What do I do with my time?

I get asked this question a lot because people only assume I stay home and live a relaxing but yet boring life. I actually have a ton of things to do during Monday to Sunday. Though – I do spend half my day sleeping. I sleep around 10 to 12 hours a day (yes that’s half a day gone) and I enjoy my sleep a lot. It’s the only beauty sleep I’ll be getting for the next 6 weeks – so I gotta make the best out of it.

What do I do with the rest of my half a day? Well – I do have a ton of online stuff to do during weekdays. I only allow myself to work on weekdays – so on the weekend I’m free to do whatever my husband wants and just relax. I go through a lot of emails a day – I don’t have to but if I don’t stay on top of my e-mail it’ll be flooded to the point that I can’t go through it anymore. That’s what I do from Monday to Friday when waking up from my beauty sleep. After that – I make my own breakfast/brunch/lunch (whatever you call it) while watching TVB drama. After my first meal of the day – my online work starts till my husband comes back from work. So yes – I do sit in front of the computer for a good 4-5 hours before he comes home for dinner. Sometimes I continue after dinner or sometimes I leave it for the next day. My online stuff is actually not so busy but since Little Jayden will be arriving very soon – I know I gotta work ahead with my schedule – so when he arrives I won’t have to stress about my online stuff. It’s just all about planning ahead.

Along with my online stuff, if I’m really bored – I have scrap booking, organizing, dusting, vacuuming, plannings, and etc. There’s actually a lot for me to do at home – I feel like I’m more busier working from home than working out. I don’t like wasting my precious time. If I have nothing to do – I work ahead with my schedule – so I’m productive every day. At times I could be lazy and not feel like doing anything but I don’t allow myself not to do anything that day if I’m lazy. I don’t have much time left to waste really. I want to still be earning money and still be able to take care of a baby at the same time. I’m grateful to have been given such an opportunity to be making money at home. So nope – I don’t live a glamorous life where I have nothing to do and shopping is my number one thing on the list.

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.

Winnie the Pooh theme for Nurseries/Baby Room

I feel like I’m one picky-annoying woman when it comes down to colors and themes. I wonder if other people are like me – so far non of my friends are like that. Maybe I’ll discover someone just like me later on in life eh? *haha* Anyways – the little man’s room is almost complete except the diaper/changer table. It took us a month to finally get everything together – there’s so much into a complete baby room. Been going to Babies R Us every week but the good thing about it is – when you order some of the stuff online – they have free shipping. So yep – I’ve been getting packages delivered to me every week now. I feel like online shopping is more exciting then purchasing the items in store. It’s just that feeling. That reminds me that I need to place an order of enzo angiolini shoes online as a gift. Shopping online can make life so much easier instead of running around looking for it.

Everything is well-organized and prepared for the little one. I just need to open the boxes up and figure out how to use the sterilizer, bottle warmer, and breast bump soon. So I don’t have to know everything last minute. That reminds me – I gotta pack my hospital bag soon. Not only my stuff but with Hubby’s stuff too since we upgraded our hospital room to a private room – he can stay over night with us.

To be honest – he’s much more excited to meet his little son than I am. I’m just more fearing about the pain right now. I cannot imagine how painful it is! Well – I watched it on TV and everything. I have a feeling that I’ll be screaming like a witch! YES – WITCH! So it’s best not to have people I know around when I’m giving labor. *hahahha*

Working in my Home Office

I’ve been keeping myself busy ever since January hit – no more laziness around here and time to start making some money. I’ve been quite lazy last year and never really focus on my work and just doing everything so last minute. Pregnancy is an excuse to be lazy? Well – let’s just say I took a couple months of break off. Now that I’m finally feeling a bit better and not much time left – I’m taking things more serious. I’ve done a lot of research these days and one of them is unsecured business loans – there’s actually a lot into borrowing a loan for business and you gotta be careful on the policies and regulations eh! So don’t just go for any loan companies – find one that’s trustworthy.

Even though I’m more busy at home now. I feel like each day past by really fast and without knowing – I’ll be due with this baby. I just want to get a lot of things done before he arrives. It’s good to be productive and build up for my future. I’m just very blessed that I can work from home and not have to travel to go to work.

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.

Going on vacation on trimester 3?

Sadly, we didn’t get to go on our honeymoon this year – don’t really know when we’re going anymore. Maybe next year? I hope! One of the freedom I miss is being able to go on vacation whenever I want to. There’s still a lot of places I want to visit with my other half and friends. Having a baby doesn’t mean we’re not going on vacation for a couple of years. Just means – when we do go on vacation with this little guy – we gotta carry a lot more stuff and bare with a crying baby while traveling. A lot different than traveling alone right? I told hubs this “I don’t care what it is – we’re going somewhere once a year!” That was my demand. I used to travel twice a year – so once a year is good enough right?

So my girlfriends was asking if I’ll be able to go on a resort trip to Cuba in January and that’s when I’m on my trimester three. I got really tempted and I said I’ll confirm it with them after I ask my doctor if it is safe to travel during trimester three or would I even be able to allow to be on the plane?? We always wanted to go on a trip with the three girls but never really gotten the chance to. Now that I’m preggie – I don’t know if I can go. Yikes – just gotta see what my doctor says. What is your suggestion on this? Trimester 3 and traveling? I need your advice!

How does single mom do it?

Being pregnant for 9 whole months is the hardest thing I’ve gone through so far in my life. If I didn’t have the support of my hubby – I think I would of given up when it was three months. Sometimes I wonder how single mother does it. Being pregnant alone – doing things alone – making all decisions alone. It’s tough – the toughest job in life.

I gotta admit that I’m one lucky girl – I have a hubby there always listening to my nags and whines. I tend to whine a lot more than before but he’s very understanding. He understands the pain I’ll have to go through in labour. The morning sicknesses from the past couple months. Never did he got angry or annoyed with what I tell him to do for me.

My tummy is growing and growing each day and I feel like there’s a lot of things I cannot do by myself anymore. For example: I like moving furnitures around – I can’t do that for awhile. I can neal/bend down a lot. I can no longer cut my toe nails. I gotta be extra careful and not clumsy when walking now (I’m a very clumsy walker). I gotta watch what I eat (although most of the time I’m naughty and just eat whatever). And I just gotta be more alert and not be in places with a lot of crowds. Huge difference eh? I like being independent and doing things myself but now I have the hubby spoiling me and doing things for me. I’m just not quite used to this lifestyle yet.

I just wouldn’t be able to do this alone without him. I’m grateful and I count my blessings everytime I think about how blessed I am.

Christmas in 26 days!

Yeppers! Nearly a month! I’ve got all my events and gatherings organized this year – have you? This time of the year is just going to fly by so quick because everyones busy! Either out getting presents for others or having get together dinners! It’s been an awesome year and I’ve been counting my blessings! For wonderful friends, awesome families, and a wonderful husband. I can’t be greedy and ask for more right?

HO HO HO Merry Christmas! Merry early Christmas everyone!

Christmas in a month

Yes – Christmas in a month! Time is flying by so quickly. Hubby just told me that he felt like our wedding was just a month ago and look at the date now. It’s been four months of marriage and so far – its going pretty awesome. Christmas is on the way and I’m finished with most of the shopping already! What’s left to do is the holiday photo cards I got to customized. Other than that – I’m ready for Christmas holiday this year. I got a lot planned out – a lot of meet ups and special events before I end 2011. 2011 has been such an awesome year to me. I’m hoping 2012 will be the same as well!