HEALTH FREAK MOMMY – Page 284 – The joys and throes of motherhood…

Fun With Bubbles

My gals are balloon and bubble crazed. Recently, the gals’ koo koo (youngest sil) bought them an ELC battery-operated bubble maker from Hong Kong and they had so much fun playing with it. Even I find the bubble maker amusing. I normally bring them to the park to blow bubbles so that they will not dirty the floor of our porch but yesterday, I was too lazy to bring them to the park, so they played at the porch and dirtied the floor with soap. But it’s ok, we parents cannot make rules so rigid at times, else our kids will not have an enjoyable childhood. It’s really nice to see Alycia so happy shooting bubbles from the gun whilst Sherilyn chasing after them.

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The Gals Have Gone For A Haircut

My mil and my maid have just left the house to bring Alycia and Sherilyn for a haircut. The gals have not had a haircut for months already and their hair is becoming long and messy. My mil cannot stand the sight of their long and messy hair, especially during meal times coz the gals don’t like their hair tied up and their hair keep touching the food. I’m actually quite worried that the hair-dresser will cut their hair too short and make them look like tomboys so I kept reminding Alycia, my mil and my maid to tell the hair-dresser to keep their hair a chin level and to have a concave hairstyle as the gals have always looked pretty in concave hairstyle. I hope they will come back looking pretty and girlish.

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Educational Toys and Books

These are the ELC educational toys and goodies that koo mah bought Alycia and Sherilyn from Hong Kong recently. I have not let the gals play with them yet as they still have a few batches of new toys to play with and new books to read. I now have a closet full of the gals’ new toys, books and stickers given to them by their aunties and grandparents and I will only release them in small spurts or when I’ve run out of ideas to prevent a meltdown.

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Please Don’t Fall Sick

My maid is having the sniffles and I’m so afraid she’ll spread the virus to my 2 gals. I’ve given her Clarinase and Nurofen for the last 2 days and hopefully, she’ll recover in no time. If my gals catch my maid’s cold bug, I’m pretty sure there’ll be a domino effect and everyone in the family will kena too, including me. And who suffers the most? It has to be me coz when the gals and I fall sick, I don’t get MC or rest and work continues as usual, with OT round the clock but no OT payment from the big boss. Hubby’s pocket would also suffer a big hole when he has to bring everyone to see the doctor. So please God, please don’t let anyone of us catch my maid’s cold bug.

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Investing in Tea

Anyone wants to invest in tea? More and more people are choosing to invest in tea these days, especially Pu Err tea as the prices of tea (good quality, superior tea) have been going up steadily for the last few years. In fact, the price of tea has gone up even higher than the price of gold. The older the tea is, the more price it will fetch. Unbelievable eh? I also find it hard to believe but I’ve been reading it from the internet and from the papers very frequently these days.

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Not Much Sleep

I didn’t get much sleep last night. I think I only have about 2-3 hours of deep sleep last night. I was actually having insomnia. Yea, me having insomnia, of all people. Already severly deprived of sleep, I just couldn’t get into deep sleep as I had drank some Pu Err chinese tea in the late evening. We had some relatives at our house yesterday and we feasted on some pasar malam food, lots of durians and kuih. My mil then brewed some very nice Pu Err tea and since it’s an expensive tea (around HKD1800), I decided to drink a cup or two and when bedtime came, sei lor, i just couldn’t sleep. I just tossed and turned on my bed and went downstairs to check for offers a few times but just couldn’t sleep. Good lesson learnt for me, never drink tea after 6pm in future, especially chinese tea.

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Organic Choco Drink

This is the organic choco drink that sil#1 bought the gals from Hong Kong. I normally add 1 tablespoon to Sherilyn’s cereal and she loves it. The colour of the cereal is dark chocolate and the cereal tastes exactly like chocolate pudding or chocolate moose, and it’s not too sweet. Even I like it!

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Alycia Is Off Diapers During Nap Time (Part 2)

Today is the third day Alycia is off diapers during her afternoon nap and I must say, both Alycia and I did a good job. When I woke Alycia up to pee an hour later into her nap, she wasn’t cranky but just a tad bit groggy and I had to half carry her up from the mattress on the floor to the potty. After peeing, she went back to sleep without any fuss. She’s now peacefully sleeping on the mattress. I better go and whisper some magical words into her ears now to brainwash her not to pee in her pants….

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I Can’t Believe I Did It

When I’d accepted the 6 offers from my favorite advertiser this morning, I thought I would not be able to complete them by tomorrow but heck, I managed to complete all today. The advertiser has even approved a couple of my posts. Luckily my mil is around to help me watch over the gals, else I don’t think I can even complete the assignments by tomorrow.

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What A Mess

Several days ago as I was busy working at my computer, Sherilyn was entertaining herself and drawing at the dining table. She was singing away cheerily as she was drawing. Then, from singing she switched to counting. I heard her counting from 1 to 10 perfectly without any mistakes. Suddenly, I felt something fishy going on. Why was she counting for no reason I asked myself. When I went to the dining area, I saw her pulling tissue papers from the tissue box and tearing them into bits and pieces as she threw them on the floor. No wonder she was counting. I reprimanded her and hit her hand as I had warned her countless times before not to play with tissue papers. She of course wailed.

My maid and Alycia helped to keep the tissue papers into a plastic bag, to be recycled later, whilst Sherilyn watched with pouting Daisy Duck lips.

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Nice Smell Wafting From The Kitchen…Again

Whenever my mil stays with us, we all get to enjoy her cooking. As I am typing this post, again I can smell the aroma of stewed pork ribs in seafood sauce wafting up from the kitchen. The smell is making my tummy rumble again. I have to resist popping food into my mouth now as I’m waiting for hubby to bring home durians from the pasar malam… just tell me how am I to loose weight like that with so much temptations from so many sources? Never mindlah, i’ll just eat now and diet later, when everyone goes back.

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Alycia Only Wants Her Mah Mah

Ever since my mil came back from Hong Kong on Wednesday, Alycia has been glued to her. Alycia tends to act up whenever I try to ‘separate’ her from her mah mah like when I asked her to take her bath, take her afternoon nap or go to bed at night. She doesn’t even want me to bathe her, brush her teeth or feed her. Everything is “I want mah mah!” Well, I am not jealous at all… in fact I am so glad I can be temporary relieved of these mundane tasks for the next few weeks, phew……

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Nice Smell Coming From The Kitchen

As I am typing this post, my tummy is growling and rumbling away as I hear my mil clanking the spatula away on the wok frying meehoon with shredded pumpkin strips, strips of chicken meat, dried shrimps and bean sprouts. This is a recipe which she had learnt from a Taiwanese friend. I shall take pix of the noodles and post it later. I think she has finished cooking the noodles now as I can hear her opening the kitchen drawer to bring out a dish. Let me check out the kitchen now……

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Sherilyn’s Artwork

Alycia and Sherilyn love drawing and writing. From their drawings, I can see that their imagination is really good. Alycia can draw a rocket, an anklet, a necklace, marbles, lollipops, ice-cream and just about anything that her imagination fancies. Here, Sherilyn is seen trying to draw spiders on her doodle pro.

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Nice Kids Clothes From HK

These are some of the clothes that sil#1 bought Alycia and Sherilyn from Hong Kong recently. Most of the clothes are from Mothercare and KingKow. The gals are really lucky to have aunties and grandparents who dote on them and generously shower them with clothes, toys, books and food all the time.

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Sweet Memories (part 2)

When I was back at my house in Ipoh, I managed to fish out a couple of my old pix whilst I was rummaging through my old closet.

This pic was taken in Pulau Kapas, Terengganu during one of our camping trips when I was 16 years old. I am the one wearing a peach colour t-shirt on the right and the one seated on the wooden bridge is Theimperfectmom. The one directly above Theimperfectmom is Irene, a former Ipoh Teen Princess. She’s now happily married to an Aussie Taiwanese and residing in S’pore. The one on the left is Jo and currently working in San Francisco. The tallest one behind me is Poh Lin. I haven’t heard from her for ages but I last heard that she’s now a psychologist.

This pic was taken when we were all 15 years old, during our very first camping trip at Pulau Sekadeh in Pangkor Island. From left to right : Li Lian, me, Jo and Theimperfectmom.

How I miss my childhood days and I must say, I’ve had a very good childhood, filled with lots of fun, adventure, mischief and laughter. I’d do anything if only I could turn back the clock.

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