It was last Thursday afternoon when Mer got into this accident that he has his brow area cut by the edge of a table! According to the babysitter, he didn’t cry much but once I arrived and found him hiding in the kitchen area probably thinking that he has done something wrong, he cried out loud!
After soothing him down, he let me look at his brow which has an inch cut and definitely needed to check if stitching is necessary. Though he said it was painful but he has been so brave in letting the doctor jab him and started stitching right after. Of course he cried after the 2nd jab, but he was totally alright and coordinating with the doctor. We were fortunately to get a doctor that know a bit of Mandarin to tell him to be still and assure him that it won’t hurt.
After that, it was hiding time for him ‘cos he doesn’t want others to say that he has been bad. He was even thinking not to go to school ‘cos afraid that the teacher will look at him differently. Anyhow, thanks to those understanding teachers, he went to school without crying, and he is healing quickly. Today is to go back to the clinic to get his stitches taken out.
When I told friends and family about this when they saw him, all of them goes “Fortunately it didn’t get the eye!”
Yup, am glad for that.
I love to eat cinnamon roll and have just found this website showing how to make it step-by-step with clear instructions and photos! Isn’t it great!
It is The Pioneer Woman Cooks!
I’m saving this link in my notebook and am planning to cook it when I got my oven ready.
It is funny and honor to be asked for opinion and more information regarding where to choose solid wood door from my colleague when she is looking for doors to her soon to be constructed new house! I’m so glad that I can help and giving my 2 cents opinion about doors according to my experience.
There are so many so call solid doors around the market which in fact is not that solid, it is not strong and hard enough for front door. Though over here the famous one is “Nyato” wood, but it could cost another 50% more than normal solid wood door. Firstly the door seller will ask if you want to keep the original natural wood color, if yes, then only they’ll introduce you Nyato wood instead of just some normal pale color wood that later need to be painted with dark color wood paint. As for Nyato wood, you can just vanish it and its natural pattern will shine through.
Other than choosing the right door with the pattern that you like, later you’ll need to choose the right door hardware to go with it, such as the door knob and hinges. Well, there are so much more than just installing a door. The fun part is you get to choose the color that you like, which in my case, white! Yes, pure white for my bedroom’s door. *wink*
Note: photo taken from doorhardwareplus.com
Since I’ve moved in to the new house, I’m still trying to sink in that I really own a house now and that it is our home for now. There are still lots of things that need to be bought but all those basic necessities are there right now so that we can stay in comfortably. The housing loan that I got have settle my fire insurance and life insurance too, which is a peace of mind to me. However I still get extra as the loan amount is lower than the house value. Though I don’t need to go through the net and find the best term life insurance quote, I still need to get a better fire insurance for the house, which of course I’ve friend in the industry that can help and that also has been settled.
Now, the next thing is to start decorating the boys’ room, or rather at the moment, “The boy’s room” ‘cos only Cal is sleeping there. Yes, alone and upon his request, isn’t that brilliant?! He doesn’t even need mommy to be there but he did request me to check on him before he fell asleep. Such a sweet boy. He sleep through the night without even waking up, most probably ‘cos he was exhausted.
The boy’s room definitely need to polish up a bit to really look like a real boy’s room. Yup, another assignment for me when I’m free. I’m thinking blue, brown and orange tone, will see. So glad that I’ve a room to decorate.
I’ve got lots of questions being asked last night. These are those that I can remember:
“Mommy, how were you like when you were small?” ”Do you have a big belly?” “What about baba?” ”Were you naughty?”
Complaints like:
“You were not (just) angry, but you spank/cane. You can just talk/tell me ma.. why you cane? I’ve already told you don’t to cane me.” (Which I promised later that I’ll not use the cane if he promise to listen.)
“Everyday is about ko-ko only.” “Everyday you say that he is good boy, you don’t say that to me.” (which I did!)
What I told him:
“Even when mommy is angry, mommy still love you, ok? (You get that?)”
Then he asked: “What happened when baba is angry with you?”
Me: “He still loves me.” (I had to affirm him on this, else everything gone down the drain.)
Another thing he said: “Ah Mah so bad, said that I’m shortie..”
Me: “Don’t believe what she said. You ARE handsome, ok?”
So I greeted both of them this morning with positive words such as “Handsome”, “Clever” and “Sweetie” (which the last one probably not so suitable, anyway… I did that.)
I’m telling myself I need to start my day with positive and happy thoughts and words. Smile when I felt most likely not. I did that this morning and it does make a different. Big boy Cal went to school without being grumpy and felt more confident in going to school.
Earlier on, I’ve go through his Malay Language spelling with him on Sunday, then he got full marks on Monday, I knew he can do it! Now I just need to go through with him whenever there is time and not only one language, he needs to learn English and Chinese too.
I know both of my boys need love and attention, not harsh words or discouragement in discovering things, they love to have fun too, just that I need to make sure that they don’t play rough.
This should be my biggest project ever, compare to house decoration *LOL*. Probably a project management software would help *wink*.
Still, am glad that my boys are fine.
It is not yet Chinese New Year and yet we get to enjoy some lion dance performance for free and with some dangerous act too. Just look at this:
Isn’t it dangerous? Those polls are even higher than normal coconut tree! They are iron polls without any grip and yet those guys (all 4 of them) were there at the top, even make some dancing movement for those lions. I was worried for them, just what if they fell? Fortunately that didn’t happened. I wonder if they do have insurance for that, maybe they should get some insurance quotes and consider buying it.
This morning you woke up early, got on your school uniform and brushed your teeth all by yourself, which to me is a big step for you since you always need me to wake you up and help you to get change. The morning got on fairly and you didn’t fall asleep on the way to school in the car. It only started when you were almost reaching your class.
You started to request me to call you. You started to get worried about school. You started to say that you want to go home. You started to tell me what if you miss me. Then you started to cry.
It got me worried and wonder when will you be okay in going to school. You are having difficulties in spelling and you are slow in writing, thus slow in finishing your homework. You are so not sure of yourself now, you don’t even know if you are holding the pen right.
I need to spend more time with you in going through your study. I just hope that I have lots and lots of patient in dealing with you.
A mother’s job is tough. I’m praying that I’m able to lead you and let you gain back your confident. It could be even harder than those jobs in Philadelphia (just a silly thought), but still I need to do it.
When it comes to getting up in the morning,
“Mommy.. I don’t want to go to school… ”
“I am scared..”
“The teachers are so bad.”
“The teacher scolded other students, I’m scared too.”
“What if I miss you?”
“Can you call later?”
“I’m having headache, it is getting more painful each day.”
“I just can’t write any faster.”
“There are just so many homework to do.”
These were just a few of his complains that I can remember.
But when comes to coloring, he just loves it! He did it will all his heart. I think he loves his computer class too.
Poor kid, it was so tiring for him to wake up in such an early hour, he even fall asleep in the car on the way home, that’s how tired he was. Even though, and still he would enjoyed the bed-time stories that I read to them every night.
I’m praying that this morning dreadful time will pass pretty soon, and he’ll start telling me how fun is it to go to school.
When I look at my blog post, I just realized that I haven’t been putting up much photos lately due to the fact that I haven’t been using my camera often, yes, not taking the boys’ photos. I should be doing that and keep at least some scrapbook pages about their progress and our daily routine. I want them to come back one day and know what they had been doing in those years that had past.
I’ve been keeping track of where we’ve been for vacation and have taken lots of photos during those time, but not enough for our daily lives. I know it is the simple day-to-day things that matters most. No Orlando vacation is needed for family bonding time. We can do it right there in our home. Probably I should try for a stay-cation. One that we just treat our home as our vacation spot.
I also found that I haven’t really “enjoyed” my new home. By that I mean I haven’t really just sit there or decorate one area thoroughly, or get the feel of each and every corner of the house. I have been too busy chasing them off and on the car getting to school and mom’s place or bed-time, that I haven’t really relax in the house. I know it is still empty but I need to figure out what furniture that needed in each space.
I’m glad that at least I know I need to do all those mentioned.
We were going around some other neighborhood on Sunday searching for an art class teacher’s home, hoping to see some sign board, unfortunately we didn’t find him. However, we discovered something else and I myself discovered more from that.
First thing was, we saw some nice big houses with beautiful garden, some with nicely tiles front door and big yard, some with nice color painted. The one comments that got my attention was “Wah!! So big oh the house!!” another one would be “Wah, the house got beautiful colors!” Then one last one was “Mommy, your house is not beautiful, it is all white, no color at all!”
Okay, after that was some questions and answers time for my boys. I was just curious how they define beautiful and big. So I found out that they prefer some colors in the house instead of all white which is what we are having now. They also prefer to have some big front or back yard that they can run around without any dog. Another thing was, they wanted to have a space for themselves that they can play their toys, doesn’t matter if that is a small area.
At the moment they play their toys in front of the TV area, which is a no no from me, ‘cos they’ll be too near the TV. I’m hoping to get them a space that if their cousins are over, they can play there and hopefully it is a welcoming space for them, would definitely need them to tidy up every time they leave the space, else I would be the one who ended up with all the tidying work.
Thinking about tidying and cleaning the house already telling me that I don’t need to read those relacore reviews on weight loss drug.
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