When you have several girls in the house – you kinda have to organize their rooms every now and then – even if they don’t like it.  Why?  well, you know how kids are – even though they are teenagers – they still need to keep their room somewhat clean – so that they know [...]

I’m not very good at exercising – but I’ve always wanted a beach cruiser – so that I can bike with the children and the spouse and the spouse had been looking for one for me earnestly this year.  He said I wasn’t going to make any excuses like the previous years – and as [...]

Besides taking care of the home – it’s my duty to take care of my family’s health too – I’ve had relatives who didn’t have the  Blue Advantage and cannot afford the medication that they needed for diabetes or heart problems and various other kinds of ailments.  It’s pretty sad – because the burden usually [...]

Last year – we had a sudden death in the family – the spouse’s nephew passed away and he was only in his teens.  Very sad indeed – and very unexpected as he was so young but nevertheless sad.  We have in-laws who are not getting any younger and they did their  funeral planning way [...]

Like any Asian mom, I’m no different and want our kids to eat the best and one way the Japanese taught us – Asian moms is that we can pretty up our food and entice them to eat more.  The Japanese really have a way with their food, everything is so pretty but you can [...]

We like some wine in the evening when we are watching a movie – the spouse and I.  The children of course – don’t get to drink at all – and we don’t encourage it till they are 21 but they have shown no interest whatsoever for drinking wine – they don’t like the taste.  [...]

I had dinner with some friends last night – and we were all chatting about raising kids while some who have been trying for years can’t have any and doing invitro and one had surgery in the city to try and have a baby.  But we all agreed that raising daughters are a lot harder [...]

I had dim sum for high tea with a few old and good girlfriends from college and we all agree that we are not getting older – despite the fact that we are still very active in our life.  But there is no denying the fact that our body does feel old many a times [...]

Summer is not here yet – but if you have a few teenage kids at home, the smartest thing to do is to make them fill in application forms for summer jobs around the town and also job banks.   And unlike my parents – who never let us work in the summer – we never [...]

My daughters are in ballet classes right from young – they loved dancing and even tried highland dancing when they were 6 yrs old but didn’t continue because their schedules were very full.  Back then the teacher never asked for their dancers to slim down just a pound or two because they were already in [...]