Archive for February, 2010
Visit to Winnipeg Harvest Food Bank
Today we took a friend to pick up some food from the Winnipeg Harvest food bank. She has problems lifting heavy things and needed some transportation so the kids and I took her there.
The cost of having Boys…
More about Amelia Yap
I did an interview with my friend Sareli DeRaj about a month ago, wow it took me a while to think about what I was going to say. What an eye opener for me. It was fun tough to realize and discover yourself. To find out a little more about me, check out the [...]
Vitamin D Deficency and you
Natalie did a blood test with the Childrens’ Hospital oral health study a couple of months ago to check her vitamin D levels. Unfortunately it was on the low side, slightly deficient, so yesterday I took my results to the doctor to get her recommendation.
5 days or 21 days to Form a Habit?
I have heard from many places and people say that it takes 21 days to form a habit or break a habit. In some ways I think that is true and in others I do not think it is…
Real Mother, Mom, Mum, Mommy, Mummy…
Real Mothers don’t eat quiche; They don’t have time to make it. Real Mothers know that their kitchen utensils Are probably in the sandbox.
Learning English by Teaching My Children
Speaking English all my life, I realize how much I didn’t know grammatically about the English language till I decided to home school and teach the kids. It is very humbling as I learn English alongside my 6 year old. I am learning how to read again, the short and long vowels, I don’t remember [...]
Happy Chinese New Year
This is the New Year in the Lunar calendar, the year of the tiger. We celebrated the coming of the New Year at my aunts place with a reunion dinner last night, new year eve. As my parents are in Malaysia with my sister’s family, we just chatted with them over the telephone.
Do you go to the Library?
Every Friday after our free swim at the Margaret Grant Pool, we head out for our weekly visit to the library. There they read and colour while Kyle relaxes and reads some magazines. They also borrow books and movies for the week and it keeps them occupied for hours.
Green Healthy Cleaning with Norwex
We are living in a world full of chemicals and toxins. It is a little out of control. We are exposed to it all over so I am minimizing it in my home as much as possible. In the last couple of years, I have committed learning to going green and be green. I wrote [...]
