CC: Sweet Gestures

What makes couples happy? What makes marriages last? Terri Orbuch (a research professor and a marriage-and-family therapist) and her team mentioned the secrets of happy married couples:
"Really great marriages are not the result of long hours of hard work, but of everyday behaviors and attitudes, seemingly small gestures that show your spouse that he or she is noticed, appreciated, respected, loved and desired"

So, the secret of a happy couple is the small stuffs, the small gestures that we do often such as:

• Hubby tells me that I always look beautiful.


• I bring him coffee in bed in the morning; he brings me a glass of warm water in the night.


• Every time he’s leaving home; he kisses my forehead; and I kiss his hand.


• Before going to bed, we’re forgiving each other and holding hands.


• When he’s tired, I always massage him (and vice versa).


• If we’re in the middle of a misunderstanding and one of us is pointing forward the bended little finger, the other isn’t allowed to reject the reconcilement invitation. This funny way can always break the ice; and it becomes a good start to communicate heart by heart.

Those are some of ours. Visit Couple's Corner if you want to know more stories...

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Make Your Home a Child Proof Home

Dear parents, of course, you want your home to be a safe place for your child. But have you known that accidents at home often happen to children that normally move very actively? Independent Research Institute of USA, in 2008, records that there are 15,000 accidents cases that children experienced at their own home. A house becomes the second place where accidents happen after roads and vehicles.

The cause of accident at home is arranging and choosing furniture and room design that less pay attention to child safety factor. Whereas, children move and play everywhere, so that they are in high risk to get an accident, like struck down by television, stick in cables, get a shock from electricity, or bump into sharp and pointed angles of furniture. Don’t worry, with a little care, many incidents can be prevented.

First, you should increase your knowledge on how to baby proof your home by reading child safety tips. And then you can decide what proper baby proofing products that you need to apply at home. Finding baby proofing products can be so difficult if you don’t know KidSafe.

With KidSafe, you’ll get what you need because they offer a wide variety of the highest quality child safety products (more than thirty categories). For my home (once I’ve my baby), I really need to install Baby Gates and Child Safety Locks. If you’re looking for other products, they also have Corner Cushions, Outlet Covers, TV Guards, Door Locks, Appliance Locks, Window Guards and much more.

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Small River

It’s Wednesday, time for Watery Wednesday. The small river is one fork of a bigger river that called Kali Keruh (Bumiayu, Central Java, Indonesia). I captured this river spot because I like its view (click on it to have better view). Hope you like it, too...

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Opening Yourself Tag

Today’s post is another tag for me. Thanks for Lina Marliana for mentioning my name in her list. As usual, I have to answer several personal questions here. You will recognize me more after this…

1. Who are you at home?
I’m a daughter and a wife; not yet a mom.

2. Who are you; according to your friends?
I’m not asking my friends; I’m asking my husband and sister in-laws. So, here I am:
- honest
- stubborn
- moody
- faithful
- a good listener
- the best secret keeper
- a not much talking person

3. Mention 5 wanted things that haven’t yet achieved.
It has to be things? Ok, it’s my list:
- a baby room
- a hi-tech SLR digital camera
- a family car
- a PDA phone
- a family entertainment room

4. Who is your spouse’s name?
Usrofi, I call him Mas Fi. My sister and brother in-laws call him Oppie.

5. Tell 5 things that you like most from your spouse!
-love me so much.
-very funny
-faithful
-a good cook
-a caring person

6. When did you get married?
We got married in Bogor, July 14th, 2002.

7. What is your bad memory as a couple?
We need to struggle to get my father’s blessing. It’s a hard one…

8. What is your love song?
We don’t have one. We like to listen many songs, but most of them aren’t love songs.

9. What changes do you want to see from your spouse?
Stop smoking and care about his health more.

10. Share the tag to another 10 blogger friends.
Hehehe, I let and invite all my friends to GRAB the tag…

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