This guest post from Doris Dillon
My husband and I spared no expense on our new home. We spent way more than we should have, and we’ll be paying for it for a long time. When we bought our house we thought we were getting a great deal because it was a foreclosure. We knew it needed some work, but we thought we could get it done for under $20,000. Little did we know that once we started work on the home, we wouldn’t be able to stop. We were so excited that we just wanted everything to be perfect. We felt like we couldn’t renovate the bathroom without renovating the kitchen. Then we felt like with such a beautiful kitchen and bathroom, we couldn’t leave the floors like they were. It just became a snowball effect and $50,000 later, here we are. We love our new house so much, and know we need to do everything possible to protect it. We wanted the Best Home Security available, and luckily we feel like we found it. I’m looking forward to many happy years in this home, and hope that our hard work will pay off.
Coming Monday is CNY already. CNY comes way too fast this year. I still have not got over our family gathering and Christmas. The CNY mood has not set in yet. Anyway, I have done a few preparation for CNY though. New clothing has been bought except Hats for Men. My hubby is not a hat person. Baked 3 types of cookies and bought some Nyonya pineapple tarts from my mom and stocked up some basic needs for cooking. The only thing that I have not do is complete the minor spring cleaning. I am doing it bit by bit coz of my backache and now tummy cramp and my “help” from my lil ones. Hope to complete them by Friday.
It was very hot 3 days ago and I need to take a good nap. So I tried to switch on the air-cond in my children’s room but the switch is out of order. I told hubby to change the switch box, maybe we can get a metal switchplate, which is of better quality but until today he still has not find the time to go to the electrical shop.
The family are back and one of the in-laws will be using my girls’ room. Look like they have to sleep without air-cond this trip. Thank God the weather isn’t so hot these few days. It is cloudy and very windy.
Thanks for my youngest sister, I got a maid for the weekend. I managed to rest more with her around. She helped to do the extra cleaning that I as not able to do like scrubbing the single bowl undermount sink, wash the bathrooms and toilets, wipe the windows and wash the floor mats. She even helped me ironed my hubby’s and children’s uniforms. It would be wonderful if I can have her every weekend. 
Even though I have installed a water filtration system after the main water meter, the water that comes out from my pipes is still brownish. So for our drinking water, it has to go through another micro filter to really get a crystal clear drinking water.
It is not that the main water filter is not working. It is the pipes that leads to our sink that are rusted. I told hubby about it but we just don’t have the finance to change the whole piping in our home. If one day the pipes burst, I am sure we would be have additional cost that is the water damage clean up cost austin. I must check out http://www.thesteamteam.com/austin-restoration-services/water-extraction.shtml and write them for a better quotation so that we can prepare for the future.
My hubby loves watching Korean drama because of their pretty and sweet actresses. Recently, he got me to join him watching Baby Faced Beauty on Direct TV that made me all emotional and softy. I cried so much watching Episode 11. I got hooked to it due to the suspense and drama. Now, I am a Korean drama addict too! 
I can’t wait for Episode 12.
When I am too engrossed watching the Korean drama, even my children’s call I can’t hear. This is dangerous eh. What if someone breaks into the house while I’m watching the Korean drama? What if someone kidnap my children during that time too? I better call the home security sierravista to check their home security system package. I can watch my favorite Korean drama with a peace of mind that my home and my children is safe.
Sometimes breastfeeding a newborn and a toddler can be very backbreaking even when I nurse them lying down. And especially when I am not sleepy. If I am sleepy, I will doze off while they nurse and I don’t feel the tiredness of leaning sideways for a long period of time.
I wish I can afford to buy the reclining loveseat sofa. It looks for comfy right? I am imagining myself nursing both my babies on the loveseat while watching my favorite channel on Astro; TLC.
Our kitchen renovation has completed. The space is big enough to transfer the dry kitchen to the newly renovated wet kitchen. We can now convert the dry kitchen to another bedroom but do we actually need another bedroom to add to the existing 7 bedrooms? I don’t think it is necessary. Can’t imagine the cleaning that I have to do when the maid is no longer with us.
It will be wonderful if we can transform the wet kitchen which is right beside my bedroom to an attached bathroom with bathtub and jacuzzi. Hubby and I have always wanted a bathroom for ourselves. We planned it a few times but to no avail. If only money is not a hindrance. I would want a jacuzzi bathroom like the one I saw at www.betterbathrooms.com.
At Better Bathrooms, you can find reviews of their products from their customers and also independent review sites such as Trust Pilot and Google. As customers, we will always look for better prices and better services on top of quality products. All these you can get from Better Bathrooms. To those who have means, do check out the website for Better Bathrooms set. I am sure you will be impressed by their collections.
We finally have the green light to start repairing our kitchen roof. Hubby’s siblings have agreed to contribute to the cost of the repair but we will be paying more coz we are staying here. Initially we wanted to do some extension to the wet kitchen so that we can shift the dry kitchen to the wet kitchen so that we can convert that dry kitchen to another bedroom. Yup! 7 rooms in the house is still not enough for all of us! But after the contractor re-quote us, we need additional 2k for the extension which we do not have. 
If I have the 2k, I would buy gold already! hehehe. Beginning of this week the gold price dropped slightly compared to the week before. I was looking high and low for some extra cash so that I can grab this opportunity to invest in gold. Thanks to my children’s savings, I managed to buy some gold when the price is low. Just a day after buying, the gold price increased by RM2/g. I make profit already if I sell. But then, the investment is for the future; for their higher education fees.
