To have another adult in the house is such a luxury to me now that I’ve felt the absent of my hubby during his out-station job opportunity.
If he is around, it means I can sleep till later.
If he is around, it means I don’t need to do the dishes.
if he around, I can push the boys to him and let him be the bad guy.
If he is around, I don’t need to iron my son’s school uniform, ‘cos he will iron it together with his work clothes!
If he is around, I can sleep soundly and ensure that if anything happened in the middle of the night, he would be there.
If he is around… there is so much more that I can do.
Let’s just pray that when he is back from his trip, he is calm, collected, much love to share and patient to the boys. Hopefully he is getting better in expressing himself in words about love to the boys.
This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of NMEDA. All opinions are 100% mine.
I’m one that can change the car tire if I can loosen up those tires nuts. Of course I’m not qualify as a mechanic, but I do know a few terms that won’t let me get cheated. I’m very fortunate that I can drive to anywhere that I like just as long as my car is functioning well. I do have a colleague that can’t drive and he is riding a motorbike for that purpose. How nice is that he can drive a car instead of a motorbike which would be troublesome during rainy season and he has to get under the sun all the time.
I admire those who are disable and yet they can still drive. I’ve ever met such an energetic person during my tour in Australia. He rented a special car that made for disable people who are using the wheelchair. There is one that provide such a service in the States -NMEDA which stand for The National Mobility Equiment Dealers Association.
NMEDA offers wheelchairs van and access mobility equipment. It allows the wheelchair bound disable to drive by themselves. NMEDA is a non-profit trade association that educate consumers on buying products from a qualified dealer, meaning one that can be trusted. It doesn’t sell anything but just promoting safe driving and equipment for the disabled people.Their dealers are the ones who sell handicap vans and vehicle modifications for disabled people.
I know of another ex-colleague who doesn’t even drive a motorbike but get the help of his family member to drive him around. But every time that he needed to get on the car, he has to be carried on to the MPV. But with NMEDA approved dealers equipment, I think he would be getting in and out of the car easily without assistant. What more NMEDA can help him in getting the right dealer to customized what he need! Isn’t that great!?
NMEDA can also help the elderly to get on the road again and gain those self-confidence that they’ve lost over time. I mean who won’t want that? I would! I would love to drive till the day I rested.
If you are in the States, you are much fortunately than anyone of us over in Malaysia, for one you can enjoy such service and do check out if there is a dealer near where you stay now.
At my back seat:
My backseat boss!
Got the recipe from a cupcake cook book in the library. The recipe is very simple, even the steps also simple, but you’ll need an electrical wisk to do this.
2 eggs, 60g caster sugar, 60g flour, 15g unsalted butter and 25ml milk.
The flour seems a little to me, I mean 60 gram.. that is like a handful only. Even the butter also seems too little, it was like just one tablespoon! But it works. All due to the raised up eggs and sugar that has been well beaten.
Steps:
1. Melt the butter with milk over a pot of boiling water. Sift flour. Set oven to 180 degree Celsius.
2. Pour sugar into the beaten eggs.
3. Mix mixture no. 2 over boiling water till the mixture is at skin warm
4. Take away mixture from heat and beat in high speed till creamy color and fully raised.
5. Pour in the flour and mix with a spatula.
6. Put a bit of mixture into the melted butter and milk, mix well then pour into the whole mixture.
7. Pour into cupcake molt and bake for 12-13 minutes.
I’m suppose to decorate with icing sugar but my icing sugar didn’t work out.. well.. at least the sponge cupcake is yummy (at least to me).
Happy baking!
Got this from Baby Center which serve as a good reminder for myself, I call it the “note to self”.
Am not sure where to begin, coz I’ve been facing this and that, here and there concerning my boys. There are times that I got so frustrated with them, so unreasonable, so hard to understand, and some times run
out of idea in handling them, I withdrawn from them. I just keep myself unresponsive, which probably intimidate them.
See if you can get what I mean for the comments that I have on what has been suggested by Baby Center.
Things mentioned:
- R-e-s-p-e-c-t :Err.. I think I do respect them provided they listen to me and do what as I’ve told them to do in just one call instead of several times, else I would go “Hey! Didn’t u hear what I said!? Now! Faster!”
- Read together: Oh.. this one I definitely do with them every night and they always request me to read more than one story. I would love them to read by themselves now but they are not patient enough and wanted to know the whole story properly read to them.
- Don’t do their homework for them! : Definitely!
- Turn off the tube: Oh.. this one.. we have gone through it everyday. “If you don’t do your home work, no TV!” But then the TV is still on somehow when I left them.
- Recognize talent: Hmm… let me see.. their talent is to get on each others’ nerve, playing rough like Ultraman, or Spiderman.. oh.. and scribble here and there, some times even using water color which left me a smeared floor to mop. Ya, pretty talented.
- Give them time : For what? So they will go to bed at 11pm!? or woke up just to be late to school?
- Talk to your child: Ya.. I do.. everyday, blah blah blah and I’m not sure if they totally understand me.
- Allow failure: Yupe, sure! But not till they fail in school and had to resit their exam, I hope this would never come.
Oh and about Defiance which I think this is straight forward and I really need to put some effort in doing so:
“Defiance: Why it happens and what to do about it”
Though you may be sorely tempted to give your 5-year-old a verbal lashing when she defies you, hold your tongue. “When a child behaves badly, she already feels terrible,” says Jane Nelsen, author of the Positive Discipline series of books. “Where did we ever get the idea that in order to make children do better, we first have to make them feel worse?” In fact, doing so may only produce more negative behavior.
Punishment might get her to behave, but only because she’s afraid not to. It’s best for your 5-year-old to do the right thing because she wants to — because it makes the day more fun for her or makes her feel good.
GOOD LUCK to me!
I don’t have a princess to do dress-up game with and yet I still eyeing for cute little thing like this one below:
Isn’t it cute! You can get it over here.
The other day I saw a Hello Kitty pink color cabinet in City Mall, it is just as cute as this one but it cost over US$100!
The Princess toddler table shown above is not even over US$50!
Ya.. so tempted to buy, but well.. pink! would really put a frown on hubby’s face if I wanted to leave it in our boys room, and well.. they’ll straight away say: “yee… so girlie…”
So, if you have a princess, do consider that you are so darn lucky that you are able to enjoy some girlie thing at home, yes, the color PINK especially!
This is the 3rd day that hubby is back from China. It is also the 3rd day that I tried to relax a bit with my boys, especially Cal as he normally is more demanding on things that are un-reasonable. For instance when I need him to organise his school bag for the day after, he would go nuts and wanted me to do that for him or even just stay there and watch him pack.
The other little one will keep quiet or try to be a goodie if the big brother is on the moody side. Else he would go “Mommy….!!! Look at Ko-Ko! He is trying to .. (put in whatever words that means harm or hurt) me…!!”
So, I keep on reminding the boys “Ask baba.” or “You find out from baba.”
They’ll go nuts! LOL! They are so not use to deal things with baba. But hubby get faster result compare to me. Yes, he can get them into the car within 4 minutes, else if it is me, it would take 10 minutes! He can get Cal to be ready to school within 15 minutes! Without a word of frustration from Cal!
Amazing huh!?
I’m really thankful that hubby is back!! Yay!!
Hopefully I can get my spa tomorrow.. LOL
Let me just share with you about lighting today.
We have two fans with lights in our house, of course we use energy saving lights and a remote to control the fan speed and lighting. Remote control is part of the convenient and with the light, it just save up some lighting point at the same time we have two things working in the same area, i.e. fan and lights.
We also have some outdoor lighting that we seldom on because it doesn’t seems necessary. Those lights and fan are mostly chosen by hubby. When I browse again in the net, I do love the look of Sea gull lighting, especially the Dark sky outdoor lights with semi-transparent glass panel. Outdoor lighting is very important to me especially the one for our parking area as it helps me to reach the front door and seeing the key hole clearly.
To get to know what choices you have for the Sea Gull lighting, head on over their website and check them out, I’m sure you’ll find something that you love. The right lighting does make a difference for the feel of the whole house and of course it include those outdoor lighting as well.
Last night..
Me: “Boys.. listen, mommy will not chase after you if you are going to take your shower, if you are going to sleep, or even if you are going to eat! After tonight, baba is going to do that, mommy will no longer be doing that.”
Boy 1: “What!? Why!? I want mommy still chase us to do things….”
Boy 2: “Yerr…. I still want mommy to tell us what to do…”
Me: “Ya, but look at this, what mommy told you, you don’t do, you keep on dragging your sweet time, you have lots of reason, I don’t get what I’ve told you to do, so mommy is going to stop doing that.”
Boys: With a sad tone “auuuuuuu……”
LOL.. I’m so looking forward to this day. That I can “hand-over” my two boys to my hubby. I’m so looking forward to more “me” time. A more relax me. A more rejuvenated me (hopefully).
I know the week is almost coming to an end and I’m feeling like I have nothing to share, or nothing to talk about, or maybe experiences that doesn’t inspired me.
Still, just maybe I haven’t open up my heart enough to see those things around me that are inspiring.
At least I know, Calvin has his 7th birthday this week, though no big party for him, at least there was a cake with Ben 10 picture on, presents and lots of fun for him to spend some time with his cousins and sibling.
Yes, 7 years now and he is way taller than most 7-year-old Asian boy. And I still think that he is skinny.
It has been a tired week for him. How I know? Well, he slept through the evening without dinner and milk! I think I better get some sleep now so that I can wake up fully energised to handle two energetic boys tomorrow.
Looking forward to the weekend, probably the last weekend to be alone with the boys as hubby will be back pretty soon. And I suppose he is taking his last chance to go all out to enjoy himself over in China :p
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