonderful and lovely looking lady from Singapore and I had took a instant liking for her when i first met her 10 yrs ago. As I look at her happy family – I cannot but feel a tinge of regret for PB’s buddy for not cherishing the relationship and things ended the way it did.

Relationships are hard and I admire the way Alexis ended it – even though they were together for a long time and have a kid together. Alexis is now married and has her own kids with her new husband and he looks like a wonderful person – he is from Sweden. I sometimes wonder if people from the West knows how tough it is for us to uproot just to be with them? do they even know – how much we miss home – the food, the weather, the shopping – everything just to be with them.

Relationships are hard – having a kid together doesn’t mean one must stay with someone who don’t appreciate you. I admire Alexis – for being so strong – even though at that time – she wasn’t with anyone – didn’t have a job and a kid to raise – she call it quits. I don’t know the whole story – but I know relationships are hard and for things to work – both gotta make lots of effort.