If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!If you’re a parent, you’re undoubtedly always thinking about your kids and how to be a better parent. Unfortunately there is no parenting school you can go to but Lilaguide.com is about as close as you can get.
It’s an online [...]

One of my friends has just come back from her vacation in Shenzen. Shenzen is one of the southernmost cities in China right along the border with Hong Kong.
According to my friend, there’s nothing much to see there in terms of scenery unlike some of the other cities in China that are famous for their [...]

I know that some of you may be selling items on eBay to make some side income. Fantastic! I believe in making money to spend money. After all money doesn’t grow on trees !
Here’s a quick tip to help you research your items before you sell. It’s pretty easy if you use Terapeak to [...]

We have a couple of movie buffs in this family who have been talking about buying a big flat screen TV so they can enjoy even more of their favorite movies.
Each time we go to the mall, they’ll go check out the TV section. They were looking at the Toshibas yesterday evening and one of [...]

The girls and I were at the Pearson book sale yesterday. We’d been waiting excitedly for it since the day we found out about it.
You can’t blame us, we haven’t been to a book sale in months and our book supply has long since run dry.
They have a great selection - thousands and thousands of [...]

I’m pretty sure everyone knows someone who’s moving away. These days, it’s become so commonplace for whole families to uproot and move to a completely new place, new country.
I have a couple of friends who’ve just moved back from Canada and the UK, and they were both complaining about how their moves could’ve been better [...]

What do I think of checking accounts? I have a checking account that I hardly ever use it. When I was in the States, I used checks, not my credit card, for everything.
Now it’s the opposite. I use my credit card for everything and I only write checks when I need to make payment by [...]

I’m glad I’m not the only with a family that’s always having to fix watch straps and batteries and such. While chatting with a girl friend over coffee the other day, she had the same story to tell me about the way her husband and kids go through their watches.
We’re really amused that our stories [...]

There are days (especially rainy ones) when I wish I didn’t have to drive all the way to the gym.
Now wouldn’t it be nice if I had my own set of home fitness equipment to work out on?
Quite honestly, if I had an extra room in the house, I would definitely consider going to Allegro [...]

I was at the mall last weekend and saw some guys with mini-cranes putting up the Christmas decor!
Yay! Yay! Yippee! I love this time of year even though the weather is so darned un-Christmasy here!
I checked out a few sites and they’ve got their Christmas agenda posted already.
I honestly can’t wait to hit the malls. [...]