Month: November 2009

Grim Reminder

The 2 cuts on Baby’s abdomen never fail to remind me that I should be thankful that I got her back all in one piece, that I should be thankful that despite 2 major surgeries that she had so painfully endured, she is still one bubbly, active, smart baby who is developing pretty normally, albeit a tad petite for her age.


Whenever I am steaming mad and feeling frustrated with this rascal who is always driving me up the wall now, all I need to do is to open up her diaper and the sight of her scars would douse away the anger.  I remember that during my 3-week stay in the hospital with her, all I wanted was for Baby to be well and to see her smile again.  Memories of our 3-week nightmarish stay in the hospital never fail to make me appreciate and treasure her every bit more and this always make me thankful to God that she is now bursting with vigor and has loads of cunning ideas up her sleeves.

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Submit A Video And Win $5,000!

Great news friends! If you, your loved ones or your friends are short-sighted, long-sighted or have any other vision problem with your eyes, then here’s a chance for you guys to win some prizes out of your misfortune. All you have to do is to submit a video on your experiences in dealing with your vision problem.

Here’s what you are supposed to do. First, entrants must make a video and submit your video to the iLASIK Video Contest. Entrants can choose from three different categories as follows:

1. “My contacts are getting in the way of my good time”
2. “My favorite sport or activity would be so much cooler with better vision”
3. “You should see life after the iLASIK® Procedure”

After you have submitted your video, be sure to tell the whole world to vote for you as votes are one of the key factors that will determine the winners.

Here are the details of the prizes:

o Grand Prize of USD$5,000!
o First Prize (one in each video category):
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Mushroom Soup Pasta

I whipped up a very tasty pasta dish using Campbell’s mushroom soup for the girls the other day. I used elbow macaroni and Disney’s Princess veggie pasta. This is so easy peasy to cook and the girls all loved them, especially rascal #2 who wanted to eat the pasta for 2 days straight and asked for it again and again!

First, cook the macaroni and pasta al dente.

Then, pour one sachet of Campbell’s mushroom soup (I buy the ones without added MSG) into a pot and add water. Bring to a boil.

I also marinated 2 slices of ma yau fish with some mixed herbs and a pinch of salt.

When the soup is boiling, put in the already cooked pasta and elbow macaroni into the soup.  Toss in the fish too.  Stir so that the pasta, fish and soup will not stick to the pot.

10 – 15 minutes later, lunch is ready!

The herbs fish went very well with the pasta and macaroni in the mushroom soup. This is such an easy to cook and tasty dish for kids.  I am glad that Baby and Sherilyn, my 2 very picky eaters loved this dish. 

Next, I am going to post about a new dish that I had whipped up for Baby, which she loved to bits. Even older kids and adults would love it.  It’s so quick and easy to prepare (I only cook easy and quick dishes, no time to fix elaborate meals) and very nutritious too.  It’s steamed fish and pumpkin with mixed herbs and butter.  Stay tuned for this post!

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What’s Up Baby?

Baby has been driving me up the wall lately not only with her daredevil stunts but also with her diaper-removing and clothes-removing rebel! What’s up Baby? You have 5 more months to reach 2 years old, so why are all your Terrible Twos traits rearing their ugly head now? Feeding time is another hair-pulling, skin-tearing, tear-jerking session for me. She is really wearing my patience thin and at times, I feel like strangling her!! Raising kids is such a tough chore. Sometimes I wonder if it’s only my kids who are so difficult to handle, or maybe I am just not cut to be a SAHM. I always tell my kids in the midst of my frustration that mummy feels like running far, far away from them.


Baby in the mood to strip to show off her new red bikini, hehe. Moments later when I turned my back, she unbuttoned the snap buttons on her cloth diaper and swung the cloth diaper out! This always makes me run to her like a headless chicken and carry her out of the playpen. This is one of Baby’s manipulative ploy to get herself out of the playpen, another one is climbing out like a tiger cub! She is cunning and manipulative, isn’t she?  OMG, she’s just like Sherilyn!

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Our Saturday

The girls had a very pleasant surprise last night when half way through dinner, daddy (a basketball buff) came home after watching a basketball tourney with a bag of goodies for them. There were 4 devil’s horns headbands, one of which is battery-operated headgear with lights, a huge plastic toy axe, 2 huge foams in the shape of high-5 hands and some balloons. These Halloween themed items were given to VIP supporters of one of the basketball teams.  Before even finishing their dinner, they excitedly wore the devil’s horns headbands and played with the balloons and toy axe.


Baby wearing the battery-operated devil’s horns headgear with orange lights.

Daddy (a huge doughnut fan) also bought 2 doughnuts from Krispy Kreme to try, which I find too sweet for my liking.

After dinner, daddy dug out his camcorder to test it as he will be using it to shoot Alycia and Sherilyn in action during their school concert tomorrow. Baby the samseng didn’t want to be left out and climbed up the dining table to join in the fun!

Later in the night, we all watched old videos that daddy had previously shot – videos of me in the hospital after giving birth to Baby, videos of Alycia’s ballet concert, Alycia’s school concert and other old videos of Aly and Sher goofing around. Everyone had a good hearty laugh watching the old videos.  Watching the videos made me realized how much and how fast my girls are growing up right before my eyes.

Daddy and my mil are now in town attending Aly and Sher’s school concert and I am enjoying the peace and serenity at home.  Baby is taking her nap but she will wake up anytime.  Baby has been driving me  CRAZY lately with her crappy crabbiness, diaper-removing rebel and heart-stopping stunts, HAIH……

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