Archive for the 'Life' Category

Family, A confidence builder

My kids are blessed to have 5 cousins older and one younger than them selves. But they all live in different parts of the world. Although my children are very young and in my daughter’s case hadn’t seen them at all; it is amazing that how quickly they get attached.
Three of my nephews are here for a visit. […]

Long distance families in the new millennium

I have an adorable niece about 5 months old, who I haven’t seen in person yet.  I had the pleasure of video conferencing with my brother and his family just about now. She was stunning just turned 5 months and already crawling. We don’t get to have many of these occasions due to time difference and […]

Creating a new meal out of leftovers

I’m not a big fan of leftovers. I cook once a day for tonight’s dinner and tomorrow’s lunch. It was very difficult for me to handle leftovers. My family won’t eat leftovers easily. Looking for a solution, I figured out that leftovers look better and tastier with a different and refreshed look.
Here comes the good part. I bought the […]

Working from home vs. working outside

I’m a working from home mom who is thinking to go back to work outside. I’m a travel agent, and my business has no days or hours if I want to be successful, specially now with websites like expedia and internet discount bookings. Lately I’ve been thinking to change my career to get more flexible hours and work outside of home […]

Plan weekly meals and save money

I learned this technique from the fixing dinner program on Food Network. It looked very time consuming and complicated at the beginning but then after a few times, it gets so easy that I can’t imagine how cooking was like before this.
Here is the thing. You just pick 7 meals, the program says 5 meals […]