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If you’ve been following me for years, like waaaayyy back in ’97, you’ve practically watched my son grow into a Teenager. Chances are, I’ve watched your kids grow as well. I suddenly feel all nostalgic. Anyhoooo, part of his growth that you’ve witnessed is his art work. I can’t even count how many times I’m raved what a great artist he is and how many artwork of his that I’ve posted throughout the years. They’re not limited to drawings either. My son can do digital better than anyone. Well, maybe I’m exaggerating but what I mean it, he’s really good. He once drew Popeye in Photoshop just using the draw tool then printed it and when his cousins saw it they all wanted one. These days he’s into creating videos and video games. I won’t even attempt to look into his computer to check out his files coz I know he’s got folders and folders of them. He has a YouTube account where he uploads the videos though. I’ll share some of the videos sometime. Right now, here are some recent and not-so recent drawings all over his room.

As you can see, he’s into Sonic these days. He’s also into Halo and he has drawings of that too which I’ll post sometime. When he was in grade school, except for that one week when he brought home 3 tickets in a span of one week for talking too much, he never really got in trouble for the usual stuff that kids gets in trouble with at school. Yah know like bullying, picking a fight, or being a distraction to other kids. Every time I had a meeting with any of his Teachers, his trouble was mostly because he liked to draw a lot. It sounds strange, doesn’t it? See, he would always rush his work so he could have that extra quite time to do whatever and in his case, to draw. So every time we’d talk to him about focusing on the task at hand, I always had this pain in my stomach. It always bothered me so much telling my son to ease up on something he’s obviously so passionate about so he could concentrate on other things.

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One of the things my daughter and I enjoy doing besides cooking together is doing crafts. I wish I remember to take pictures of our craft times but sometimes I find myself being so in the task that I completely forget about the camera. That’s a bummer for making memories especially for a scrapbooker like me but sometimes it’s good too. This generation is too obsessed with taking pictures of everything that we forget to feel the moment. Like were there doing something but we’re too busy trying to take the best shot. Hey, I’m guilty of that a lot so no judging here.

Anyhooo, my favorite place to go to for ideas is Personal Creations. If you connect on their Facebook page, you’ll get not only craft ideas to do with your kids, the page also provide tips and tricks on daily chores, store sales, and a nice community for parents, crafters, etc. So check’em out when you can. Personal Creations just posted a link for making play-doh so I think that’s our next project. Wish us luck.

Emma loves to bake. If it was up to her we’d be baking cookies, cakes, and cupcakes, everyday. But of course we can’t do that so we do it on the weekends. She definitely had fun with all the Holiday baking we did last year. Anyhooo, for Christmas, Nan and Pop gave her a Kid’s Cupcake Bake Set from Bed Bath and Beyond. The set came with apron, wooden mixing spoon, icing spreader, 5pc measuring spoons, 12 cup nonstick mini cupcakes pan, 1(24 count) mini cupcake liners, cupcake stand and vinyl carry bag.

We made mini chocolate banana cupcakes.

And regular sized ones too. BTW, I added chocolate chips on the recipe so the cupcakes are more decadent. And another thing, the cupcake bake set is currently on sale for $2.99. NICE!

We are all busy starting or finishing up our Christmas shopping and looking for awesome deals. One store I love because of its amazing sales and deals is Kohl’s. That’s one of the stores I shop at for my children clothes, especially during back-to-school and Christmas seasons. I also love their affordable home items and toys. If you happen to be an avid Kohl’s shopper, then visit my house sometime, you’ll recognize some of the home decorations from there. I love the contemporary style, colors, and of course, affordable prices.

Speaking of affordable prices just in time for Christmas, Kohl’s is having its 2-day specials as part of the Christmas countdown sale. Up to 60% off for selected fine jewelry. Check out the department like the Kids toys, kitchen items, home decors, handbags, fragrances, and others for more savings.

My back is hurting and I feel like my knees are about to give up on me any minute now but I actually feel good. After my workout and shower today I decided to a little bit of rearranging in my daughter’s room. I threw away toys that are just stashed in the bottom of her toy bins, and fast food restaurants toys that have been collected for years. I went every space and corners of the house picking up lego pieces and cleared up one bit just for them. I swept and swiffered her floor. I picked on dried up candies and gums on the floor and rearranged her Disney table, Disney chest box and desk table. I also went thru all her DVD cases and put the DVD’s back into the right cases.

 

And thennnnnnnnnn, I finally pinned her posters in the wall. That’s after a year of living here, haha. To make it more cozy, I placed a pastel stripes rug in between her bed and TV stand. I figured she could dump her legos in her own rug instead of hauling off a bucket of legos into the living room to dump in the rug. Yah know, keep the legos in her own space. I wish I took a picture of before and after coz it’s really nice in there.

 

After her room, I cleaned up the bathroom just to get it over with. I’ll just have to go through the stuff in the cabinets tomorrow.

I want to share this 2-day sale announcement that I got in the newsletter from LeapFrog. If you’ve got kids who are into LeapFrog or if you’re thinking about introducing them to it, here’s your chance to shop and save as well. 20% off on all books and games. It’s 2 days only so hurry. Use the promo code SAVE NOW. 

2 years ago, when my son was Mario for Halloween, was the time we told him to be his last year of wearing a Halloween costume and trick-or-treating. I mean he could still accompany his sister and be part of the merriment of it all but we figured it was time to let the little ones take first dibs on houses with candies and chocolates wearing their cute or scary costumes. But then last year, we decided, OK, 1 more year. So my talented and artistic husband turned our son into a zombie.

Hubs did the makeup really well and my son gamely played his character too when I took the pictures. This year he could walk along with his sister and father while they go around the neighborhood trick-or-treating. I’ll be left at home giving out candies. He’s really not happy about not wearing anything for Halloween. I am kinda feeling guilty about that but yah know, we figured there has to be a cut off limit for kids. Like when you tell tell them Santa is actually Dad, and Easter Bunny is just someone in a Bunny costume scaring little kids in the mall, unintentionally of course, so the parents can have pictures of their children with the Easter Bunny. I am proud to say I never subjected my children to that commercialism, Heh! We didn’t tell him all of that about Easter Bunny of course. Just that he’s not real, short gist of it all. We try not to be too cynical all the time. 

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In the HOME category of my Pinterest, I repinned this round table chalkboard with a chalk compartment in the middle. I posted that I want it for my daughter. After posting that I checked the website to find out how much it is. I almost bawled my eyes out when I saw the price tag of $499.

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