Apr
21
A family Budget is essential in determining what you really should be spending your money on. As we enter a recession reducing our spending may be even more important to us. The first step to starting a family budget is deciding how you want to keep your budget such as a computer spreadsheet (ie excel), [...]
Apr
19
It is often said that Diamonds are a girls best friend so what woman wouldn’t love pretty jewelry for free? Jewel Elegance is giving bloggers a chance to hunt for gold and diamond jewelry to win for themselves for the next 4 weeks. The first hunt begins on Monday and the prize for this hunt will be a [...]
Apr
18
It was quite entertaining seeing Kristy Lee Cook barely survive American Idol almost each week for the past couple months. She seemed like the least emotional girl to leave yet and was able to give a good ‘exit’ performance. One reason for that may be that is looking forward to grabbing the saddles again and [...]
Apr
17
26 years ago today my parents were married in Calgary, Alberta. They now have a family of 5 children and 2 grandchildren. I wonder if I will have any grandchildren after I have been married for 26 years, it could also be possible for me to have a couple grandchildren on my 26th wedding anniversary as Sariah [...]
Apr
17
Usually when there is a commercial on TV for hearing assistance products the actors talk lound and enhance their pronounciation and commercials for vision assistance products usually have larger writing on the screen. I wonder why Walmart can’t do the same for their vision screening forms. The lettering on those forms (at least the one I had [...]
Apr
16
Last night was Mariah Carey week and the boys definitely outshined the girls. Here were my thoughts on the show starting with my favourite: David Archuleta – David sang ‘When You Believe’ (The song from ‘Prince Of Egypt’), I knew and I am sure everyone knew that he would sing this song on Mariah Carey [...]
Apr
15
I have blogged a few times about how attached my 8 month old daughter, Rebekah is to me. I wanted her to be ok with going to other people and letting daddy hold her so I didn’t need to be the only one holding her. For the last several weeks I have been leaving Rebekah alone with [...]
Apr
15
My husband and I used to put most of our money into our savings account and then transfer most of that money to our chequing account to pay our bills each month. This was a good way to make a little extra off the interest short term but not a good way to save our money. [...]