I Am Like Cinderella

When Sherilyn dropped chocolate bits all over the floor yesterday, I made her clean up the mess. She used  some toilet papers dabbed with water to clean up the mess. But the wet toilet papers clumped up and tore into pieces, leaving the papers scattered everywhere on the floor. I then made her pick up the bits and pieces of toilet papers too. As she knelt on all fours on the floor cleaning the floor and picking up the papers, she said to herself “I am like Cinderella” muahahahaha…… this really made me chuckle to myself!  This rascal has been watching Cinderella VCD and reading the Cinderella tale (which is her favorite) on her Leap Frog quite a bit lately.   All the anger inside me doused off instantly with her witty remark!

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Baby C And Her Stroller Stories

I don’t know what’s up with Baby. For the past few days, the second I placed her inside her playpen at night or early in the morning when I thought she’s deep in her sleep, she would spring up from her playpen, bawl and call “mameeeeee” in the most pathetic pleading tone, as if I were abandoning her. Yesterday, she woke up at 6am after I tried putting her into the playpen. Just before I wanted to leave the house to jog, I managed to nurse her back to sleep but the second her body touched the mattress, she woke up and bawled. I tried to put her next to daddy on the bed but she wailed louder. So no choice, I strapped her up in her stroller and brought her along with me jogging…. along the corridors at the basement of our condo. 

After the harrowing stroller accident about 10 months ago, I have a phobia of bringing Baby out of the condo in the stroller. If you haven’t read that stroller accident post, let me tell you. It was the worst accident for me and Baby. I was pushing Baby on the stroller down a ramp one morning when the wheels got wedged in the drain cover in our condo building and the stroller somersaulted and Baby landed face down on the hard tarred road!! I thought she was going to die and I broke some bones. Thankfully I only had some light hand injuries and Baby was once again protected by God. She only escaped with light grazes and scratches on her nose and forehead.  Maybe I should also thank the hubs that he bought a sturdy Peg Perego stroller (with safety belts over both the child’s hands)  for Baby and gave away our old stroller with only a waist safety belt.  Had I used the old stroller, Baby’s injuries could have been more serious.

Since the accident, I am super duper paranoid of pushing Baby whenever she’s on the stroller. Whenever we go shopping, I dare not push her on the stroller when we go up or down the escalator. Baby will be removed from the stroller and my maid will push the empty stroller. Anyway, it’s meant to be this way coz if you look at the instructions/warnings at the side of the escalator, it strictly prohibits child on stroller while going up or down the escalator BUT I see many parents doing this, including the hubs.

Anyway, back to where I was. After about 20 minutes on her stroller with me pushing her as I jogged, Baby dozed off. When I finished my jogging session, I didn’t want to bring her out of the stroller for I knew this would definitely jolt her up from her sleep. So my maid and I carried the stroller into our living room and she continued sleeping in the stroller while I prepared Alycia and Sherilyn for school. But she soon woke up when daddy reclined the seat. What a light sleeper she is.


My little sleeping beauty.

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Protecting My Computer

I have been wasting a lot of precious time for the past 3 days on my computer. First, internet connection has been pretty unstable and slow. This could be due to the recent earth quake in Indonesia. A call to my internet provider 2 days ago and today revealed that my internet connection was ‘hang’ at the internet provider’s side. Second, my computer has been attacked by some malicious viruses. My Internet Explorer is also acting very strangely. I have also been unable to access certain websites and blogs and once I’m connected to these sites, my computer would crash.

I think it’s high time I invest a little money on a reliable anti-virus software to protect my computer from further damage. These days, many online stores offer online discount coupons and discount offers on anti-virus software packages. I should check out these online stores and get my computer an anti-virus software before a major disaster happens. That’s the last thing I ever want to happen on my computer.

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How To Remove Permanent Marker Ink Effortlessly

When Alycia drew a picture of a clock on Baby’s new Fisher Price doodle, I was enraged and chided her off big time.  I was mad coz that doodle is the fourth I had bought.  The earlier 3 doodles were all spoilt by Alycia and Sherilyn.

I searched the house high and low for thinner but could not find any.  My mum suggested using alcohol and so we searched the cabinets for our Hennesy and other hard liquor but all the bottles were not opened yet.  The hubs and I drink no liquor and don’t like alcohol.  I even attempted to google search to find ways to remove the permanent marker ink or wait until the hubs is free to go to the hardware shop to get a bottle of thinner.  Then for once, the maid is quick to think.  She suggested using my mil’s magic sponge and voila, the ink stuck to the magic sponge like magic! 


The magic sponge, also called melamine sponge is really a handy tool at home with young kids. It wipes off stains from my kids’ tables and cleans walls of pen ink and other stains magically. Just dab the magic sponge with some water and see the magic work on stains. So if you haven’t gotten yourself a pack of magic sponge yet, quick do so. They are available at most hardware shops and the household department of the shopping mall.

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HEALTH FREAK MOMMY