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Month: November 2017

Happiness, Parenting and children baby number 2, childbirth, family, sibling

An exciting piece of news to share

November 29, 2017

To all our readers, We have a piece of exciting news to share with you! Here it goes……drumroll….. We just had baby number 2! No, it’s not that I just found out that I am pregnant and we are having the baby next year – literally, I had just delivered our second child. And it’s…

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Kate
Work advice, career, job, workplace politics

Navigating the workplace

November 24, 2017

A friend of mine called me late at night last friday evening. I was initially pretty startled by her call as I wasn’t expecting it, and I was getting ready to sleep. I answered the call. And oh boy, I think it was a good thing I did. She was sobbing at the other end…

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Kate
Personal finance diamond ring, engagement ring

The engagement ring

November 20, 2017

At a friend’s gathering  a few weeks ago, a mutual friend in a group secretly whispered to me and told me that another friend of ours has  finally moved on from his previous job to a current role in another organization. It kind of took me by surprise, as I thought he really liked the…

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Kate
Parenting and children Children, contest, Parenting, proud parents

A proud parenting moment

November 15, 2017

As Dave has shared in the previous post, there was an estate party in our neighbourhood last month, and we attended the event. The event was pretty well organised, with lots of family friendly activities and games, many suitable for young kids. Ally might have been a bit too young to participate in some of…

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Kate
Minimalism and simple living, Personal finance 11.11, damage, online, shopping

Surviving the 11.11 challenge

November 12, 2017

I have a confession to make. Even though I try to live minimally, and purchase only things I need, I do a lot of window shopping. Online. Ok, that is an oxymoron, some might say. If you are a minimalist, you won’t even bother looking at stuff like that. Because, you probably don’t need any…

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Kate
Work compassion, life, Work

Compassion at the work place

November 10, 2017

An uncle of a colleague passed on earlier this week. It was an upsetting event and I passed her my condolences. The passing of a love and close one is always one of the hardest ordeal to overcome for anyone and words alone are insufficient to describe the feelings, and little can be said to…

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Kate
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Oct 2017 – Expenses Update

November 6, 2017

October is the month when we celebrated our 5th wedding Anniversary and we went for a family day out at River Safari. Ally enjoyed free admission with each accompanying adult for the month of October. This is the third time we went to River Safari with Ally and she is so excited about it that…

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Dave

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