Chinese New Year Red Pockets 2012

Here’s all the red pocket Hub & I collected. I didn’t know we get Red Pockets too even if we are married. Well – I guess only from relatives right? On Chinese New Years morning – I went to visit his grandparents place to “bai leen” – it’s actually my very first time “bai leen” since I don’t have any relatives here. It was pretty interesting – I was suppose to bring some kind of treat to their house to “bai leen” – which I didn’t know. If I knew – I think I would be more creative. Maybe I’ll save that for next year! Hub didn’t get to go because he had work – hopefully next year he gets the day off!

Birthday Roses for Stepmother

Didn’t know what to get my stepmother for her birthday – so Hub and I went out to get her two dozens of roses. She always says she doesn’t receive flowers for special occasions. Well – I do get her flowers for Mother’s Day but I guess I should start getting her flowers for her birthday too? Every women deserves pretty flowers right? Since I got my stepmother flowers for her birthday – my stepsister asked me where’s her birthday present? I know she wanted a new guitar – so I told her to find some easy songs for guitar to practice for now. Guitars these days ain’t cheap – I’m going to make her earn it first. What an evil stepsister I am eh?

Owning a Home in Toronto

Oh – how I wish I can have a washroom like this in my future home – probably in my dreams.

Anyways – over the weekend Hub & I went out to look at an open house near where we live. Boy – you would not want to know the price of it. I was sort of expecting it to be at a price that we wouldn’t really like. I do want to live closer to families and friends. But sometimes what do you sacrifice? Would we want to sacrifice the distance or the stressfulness of mortgaging a home in the future? It’s not what I want – it’s the best for our family. Of course it’s much more convenient to get to places, see people, and run errands if we live closer but if we live further – the pro is – we get a bigger piece of land at a more affordable price. There’s pros and cons for both situation. Both is hard and I don’t even want to think about it right now – it will only add stress. Who knows what three years will bring right? Maybe Hub will double his salary? Maybe our investment will be doing fairly well? Maybe my online work will get to where I want it to be? Maybe the house market will go down?

Although – I’m such a planner and I like to plan things ahead. We seriously wouldn’t know how three years later would be like. I’m just very grateful to have a lovely place to live right now and that we can call home. Plus the little one can spend some quality time with his grandparents till he enters pre-school. I can stay at home and watch his growth while Hub goes to work.

Cute Red Pockets

This year would be our very first year handing out red pockets to relatives and kids. Well – we don’t know a lot of friends with kids – so not really kids. Mainly relatives. Of course the wife takes care of the red pockets – I’ve put together a bunch of red pockets a month ago. Yep – plan ahead right? Hub didn’t get to go “Bai Leen” this year with his relatives because of work. So I had to be the only one handing them out. Though – I wish he was there with me to enjoy the process because it is his first time too. But it’s alright – next time he’ll be there to “Bai Leen” with his son!

Aren’t these red pockets cute? Yep – I bought enough for a good two years. I can’t help it when I see cute and cartoon-ish red pockets lah. If I was in China – I think I would of gone a lot more crazier than this because in China – they have a ton of choices. Unlike here – just a few.

Can’t forget the cute Winnie the Pooh! Yep – using all of these for next and probably next next years Chinese New Year. I just can’t resist from cute stuff. Before when I receive red pockets – I usually save the cute envelopes and throw out the boring ones. It’s like a collective thing! Are you like me too or it’s just me that’s weird? LOL

Magic Baby Bullet Reviews

This is by far the best Christmas present I’ve received! Although it’s not for hubby or I – but I’m so happy to receive this and start using this half a year later!  This is very useful for making baby food and storing them. I was debating if I should get this or not – since we do have the original Magic Bullet at home. Why get another set right? But what’s different with this is that – it has 6 mini cups – so I can store them in the fridge or freezer for a later date. Plus – they are very cute and small. Do any of you mama use this? Any good reviews? I can’t wait to open this package and start making food in this!!!

Running out of space in the OFFICE!

Yep – that’s my office right there! Kind of messy but whenever I clean it up – the next day is a mess again. I can’t help it – there’s just too much stuff in there. No one goes into this office except myself and I just don’t understand how it can get into a mess so quickly! Even with three tables to work with??

Here’s table #1 – a mess eh? It’s my craft table with a bunch of crap on it right now and under this table has a little mini table to put things on. I just think I need more organizational storage space – so this mess will go away!

Table #2 – Another craft table.

& Finally – my work table where I spend hours on working on my blogs and online work. This table gets messy too when there’s too much table on it. But as you can see – I have an extra table on the bottom to put stuff. Yes – that’s like a total of 5 tables for me to put stuff on? It’s funny because I’m the only one that uses this office and hubby doesn’t even have his own office. Well – his office is in the living room coffee table with only his laptop.

Here’s a little so-called table to put other things on. Nothing related to work or crafty stuff. Just candles, phone, and picture.

Here”s a shelf for my printer and filing boxes. I got this over Christmas – sort of a Christmas present from my other half. I wanted a printer shelf for a long long time now. It’s a lot more organized than before.

Pretty big office but its a heck of a mess! I gotta start cleaning up before this little guy comes along – I won’t have ANY time to spend in the office when he’s here. I’ll probably be up in his room and upstairs living room most of the time. Yes – sacrifices of having a kid but that’s life eh? I’ll still be working at home but not in front of my office – I’ll probably be having my laptop upstairs while taking care of a crying baby. That reminds me – I have two months to enjoy my sleep, freedom and spending alone times with the husband.

A bun in the oven

By looking at the picture – you would probably figured out what the gender is already right? I was quite shocked finding out a gender – never expected it to be a little boy. Took me a few days to sink that thought in me because I always expected a baby girl. A baby girl that would do every little girly things with me. But I guess everything is up to God right? There’s a reason for everything. I’m just upset that I can’t do the little girly things but I’m not disappointed at all. As long as our baby is healthy – we are happy.

I planned to finish off the baby room in October but looks like it’s going to be delayed till November. I just want everything to finished ahead of time – so I have nothing to worry about. I always plan ahead with life and that’s just me

Spending time with family

Its harder now to spend time with my family now especially when everyone busy with school and work! It’s not like before how everyone has the time. But no matter how busy my life gets – I still try to schedule a day for lunch with my step mom or have dinner with my brothers and sisters. Sometimes we don’t even see each other for the entire month. Or maybe see each other 10 times a year? It’s crazy like that – we just gotta adapt to everyone’s busy life.

Acne Treatments

It’s weird because I don’t recall having any acne on my face when I was in my teen years but my brother on the other hand is a different story. I really wonder where he gets it from? From my mother’s gene? But I don’t quite remember that. Recently – I’ve searched up zenmed reviews to get some tips on how to remove acne fast because my brother is one of the groomsmen for our wedding! I want him to look his best. Looks like I gotta keep searching for the best product out there because apparently Proactive don’t work for him! Any tips and suggestions?

Church Retreat tomorrow morning!!

Church Retreat tomorrow! This means I gotta wake up extra early tomorrow – waking up early is not for ME! I love my sleep and I sleep about 10 hours a day – I still do. I know – I know – it’s not good to sleep so much but I do think everyone’s different with there sleeping habits right? I would say 11AM is a really good time for me to wake up – but that’s if I have work in the afternoon. This is something that it’s just so hard to change. If I have a kid – that’s a total different story. If I have a kid that goes to school in the morning – my sleeping schedule would totally change to waking up at 6:30AM in the morning to make the husband and the kid’s breakfast and shoot them out the door. But for now – I get to enjoy my sleep till whenever I want. I believe in breakfast in the morning – it’s just that now I feel like if I don’t have to wake up in the morning – why do it right? Do you wake up in early mornings? I do – but once a week or twice a week!