New Year 2011!!!

Happy new year everyone!!! Wishing you all the best in life in the year 2011!!!

A Boy's Wish Came True

Guess who's got the most special presents from dear Santa aside from mommy??? My young man's ever wish that came true, his Wii machine with some other things that Daddy bought for him. It wasn't the one he opened it first, he was so happy when he woke up and went to check the Christmas tree and he exclaimed that Santa indeed came to drop off his presents. He woke all us up for us to get start opening all the presents we had under our tree. As we already expected it, we knew what's gonna happen, he was so overjoyed when he figured out soon as he opened his one biggest presents and shouted so loud that Santa gave his ever dreamed Wii for Christmas!

And he said that Santa is real for he ate the cookies and the milk we saved for him on top of the coffee table (Daddy and i ate it and we shared the milk, shhhh). We are so happy as well to see how happy our son was, he deserved to have it for he's been a good boy and been doing so great in school. As you can see, his face expression is so priceless!!! He kissed the box and thanked Santa for giving him his ever wished presents.

Big Difference Between Here And My Country

There's a lot of things i noticed that is sure different here in America when i got here. One of them is they treat animals here just like people, unlike back in my country, they hardly give those animals some importance. It's probably because people there are working so hard for their family and not even enough to feed them. So getting another mouth to feed (pets) is not in their mind. But here, the animals has a very special treatment, people here treated them like their own kids. My friend's husband just took his dog to a dog dna test, which i don't think most people do it there back in my country for i am sure it will cost them a whole lot.

Exit Signs

It's so funny that my son is started to pretend that our house is a hotel. He probably got that idea because we travel a lot and sleep in a hotel whenever we stop by in a city to rest. He always see exit signs there and told me to buy one for him too so he can use it in our house and pretend that our house is hotel just like the place where we stayed. Sure the kids are good imitators, the like to copy everything they see and noticed. But i told him that exit signs are mainly for commercial buildings not for residential like ours. He may not understand it right now what i just told him but he will soon enough.

Tough Friend I Know

It has been for awhile when i saw my friend and until the other day we bumped each other at the store. We're so happy that we get to see each other again, she told me that she is quite busy taking care of her three kids all by herself, she is now divorced to her ex-husband that she's been dealing with for a long time. Finally she ended her problem that always gives her terrible headache. Anyway, she bid goodbye to me and did not stayed very long because she was about to go to payday loans company to get some extra money for the holidays for her kids. She's got a lot of bills to pay but she also wants to get her kids's presents that's why she has no choice but to seek help from loan company. I feel bad that she has to raise her kids all by herself but also proud of her that she is doing it with all her fighting spirit.

Disappointed Me

Yes, i am disappointed today because we are expecting a good day and we already planned to take the kids out to see a different kinds of formation of colored Christmas lights in Ogden City but then it is currently snowing so hard! I doubt it if this snow will stop later because i can just tell that the snow is going to last until it gets dark just like what happened during the thanksgiving day, it lasted until two days. Oh well, there's still plenty of time though. Maybe it's not a perfect time for us to go today and we'll just do it instead tomorrow or maybe before hubby goes back to work and our kindergarten boy goes back to his school.

Few more days and the year will be over and the new year is fast approaching. We are somehow excited but hubby said that soon as the new year comes, it only means that the holidays is over for him and it's time for him to get going again and do what he must do. But he is glad and grateful for these holidays that he was able to spend quality time with his family. We'll just have to do some fun activities before his vacation will be over.

Body Acne

When i was working way back years, i felt weird because i hardly get any bumps on my face even though i sleep late and eat sweet treats, instead those bumps shows in my back. It's very unusual that people get their pimples in the back but i did have the body acne before. Good thing that i don't have it anymore now because it was annoying whenever i go to sleep and feel those hurting bumps on my back. And also, it is hard to treat them because i cannot reach my back easy, i have to ask favor from a board mate to do it for me to get those annoying bumps treated by the cream i bought.

Will Start To Send Cards

I am so thankful and grateful that my friends are so thoughtful for sending me gift cards. Although i did not send them back a gift card for i was not able to make my own personalized card due to i was busy of something else, but still they thought of sending me their love, how nice of them. And of course i thanked them through calling to some of them and sent private message to most of them. Really, i am not a card sender kind of person, but i guess i've got to do it next time because i felt bad that i keep on getting their greeting cards but not sending them back any.

My favorite shortbread cookies

Guest post written by Maxine Bryant

Really complicated cookie recipes are good and all, it's amazing what people will put in cookies and they'll end up tasting delicious. But I guess that if you put enough sugar in a cookie most anything in it will taste good. I, however, opt for the really simple, good things. Around this time of the year I always pull out my shortbread cookie recipe and fix lots of batches of them for the holidays.

Shortbread cookies were always my favorite growing up and I would beg my mom to make those cookies for Christmas instead of the classic sugar cookies that we decorated with sprinkles like she always did anyway. I was thinking about that the other day and looked up a bunch of variations on shortbread cookies. While I was doing that I came across this website www.clearwireinternet.com/clearwire_coverage.html and ended up changing over our internet service to it after I read through all of the info.

Even though I was thinking about making some special shortbread cookies for the holidays this year, I just decided to stick with my classic recipe that I like so much.

Our Very First Gingerbread House

For the very first since i got here in America, i made a gingerbread house with my five year old son and i am so sure that this is going to be a "will be tradition" to my family every Christmas holiday just like the rest of the other families here in this country. Kids does love to create exciting little things such as gingerbread house and cookies for Santa. We'll make our cookies on Friday afternoon, i already bought the ingredients and the cookie cutter.

My five year old son is just so excited and anxious to do it. He even asked me earlier if we can make our cookies tomorrow instead since he's got no school anymore, but i told him better to make it on Friday to keep it fresh and taste good for Santa. I just can tell how happy he was when we made this gingerbread house earlier. He was my big helper, although there was a big mess after we made the gingerbread house, but it's alright though, we both had fun making it. It was our first time so i should say that it did came out real nice and beautiful, or is it? Well, whatever it looks like, still in the eyes of my son, our gingerbread house is just perfect!