Posts made in April, 2009

The heat is killing me and yet…

Posted by Alma on 11 Apr 2009 in Children, Family, Life Speak, Rural Life | 3 comments

It was just so freakin hot where we’re at.  The weather was hot and balmy.  It’s was just like inside a steamy sauna room.  I remembered my first sauna experience at Fitness First years ago and I almost died inside.  It was just so balmy– I mean, that was what the sauna was about.  But I swear, I couldn’t breathe inside the room, and I was getting lightheaded even.

I thought the 10 minute sauna would kill me… it didn’t.  Anyway, the heat here was tolerable and the children were enjoying their day outside with the neighbor’s children.  I heard their merriment as they told me their first attempt to fly a kite.  Boy I have never flown a kite before.

They were just so happy.  One of the older girls made a simple kite for my daughters. It was just one of those ones made of bamboo strips and simple chinese paper and nylon.  It was a joy watching my children play on the vacant lot near our house.  Hearing their peels of laughter was music to my ears.

How about you?  How was your day?  I sure hope it was as good as mine…

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Who needs the TV when you have YouTube?

Posted by Alma on 8 Apr 2009 in Family, Rural Life, Technology | 1 comment

We do not have a television.  I have thought of buying one, but decided on buying a PC instead.  The children obviously liked the PC as I bought it fully-loaded with games.  Not only that, since I got Globe Broadband, our internet life has never been this good.  Now, I can work full time as a freelance webworker in oDesk and we also have loads of information at the tip of our fingers– oh, the advantages of the internet is countless.

I read my news, blogs using NewsNetWire.  I keep track of over 300 RSS feeds daily, and I fire it up as a rule only twice a day.

Tyrell my 3 year old can watch all the Spiderman cartoons that he like and my daughters can play all the dress-up games in Y8.  Not only that, they can watch their movies and reruns– all in YouTube.