Happily Mixed Up Community

My husband and I came from a very different background of ethnicity, culture, and tradition. I came from a very collective culture while hubby came from an individualistic type. Our interracial marriage brings us challenges especially in rearing our children. He was brought up in different ways and so am I so sometimes, it's now always smooth sailing but it does not mean that we fight about it. We talk about our differences in a calm manner and come up with a compromise.  

We have different views on things including our parenting style to our children.  Both of us   carries different features that both of our children  has in them.  Nevertheless, hubby and I have a strong friendship even though we  came from different races.  It's not always easy but we  make sure to set aside our differences and focus on things that we can both work on to better do our   responsibilities  for our children and for our  marriage. 

Coming herein America was exciting but at the back of y mind, there's  doubts and fears of facing new life back then.  I have to learn their  culture and try to adopt to them.  It wasn't easy but gladly, his family  are the most kind people.  They accepted me for what I am and embrace me just like their own family.  It help for an easy transition.  Our mixed race did not affect who we  are as a person, in fact, we've learned to  expand our vision of life and living.  We might be raising a 

biracial children but it is not hindering us from being good parents.

Browsing online, I found Happily Mixed Up Community  website where you can meet  multiracial families just like us.  They have different  kinds of topics that you can find  about mixed race and marriages, men and women topics, parenting, multicultural, dating, multiracial, and many other topics that you can learn from.

Check it out and see  interesting topics.

Exploration Laptop

y sister-in-law, Chris, gave this  Discovery Kids  Exploration laptop to my son  for his birthday.

Bring play time and learning everywhere you go with the Discovery Kids Activity Laptop. It is a state-of-the-art gadget for  kids 6 years older and up.  It is a  fully loaded kids laptop that allows you to play math games, word puzzles, music, and more, placing hassle-free, no-mess entertainment at your kids' fingertips! 

It is perfectly compact and wireless  with more than 60 challenging games and fun activities for kids .  It has  introductory spelling, math, music, geography, and more built-in games.  It require no additional software to purchase.  It has a  large LCD display that pivots left and right for others to view.  It has a  true-to-life standard keyboard with multi-directional button and realistic dual-button mouse.

Ms. Burrito was the one who them together for his brother.  We did not have a party  for our son except the little one that we had  at his classroom but he's so happy as he got some nice things as well.  

Thanks Tita Chris for the nice laptop!

Coupon Codes

I love it when I find coupon that I can use to buy the things that we need at home.  Last weekend, we bought our daughter   a new pair of boots because the current one that she is using  for school is getting  old and tore up already.  We also bought our son some  pants  for his school uniform.  Nothing can beat the feeling of  buying things at a lesser price.  Oh speaking of  coupon code, I bought a domain a while ago for  only $2.95 as opposed to $14.95  price from GoDaddy.  I was very glad that  a friend of mine shared that coupon code to me.

Over here in America, coupon codes can be found   in many sources including magazines, newspapers,  and even online websites like familyvideocoupon.com.  It is a great help for families like us because we can  really save  money when we use coupons  when we buy things.  Now I haven't use the mobile coupon technique yet but I am planning to do that  very soon especially when buying groceries.  Now when I want to buy something online, I always scour the web first for coupons that I could use and I always find some.  How about you, do you use coupons?

Being a MoM

Painting  nails is not my kind of thing but it's one of those things that I like doing with my little lady, Ms. Burrito.  If it makes her happy, it makes me happy too.  We seldom paint our nails, only when there's special occasion.  I painted her nails last Christmas, she asked me to because she has to play piano in the church.  I told her, nobody will see your nails and she said, "I know but it makes me feel good to put my fingers on top of the piano when it is newly painted".  Okay young lady, you got a point lol.  

Being a Mom, you have to be versatile, you have to learn things that you didn't normally do when you were still single.  It can be overwhelming but at the end of the day, you are still contented especially when you see the smiles on your children's face.  No high paying job can top  that, the feeling of being  a Mom, the feeling of being appreciated of what you do, and the feeling of being loved-back!

School of Music

We took our daughter to  Doquesne University last Saturday so she could try out their  music  program.  My husband said that it was  the Asian's place as w have seen so many Korean and  Chinese children taking  music lessons.  There were so many cool instruments that we saw, not sure though if there is cool snark from those who are taking guitar lessons but I am sure that they have one.  The founder of the program was very impressed  of  our daughter's ability when we told her that she's been  only  learning piano for over a year.  She said that her level is in fourth year level already.

Happy Birthday Daddy

Dear Daddy,

As you celebrate your birthday, here are some words to describe how blessed we are to have you!

Smart, Intelligent, and Witty

Supportive

travel buddy

Goofy,  funny, and silly.

A great sport.

Not only you are a great father, you are also a great son.

A great companion

Adventurous, Awesome, Outstanding!

Challenging

A great motivator

A big kid at heart

You will always be the number one Dad in our hearts!

WE LOVE YOU!

Toy Story Costume #Jessie-the-Cowgirl

My daughter was so thrilled when we went to Disney World a couple of years ago, she got to  walk around with the Woody mascot lol.  Imagine how excited she was when I told her that she is getting a  Jesse the Cowgirl costume  from the official toy story website.

So without further ado, I am  presenting Rylie errrr.. Jessie the cowgirl from Toy Story.  My son was like "I want  a Woody Costume too!"  I told him that I  might get it for him later on.  Ahhh.... the challenge of having two kids who always wants to have what the other one has.   But anyhow, my daughter had so much fun trying on the  costume that The official Toy Story website has sent me for review.

The set included the jumpsuit with attached belt and cuffs and then  matching hat and hair bow.  I wish that the set included the boots instead of the hat since my daughter has the hat already.  I like the design but the material is too thin.  She will need to wear this on top of   a thicker clothing if she will  wear this on Halloween as it is cold in here  during those times.  The price for this set is $39.97 which I think is a bit high but then again, you can find discounted ones online.  I will be purchasing the boots for this costume  if she decide to wear this on Halloween this year.

 

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