Last year the oldest just went to college in the city and we had bought her a 2nd hand car to help her go from her apartment to the campus but since gas is so expensive we decided to let her scoot around the city in a scooter instead of a car.   So we went [...]

A few weeks ago, we did a little re-organizing of the home office to make space for the children to use our home office and also because it was Chinese New Year and a tradition in our home to clean up.   We also bought the kids their own printer with extra  ink cartridges so that [...]

We have a summer lodge by the lake in Ellenwoods and i’m so excited today because I found some log beds that i’m so in loved with – it fits the theme of our summer lodge perfectly.  Our lodge was bought – so that during the summer, the kids and their extended family – the [...]

I’ve had an old back injury for the longest time – I think more than 20 years now.  I was moving to a new home and a new office simultaneously and hurt my back accidentally.  But I had seen a chiropractor for the longest time  and even though it helped a bit – it didn’t [...]

Many of my friends are still renting a home – because rental houses are so cheap these days – you can get the entire house for less than $1000 – and for those who’ve just migrated – I strongly recommend you rent and don’t buy a house till you are all settled and know where [...]

While others decorate their home with primitive decoration from gift shops – I loved to decorate my house with crystals or this kind of Himalayan Salt Crystal Lamps because I hear it brings calmness and harmony just like when I am wearing the Swarovski Crystal beads – these are always supposed to bring me good [...]

My brother-in-law is very good with his hands and since retiring he has been doing projects of home made decorations for fun and some for sale to friends and relatives.  He has his shed for doing this and one day while visiting him – I saw some of the work he did and decided that [...]

Tempted to bring the entire family to Disneyland this Christmas because the room rates are as low as $42 at the orlando hotels .   I would love to go that’s for sure – but we have to get back in time for school as we have all 3 kids who are still in school.  It [...]

So it is that time of the year – to get the winter tires out from the garage and make an appointment with the auto shop to have our tires change and also to check with them about some auto body repair for our car.   We’ve waited till now to get the auto body work [...]

I’ve started Christmas decorating already this year – and it might seems early to you – but I figured – if I had to decorate I might as well have more days to enjoy the decorations and lights right?  I hope this year – I can really get the house all geared up before the [...]