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Moms check out the special promo I just wrote about!

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Hey if you’re a mom that needs a break take a look at the post that I just wrote on my gardening blog.

It’s for a special luxury weekend called Motherhood Redefined. If you use the special promo code that I listed in the post you can get 75% off the price of the whole event which includes accommodations in a four star resort, a chance to see celebrity speakers and special interactive workshops.

If I was a mom who needed to get away from it all I’d go!

As it is I don’t think I’ll be going on any kind of holiday in the near future, other than perhaps my possible trip to Las Vegas in November. I’m still up in the air on that one though as I need to find out hotel and flight prices etc.





My Niece’ first successful sleep over

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This past weekend my brother in law, sister in law and their young daughter dropped in for a visit and ended up staying overnight.

I wasn’t super thrilled to have unexpected house guests but I did end up having a nice time. I was actually able to spend quite a bit of quality time with my young niece.

I didn’t know this, but she’s been getting scared lately when she’s gone to friends houses for sleep overs. The week before she’d even ended up calling her mom at 3 in the morning to come pick her up.

Not being aware of her fear of sleeping in strange places I’d made up one of our spare bedrooms with kids bedding and made it all nice for her. When I told her mom what I’d prepared she didn’t think that my niece would end up sleeping alone but to everyones surprise she did.

It could be that she was in a relatives house or the fact that I’d taken the time to make sure the room was made up nice for her … either way it was her first time sleeping on her own in our house and she felt so proud of herself when she got up in the morning.

It made me feel proud too to have helped her through a phase. Well I hope she did, maybe she’ll have more success on her next sleep over at a friends.

Use and EPAY debit card to transfer money to friends and relatives

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Have you heard of EPAY yet? I’m really not certain how long EPAY has been in existence so to me it’s new even though it might not be as new a system of making online payments as it seems.

It seems that more and more online merchants are starting to accept payment via EPAY debit cards so this is a payment option to consider particularly if you don’t feel comfortable using your credit card online or for that matter perhaps don’t even own a credit card.

There are many ways that an EPAY debit card can be used. You can easily use your debit card to transfer money to friends or relatives, or to pay for online purchases where a credit card is required. Transfers can be made from any country to another, instantly and without limits.

I suppose EPAY is best known as an international online money transfer system but they offer quite a bit more than money transfers.

EPAY can be used in hundreds of countries worldwide and as I said earlier it’s being used by more and more merchants so it’s worthwhile registering for an account.

There are a few more advantages to having an EPAY debit card that makes signing up for a free account all the more appealing. The debit cards can be given to children or teenagers. The cards can be preloaded with only a certain amount of money so that your child can only spend a certain amount. Personally, if I were to allow a child to have a debit card or credit card I’d feel better about using something like this with a child rather than an open credit card with a high limit. Kids don’t learn how to spend money properly when there are no limits!

Another feature I like about the EPAY debit cards is that when traveling you’ll always have access to cash when you need it. So rather than carry around a wallet loaded with money you could just use your debit card to pay for items.

Visit EPAY today to learn all the different ways that EPAY can simplify payments and transfers for you.

My sick hubby

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My husband is home sick today from work. Last night when he got home just after six pm he told me that he’d been feeling terrible all day. He had the runs, sweats, fever and just generally felt dragged out.

He rested on the couch until about 8:30 in the evening. He ate a few crackers but then announced he was going to go to bed.

As you might already know I tend to stay up quite late – often through the night, because of my own illness, so I was aware of him getting up a few times in the night.

At 5 a.m. he got up to get a thermal blanket because he said he was cold. He was burning up with fever. I gave him more Tylenol. It must have been at least the third one since he’d arrived home from work. I also then went and called his work place and left messages stating that he wouldn’t be in for work today.

When he got up this morning he was feeling a lot better but he’s been extremely tired over the last several weeks so he decided to call our family doctor to see if he could get in for an appointment. Luckily they were able to see him.

Our doc is thinking he might have a thyroid problem. I’m not so sure. He’d been on some medication for a while and went off it about three weeks ago – coincidently the excessive tiredness began around that time. I think his tiredness is a side effect of getting off the medication he’d been on.

She had him get a lot of blood work just to be sure nothing serious was going on.

As far as his recent illness she of course thought that was a virus.

Apparently there’s quite a nasty bug going around. I was talking with my father in law last night and he said that my mother in law and her sister both had similar symptoms.

I just hope I don’t get this. I’ve already got abdominal problems and when I get a virus I get really really sick.

Planning our family reunion

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I’m helping to plan our family get together that’s set for the end of August and I spent about two hours last night trying to find Dinner Theaters in Toronto. Surprisingly there aren’t as many as I would have thought there would be.

My brothers and sister, their kids, kids spouses and or dates are all getting together for at least four days of jam packed fun! The three of us that are in the Toronto area are working together to plan all the things we’ll be doing. Along with going to a Blue Jays baseball game, we’ll be going to a dinner theater, on a dinner boat cruise and having a huge barbecue.

It should be a fun time!

We’ve got 6 people coming from Vancouver … well they’ll actually be coming from their Orlando rental home because they will be vacationing in Florida the week before our get together, then I think there’s 4 from Ottawa, 4 from Barrie and 12 from the Toronto area. That’s 26 people! I hope we can get some group discounts for some of the events we’re planning! That’d be cool.

Do you have a family reunion this year? Are you looking forward to it?

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