Of one of the best things

One of the best things about being at home and with the kids is I get the chance to see them do what they normally do when I am away at work. I get to see how they play, what are their favourite toys: cars for the both of them! O_0 My MIL will so disapprove! A girl playing with cars? The blasphemy! REFB (Rolling eye far back! You will see more of these in future posts!)


I get to see what are the antics they get up to. The boy is obsessed with body lotion. Every chance, scratch or itch he has, he would run for his Johnson's baby lotion and lather himself with it. "Hmm.. wangiiii..." he would say.


The girl is into talcum powder. If you did not close the cover back properly, she will reach for it and give a generous sprinkling of powder all over herself. Cinnamon melts with icing powder. Nak mintak kena gigit!


Staying at home also means we get to lepak and chill and take plenty of pictures. I miss doing that for the longest time ever! Now every single cute thing they do, I would yell out and tell them to 'pause' and run off to get my phone/camera and snap the picture.

Googly Bear

Parenting tip for today; always involve your kids, as young as toddlers when doing household chores. Let them help up with the vacuuming, sweeping, mopping, etc. Several places sell brooms, dustpans and mops for children. Never say no when they offer to help. Make doing chores fun/playtime for all. Sure, the place wont be spick and span as you may like it (OCD on cleanliness Moms, you gotta trust me on this!) but the remunerations are far more worth it.

You instil the habit of cleaning for the family at a young age. The child will grow up thinking this is how all family are. They work and clean together. The child will also be developing his psycho-motor skills, hand-eye coordinator, operating basic cleaning tools such as brooms and vacuums. Sure it might be messy the first few times but after that, you have your own personal cleaning elf! After this, household chores will be a breeze and fun. I even throw in background music for us to groove to while cleaning. Sergio Mendes FTW!

Just a short note: Please be present when child is cleaning and always supervise the kid. Never leave the child unattended especially around wet and slippery mopped floors or around the vacuum cleaner.

Peace!

Unemployment

So, I submitted my application for childcare leave for 2 years. It will effectively start on 1st Jan 2011 but because the last day of school is on the 20th Nov 2010, technically, I am now UNEMPLOYED!

But of course my fulltime job now is being a stay at home mom. No easy feat even with a helper around. We are trying as much as possible to delegate helper's job to more of cooking and cleaning and anything else to do with the children comes under my care. Slowly but surely I hope!

Now that I am kinda of more free especially when the kids go to sleep by 9pm, I will be more dedicated to regularly pen down my thoughts and whatnots. Trying to start a new thing here, gonna try and end a blog post with one parenting tip. But please take not that I am no parenting expert here. Just giving my two cents after having 2 children and being a teacher for the past 8 years.

Today's parenting tip is: Best gift to buy for a child is a watch. Recommended for children above 3 years old. Kids can start off with a digital watch. Helps to build the habit of wearing a watching, telling the time and from there the importance of punctuality and being on time.

Plenty of times I see teenagers who often come late to school does not own or like to wear a watch. Sure, everyone can tell the time from their handphones but you cant bring in a handphone during a lesson, class test or examination, can you?

Till the next post, tomorrow night (hopefully).

How fair art thou..

I was talking to a bunch of Malay boys in my form class when one of them said that I look exactly like A's mom (one of the boys in the group).

"But I think my mother is prettier!" blurted out A. The rest of the boys looked horrified. They thought I would be angry at A.

I smiled and said, "A, you are absolutely right. Your mother should always be the prettiest woman to you." The rest of the boys were puzzled with my answer.

"Your mother should be the prettiest woman in your life and you must defend her with your life." I added. Only then they understood.

I have a son of my own. And I hope one day my son will tell others that no one else is prettier than his own mother... Amin.

Dude, where did my weekend go?!



Once again, the weekend came and went like a flirty temptress. Two days with two kids are not enough I tell you! Supposed to mark exam papers but instead I spent the time lazing in bed with the children and watch Annisa do body rolls back and forth :D Now thats time well spent!

Till the next weekend, my dear weekend.

Another Lovely Weekend Is Here!



For most working mothers, we live and love for the weekends. Not having to wake up early and rush off to work or coming back late and spending a mere hour or so before the tots fell asleep.

I truly love the two days of waking up early and watch my kids wake up. When they open their eyes and I am the first thing they see when they wake up and a smile registers on their faces.. priceless..

Enjoy this weekend and till the next weekend :D

Two Kids




At first I thought its going to be hard to love a new person in my life because I love my son very much. But when she arrived, loving her was so effortless. I didnt love my son any less. It was like my heart grew twice the size to accomodate loving both children at the same time.

Love. Love.

Of Mother's Day

Two siblings, both under the age of four, left in the care of their helper for extended periods of time while the parents are overseas for work.

The youngest one, a one year old called their helper 'Mama'. I teared when I heard that.

This Mother's Day..




I promised that the two of you will always wear clean and ironed uniforms + clean socks (with no holes) every morning for school.

Thank you for loving and accepting me as your mother. Defects and all.

To my own mother, I love you, Mama. Thank you for giving me life and bringing me up to be a decent human being.

To all the other mothers out there, Happy Mother's day to you.

'Every woman can give birth, but it takes a special woman to be called a mother.'

One of the best things in life..





is seeing the toothless gummy smile of your baby :D

Hairy Issues

Never ask me why my daughter's hair is taking such a long time to grow back after a skin-head shave she had after her cukur rambut. Is my name Yunnam haircare or what? The hair will grow when the hair wanna grow. Hold your tongue and stop suggesting me to try out minyak Don, minyak Almond dan segala minyak.. thankyoubye.