Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
It has been a long time since I tried any new recipes at home. I bought a simple Chinese cuisine cookbook some time back and finally inspiration led me to try out one of the dishes over the last weekend.
Today marks the 3rd time Hannah volunteered to scrub the bathtub she used for showering. I actually had to curb her enthusiasm by reducing the frequency she does the scrubbing! Otherwise she would want to scrub it every night! Not
Hannah and I had such a great time doing a 2 hour leisure exploration of our neighborhood last weekend we went for it again last evening, this time round with Mommy coming along. Ling’s feeling all of five months pregnant
Bad dreams I’ve been having bad dreams lately. They were not just those upsetting kind of dreams but lucid ones. My mind was fully awake during the dreaming and I had control over my own character in the dreams. I
Ling has to trim Hannah’s fringes ever so often, so we decided to put her through a proper haircut for a change. Just for fun, we went with the $10 / 10 minute haircut. She was very well-behaved, possibly due
Since the start of nursery this year, Hannah has shown a greater willingness and interest in conversing and singing in Chinese. I’m ashamed to say mommy and daddy didn’t really do anything much to encourage her in that direction except
Another lens came in through the post – the Panasonic Lumix G 14mm F2.5. The lens is a somewhat old model for the micro four-thirds system, first appearing in 2010, and is available in both retail packaging form and also
The second in my trio of posts of the week’s activities! Lots of people around her – family, friends and relatives – remark how well-behaved yet lively she is, but there’s also a down if not mildly annoying side too;
Ling tripped over a cable last evening and fell in the living room. Thankfully her left knee bore most of the brunt of the fall, so she was alright. This was the (cute) conversation that ensued with Hannah. H: Mommy
The Chinese or Lunar New Year means different things depending on what age you are. If you’re a grandparent or belonging to the older generation, it’d be a festive and joyous occasion where the extended family gathers for the reunion
The blood test for my second pregnancy showed that the baby I was carrying was high risk for chromosomal abnormalities. Just like my first pregnancy, I was given the option of going for amniocentesis to check whether the baby had
As Ling chuckled yesterday – because our new baby is going to be a boy! Thank God too that the chromosome results showed that the growing baby is healthy too. Hannah’s reaction was quite different though when we told her
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