School Hunting

Before we come here, husband was already did some school hunting. He chose ELM TREE Elementary School for Ishi, a non Traditional school known for being high rated school. That's one of the reason husband chose our apartment in Bentonville. Sadly, when we visited the school yesterday, the staff told us that Kindergarten for school year 2011-2012 was already full. Oh that sad. She advised us to enroll first in a traditional school then she will put Ishi in their waiting list. I saw the school and I had a feeling that it is really a nice school unfortunately Ishi can't able to enroll there this coming school year. For now, we have to look for another school for our Ishi while we are still thinking if we are going to enroll Ethan too.

Good luck to us!

Got my SSN!

I wasn't opening our mailbox for almost 4 days now for the weather is not so good to me so I wasn't able to check my mail. Hubby decided to get the key from me since I don't wanna go out with cold weather and he opened it this morning and he got these bunch of mails! On of which is a letter from Social Security Office sending my Social Security Number. I dunno but I am excited to have it! One good thing about it is that, I can work now! But how? LOL. That's the big question coz I have two kids with us and not going to school yet. I have no choice but stay at home for the moment and enjoy every single moment with them. I'm excited with my everyday experiences here in AR with my family. I hope everything goes well in Jesus name.

Have a great weekend!

Visit @ the IRS

Husband worked half day today, he came home early and joined us lunch before we headed to Internal Revenue Service Office. It's time to apply the kids their ITIN!

Dad came home around 12:30, I forgot to ready the kids, LOL. So when he arrived I immediately served our lunch, dressed the kids and grab my jogging pants and jacket. My husband was like, 'Mommy we're not going to the park we're going to the Government Office and you're gonna wear a shirt and jogging pants?". Oh, I never thought of wearing any other clothes than pants and shirt since it's cold and I will surely wear my jacket the whole time. Funny coz I am forgetting to wear proper dresses already. My clothes right now is for tropical country only, I can't go out without bringing a jacket. I guess I really need to go shopping like different special occasion dresses or more spring clothes.

When we arrived at the IRS, we waited for like 15 minutes, kids are observing the surroundings, they wanna run around but we told them they can't do that here then finally the IRS staff called us . She interviewed us first then asked for different forms which husband didn't bring, lol. So instead of going home with nothing, she just interviewed/verified us if our kids were eligible to apply for ITIN. After knowing that our kids were eligible she told us what to do and what to prepare and to make the story shorter, we didn't able to file our application today.

Recycled Items

Do you recycle things in your home? Like using your plastic bags from the groceries and make it garbage bags? What do you do with the used bottles from your condiments and softdrinks? How bout the styro foam from the meat packages?

Way back home, my mama used to collect all this trash and sell it in junk shops. She's earning some coins from those junks. I was thinking if I can do the same here in AR hahahahaha but I don't think there's such a thing like that in here.

For now, I really can't just throw them away, I am thinking of something to make them usable again. I started with the boxes, my kids love to write and draw but we have no enough business office supplies yet so for the meantime I am cutting these boxes into rectangle or square and tadah.... they have their drawing paper already!

boxes of their pancake and biscuits

Ethan drawing

See how can these junk become useful again?

Other stuff like I mentioned above were all useful to me. I am not throwing them immediately especially the bottles, they can use for storing foods or left over condiments like tomato sauce from cans, etc. Some stuff can't be recycled and can't be used for several so better throw it once you you have used it.

Try recycling too, it's fun and most importantly we're helping to save our environment.

Food Trip Friday #2 Chocolates Please!

Another happy food trip Friday everyone!

Just wanna share my secret box in the fridge - a pot of gold!

This is HERSHEY pot of gold, combination of milk and dark chocolates. Can someone give me some more chocolates but not DARK please. I know dark chocolates are better than regular chocolates, I can eat it but I am not enjoying it. But If someone wants to give me dark chocolates, I would still love and eat it don't worry. Just requesting for non-dark.

One Peaceful Afternoon

I was wondering how come my surroundings were very silent yesterday afternoon. My kids just had their lunch then they played a little then I noticed they were not that hyper to play like what they used to do during that hour. I asked Ethan if he's sleepy (coz he's always having his nap time, but not that early) and he said yes so I cuddled him and scratch his back so he could be able to sleep. After few minutes, Ethan was already sleeping and to my surprise, Ate Ishi was also asleep! That's the first time she took her nap ever since we arrived here. I guess that's because she woke up early that morning when their daddy kissed her goodbye.

So this was the first time I had my peaceful afternoon even just for an hour.

Last Christmas' Gifts

Last Christmas is not so merry for us, that was the very first time we were not together. Yes it's sad but we just enjoyed it. Dad spent his christmas with his pinoy co-workers while me and my kids spent ours with dad's family. We may be far from each other but we are blessed because there are many ways to keep in touch now and for us was via SKYPE.

My kids enjoyed their gifts from their dad, a buzz light year robot for Ethan and a baby alive for Ishi. I also loved dad's gift for me - a fossil wrist watch!

Ishi was so happy to have her baby alive

Ethan can't hide his big grin when he opened Buzz :D

bragging my beautiful face, I mean my watch :D

I can't think of any affordable gift for daddy that time so I decided to make him something he can't get just anywhere and something personalized like coaches gifts. I love personalized items so I gave him a fleece blanket with our kids pictures in it. That may not be as expensive as other christmas gifts but he loved it. While were far from him, that blanket will remind him that we were always there for him. Aw! Sweet.

Here's the fleece blanket, now that were here, my kids love to use it.

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Now that were all together now, I think we all got the best gift ever in this world!