Enjoy a pampering FREE Lancome makeover

Ever once in a while, all moms just have to take a break from the daily grind for a little ME time. Are you up for a break? Well now, calling all kikay moms! Come to Rustan’s and pamper yourself to a free makeover with Lancôme’s Color Experts this September!
Free consultation [...]

Sept 27: FREE Museum Day 2008

As a young mom, it’s increasingly a challenge to come up with activities which are both cost effective and intellectually stimulating.
On Sept 27, enjoy free general admission for you and a guest to one of over a hundred museums and cultural venues in the United States. Just download the admission card here and present [...]

Free Debt Snowball worksheet from Vertex

Buffeted at all sides by credit card bills?  Feel that you can’t get out of debtors hell? Start ploughing your way out via the free debt snowball calculator from Vertex 24. 
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This spreadsheet allows you to choose different debt reduction strategies, including the debt snowball effect (paying the lowest balance first) and highest interest [...]

Severn Suzuki: The Little Girl who Roared

When we were still little, more often than not, we were told that we were too young, too idealistic, too [fill in the blanks] to deal with the harshness of the real world. But then again… if not now, then when? We were also taught not to speak unless spoken too… [...]

Quote of the Day

So what’s the secret to being a great mom? Time and patience. To me, you bring children into the world and yes, it does take time, it does take patience— because no two children are alike. To me, you take every child and what their biggest strength is and you build upon that strength to [...]

Picky eaters are made, not born

I count my lucky stars that A is growing up to be an omnivore. We have deliberately gone out of our way to introduce our son to different tastes (from sweet to sour) and cuisines from different parts of the world. It is my personal philosophy that with our ever shrinking borders, globalization [...]

Quote of the Day

Live your life with a purpose beyond yourself, and you’ll find that the world is as bold and broad as the interests that brought you here today.
— Bryan Gumbel
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Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ~Meryl Streep
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Money Make-Over: Personal Finance 101

Financial literacy is, unfortunately, something which is not taught in most schools. How many of us have graduated from high school or college without knowing how to make a budget, balance a checkbook or plan for retirement?
Before you sign the back of that pre-approved credit card or sign the dotted line of that [...]

Love Mother Earth and save money too!

If there is anything positive that came out of the continuing debate on the rising cost of power, it is that the general populace is increasingly aware that our natural resources are finite. It took a major shock to the wallet to do it but at least now more and more people are [...]

Stumped for a baby shower gift? Give a diaper cake!

Showers, whether they be wedding shower or baby showers, can be stressful situation for attendees. What can you possible give which will be both functional yet funky?
For the past few years, my stable baby shower gift has alway been diaper bags. Those of Baby Couture and Nappy Sac come to mind. [...]