Author name: Meli Mel

Mom and wife originally from the Caribbean island of St. Lucia and now reside in the United States. This blog is about the day to day things I see and sometimes may encounter in this fascinating world that we live in. Live life in concert with your values! Never be paralyzed! Don't wait for people to change!

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Learning Tips and Activities for kids

Lately, I find that parents need to be involved in their children’s education a lot more than when I was growing up.  In Florida, for sure I can say that they stress FCAT (Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test) on these kids so much that in my opinion, they do not teach the kids the fundamentals or the […]

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Ideas for school lunch

So this school year, we have decided to send the kids to school with lunch instead of them eating in the school.  Our main reason was more so that we can control what they eat.  Granted the school maybe providing somewhat healthy lunch even if the kids thinks that the food is nasty, we just

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Why do people cry at weddings?

This past weekend I attended one of my high school friend’s wedding and lawd was the tears just flowing.  While the groom was waiting her late arrival 🙂 they played “Where Have You Been” by Rihanna and this brought on my tears. Granted I always cry at weddings, this one was a bit much for me.  My

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Happy First Anniversary

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity.  The order varies for any given year.  ~Paul Sweeney Today marks my 1st year wedding anniversary and if my first year is any indication of what marriage should be like then I am definitely in this forever.  My husband is the epitome

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Charlie’s Fashion/Bleached out Jeans

So lately I have been seeing these acid wash jeans in stores.  Look like they are coming back in style, and I am sorry,  I never was a fan back then and still not a fan now.  But anyway, last week my creative and artistic daughter decided to waste her grandmother bleach (lol) because she

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