For daughters who play the piano, flute and guitar (no formal training except for music lessons with the flute in school) and a husband who is a gifted piano player, music is a part of our family.

I have a teenager, an adolescent son and a pre-adolescent daughter who have earbuds in their ears at times. Their preferences are not the usual pop and dance songs.

I do love their song choices (except for some, lol) because these are exactly the kind of music I prefer at times, a bit loud, fast and noisy.

Sometimes I joke them what could be the singers’ entertainer’s secret and that even if these songs are played over and over and the singers don’t get “tired”. Ok, private joke.

This study that Kids Who Like Unconventional Music More Likely to become Delinquent is a bit disturbing though. I sure do hope that kids who are into these music will not likely be delinquents.

Contrary to beliefs that pit bulls are wild and fierce, Chichi is a doll. She is sweet and loves to have tummy rubs now and then.

Taking care of Chichi is easy because she is short-haired and does not need a single trip to a dog salon (rolls eyes). She is even-tempered though easily excitable when she sees other animals.

Why? Because wise investments keeps your money safe from being used to buy things that are not really necessary in your life.

My MIL invests in the stock market. She has a lot of stocks for more than two decades but it is only now, with online trading that she is perked up her interests.

There’s this person I know who buys gold and silver coins at the susan b anthony dollar at goldeneagle. They put these things in a bank’s safety deposit box for safekeeping along with their jewelry.

Me? I invest in the education of my children

I hope this will pass soon because I am having cabin fever already and the summer days are just too hot.

I want to feel the cool breeze and the sun’s warmth at the same time.

I want to feel tired and feel my leg muscles ache.

I want to sit under a tree and eat packed lunch.

I want to just walk and walk and sleep due to exhaustion at the end of the day.

We all met through blogging along with a lot more friends we have made through the years. I started blogging around late 2005 and met other bloggers a year or so after that and I have been friends with them ever since.

Our background checks were in the form of blogposts, shared bit and pieces in Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

We know a lot about each other, pre-Facebook times, sometimes more than our other friends (and relatives) do.

If there is one thing that I am grateful for that I started blogging is that I met these wonderful people