Mid Life Crisis

Some of my former classmates born in January and February have already reached one of the most important ‘destinations’ in their life when they hit 40 years of age recently. I will reach this milestone very soon, in exactly a month’s time. Since last year, the thought of reaching 40 makes me feel crummy. The thought of partially losing my youth does give me the blues. I had my first menses at age 11+ and I think that this is considered earlier than the ‘norm’. So I guess I will be reaching menopause early too since I was an early bloomer. If there was really a genie in a bottle that pops out all of a sudden and grants me three wishes, I think I will ask for perpetual youthfulness – inside and outside me! Well, laugh not at me for this wish may be granted to me! I am sure you have read about bizarre but true stories of some women in their fifties and sixties miraculously giving birth to babies! I am definitely not hoping for more diaper-changing days, only a fountain of youthfulness perpetually.

As I was google searching ‘symptoms of menopause and perimenopause’ today, I cannot help imagining myself going through the throes of this dreaded yet inevitable phase of every woman’s life. I wonder how my hubs would feel when I am officially menopaused. How is our bed life going to turn out? Will I have to resort to tubes of icky gel on those nights? Will I turn into a loathsome mother and wife with unsavory words spewing out of my mouth when I experience those bouts of sudden hot flashes and suffer from insomniac nights? I shudder to think of that. And I wonder if my hubs ever worried about the same thing that worries me when he goes through a similar phase in his life when he reaches the ‘male menopause’ where his testosterone level begins to decline. Perhaps the both of us will sail through this rough patch of phase together  with me resorting to HCT and he, taking Testosterone boosters! LOL!  I’ll see…

Foodie Baby

Cass definitely has the foodie genes in her blood. She is such a discerning eater and appreciates food so much. She lives to eat just like her daddy, that's for sure. She is by far the only 4 year old whom I know of who appreciates and knows how to gnaw on fish bones and of course chicken bones and pork bones! And she knows how to carefully remove the bones with her fingers before putting the meat into her mouth.  Hopefully my baby girl will not balloon up into a tai fei por!
 

 

Breast Cancer Awareness

The 20-minute car ride to Ikea yesterday had brought me walking down memory lane. As I was in the car gazing at my adorable Cass who kept giving me her sweet smile, I remembered our many long trips in the car 4 years ago. When Cass was not even a year old, most of our car rides were to the many different hospitals. The hubs and I had brought her from one hospital to another to consult the best nephrologists and pediatric surgeons to save her life. I looked at my now Cass and compared her to the then frail baby Cass and reflected on the manifold bitter events we had gone through together. During the car ride yesterday, I recalled so vividly our many frightful and hellish moments in hospitals together. I had gone through too many tears and fears with this little tough cookie of mine. She is indeed a fighter!

I remember one of our eventful procedures at a private hospital here where I had to bring Cass to the Cancer and Radiation Centre. Cass had to go through an MCUG procedure that involves sedating her. Some radiated dye had to be injected into her body from the veins on her hand and from her down under. While I was hanging on tenterhooks waiting for the result of the scan at the Cancer centre (which broke my heart into a zillion pieces when I read the report), I saw a woman in her mid forties. She was bald and was shopping for prosthetics breasts and some special bras in a shop at the Cancer Centre that sells such specialties. I could only guess that she is a  breast cancer patient and had both her breasts  removed. Her family consisting of her husband and children were waiting for her outside the shop and they all looked gloomy. I really felt for her and her family and I prayed silently for the woman and prayed that this will never befall me or my loved ones.

Breast cancer awareness is of vital importance because it may save your life or the life of someone dear to you. I have a free mammogram voucher that hubs got from a client and I must allocate some time to use this voucher soon.

The Serpents Scared The Sh*t Out Of Me This Morning!

I got a major scare of my life the first thing when I woke up at 5:15am this morning as I was being greeted by 3 slimy ssssssssssssssnakes !

Hubs was the culprit who scared the sh*t out of me. He placed these 3 creepy crawlies on top of the cupboard beneath the light switches and these switches are the first thing that I touch when I wake up at 5:15am every morning. The moment the light was turned on, I almost jumped out of my nightie when I saw these creepy serpents just under my arm as I thought they were real coz they do look real, LOL!!





The snakes were the newest addition to the hubs' collection of decor and he had just used them for a client's CNY open house function last night.

And this cheeky mummy placed the 3 snakes on the dining table just to see how Alycia and Sherilyn would react... and also to wake them up totally but my 2 dare devils had almost zilch reaction when they saw the snakes! I guess I am getting old!

Vitamins And Antioxidant Enriched Toilet Papers For Your Butt!

When I was shopping at Jaya Grocer at Jaya 33 last week, some 5-star quality looking toilet papers caught my eyes.

The Renova toilet papers series come in green -- my favorite green tea color  and another series have different cartoon sketches and algebra motifs printed on every piece of paper. Awesome!




And some of the Renova toilet papers are Vitamin C and E enriched with added antioxidant agents! Oh my, this toilet paper series are out of the world and perhaps fitting for a king and queen!



I was really tempted to get a pack of the Citrus Fresh Vitamins and Antioxidants enriched toilet papers out of curiosity, as the price for a pack is only RM8.90, which is pretty affordable.  But on second thoughts, I abandoned my idea. I was just wondering what I should do with the toilet papers. I don't need vitamins and antioxidant enriched papers to wipe my butt after my business as I rather wash it clean :D

But as I am typing this post, I am stirred by my intense curiosity again. The next time I shop at Jaya Grocer, I will definitely get a pack of the Renova Citrus Fresh toilet papers just for opening our eyes! And I ain't going to wipe my butt and my daughters' butt with it. It will be for the dining table to wipe our mouths lol!

Would you get them?

2013 Valentines Day

This Valentines Day is just another regular day for us. No surprises from the hubs this year but just a lovely blueberry cake from Mori. Well, I don't mind as I think that it ain't worth to spend a hundred ringgit on a small bouquet of flowers or a few hundred bucks on a candle light dinner. He got me a bouquet of expensive flowers last year and actually I wasn't too happy about it as I am not one who appreciates flowers and I think that it is such a waste of money.  Yep, I'm a pretty down to earth and practical person. These things can be given to me on other days :)

In another 1.5 days, there will be another cake, this time to celebrate Sherilyn's 8th birthday. And in another month, another cake to celebrate my big birthday. And the following month, will be Cassandra's birthday, May will be Mother's Day and June will be Father's Day, wooooot, the girls will be beaming as they will have big cakes to eat every month!

How did you celebrate Valentine's Day? Any fancy schmancy celebration and bling bling gifts from your darling? :P

Our 4th Day Of The Year of the Snake

It's been a pretty quiet day for us to rest at home. I gave the kids some work to do from their workbooks. Alycia will be sitting for her first semester test in 2 weeks, while rascal #2 has been doing nothing but having her eyes glued to all the idiot boxes, so I needed to work her brain before it goes into hibernating mode. It ain't easy to jump-start her brain, so it is wiser to keep it working efficiently everyday.

When Alycia and Sherilyn were doing their workbooks, I took a cat nap on my OTO mobile massage chair. Was having such a nice and comfy nap with mouth wide opened when I heard a loud thud. It sounded like someone fell. My reflex action sent me off the chair instantly, with my  heart almost dropping out. Cass had fallen down from dunno where but thank God she wasn't crying. No crying always means nothing serious and nothing broken. I quickly checked on the girl and she had quite a long stretch of her skin lightly grazed off on her hand. She was in pain but managed to suppress her fear and pain. This tough cookie is indeed tough as ever since her traumatic baby days.  I would have screamed out in pain if I fell and have such a long stretch of my skin grazed out from my hand!

Tonight we'll be having a reunion family with the Yap family at a seafood restaurant. It's going to be another round of rich food and yee sang tossing. Shall continue hard with my workout tomorrow morning. I have the luxury to exercise everyday without fail ever since the mil came back from Hong Kong, bliss! :)

Our 2nd Day of The Snake Year, 2013

The hubs had wanted to bring us to Yeast, a new eatery located a few doors away from Antipodean @ Bangsar but it was closed. So we had no choice but to go to Antipodean again. Though we love the food at Antipodean, we were however pretty bored with the food as we have been there too many times and eating the same food. We wanted to try something new.  Nonetheless, we still enjoyed our breakfast at Antipodean today.





For lunch, we finished off the vegetarian dish that the mil cooked yesterday and also ate our favorite roast chicken that we bought from Jason's Grocers at BSC today.We are off to hubs' uncle's house for our dinner tonight. I guess there will be more meat dishes tonight, *HICK*  I MUST continue to work out extra hard tomorrow morning as I have been binging on a lot on CNY snacks and on the highly fattening nin goa (kuih bakul) coated with grated coconut *double fattening* ! I am so sure I am going to gain back the 1kg that I'd lost after these 2 weeks of inevitable feast on meat and carbs.  Never mind, eat first diet later teehehehe...

Cheeky Cassandra

That's how my cheeky girl opens her mouth wide for me to brush her teeth at hard to reach places LOL!  I wonder who taught her this!


 

Awesome Coral-Like Cauliflower-Brocolli!

My mil did our CNY marketing at the S17 wet market yesterday. When she came home with a cart full of fresh produce, the first thing that caught my eyes was this whatcha call cross-farmed brocolli-cauliflower with a coating that looks like sea corals!

Love the unique flouroscent green but this coral-like flower sure is too dodgy looking to swallow down my throat. I wonder if it was genetically modified. It is the first time I have seen such an awesome looking cauliflower-brocolli. For those of you living in the West, this may be quite a common veggie, eh?

Have you seen this before?

 

Sticky Baby

Though Cass now sleeps in a different bedroom with us, she still has a tendency of knocking on our room door at ungodly hours... sobbing and telling me that she's had a bad dream. Whenever this happens, she'll get to be sandwiched between daddy and mummy. Actually I do miss having her sleep next to me. I've had her sleeping under my armpit for 3 years when she was still on breast milk. And Cass misses sleeping with us and snuggling closely to us too, smelling daddy and mummy. But having a 16kg baby sleep next to us can be pretty uncomfortable as she sleeps like the clock's hands. She moves 360 degrees round the bed and at times kicks us on our face and other parts of our bodies. Sometimes she takes half the king-size bed, pushing hubs and me to the edge of the bed, like this...





But I am not really fussing about it for I know that very soon, this sticky baby will no longer want to stick with us anymore *sobs*

My hubby The Handyman

My kids call their daddy Handy Manny, after the cartoon character. That’s because their daddy is indeed one handyman who can fix and install just about anything from changing a car tire to a ranger tire, fixing leakages, repairing the house, installing very complicated furniture with a thousand parts from scratch and the list goes. Not only is he an adept handyman, he has passion fixing things too. I always wonder why he doesn't have the patience to wait for me to shop for just 1 hour but has absolutely no complaints spending half a day to fix and instal a piece of furniture!

Exercising In Pre-Dawn Darkness

My early morning jog is very important to me.  No matter how busy and tired I may be, I try to avail myself to  jog round our condo compound where there is lush greenery, after sending Alycia and Sherilyn off for school. I love the peace, serenity and quietness before dawn, where the skies are still dark, the air still crisp, fresh and cooling. When I jog in darkness, where the street lights are the only light breaking through the pre-dawn darkness, I get absolute peace of mind. That is the time I do all my thinking, soul-searching and problem-solving!  However, when the sun breaks through the darkness and I feel the heat from the sun, I no longer have the mood and inspiration to jog anymore. 

I spoke to one avid morning swimmer yesterday who lives in the same block as us.  She is a busy working mum who only has time to exercise in the wee hours of the morning,. She also loves to work out in the pre-dawn darkness but she swims at the pool of our condo... and she has the same sentiments as I do!  I guess most busy working mothers need some quietness and ME time, away from the kids everyday to release all our stress... through exercising!

HFM's Angels

My 3 angels, cute and playful as they may be... but they can behave so monstrous that I can feel 10 years of my life snatched from  me when they are, well behaving like monsters and not normal kids! I am tired of using the cane and shouting. So I just have to shut off both my ears and eyes to their mischief and nonsense at times when I am too busy. For busy WFHMs with no live-in helper, you will know what I mean.  I just let them be. Afterall they are kids and they are only kids once and before I even realize it, they are already teenagers. And then they will all be somewhere else and the noisy, mad house will then be so quiet that I wish I could turn back the clock. 

Sometimes when they make me feel like walking out of the home, I ask  God why he has given me such misbehaved kids and then suddenly I will come to my senses.  All of a sudden, I remember the year 2002 and 2003, the 2 years where my life was in a roller coaster ride... all because I wanted to have a baby. My hubs would always use that dark time that we went through to remind me to be thankful for them. And then I thank God for these 3 monsters and ask forgiveness from God for all the harsh words and thoughts I had on them.

My Terrible Wednesday - 30 Jan 2013

I woke up with a really irritating and uncomfortable throat and congested nose this morning. My head felt and is still feeling very heavy and I have been feeling really zonked out since this morning. I am definitely bitten by the flu bug that our part-time maid brought to the house. She came with the same symptoms 3 days ago and asked for the following day off as she wasn't feeling well. Now I am bitten, really terribly! I realized that if I do not have enough sleep, I will fall prey to flu bugs very easily. Today, I just did not feel like doing anything -- did not feel like cooking, washing, talking, working but but but.... SIGH.... I have to do them ALL. Cooked twice a day some more, bleh! Coz I can't stand eating outside food. It would irritate my throat more and I don't want my girls to be eating salt+oil+MSG laden food. Breathing is difficult and I am only breathing through my mouth, causing my mouth to be dry and corner of lips all cracked and darn painful. Gawd, I feel horrible! I just told my girls that mummy's life is tougher than a maid's life. While a maid gets medical leave and rest when she is sick, mummy has to work though she is sick till she feels like dying! All I want to do now is to go to my bed, close the door, turn off the light, turn on the air cond and sleep through till tomorrow morning. Yea, dream on! I still have to pick Sherilyn up from ballet, send out customers' orders, churn out invoices, fight fire with some people and..... sigh!

Lunch Today - 26 Jan 2013

I've got a piece of organic Japanese pumpkin sitting in my fridge for 2 weeks already... but still looking good. Not wanting to let it rot, I decided to add it into the tomato-chicken sauce for spaghetti today. So here goes...



A very tasty bowl of spaghetti (angel's hair and whole wheat Penne -- that was all I could find in my kitchen cabinet) with chicken-pumpkin-tomato-garlic-onion sauce. Time to stock up more spaghetti when we shop at Tesco tonight!



Grapes, spaghetti and coconut water, BURP, oops! lol!

Whose Itchy Hands?

Someone with itchy hands stuck the rubber swimming cap onto the bathroom tiled wall when she was having her shower.  The 2 older monkeys always take forever to shower... almost an hour, claiming that they want to poo but I've caught them sitting on the throne enjoying their story books. And when they are inside the shower stall, they do  all sorts of monkey business!  


Who with the curious mind and itchy hands do you think did this? This is hard to guess haha... and that's a give-away already when I say that.

Those Carefree Days

I often wonder how and when I started to metamorphose into a clean freak. When I was younger, I was totally unperturbed by dirt. I could close both my eyes and use a bathroom that was not washed for over a week. I loved camping in the wilderness and did not mind that I had to sleep on dirty tents with my deuter backpacks as pillow. I did not mind digging holes to answer the call of nature in the jungle and I even bathed in rivers and streams and drank water from the stream. Those were my carefree days which I so miss.

Throes Of Motherhood - Sleep Deprivation

The alarm on my mobile phone buzzed at 4:45am sharp again this morning. I was just SOOOOO tempted to go back to sleep after I had swiped the stop icon on my phone but I knew that if I did that, I could have slept for at least another hour or so and the girls will miss the van to school!  So I dragged myself out of bed like a zombie and with a heavy head.  Washed myself up, washed the cups and did some house work, replied my customers' emails and messages and fixed milk for the girls. And since I had 10 more minutes before it was 5:45am (which was the time Aly and Sher have to be up every school morning), I plonked on my chair in front of my PC and snoozed for 10 minutes. I wished I could go on snoozing for another half an hour but...  oh well, that's motherhood and I have no regret that I've brought myself into it :D  So glad that tomorrow is a public holiday yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

Hand Painting

Cass had her hand painted by one of the condo residents during the carnival held at our condo yesterday. It was her very first. I was very surprised that none of my girls was interested in the face and hand painting. It was only after coaxing from me that Sherilyn and Cass decided to give it a try. And I regretted as the paint smeared all over their clothes as well as mine!

Living Life To The Fullest

 My friend is a strong believer that we should all live life to the fullest, as if we are living our last day today. Her motto is “We Only Live Once, So Love Your Life And Be Happy Always”. She and her hubby have traversed to almost half the part of the world and they have the generosity to splurge on luxurious food, clothing and house. In short, they give their kids and themselves the best of everything because her motto is “I only live once, so make the best out of it!”. My friend and her hubby recently returned from Paris and Italy. While in Paris, they stayed in some paris luxury apartment rentals which overlooked the Eiffel Tower! The pictures that they took in Paris were awesome. Sometimes, I wish I had her kind of mentality too so that I could let go and enjoy life to the max! Can you do that?

Juggler Of Many Tasks

I guess most mothers are very good in juggling  many tasks at a time. I am definitely one.  Now that I am a WFHM to 3 kids, without the help of a live-in helper, every minute is as precious as gold to me! I stretch every minute I have on hand to the max.  Thus, in the morning when the kids are all in school, I try to accomplish as much as I can before they are home as that's when havoc breaks out again!

How I juggle multi-tasks...

1) I usually eat my breakfast / lunch and work on my computer simultaneously. If the food is the messy type with sauce or soup, then I will eat at the dining table and will read the newspapers or a book.

2) I fill up my watering can and water the plants while making calls on my cordless house phone on loudspeaker mode

3) I hang out laundry while talking on the phone, in loudspeaker mode.  Thus, I love phones with loudspeaker function as my hands are freed to do something else when I am talking on the phone

4) While I take my shower, I put Cass on the throne. Once I am done, she is usually done too. Then I bathe her and I only wet my body once haha!  Oh yes, I wash the bathroom too when I have my shower, everyday.

5) I read the newspapers while working out on the Air Walker in the gym

6) While something is cooking in the pan / wok (frying fish / chicken / braising a meat), I wash   the dirty dishes and mop the kitchen floor

7) While waiting for my friend to pick up Sherilyn for ballet, I reply to emails and messages from my customers on my handphone.


The list is endless. Would you like to add to the list? I am sure we busy mothers are very good at maximizing our precious time. Let's share how you ladies juggle your time :)

cureLauncher

The other morning while I was jogging, I bumped into a friend’s mother. She is a cancer fighter. She was diagnosed as suffering from cancer 3 years ago. Though she has lost the ability to eat food on her own, she still looked great to me when I met her that morning. Her voice has changed, as a result of the chemotherapy and her weight has dropped tremendously. She has a feeding tube attached to her belly. After a 3-year silence from her and having not met her for so long, I felt really happy to have bumped into her. She was having a morning walk with another friend, which was a positive sign. A few weeks later, my friend told me that her mother was admitted to the hospital for some breathing difficulties but has since been discharged.

It is with my utmost hope that my friend’s mother will recover completely and will be in complete remission. If only a cure for cancer is found, the world will be a better place to live in. I fear this disease very much and I pray to Him everyday that none of my loved ones and I will be afflicted with this disease. If we were living in the US, I would have directed my friend’s mother to cureLauncher, a company that connects cancer patients to free lifesaving clinical trials.

Our Lunch and Dinner Today - 15 Jan 2013

That's our lunch today. Well, dinner as well since today will be a busy day for me. It's stock checking day and sending out of parcels day for me today and tomorrow, so I gotta whip up something easy which the kids can eat for lunch and dinner.

Noodles with stir-fried minced pork and dried mushrooms sauce, with blanched cauliflowers and spring onions. I hope my rice pot Alycia will not sulk at not being able to have rice for dinner tonight. If she does, I'll just reheat the rice stored in the freezer (I have containers of cooked rice in the freezer to cater for my rice pot lol!) to satiate this fan thoong.


What are you going to have for lunch and dinner today?

Our Sunday - 13 Jan 2013

The girls attended a birthday party of a friend's 2YO grand-daughter today. The theme of the birthday party was Mickey Mouse. There was a very pretty Mickey Mouse fondant cake, lots of Mickey balloons, Mickey party favors and even a Mickey mascot.  The girls had a whale of a time at the party, albeit Cass was initially terrified of the real life Mickey who could walk lol! She dared not go anywhere near where Mickey was and was tugging at my dress all the time.  But after a warming up session with Mickey, she overcame her phobia and was soon shaking hand with Mickey and posing to have her pix taken with Mickey!










I wish you've had a fabulous Sunday as well :)

Easy To Prepare Noodles For The Kids

For time-challenged WFHM without the help of a live-in maid, having to cook 2 meals everyday is indeed a challenge.  I can take the short cut way out by packing food everyday but I am totally opposed to the idea of my kids and me eating oily, salty food cooked using  utensils with questionable hygiene and water from dodgy source. I'll bet most of the 'chap fan' (economy rice) stalls do not use filtered water to cook their food, nor would they use good quality oil. These stall owners hire mainly foreign workers from third world countries to prepare the food and I have seen how they handle food, which really made my tummy churn. We all love to eat roast chicken and roast duck but I'll bet after you see how those fresh from roaster chickens and ducks are hung  on rusty window grills (with cob webs somemore) next to a stinky drain with rats and roaches crawling, you will turn nauseous *gasp*!!   LOL!

Thus, no matter how busy I may be, I'll try to cook for the kids. And I have taught them to eat simple and no-frills meals, like this one....





Organic brown rice vermicelli with pork balls, crab claws, mustard green veggie in homemade radish chicken soup. Though the pork balls and crab claws ain't the healthiest choice of  meat to go with  the vermicelli, I think it is still way healthier than outside food. Agree?

Clumsy Pot Did It Again!

Miss Butterfingers and Clumsy Pot made another big boo boo. Each time she tries to help out or be independent, she will surely cause more trouble and messes than  to provide help. The other morning (on Xmas day!), I was hanging out the laundry and she volunteered to fix her milk on her own. I consented, though I had a hunch again that she  will cause spillage but I knew I had to let her try doing things on her own, else she will forever be prevented from being independent just because she is clumsy.

Not even a minute later, she ran to me with a guilt-stricken face and told me that she spilled 'VERY LITTLE MILK POWDER'. I knew her VERY LITTLE meant A LOT as that was not the first time accidents like that had happened.

The counter top was covered with white milk powder, as with the floor and some of the drawers! I had to change the cloth on the kitchen top, which was very tedious as we had things placed on the cloth. I was raging with anger. I enlisted the help of my most reliable helper to clear up the mess while I quickly finished off with the laundry and then mopped the floor.

Accidents like this happen every single day. But I can't put her in cold-storage as this will only cause a more negative impact on her. So I just have to bear with her clumsiness, scream more and work more on cleaning up her messes. Sometimes I wonder if she is Dyspraxia as she has many of the symptoms. But after reading the symptoms from the internet, I do not think she falls into this category as she has excellent social skills and was a fast learner in sitting, crawling, walking, etc when she was a baby --all way ahead of her peers.

Raise Your Heart Rate To Lose Weight

When our live-in maid just left us about 3 months ago, I lost weight as I had to do everything that she used to do on my own, on top of my existing workload. I was on my feet most of the time. I felt hungry all the time and my weight slid down though I snacked the whole day. However, about a month later, my weight went up again to where it was before our helper left. I knew this was going to happen as my weight had hit a plateau. Only fitness freaks and weight conscious freaks will know what I am talking about. When we lose weight too quickly, our metabolism can slow down as our body can sense that it is starving. Rapid or large amounts of weight loss can slow your metabolism by as much as 40% in six months. And when we reach our body’s particular set point (i.e. the weight and metabolic rate our body is genetically programmed to be), it will be very hard to lose further weight and even if we do, it is likely that we regain it. All in all, my weight is still hovering at 44 – 45kg. I was 43kg as a school girl, so I am still pretty satisfied with my weight now. I’ll be glad if I can go back to 43kg ;)

Though my weight is at my own ideal range now, I am still pretty fanatic about exercising. Though I no longer have the time to exercise everyday come rain or shine like I used to do, I try to exercise at least 3-4 times in a week. When I exercise, I try to ensure that my heart rate is raised to between 70% to 90% of my maximum heart rate to maximize the number of calories I burn and to continuously improve my fitness level. If you work out in a gym, the thread mill will help you monitor your heart rate but if you run on the road, you can get a heart rate monitor from HeartRateMonitors.com to help you track your heart rate. For those of you who have not started exercising yet, give yourself a try. Squeeze out some time everyday to exercise and you will notice a difference in your life – physically and mentally. And you will love the glow in your complexion too!

She Talks

This morning, Cass saw a little moth flying in the room. This little fler has a phobia of flying insects. She yelled her lungs out and I comforted her, telling her that the moth was probably more frightened than us than she was of it.  She dared not enter the room to dress up for school.  I then told her that the moth was already under the bed...

Me - don't be scared, the moth is now under the bed

Cass - for what?

Me - waiting to die there

Cass- can you feed it so that it won't die? What can you feed it with?

Me - it probably sucks juice from the flowers but how can we feed it with flowers. Just let it die.

Cass - No, don't let it die.  Please feed it so that the baby moth can go back to its family and be happy forever and ever.

Me - I thought you are scared of it and want it to die?

Cass - NO! If it dies, then the family can't find it. Let it find its family pleasssssse...

My baby girl is such a sweet little girl with such a loving nature. She is so loved that she wants all living things around her to feel loved too ♥

Our First Sunday in 2013

Pix taken on our first Sunday of the brand new 2013

Cass at Sunday School for pre-schoolers...





 

After Sunday School, we had dim sum lunch at our favorite Oriental Restaurant @ Jaya 33. And after lunch, we did some groceries shopping at Jaya Grocer. It's been a relaxing and happy Sunday for us and I hope that the coming days in the week ahead will be smooth sailing and uneventful.

How has your first Sunday in 2013 been?

First Day Of School in 2013

So far, the second day of the brand new year has been smooth sailing for me.  I shot up from bed the moment my handphone alarm buzzed at 5am sharp.  Normally I would feel groggy and would still laze in bed for 5-10 minutes but today, I knew I had no time to waste and quickly started out doing what I had to do. I just could not afford to be late and cause the girls to be late on the first day of school. The girls woke up at 5:45am, with Alycia fussing and whining, which is not unusual for this fella. She's just not a morning person.

Today, my parents ended their 6 days of stay with us. With a heavy heart, the girls and I had to bid them farewell and wished that they would come back to have another stay with us real soon.

Here is our  lunch on the first school day / work day for us in 2013 -- baby's porridge haha!   My dad and mum woke up at 6am to prepare this for us.




Our baby porridge consists of rice, Japanese sweet potatoes, carrots and roast pork ribs. Very sweet and yummy! All natural goodness and perfect for the digestive system after a week of food binging.