Safety First: Drive Safe and Live Long

This morning I saw a pretty new Toyota Camry whose rear has severely been damaged at the road shoulder on the way to my office.   Woah! The first thing which came up to my mind was that were there any people sitting in the back row and if yes then whether they would be injured or not.   The scene had been cleared when I passed by there and I could only hope that nobody had been seriously injured by that accident. 

At the same time, it brings to my attention that safety is the most important.  As we heavily and mainly depend on our cars for the transportation everyday here, we’re dealing with the freeways almost every workday.  As such driving becomes our second nature just like eating and drinking.  It’s not that I don’t know but sometimes I might tend to forget this very important and essential mindset.

Though, whenever I see a serious accident or hear it via the radio, it always reminds me of the “Safety first” during driving.   More importantly, I have my family waiting at home so I need to get home safe.  Or my family is driving with me so the safety becomes even more important to us.

I often tend to speed up while driving for a couple of different reasons: impatience, being late and in a rush, wanting to get home as soon as possible, and so on.   And my Honda Accord has facilitated me even more with its ability of being able to be accelerated seemingly. 

Once I was on my way home from work, I was speeding like a crazy.   I still remember that it was the last day at work for the long Christmas holiday back then.   As we were be on our family vacation the next day during that holiday, I was rushing and wanted to get back home in no time.   Being in a very relaxed, happy and holiday mood,  I turned on the music in my car so loud.  While enjoying the loud music along with a very nice sunny weather along with the blue sky, I kept taking over one car after another ahead of me.   And I of course was switching lanes quite often via the available spaces to cut across all cars before me.  I noticed that I was speeding nearly 90 mph but who cared? 

Then there was this High Patrol in his car with the activation of the emergency lights signaling me to stop.   With my mind was so blank except thoughts about the vacation tomorrow, I really didn’t notice of it which was chasing me for quite some time.   When I started noticing it via the rear mirror, I saw it stopped at the road shoulder and another cop on the motorcycle with the emergency lights on had started chasing me instead.   Even then I wasn’t sure that they were chasing after me even though I was in doubt a little bit. 

It was my very first time being chased by a cop so don’t laugh at me, okay? :D  With all confusions, I started to decline the speed to stick with 65 or 60 mph but still I didn’t manage to stop by then.   He had been following after me for quite a while and finally I realized that it was for me and then I started to pull over the car to the nearest road shoulder.

Of course, I didn't get a chance to take all these pictures but google helps :P

 Guess what?  I ended up paying nearly $600 for two citations: speeding and failure to stop.  LOL :P  Of course, I was not able to laugh at all by then.  Believe me, it was one of the very embarrassing moments of my life.  And it of course was expensive as well.  That was quite a story, huh? 

Even since, I tried to behave well and better.   However, I still do the speeding from time to time by keeping my eyes on preying any existing cop in the surrounding areas with the full alert.   After a couple of years has been well passed and I have been being lucky so far.  :P

I was still so proud and confident of myself since I have nearly ten-year driving profile and never involved in any accident so far.   I’m always self-assured that I’m very careful and alert whenever I drive.   But it was until my very first yet serious accident during late last year.   Perhaps that over-confident attitude had caused me this accident. 

It happened while I was trying to take over a huge and very long truck which was totally obstructing my view and was blocking my way by going at a very reduced speed.  Out of impatience, I suddenly pulled over my car into the immediate next lane to my right.  

However, little did I expect that there would be another stationery car right ahead of me.  Yep, there was a car which was totally stopped just right before me.   Realizing that I would go and bump into her car and making sure that there were no other cars on my left lane, I immediately maneuvered my car back into my original lane where my truck was.  I did switching lane instead of tapping my brake for dead stop because there was a very short distance between my car and her car; it was most likely that I would go and bump her car in that case.

However, as I was traveling at a very high speed and the sudden maneuver with force to my power steering led my car into the diagonal position which in turn was leading it into the second next line on my left, instead of staying in my original lane where the truck was ahead of me. 

Then, I started immediately turning my steering wheel to my right to stay straight in my original lane.   However, instead of staying straight back to my original lane, it was leading my car diagonally again toward the right lane this time of course.   Then, I started turning my steering wheel to the left again but it started malfunction and it didn’t work.  I tapped on my brake with all force but it didn’t work either.

My guess was that the brake was locked since the car was skidding out of the roadway.   It eventually went and hit to the wall of the road at the right end.   The right corner of the front bumper hit it first.  Then my car started spinning out in 360 degree and the left rear bumper hit against the wall again and it stopped by then; resulting my car against the traffic.

During the whole process while I was trying my best to control my car, I was so calmed.  However, when it came to a complete stop, I was so terrified and shocked for the experience.  My cell flew out of my car’s door pocket and landed on the floor.  As I was overwhelmed by what had just happened, my eyes became blank.  Even though I saw it fell to the ground, I could not manage to grab it with my shaky hands. 

And the first thing which came to my sense right away was that “Thanks God! My husband and my girls were not with me!!!!”   What’s an experience!

That's how my Mazda looks like before accident

And my Mazda was not repairable and drivable anymore.  Well, it could be repaired but just that it was not worth to be repaired as the repair cost would be far beyond reasonable.  I was pretty disabled to commute to work without a car.  He needed to send me off and pick me up for a while we were shopping for a new car.  He needed to make a big round every day as my work is at the opposite direction f his and it was such a waste of his time.

This is how my Mazda looked like after the accident :(

And shopping of a new car is always a stressful process.  It was even more stressful when we only had a very limited time to do so.  I wanted to drive my Mazda for a couple of more years and wasn’t planning to buy a new one at all.  We knew that the car depreciated as soon as we drove it out of the dealership.   Anyway, what was a little better was that we already had an experience for a new car shopping for our Accord, it helped so much for another new car hunting.  Regardless, our pocket and saving was much suffered. 

My new ride (well, I got his car and he got new; he always gets to drive the new one :P)

I have changed my driving nature quite a bit ever since.    Just one little reckless mistake and moment, the whole car was severely damaged.  First of all, I was considered to be lucky in that case as I was not injured at all.  Secondly, the traffic was clear right at that moment, thus no other cars were involved.  Otherwise, I might just end up like hitting to other cars in my way or I might get hit by oncoming car in my way.  I might get seriously injured and even my life could be in danger either way.

Sometimes, the price we paid for the lesson learnt is huge.  Speaking of driving, it could be our own life or those of our loved ones.   Just to reach the destination a couple of minutes earlier, it’s totally not worth to bet or risk with our lives.   It’s always important to keep in mind the “Safety First” rule.  Drive safe and live long!

 A happy owner with his new ride

 Perhaps the happy thing out of my tragical accident was he got to drive a new car :P

A Junkie Me

First of all, don’t take me wrong that I’m a narcotics addict or such.  It simply means here that I’m a fan of all junk mails. :P

Well, we received plenty of junk mails almost every day.  A lot of them are the store Ads and some of them are the discount coupons.   I receive them even more when I go and sign up or subscribe for the Ads and coupons. 

In Singapore, there got such junk paper buyers who often wander around our apartment, so-called HDB.  When Papa and Mama were with us, they sold them to them.  The money received was very minimal but it recycled the paper, cleaned up the space and at least it was better than nothing I guess.  Perhaps that was what Papa might be thinking back then.  If it was him then he might just dump them into the trash right away.

Over here, I keep some of them so that I could use them to lay it under the oil container during the cooking.  I did a lot of Chinese cooking and those papers prevent the oil spill to our granite countertops by absorbing it.

Better yet, the fun part is with those coupons.   When I got a little bit of spare time, I screened them: throw some of them in the recycle bin, keep some of them for the aforementioned purpose.  And of course, those coupons are specially separated out for my use.  :P

That’s how my bag becomes so bulky and it’s what he usually being referred to as a garbage bag.  When you open up my bag, you will see tons of coupons which really contribute to the weight of my bag.  Sometimes, it even make me to think that the hand straps of my Coach bag gonna be broken due to its heavy weight?  If that actually happens then should I complain to Coach or just to myself?  LOL :P When the kids asked me to keep their stuff when we are outing, it’s getting even heavier. 

Anyway, I have to clean them up from time to time to throw those expiry ones.   When I realize by then that some of the really good deals’ deadlines have been passed, I feel so pity that I have just missed the good deals.  :P

He usually points out to me that those coupons are the main killers of our unnecessary budget spending.  I’m really stingy on other perspectives, except the expenses for the girls but whenever there’s a deal, I’m on. 

For instance, when you take a peek at our pantry, you will be amazed to see that it’s all full even though it’s considered to be a large pantry compared to some other houses.  I stock them up whenever I see something is on sales.   He usually jokes with me that we could survive for more than a month in case of a disaster or no opportunity of grocery shopping at all. :P

And it reminds me of how many stuff we have wasted when we were migrating to here from Singapore.   I asked Papa and Mama to bring whatever they like along with them but they could not take much as they had the plenty stuff already.  So, I sold some of them.  And I gave some of them away.   I wish I could have donated the rest of them but it didn’t happen as it was a sudden thing for us to come over here and the schedule was so tight.   Thus, no way but I ended up just throwing most of them away. 

So many shoes and sandals, clothes, some furniture, groceries, some kitchen utensils, bath supplies and at not least some of my stuffed animals.  I just had to leave them there with the owner of our apartment.  I felt so stingy to let them go.  Especially for my huge Winnie-Pooh which is about the size of a 5 year old or even bigger than that.  I saw it during the sales Singapore Expo but didn't manage to get it.  After going back home, I managed to talk with him and he bought it for me from Expo.  We made another trip which actually was a long ride from where we lived back then, just to get it.  Too bad that I could bring it here :(

But probably the good thing out of it might be was that the lesson learned: not to buy a lot and junks next time.

I was pretty good at doing so when we had just got here.  But after years, perhaps the lesson learned might be fading away over time.  And I’m going into the same direction again. 

There is a Burmese saying: "A crooked leg will go crooked over time no matter how you try hard".  Am I proving it to be true? LOL :P

Oh well, at least I now recall it and am trying to refresh my mind with the lesson learned again.  I’m making a vow to myself that I would not be buying unnecessary extras and will stay not to get attracted by those junks, discounts, sales or coupons.   I’ll be saving more money from now on.  It’s never too late to change, yeah?  :P

Home-Sweet-Home

Ever since I was a kid, one of the things which I always wanted is to have a beautiful house in which my happy family would live in.  Yes, it’s so-called “Home-Sweet-Home”.

He fulfilled my dream a couple of years ago.  I was so thrilled that we managed to get a brand new house.  The house buying process was so fun yet it was so stressful as well.  Overall, I would say that it was a fun process and the best part was choosing the design options for our home.  If we were to buy a second hand house then we would not be able to experience it.

 

These teddy bear cups are the ones which I brought all the way from Singapore to here

A nice and comfy couch is a must for our living room :P

My favorite place at home. Nothing is more comfortable and satisfying than wrapping up myself, laying here and enjoying the TV during winter :P

Our home office

One of my favorite spots at home or my weekend workshop for testing new recipes

Sophie enjoying her new bed

Michelle's future bed

Christmas decoration at home

I love designing and decorating the house.   There’re always some projects to do for our home.  I love doing so to our home so far but there still got pending and on-hold decorations.   For instance, I always wanted to decorate the bathroom as one of the most enjoyable places in the house.   As I love perfume and fragrance, I would like to decorate it with some dry and fragrance flower petals.  Also, I want to hang some pictures and paintings.  I want to put a narrow and very tall corner table with the flower vase on top.  Last not least, I want to have a sound system implemented there.   Can you imagine what a pleasant place to be in there with such decorations and arrangements?  But he does not like fragrances so it’s out.  As the girls are still so young, I could not put the flower vase since they might just knocked it down so easily and it gonna be broken into pieces  in no time.  Still, I’m not giving it up yet and it’ll be my future project :P

Retaining walls: design and implemented by him :D

He loves landscaping and D.I.Y projects.   When we got our home, the backyard was so wild and muddy land during the rainy seasons.  He designed the concrete for our backyard.  And he built the retaining walls so that we could grow some plants and veggies there. 

Home grown tomatoes

Home grown eggplants

Home grown strawberries

Home grown sunflower

Home grown green beans and zucchini

Me with home grown zucchini

For this spring, his DIY project was to landscape our front yard.   There is an extra space in our front yard which was previously sprinkled with the barks.  To maximize the space, we’ve been wanting to lay the paver stones there so that our front yard would be much more spacious.   He implemented his idea recently.    Every spring always keeps him busy with the yard work.

And I always love the swing and he setup the swing there.  The girls love them so much as well.   They  were busy taking turn pushing each other and were giggling and laying next to each other on it.  That was so much fun and I was so pleased to see it.   Having a swing at home is my another dream and it has finally been materialized.

And we are thinking to put a small water fountain or a flower pot next to the swing.  More DIY projects will be coming along the way.

One of the best spots to hang out to have BBQ or have breakfast or dinner during summer :D

 
Our home is not very big but it’s just a good size for all four of us.  So does our yard.  Sophie once told us that she wanted a bigger house with a bigger yard.   Who doesn’t want a bigger and a better house?

Yet I still do appreciate what we currently have.  I’m quite satisfied with our home.  Every time we came back from a trip or every time I got home I feel like this is our place.  I always feel so secure and comfortable being at home.  It’s a place where I got all the freedom: I can do and stay whatever way I want.  I don’t have to care and concern about others.  This is the place where we belong. 

 

 

It does not really matter whether it’s a small one or a big one; a grand one or a poor one; it has a bigger yard or a smaller yard; it has a nice decoration or a simple decoration.   Even if it’s a grand palace, if the happiness can nowhere be sought then it’s just so meaningless.  Even if it’s a wall-less hat and with the leaking roof, if it’s overwhelmed by the love it’s the most enjoyable place for the family to stay.

All it matters is having a happy family residing in the house.  That’s what makes our house a home-sweet-home.  Our home is where our hearts are.

A Mom's Concerns - 1

 The thoughts which occupies my mind the most lately is about Sophie's kindergarten.  Yeah, I'm still having the kindergarten headaches for her.  It turns out that she could not get into all schools which are on the topmost of my list.  Ah...  Why don't things go smoothly?   Well, I don't really want to send her to the school over by our place where she has been assigned to go.  Its API is not even quite 800.  Compared to those in Davis which range from the mid 900 to the early 800, this definitely is far inferior.  Again, whether she could get into one of them in Davis is uncertain at the moment due to the fact that the budget cut , teachers being laid off, less classes, etc.  This economy downturn does affect each of us. 

As a last resort, I'm now seriously thinking to send her to Merryhills, which of course will cost us much more.   Will it really worth to invest such a big money even for her kindergarten?   I was thinking to put aside those money for their college expenses instead of putting too much for pre-college.   As long as she is in a school where it's safe and she could get a regular education just like most other kids do then will it be well enough? 

Why do I even care so much about the API of the school?  It's just a kindergarten and I could still do a close supervision to her so that I could make sure that she would be doing as good as or even better than those students in Davis schools?   Wait a minute!  The elementary school where I went to might be even much worse than the one over by our place in terms of the academic ranking and other perspectives.  Over there, we didn't have API to measure of course.   Even then, with my mom's close supervision and care, I got the rank1 for almost every grade in my school and won first prizes almost every year.   Then,  why am I thinking so much and making it bigger than it seems?  Oh, my brain hurts.

I know she's a really smart girl.  She was well advanced than other kids.  She was already excelled in walking and even climbing the high places at the age of 10 months while most of the other kids were still striving to learn to walk.  When she was not quite 2 and a half years old, she mastered and was able to sing a lot of nursery songs as I sang them to her almost every night.   When she was a little over 3 years old, she was able to say A through Z and counting 1 to 10 whereas one of my friends' son barley knew a,b and c.

For example, today's incident is an evidence.   We were at Half Moon Bay State Beach.  Both Sophie and Michelle were building the sand castle.  As I forgot to bring the sand kits and buckets, they weren't able to water the sand castle for molding.  Then Sophie came to me and asked that she wanted to use the drinking water bottle in my hand.  I told her firmly that it was just for drinking and not to water on her sand castle.  She stared at me and agreed unwillingly.  Then she drank a lot of water full of her cheeks and spit it out on the sand castle.   When I saw it, I could not quite believe it was a 4.5 years old.  I wasn't sure I was that smart when I was her age.

Therefore, I really wish to maximize all her smarts and talents.  I do really wish that she could go to the one of the topmost universities in this country to where I didn't get an opportunity to attend.   The education is the only thing we could provide to them and which go along with them all their life.  If you ask me then I would say that what I managed to get well  most is my education and thus it's my profession which could make me stand on my own foot and make my living for the rest of my life.

Recently, he showed me a news of a Chinese immigrant or an ABC kid who got acceptance from all top universities such as Harvard, Stanford, Yale, etc.  And his father in no doubt is a professor of course.   And he really knows what is the best to give to his kid and his son has such an outstanding career and life ahead.   I could imagine that the ecstasy and the feeling of pride he would be having for all his son's achievements.    This really makes one to envy enough!

I know.  It's a mutual understanding and coordination between the parents and the kids to gain such a great achievement and a fruitful outcome.  I've seen that there got cases where parents put so much heart and made the ways for their kids but they didn't follow well so it didn't turn out good.  Also, there got cases where kids did a great job by finding and making their own ways without or with little support from their parents.

And I do believe that if the parents put all their hearts and efforts and make the best ways and supports for their kids and the kids also not only follow well but also make their ways even better by their own motivation will lead to the grand outcome like the aforementioned Chinese kid.    It's not easy though indeed.

It makes me realize that I definitely need to put more effort and time for their future and life in every perspective so that they will always be on the right track.  It's a well known fact that interactions with human beings or the human management is one of the most challenging jobs.   Parenting where the communication plays a crucial part with the kids therefore is a very challenging job indeed.  It's like I need to know which weapons to use during the different courses throughout all our communications so that a successful outcome will always be the case.

Oh, it's still a long way to go.  I definitely need to devote much more time on them and do the best for them.   When they are young, I believe that parents play the key role for molding and guiding their future and what they should be doing and what they will be doing.  Because they don't know what is right, what is wrong, what is good and what is bad.  So it's entirely up to the parents to train their kids in the way they want to be or neglect them and let them grow in their own ways.  It's not an easy job, to sacrifice my personal times to devote to them.  But I'm on.  That's what it's called to be a "mom" I guess.

Facebook Obsession Days

(Oh My God! I just googled it and I can't believe I found it. Oh well, I'm glad that I'm at least not the only one :P)

It all started from the sudden loss of Mama.  Those days were one of the darkest and loneliness days of my life.  Unfortunately, he happened to be on a business trip to Pennsylvania to present his paper and to attend the conference.  I could not sleep throughout the night for most of the days and I desperately needed someone to talk but there was none.

Of course, I had my girls with me by then but they were not able to talk or comfort me and they weren't able to listen to me either.   He called me every night and we talked.  But how long I could keep him, especially he was in different time zone and he was on business trip.  So, how could I keep him for the whole night just because I could not sleep?

My mother-in-law was with me but it didn't help at all.  I still remember that once she came out of her room and asked me about my mom since she saw me crying and looking at my mom's pictures at the hospital during her last days.  She listened to me for a while though.  But she told me that it was already around 10:00pm and she needed to sleep even before I had finished talking and dumped me just like that.  What can I say?

I could not recall how exactly I got an idea of signing up the facebook but that was how I hooked it up to kill the time for my sleepless nights.  Perhaps I got a lot of invitations from most of my friends at that time.  I was never been into any of such sites before signing facebook up. I did have Friendster but I barely logged in there once or twice and I even forgot my password afterward. 

Anyway, as soon as I was with facebook, my friend lists bombed momentarily since a lot of my classmates added me.  I felt so amazed that I got connected with all of them now and saw their pictures, status messages, activities and what they are doing and where they are.   In addition to my classmates at my undergraduate studies, I got connected with all other friends and people I know at outside computer centers where I attended classes or diploma such as ACE, KMD, etc.  My friend lists just went on and went on.

Initially, I was kind of hesitate to upload my pictures and publish my information there.  But I did it eventually.  I'm not that kind of person who wants to share my photos and information with everyone.  I just want to keep it private as it's my personal life.  But I eventually did it and facebook has changed me that perspective of my life I guess.  Probably getting a lot of comments from facebook friends encouraged me to upload more pictures :P

Just like that, facebook became my companion to go through one of the toughest days of my life.  Believe it or not!  No matter how hard I tried, I could not fall into asleep.  Even the non-prescription sleeping pill from Uncle Mike didn't help at all.  Everywhere was Mama and it was just haunting me.  Thanks God, I was on my bereavement leave so I didn't have to worry about going to work the next day with dull eyes.  Most of all, I could not focus and concentrate anything at that moment.  I think it was another main reason where facebook suits me the best.  I didn't have to think or focus anything.  All I need was just browsing my the photos of my friends and activities aimlessly.  

My friend lists kept growing and I got even re-connected with my high school friends whom I thought I would never be able to meet with them again.   And just like that, I got addicted to facebook.  I must check the facebook at least once a day.  In fact, with the help of Wi-Fi and 3G data network via my iPhone or iPod, I was able to check it from almost everywhere I am.  At one point, I even felt like my day was empty without browsing facebook or staying away from it one day.  Every morning when I wake up, after checking all my emails then I started browsing facebook.  On Friday nights when the girls went asleep and I could not sleep then I felt like I had nothing better to do and just browsed facebook.  My addiction became obsession I think.

Even he reminded me a couple of times.  He hardly ever restrict me for anything I do.  Then when he warns me, I might have been really bad.  He also does not like sharing a lot of my photos there.  At that point, I thought about myself and realize that how much time I have been wasting on there.  So I decided to quit there.  

Well, we happen to watch "The social network" by then.  After watching the movie, I felt like Mark Zuckerburg was so genius.  Then I went to facebook and update my status.  Once again, I was back there.

Recently, I have been busy and didn't get time to check my facebook.  Then I ask myself that what I have lost?  Nothing.  What do I miss?  Nothing in particular from there.  It proves me wrong that facebook is one of the essential thing of my life.  I think further and also realize that how much time I have wasted so much on facebook and I could have done something better or more useful to my life.  Especially someone like me who only has very limited spare time; working on a full-time job, my two girls and husband and the house chores already make my hands full.  Therefore, I should utilize my time so efficiently instead of spending it on facebook from which I gain nothing.  

Well, I guess that I come to my sense finally.  I'm getting myself back.  And why should I even share what I'm doing by checking in the places via facebook or all the photos taken at almost every single place I've been there?  It's my personal life and I should just keep it private; just to myself, my relatives and my close friends. 

Having said that, I'm not trying to convince that facebook is not good.  It's really good.  I was so thrilled and am still thrilled that I got connected with all the people I know.  It's just so amazing and it's just such a good application to use and I really like it.  It's just that I thought that I could have done something better for my life during my spare time.  Just like this: writing a blog.  LOL.  Well,  it's my hobby and at least I spend my spare time to do whatever I always wanted to do.  And I know that at least my husband will be reading it.  I might come back later from time to time but bye for now, facebook.  See you later!

My Girls Make My Day

“Rage”.  That was happened to me a while ago for work-related matter.  While I was trying to control and calm myself down, I could not help and still ended up with yelling toward my computer in my very frustration.  And there, he and Sophie both came into our home office room. 

He comforted me and left but Sophie left behind and started doing her inquisitive interrogation about my frustration.  At the same time, she tried to comfort me.  She said “It sometimes happen, okay, mommy.  Is that your co-worker or your work?  Just calm down and relax, okay?”  I don’t know where she got these words but it was so sweet of her and made me feel almost impossible to keep up raging for the issue to which I got made at.  And before she left, she said, “Mama, I can get you a glass of water to make you feel better.  Do you want one?”  When I said no, she continued, “If you need it later, just let me know, okay?  I’ll bring it for you.”  Oh, my!  I was just speechless.  She is my big little comforter, who really knows how to make me feel better.  I couldn’t believe that it was 4.5 years old who was talking to me.

Michelle is also a very kind and sweet girl.  Whenever I feel hurt or something happens to me, she always rushes toward me and ask “Are you okay, Mama?”  She even pats me sometimes. 

Also, Sophie today got tripped on the stairs while we three were going downstairs from the upstairs.  When she yelled in her pain, Michelle was like, “Are you okay, Duo Duo?”  and rushed next to her sister and hugged her.  At the same time, she looked at me and said “Mommy, Duo Duo got a pain” in her worried voice.  And all her worries and cares were obviously reflected on her little face.  In my mind, I felt like “What’s a sister!” and also felt ecstatic at the same time. 

And just now, I heard a click on my office door and I thought it was him.  But I felt like a pair of eyes in the dark was peeping me through that little gap of the door which was slightly opened.   So I walked there and there she was: Sophie.  She was supposed to be sleeping but she came to me just to check and ask whether I was doing better.  Oh, my God!  How could I possibly be making myself so miserable when there is such a cute little care-taker? 

Their innocent faces, sincere cares and loves are simply another major reason which definitely makes my life worth to live.  I love you girls.  You make my day!