Life at Oak Grove

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

BLESSED

12:45 PM | Posted by Canadianladybug |

Okay. This month is NOT our Thanksgiving month. In Canada, it is in October. But needless to say I am blessed these days.

For those of you who are following Life at Oak Grove, you also know that I am behind Canadianladybug Reviews! as well.

Well recently I have decided to request via websites or emails various products to review. Even though many companies don’t bother to answer or others simply answer back with a NO, I have other companies who are enthusiastic and willing to participate.

Last week, I got a surprise from Mark’s Warehouse – a beautiful new winter coat. I posted my review and send it to my contact. He was impressed with the quality of the post and just knew that his client ie Mark’s Warehouse would love it. I appreciate it when I receive feedback from my contacts.

I also emailed toys companies. So far, I have one major company who will send me some things. They had suggested some products but I had mixed feelings about some of them so I asked if I could change some of their suggestions. They said yes. Then I didn’t heard from them after that. I thought that maybe it wouldn’t happen. Well, yesterday they emailed me confirming that they are sending me the products I suggested. I mean not one or two…. believe it or not they are sending all of them!

Speechless.

Another company just informed me that they receive daily requests (about 10 per day) for reviews. But since I was the first Canadian requesting, they would like to send me something. WOW!

Then there are companies who said yes and I have still not received anything.

So no matter what happens, just blogging and reviewing products/books is a major blessing for me and my family.

I thank God and all the companies for blessing us so much. Sometimes they have no idea how much it blesses us to receive and reviews their products.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Halloween 2010

1:56 PM | Posted by Canadianladybug |

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This year for Halloween we had three super-heroes and one detective. We were not planning to buy any costumes this year but during a small trip to Ogdensburg, NY we discover the cutest costume for our daughter. Being Super-Heroes fans (and comic books fans for that matter…) we had to get it. So we bought her a new costume that will hopefully last for two years.
Dominic wanted to be Superman this year and Jérémy opted for Spider-man. Their big brother has been talking for over a year of being a detective and after a purchase at the dollar store for a fun hat, he had an easy costume to do (he received his detective gear at a birthday party last year!).

My kids had a blast trick-or-treating this year.   Our area is full of young families.   However, I find that a lot of older teenagers are going from house to house to get some candies.   I don’t know why they do that but honestly I find that it should be for little ones…   At 15-16 or 17 years old it is a bit old to go door-to-door.
This year, Halloween was a Sunday. Usually we go to the mall and collect candies but since we felt we needed to go to church we decided against it.   We then drove to my in-laws and brought a lunch.   We stayed a bit and went to my brother-in-law which is a block away to see them a bit.   Afterward, we went home and rested a bit before going out at 5:30pm.   I know…. I’m early.   We were the first ones to go out. LOL
But we had fun.   After a while the younger two were tired and I brought them back home before the two oldest and I decided to continue.    We ended up having a laundry basket full of goodies and cold legs for me.
I sure hope that next year it will be warmer.   Having a bit of snow fall on October 30th made it a bit cool to go around the neighbourhood.