Weekly Round Up – First Week of July

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Been a rather busy start of the week here on my neck of the wood. Here’s what we’ve been up to: With how hard it has been for me to find a job here, I had decided that I’m going to try and start my own small business. By small I mean really really small…Let me introduce you to Creative Scoops… Since I’ve been doing these kinds of ‘freelance’ work before ever since I left my old job, I thought why not doing    it   formally? Well, maybe not formally until I can obtain my translator license. Wish me luck, guys! With my Dad leaving back to Zambia on July 7, we’ve been all over the place this weekend and I’ve .....

Friday Flip-offs July Edition

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Almost didn’t join the fun for two weeks in a row Gigi from Kludgy Mom had provided us all bloggers a way to do an online detox and letting us flipping off things that gets under our skins then hopefully we’ll enjoy the weekend. Brilliant idea! So let’s get this rollin’… To most Indonesian drivers…most of you doesn’t even belong on the roads add some rains then 80% of you will turn into an even more pain in you know where. It gets to me every time when you turn on your hazard lights on the highway – while you are driving! Driving as in the vehicle is in a moving condition?! Hello?! It’s confusing not helping at all even .....

For The Love of Dog(s)

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Ever since I was little I knew I’m a dog person. As much as I love dogs, growing up we never have any dog in our house. It wasn’t until years later while I was working; my two younger brothers were in college living with me in a rental home when Danny (my youngest brother) got a pug. He was the cutest puppy ever. It was love at the first sight. He was my baby although ‘legally’ he belongs to my brother. Danny was busy with college or girlfriend(s) or whichever comes first so I took care of Bogel (means: Shorty in Indonesian’s slang) most of the time. Sadly he got sick, a skin conditions that mostly happened to pugs. .....

You Know You’re A Mom When

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Have seen this meme around for awhile but this is my first time joining in. So here it goes… You know you’re a mom when: There’s a little person who will scream their heads off saying, demanding “Mommy, fix it!” continuously even after you begged them to wait until Daddy is home 0r any male figure show up. Yeah, like that will ever work! So you tried to do everything humanly possible to fix the darn train track, car, robot – and the list goes on… There’s a little person that expect you to know how to put up such a complicated Hot Wheels track that Grandma just bought for her beloved grandson even when the box clearly marked 5 .....

Near Death Experience – A Guest Post

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This is a very special Guest Blogger – if you can call him that way. It’s a story that is very near and dear to my heart and very religious. So if you can’t stand reading something like this, feel free to browse along other posts. I present you my Dad…he wrote this himself and I proofread. My Near Death Experienced actually happened way back, on 25th of January 1999, an experienced that I will never forget for the rest of my life. This is the story………………. 25th January 1999. At the time I was still working with one of the biggest Coal Mine Company in Indonesia. On this particular day,  I was working to start  a new safety training. .....

I Used To Dream of Pink Bows

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For as long as I remember…even long before I met DH, I always dream of pink bows…I always wanted a baby girl. Since the first time that drug store bought pregnancy test shows positive sign, well actually since before we even got married …we always know we wanted a baby girl. Being the only girl in my family and since he already have two amazing boys…we always dream for that baby girl. We even had a name picked out for her…a really beautiful name. From day one we referred to our unborn child as a she. I secretly whispered to her when I lay down in bed at night picturing her beautiful pink coming home outfit, thinking of the cute .....

Tooting My Own Horn

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This might well be the hardest post I ever make because it’s so far out of my comfort zone but what the heck, I’m posting it anyway… Brilliant Gigi from Kludgy Mom and Melissa from Miel et Lait has join forces to bring us a brand spanking new place that will take bloggers behind the scenes of the blogsphere and to do so you must write a blog post of why your blog should be consider as an A-lister. So here’s me in all my glory… What makes this blog different? From all the blog groups I joined from mommy ones to non-mommy ones, I found there aren’t many blog quite like mine out there. Yes, there are some big .....

How Do You Discipline A Toddler?

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As usual, when I’m at my parents’ house and someone is acting up – off he goes to time out… “You have to be more patience…” said my Dad as I sent Lil’ A to time out for the 100th times because he thinks jumping on top of piles of his old clothes that I just neatly folded is so much fun than climbing up the windows railing, which got him several warnings already. “You will have more headache when he’s a teenager…” Dad went on. From the way my Dad was talking I can tell he was 90% teasing me – because he knows Lil’ A can drives me insane for sure. “You used to make us standing in .....

Hit The Road – Baby On Board!

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The first road trip Lil’ A and I did was almost a near suicide mission! Yeah, it’s that bad… Okay, before I scared the heck out of you – calm down! Each babies are different, some can tolerate a road trip better than others. If you’re lucky, your baby will be an angel during the whole trip. It was in August 2007, Lil’ A was only 8 months old and his Mommy was crazy or brave enough to agreed to go on a road trip with another mommy friend + her toddler (her little girl was around 1.5 years old at the time) to Houston, Texas from Dothan, Alabama. She actually drove to pick us up from Sarasota, Florida. So .....

Summer Times

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Remember that crawling beauty? Well it turned out to be an even more beautiful Monarch butterfly. Again, sorry for the old picture posting but it’s just perfect for summer time. Taken at Arnold’s Butterly Haven in Lake Okeechobee, FL that place really is a Monarch haven. A bonus: Now join the fun of Wordless Wednesday and check out more beautiful pictures over at A Beautiful Mess or at Kludgy Mom.

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