Santa's Secret Shop

The school had a  Santa's Secret Shop  event held last Tuesday.    This activity aimed to teach the kids how to shop for  non-expensive gifts.  We gave our daughter $20 to shop for  something that she can give for her brother and Pap.

The  item's prices ranges from 1 dollar to  11 dollars.

There is a Christmas tree at the end of the displayed items.  Each student has to  hang their names at the tree to indicate that they are done shopping.

The  male burrito made  sure to tell Ate what he wanted.  So atte grabbed the monster cars that he wanted hehehe.

Rylie at the  cashier station paying for her  stuff.  I took a picture of her and Danielle, her favorite classmate.

When we came home, EJ  begged us to open up his gift as he wants to play with his car lol.  We told him that he  is not  suppose to open it until Christmas but then  he know what it was so we  gave one to him.

Rylie also got something for her Tita Chris.

That was a nice experience for the kids.  Parents are welcome to go there to assist their kids, so we went and helped Rylie.

Below is a parenting tip from parents.com. NOT a sponsored post..

Parenting Tip of the Day

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For Sale

When I was young, I used to think that the most beautiful kind of jewelry is made of gold. I don't anything about jewelry back then as I never owned one lol. I just see it to some of the people who goes for vacation in our place and wearing too much bling that are sparkles like gold. I don't even know f they were real or not. Anyhow as I grow up, I realized that there are more other beautiful type of jewelry in the market.

Did you ever think of selling gold jewelry? I am! In fact, I want to sell my gold bracelet below.  I don't use it and I ONLY use it ONCE when I graduated from master's.  So whoever  is interested in buying, just please email me okay?  I am not kidding folks, I am absolutely serious!

Ski Lift for Christmas Tree

 Good morning everyone, welcome to the first day of the last month of the year 2010.  Goodness, time  flies so fast that here it is, it's almost the end of this year.

 My SIL Chris gave the kids this Santa's Ski Slope that you can attach to a Christmas tree.  Since our tree  is rotating, we chose not to  put this  in there.  The kids  have so much fun playing with it though.

 My husband assembled it and just set it at our hallway where kids can plug it in and watch santa and the gang ski.  Thanks a lot Tita Chris!

Below is a short video that I recorded.

Thanks for visiting dear friends, I am already asleep when you this post is up. I just scheduled this one to welcome the month of yuletide season. A big thanks for leaving your thoughts.

Last Christmas

Last Christmas I gave you my heart... LOL am singing!

The day before Christmas, we wen to the mall so that the kids can have a picture with Santa Claus. But the little burrito had a change of heart, he did not want to sit in Santa's lap lol. He'd rather stand beside this bear.

The princess burrito is all about Santa so she sat in his lap.

Champ was  still a little pup then, we only have him for  a week.  That's the  outfit that we gave him for Christmas.  Now, it doesn't fit anymore.

Shelby and  EJ hanging out while waiting for the food.

It's presents time!  EJ with  Kalee Rose.

Our little burrito wanted to baby sit racie but she didn't feel like sitting in his lap as well lol.

We stayed the whole month of December at my FIL's after we arrived from Korea.

Goodnight everyone, will visit back tomorrow.

Nostalgia # 29 - Pittsburgh Airport

Hello memory lane travelers, sorry for the delay.   We have snow today (still snowing) so we got busy playing snow ball fighting.  Also did my laundry and just got done  folding and putting away clothes, whew!  Now my head is thumping because of migraine who love me so much wahhhh.  Anyhow, sorry for  lamenting so much lol..

 We left Korea on December 3 last year and traveled for almost 17 hours but when we arrived here in the States, it was still December 3. Weird isn't it? The time difference between the Land of the Morning Calm and Uncle Sam is 12 hours, that's why we left and arrived on the same date.  It was an arduous flight we have ever been but at least I got to see japan even  just a glimpse at the airport lol. 

Below are photos taken in Pittsburgh airport, it's actually outside already.  We were just waiting for our ride.  Thanks Jim and Chris for fetching us.