March 2010 – Page 3 – HEALTH FREAK MOMMY

Busy Bee

I have been extremely busy the past few days. Was busy with:

1) Orders from my blogshop
2) An enquiry from a customer from California who wanted to purchase 25 pieces of clothing from my blogshop.
3) Busy replying emails.
4) Busy calling / texting / emailing my suppliers.
5) Busy coaching Alycia in her homework. In the beginning, there was not much homework given. However, things have changed now. Homework is getting heavier by the day. 2 days ago, Alycia was given 2 worksheets to complete at home. The worksheets consisted of Math, BM, English and Mandarin and each set of worksheet had about 10 pages!! Alycia stayed up until 10ish pm to complete her work, then I hurried her off to bed. The next morning when she dragged herself out from bed, she was so sleepy that she sat at the dining table chair with her eyes closed and could not bring herself up to drink her milk.
6) Busy coaching Sherilyn in her homework and teaching her Math.
7) Busy bringing Baby to the potty and washing her up after each pee. With Baby, I have to make sure that she pees very frequently and her down under is squeaky clean to prevent another UTI.
8) Busy coaxing Baby to pee, to poo and to wear clothes that she’s supposed to wear at home. This I will blog in another post. This cutie pie is slowly transforming into a rascal as her 2nd birthday is fast approaching.
9) Tried to blog-hop to at least 3 blogs each day.
10) Tried to update my 3 blogs. For my health blog, I have to do a lot of reading to find interesting health related articles.
11) Spoon-feed Baby formula milk.
12) Still run and exercise at least 30-40 minutes every morning without fail.

and sigh….. I don’t even have time to finish reading the newspapers.
Have no time to ‘p8at’ in Facebook 🙁
No time to visit blogs that I really wanted to visit 🙁
No time to finish last month’s Reader’s Digest
No time to read the Bible … can’t even remember when the last time was that I read it *forgive me God*
No time to do things that I love to do

…sigh……

Here’s a pic of rascal #2 who had dozed off on the couch. This rascal hardly takes her nap in the afternoon now. By 9pm, she is normally so sleepy that she would doze off at the couch while watching TV.

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Sell Any Of Your Old Or New Stuff At My Blogshop!

This invitation is open to everyone! I am pretty sure many of you have stuff that you want to dispose of but don’t know where to dispose them or who to give them to. Sometimes, you feel that it would be a tad too ‘sayang’ to give your stuff away and have thought of selling it. Well, now you can sell your stuff both old and new at my blogshop, Old And New Stuff For Sale!

You can sell just about any stuff – old baby clothes, your old clothes, bags, costume jelweries, accessories, belts, iPod, your old car (!!) and anything under the sky that you have EXCEPT for pornographic stuff, illegal stuff, banned stuff and stuff that I don’t support. Listing of your stuff at my blogshop will be subject to my review and approval. You only pay me 20% in handling / listing fee and commission. For eg. if someone buys your old handbag at RM20, you only need to pay me RM4, that’s it!

You can also make nice stuff – costume jewelries, crafts, kids’ stuff, even cakes, cookies, etc. and sell them at my blogshop.

This is the procedure:

1) Take pix of your stuff
2) Write description of your stuff
3) Set pricing for your stuff
4) Email the pix and description of your stuff to shireenyong@gmail.com
5) I will post your pix and description of your stuff in my blogshop
6) Any enquiries from interested customers, I will direct them to you.
7) Payment will be to my bank account.
8) I will transfer the money to your account less 20% (10% handling / listing fee + 10% commission) to be paid to me.

You like this stuff? If you love my stuff, quick go through your wardrobe and garage/storeroom to look for old stuff now, snap pix and email them to me. Spread this news to your friends and relatives too. You don’t have to go to eBay or sweat it out at the weekend bazaar to sell your stuff now! Sell it at Old And New Stuff For Sale.

BTW, I got this idea from self-made millionaire Rob Kalin when I read from last month’s Reader’s Digest about how he made his millions doing this at his website. He is only 29 years old and he grosses more than USD12 million a year!! Well, I don’t dream of making this much, just a million a year will suffice 😀

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To Cut Or Not To Cut?

I have always loved having my hair long. When I was in primary school, my mum did not allow me to keep my hair long as my hair was once infested with head lice. I was in Primary 2 then. Since then, my mum was adamant that my hair was kept short, until I was older and knew how to care for my hair properly, i.e. with proper washing and regular combing. I still remember that when I was about 12, I kept looking at hairstyles magazines and all I wanted for my birthday was an approval from my mum to allow me to have my hair kept long! My birthday wish was granted and since then, my hair has been long most of the time. Occasionally, I still cut my hair short, but with the latest hairstyles. I am a vain pot too and my 2 younger gals have inherited my genes 🙂

Throughout my adulthood, my hair has always been long. I prefer to let my hair down as it is more feminine this way. Ever since my kids came along, my hair has always been tied up. With 3 hyper-active and demanding kids, I sweat all the time and it’s hard to work when your hair is all over your face. Thus, I feel more comfortable having my hair tied up. Lately, I have been looking at the latest hair styles magazines and websites and am so tempted to have my hair cut short to chin-level, something like Victoria Beckham and Paris Hilton’s bob hairstyle! A Bob hairstyle is the easiest to manage for a busy WFHM like me who is devoid of time for hair grooming or make-up. But I really have to sleep over my decision to have my hair cut short, lest I’ll live with regret for the next 1 year when the new hairstyle proves disastrous.

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Don’t Eat With Your Hands

Today my mil cooked fried vermicelli for lunch. Whenever there is fried vermicelli, meal times are such a breeze for me and for my gals. Even Baby loves eating fried vermicelli. Rascal #2 whacked 1 big bowl and replenished her bowl with noodles 2 times. Towards the end of eating the 3rd bowl, she was already quite stuffed and that’s when she started to play with the noodles. She ditched her chopsticks and then started to use her hands to ~~play with the noodles~~ eat. Baby who was seated next to her rascal jie jie then said this repeatedly “cheh cheh, no no hands, oiyee… oiyee“. She was trying to tell her cheh cheh not to use her hands to eat the fried vermicelli as the noodles were oily, haha! My Baby is really learning fast and she has indeed learned well…. from mummy! Very soon, she can be my personal assistant and remind her 2 jie jies to behave well at all times 😀

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