Well last year, I was very diligent in making Teacher’s Day cards for my children to give to the teachers. It was a nice folded Japanese doll. My son only gave 1 away and the left over, he messed it all up in the bag.

This year, I asked them what they want to give, Emily wanted to give flowers. That’s easy. I ordered carnation for them. I also made a few potpourris to attach to the flowers. It was easy. Both their teacher’s day was moved to last Friday 21st May. What a coincident?

I was really in doubt that my boy will go and give away the flowers. In fact I asked him many times and he gave me a confirmation. Emily was excited because she had water play in school too.

End of Friday, my boy came back with an empty bag. That’s a relief. I really didn’t think he could do it. He gave to every teacher. On top of that, he went into other classes to give the flower to one of his teachers because that teacher didn’t come to his class. I was shocked by his bravery. He distributed all. Trust me he is a very quiet & shy boy in school. He is so quiet that the teacher always allowed him to go home first while punishes others for being noisy. I am so proud of him.

Happy Teacher’s Day!!

Exam week is here and I am anxious. I am sure, most of you who has kids in primary are. My mother was not anxious when I was in school. Maybe she hid the feelings very well.

Anyway, yesterday was the start of my boy’s midterm exam. I was worried about his BM paper and Moral because it is not his cup of tea. I was worried that he cannot do the composition (karangan) part. The last test was a disaster for him because he left that section blank.

As he stepped foot into the house after school, he has a grinning face. He said “Mummy, the paper was easy”. He started telling me what was in the paper. It was a relief for me. I guess he is more focus in this exam because I told him if he gets below 50 marks, he will not have any TV and computer for 1 month.

Ok, now I just have to wait for his marks to come back. Today is English and Science. Now I know why mothers get white hair and wrinkles after they have children. 😛

One of my bathroom pipes got an air bubble trap in the pipe and the water cannot flow out even when I turned on the tap. It happened before in the master bathroom but I do not have a clue, why or how it happens. The pipe is connected to my toilet bowl and no water going in there. I am frustrated because I cannot flush.

On previous occasion, my hubby called the plumber to fix it. It cost RM80 just to fix it.

However this time around, I wanted to fix it myself. I sort of learn the trick from my plumber. I get a long host. Put one end on a working tap and the other on the problem tap. The host must be locked on to the tap. You can use a clip but I just hold it tight with my hand. If you don’t do that, the water can get splashing all over the place.

I turned on the water on the working tap, the water will flow into the problem tap. It will eventually flush out the air bubble in the pipe. I need to let the water runs for a while, 2 to 3 minutes. Then I will remove the host of the problem tap while the water is still running, be prepare to get wet. If the water flows out, let it run and the air bubble will eventually released.

It took me a couple of tries to get it working. Wah lah…got the water running from the problem tap. It was worth it because it saved me RM80 which I can used to treat my family to a nice dinner.

Here is a picture of what I am talking about:

We were having dinner at Sushi King. As usual Tim took a long time to finish his meal. Emily was bored and she said, “Mummy, when are we going to retire from Sushi King?” My hubby and I were surprised by her words. We don’t speak like that. I asked her where she learns it, she gave a cheeky giggle.

By the way, while I was teaching Timothy on division, she wanted to learn. Guess what? She mastered division very well with 2 digit numbers. If I could, I always wanted to start her primary 1 ahead of time. Too bad, no such system here.

Blessed Mother’s Day To You….

Last week was a busy week for me preparing Mother’s Day Special for children in Sunday School. I am glad today seeing so many children bought their mother for the special event. Thank God for so much he has given for this special day.

We started to have fun having mom and child game, one of it was asking the child to feed his/her mom dragon fruit. It was so much fun. Well tables are turn in this game because we wanted the child to feel how easy or difficult to feed their mom. Especially moms who do not like dragon fuit. The children and moms had fun!

We also had a good Godly Motherly message by Teacher Laura. Last we ended with a craft the child does for their moms. They had to make a Mother’s Day card and a potpourri bag. They had fun!

One most important thing I learnt was seeing how God continuously provide and his faithfulness never fails. When I was in doubt, not knowing how many children or mothers will turn up. When I needed help and was afraid I run out of time. It was really a stressful week for me but it was so worth it to make so many mothers hear the Godly message and the child learning how much his/her mom cares for them.

On another note, while my family and I was eating lunch, my hubby felt a tremor which I didn’t. I told him maybe too many people were walking around. Well later I checked, there was an earthquake in Aceh which Penang got the aftershock. Some felt shaking at their condo and car park. I missed for the 3rd time, not feeling anything. Once in the church, second in my office and today at Old Town café.

One night I was sleeping next to Emily because she just recovered from fever. I really got a scare from her. I am a late owl and I slept around 2am. She was snoring away and had no fever.

Suddenly she got up sitting on the bed. I thought she woke up. She started talking to me. I was not sure what she was saying. She was smiling too. Wah! I was freaking out because she was sleep talking with eyes open.

Slowly I made her lie back down and told her it is only a dream. Pat her lightly on her butt. She went back to snoring again. Wow that was quite an experience. I still don’t know what it was.

Was that similar to sleep walking without the walk? I hope that does not happen again.

Early in the morning, my children wanted to go to the park to play football with their favorite cousin. I had to wake up early, so much for sleeping in. Thank goodness, I have Monday off as a replacement holiday. I also had my favorite McD pan cake and my hot cup of tea. Timothy was having cough so no cold drinks for him and he wanted to share my hot tea. I should have gotten another cup for him. He just passed me his germs and I got sore throat.

We went to Youth Park. Tim had everyone in a team to play football. He named the teams “Rambutan” and “Mangoesteen”. The weather was nice, not too hot. After the game of football, they wanted to go to the park swimming pool. More like a play pool. Both cannot wait to jump in. Tim was coughing really badly so I didn’t let him play long in the pool. Ended up, I need to give him a course of nebulizer. Yeap we owned a nebulizer that can vaporize the medicine with a mask for him to breathe in.

He was feeling fine after that. However I caught his bug. Emily started to get sick the next day with cough. I tell you both were as active as ever and refuse to rest on Sat & Sun.

For my sore throat, I were plucking my basil plant and eating the basil leaves. It helps to sooth my throat. The next day, my sore throat was gone and my runny nose begun.

Monday was not a rest day for me either because Emily decided to have her fever in the middle of the night, so I had to sponge her. It was a mild fever.
I am glad today, both of them recover but I still have my runny nose. So much for my public holiday. I am looking forward to my next public holiday, Wesak Day.

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Yesterday I just introduced Subway to Emily. She was excited when I told her it was a vegetables burger. Today special was seafood sub which is also one of my favorites. After her first bite, she said “Mummy this burger is too big for me…” She ate about 4 inches of it, that was pretty good.

I always like to eat Subway. I guess the only food here that has lots of vegetables. It is pretty nutritious too. After taking this, I don’t think I need any fat burner pills. I am glad they open one Subway in Queensbay mall. I don’t need to drive to Egate to get my sub.

They play together…
They fight together…
They hug each other…
They argued together…

Now they sit on one chair and do homework together. Lovely…

Emily was bored and she kept disturbing me while I was busy doing my work. She told me to give her homework. Maybe I should send her to Chinese school since she loves homework so much. Nah, I still want her to have a life and not homework all the time.

Anyway, I asked her to take out the comics books that I recently bought for her and Tim. Inside, there is a section on exercise for Std 1, 2 & 3. I asked her to do the Std 1 exercise.

She was happy and sat quietly doing it. After 10 minutes, she showed me. Look! The part B.

Believed me no one has taught her how to do that, not even in Kindy. I found it hard to teach that to Tim last time and she mastered it on her own. I think she got Math gens in her.