My church has a special mother day’s program on Sunday. First we were given a small little token appreciation from the youth group. We received prayers from the church. Mothers do need constant prayers so that we will bring our children up according to His will.

After that, we have a Sunday School Mother’s Day program. Here I played dual roles where I am a teacher as well as a mother. We had fun games and we taught the children how to make delicious fruit platters for their mothers. How lovely! I had 2 boxes of delicious fruit platters. Emily brought it to me and said “Happy Mother’s Day!!” A few seconds later, Emily came around and said “Mummy, my tummy wants to eat the fruit” *roll eyes*.

We also had a fruit arranging contest for the mothers to show their skills. The team consists of a mother, a child and the child’s teacher. I was a teacher here. Everyone was so enthusiastic on creating a center piece. We had fun! Believe me I never do any decorating of fruits in my life. Opps I think I did when I was in secondary school for home science. Guess what, my team came up first and we won a bouquet of flowers. It just made my day! :jump:

The day ended up with a cell group gathering at a church friend’s house. She told every mother to come celebrate together as she said no mothers are allowed to cook today. It was very nice of her to open her house. She made very delicious beef stew too!. It was really a cool day for me and a very enjoyable one. Nothing can beat having a Mother’s Day celebration with friends. How did your Mother’s Day went?

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Today as I entered my study room to start working, I saw this on my notebook.

How touching! The cards are so well made. Thank you teachers of the tadika!

It shot me up to cloud 9. It just made my day and it makes me want to hug my children. However I woke up late and they already left for school. I had a late night conference. When they returned home, Timothy said there is something special in his bag. I took it out and have him read it to me. Emily was eager to read hers too. She even did her “I love you” fingers.

They made me so proud of them. I am enjoying this while I can. I know some day, there will be no more hand made cards coming.

Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers around the world!

Let me share some of my parenthood sticky situations with you when I bring my 2 children out alone. These situations are quite challenging and with 2 anything can happen. I must say my mom did a great job because she brought 3 children to Singapore all by herself for a vacation. Either we are very obedient children or she has her way with us.

I was out shopping with my 2 children in Singapore while my hubby was attending training. I took my children to lunch. It is a nice place as it has some coloring materials for the children to occupy themselves. I ordered and the food came.

As I was about to eat, my little gal said, “Mummy I need to go to the toilet”. Now I cannot leave my son alone in the restaurant, neither can I leave the restaurant without paying. Worst is I haven’t even eat yet. I can’t ask my gal to hold her urine. She may pee on the chair.

I called the waiter telling him I need to take my children to the toilet, please can you keep the table for us. It was nice of the waiter to keep the table for us and allowed us to leave the place without paying. :good:

I was out shopping, yeah again. I went to Tesco with my children alone. I almost done 80% of the shopping with a trolley filled with groceries. Tim said “mummy I need to go to the toilet”. Sigh.

I had to park the trolley by a secret place so that no one will put back my groceries and quickly bring him to the toilet. Imagine me running with my 2 children to the toilet and back.

Mummy was enjoying some quietness in the jamban (aka toilet). It ended when Emily knock on the door. She called out, “Mummy I want to use the toilet”. Mummy said, “Please use the other toilets”. We have 3 toilets in the house and she can pick any that was not in used. Emily said, “I want to use this one, faster my mm mm wants to come out”. :roll eyes:

Mummy had to finish the job and quickly flushed so that her princess can use it. Sigh

I was driving home with my children. Both of them were playing at the back seat and having fun. After a while, world war II suddenly started at the back. There was some snatching, crying, screaming, name calling…you name it, it was happening. I had to stop by the side of the road to calm both of them down. I got one of them to sit in front with me so that I can continued the journey in peace

I was in a land far away and enjoying myself on a scrumptious expensive dinner. There were shark fins, big huge abalones, fresh oyster, lobster and king crabs. I was about to taste the tasty lobster. As I was about to put in my mouth, I heard. Mummy….mummy…

I ignored the voice but continue to put the sweet smelling lobster meat in my mouth. The voice called out louder and louder, my lobster disappeared. It was dark, Emily looked at me and I opened my eyes. Emily said “I want to go to the toilet”. I had to bring her to the toilet. There goes my virtual expensive dinner. :wall:

Vien you got it spot on with the ice-cream cones. How did you guess it? I will send you some but I wonder can it get through to US customs. I will try 😉 .

Yeap those ice-cream cones are for my children to blow bubbles with. It has a bubble stick that dip into the soap water and my children can filled the air with bubbles. They even soap my car with it. Imagine this, halfway driving my hubby try to clean the soap stain off the windscreen, he sprayed water and turned on the wipers. Next minute the entire windscreen was covered with soap.

He had to stop by the petrol station and wash the windscreen. My children were giggling from the mess they make to the car. Children, not sure to scold them or to laugh with them.

Lately I have been very busy with a project so I will keep this post short. Guess what’s this?

P/S: To make it more interesting since you all asking for prize. I will send 2 of these to you if you guess it right. :think: The first one who gets it correct.

What did we do on Labor Day? We went on a ferry ride across the main land. Here is one fun thing that we, Penanites can do during our free time with our family. It was a fast ride as the ferry went like a speed boat.

Tim and Emily were pretty excited when they heard we are going for a ferry ride. Anyway, anything that is done outside of the house, pretty much excite them. We drove on to the ferry and went up to the upper deck for a nice view. Tim was excited and went up the steep stairs. Halfway up, he felt frightened as he look down. He was screaming “mummy” all the way up. Yeap, the steep stairway is not very children friendly. Tim was reluctant to go down by himself. Daddy had piggy back them all the way down. Tough, if I were there with them alone.

The view was a little hazy but the weather was not that hot. We got a nice breeze and a great view. Emily was enjoying her Cheezels with Tim at the upper deck. It was a good ride.

Total Cost the Ride: A pack of Cheezels and the ride is free.

By the way, the ferry was not very well maintained. I saw a lot of rusty areas on the ferry. I couldn’t find any life jackets anywhere too. It is just danger waiting to happen. If disaster happens, then the govt will look at the problem. If you ever go on a ferry, take some floats with you.

How many of you are like me, when I shop, I go look for free stuff that comes with the product? I do that all the time. I would buy more if the product comes with free stuff that I used.

I just got Emily to drink Sustagen. Previously she was on Isomil, soya base milk because she was allergic baby. Now that she is older, she can move to cow base milk. At first, she couldn’t decide which milk she wanted. Both Isomil and Sustagen have gift exchange by collecting scoops and barcodes respectively. However, Emily looked through the Sustagen’s gift exchange book and saw something she liked. That was a motivation for her to change. I will get a kite for her and Tim.

Last week, I just got a few boxes of Sustagen because it came with free lunch boxes. Emily chose the red and Tim liked the blue. It has a set of fork and spoon too. It will be fun for them to have their lunches from those boxes.

Last Saturday was the Trial Yamaha Junior Music Class. I bought Tim and Emily there. The class was full, about 9-10 parents with their child. It was only a 30 minute class which was difficult to assess whether my children love it or hate it.

First, the teacher taught the children hearing skills. She played a simple musical piece from the CD and asked us with our child to clap to the beat. Next were the singing skills, asking the children to sing some simple nursery songs. Last it was some actions we did together with the child following the music rhythm and beat, holding hands together.

Verdict, the parents had the most fun. Some children were following and some were distracted. I partnered with Tim and my hubby partnered with Emily. Tim has a little phobia with class concept and didn’t like it. On the other hand, Emily was 50-50. She sang and did some actions on the parts she liked. The parts she didn’t like, she was laid down on the long piano chair.

I asked Emily and Timothy whether they want to continue with the class. Tim said “no” and Emily said “yes”, provided I partner with her. I signed up for Emily for a term to try out further. The fees were alright but the materials was costly. The material is good for 6 months. It has a “laptop”, 1 CD, 1 DVD, 1 course book, 1 workbook and a music bag. Total cost is RM339 with RM124 for 2 months. RM30 for registration. It is a 2 year course.

By the way, since I have to accompany Emily in the class, I get to learn some music too. It is like paying for 2 for the price of 1. 😛

We have our own swimming pool in our home. It is the cheapest swimming pool because there is no maintenance cost and no cleaning required. Oh, I don’t need to waste breath blowing it up or deflating it as well. I should have gotten the six feet wide pool, this one I have look small.

My children are crazy over water play. They can spend an hour in there. They are very excited each time papa takes out the swimming pool. Emily will go and get toys to put inside the pool. I will add some bubble bath that produces lots of bubble foam to make it more interesting. I got a few bottles from bath&body and it is all natural products. It is very good for their skin too. Emily would say “It smells good”.

Guess what is the most difficult thing from this water play? Trying to get them out of the pool. :wall: Anyway the children have fun and I don’t have to spend money. Good deal eh??!!