The spouse’s family love their cigars a lot – so when they got another box of  black & mild cigars – the kids were eying on the cigar boxes left in the basement – and one of them had an idea – on what their grandfather can turn those empty cigar boxes into.  So a [...]

School is almost over for the oldest and while he is preparing to go to college – the nephew is preparing to go do his  online business school – so that he can stay home with his girlfriend who is having a baby soon.   He didn’t want to miss out on seeing his kid being [...]

School is almost out and I can take a breather soon – I hope – so I told the kids that this weekend we are doing some de- cluttering.  Why?  with 3 kids and a spouse who just love their gadgets – you can imagine – how many wires and gadgets we have at home.  [...]

Like any parents – we helped out the school and any exhibitions they have in terms of manpower or sometimes fund raising or donating any items we can afford.  This year my youngest is involved in the Science Exhibition and in fact may get into the finals for the country if she did well.  So [...]

The weather isn’t the best yet – it had been raining hard here – the children and I can’t wait for summer to come because we are all geared up for our road trip to Cape Breton.  We’ve got our emergency roadside assistance and our RV is look at by the garage – and we [...]

Last weekend we had a BBQ and since the weather is nice yesterday – we decided to have another.   Our BBQ haven’t seized burning since lunch – and I’m happy to say that we have had neighbors and friends drop in for a chicken wing, hot dogs and/or a drink.  But what they loved most [...]

I loved entertaining at home and having people over for a good BBQ – that’s why when we had a hot day – last weekend – I had to have an impromptu BBQ at our place.  It was the Victoria Day long weekend and what’s better than having friends and family over for a huge [...]

When the spouse doesn’t have to travel for work – he usually stays home and get his work done from home.  Of course, he needs to report to the office once in a while – but mostly he uses his time when he is in time at home – catching up with our children and [...]

We have a cottage in the country – where the kids loved to spend their time with their dad and grandparents and fish or BBQ or go hiking – so this weekend we are going up to clean up the cottage before it starts getting too warm to clean and throw out stuff we don’t [...]

The kids and the spouse usually celebrate Mother’s Day at his mother’s  – I don’t make a big dear out of Mother’s day – afterall, everyday is Mother’s day to me.  But since the mother-in-law is always helping out with our kids and taking care of them when we travel – I figured we should [...]