Spare the rod.

I'm think sometimes I'm too nice with my kids. They run absolutely wild when with me. With my husband on the other hand..he just needs to talk to them in a stern voice and everything is back in order. Really kids? You're not listening to me?

One time, I was taking my son into the shower.

"Commmmon, let's go. Hurry. Mummy is tired"
"I wannnaaa play Ninjaaaa"
"Okay, pause first. We'll get back to that, I promise!"
"But I dowaaaaannnaaa shower"
"Commoooooooon. Let's goooo"

He started giggling and falling into a heap on the floor. A tug-o-war game. Like, let's see if she can drag me in there.

Suddenly Daddy comes and raises his voice.

"What's the problem?? Get in there now!!"

My son gets up, goes straight into the toilet. Daddy leaves the room. Son starts nagging on the toilet seat but not loud enough for Daddy to hear. Goes on and on about how he'd rather play Ninja.

"Okay, okay that's quite enough. You talk way too much!"
"Hey, I like to talk okaaayyy"

Imagine that.

And let's not even start with my girl! She just turned two and she talks non stop. Once in a while she'll turn to me and ask "You happy?" Lol!

Yesterday, she went to bed at 8 - slightly early than the usual, woke up at 5 for conversations with Mummy.

Where are my pants?
Uh-oh. This is diaper, Mummy!
Are you happy? Are you angwwyyy?
Open your eyes Mummy!
Look at me Mummy!
Mummy, I want hot milk..

Oh boy. It was a whole hour before she went back to bed.

 My son on one of their Daddy-son day out.

My daughter during her 2nd birthday celebration at school.

xoxo

The Luxury of Time

Well, this week is the beginning of downtime at the office. And for the next 6 weeks. I love love the flexibility that comes with this job and amount of time I get to spend with the kids. Planning school birthday parties, bento boxes for breakfast and dinner, being the first one at warehouse sales (!) - I mean which other job offers you flexible hours like these, huh?

Having said that, starting this year Mommy has to wake up way way earlier than her usual 9-10am because we signed up for Agama classes at S's kindy. So the Agama classes would begin at 8.30 and normal kindy hours would resume right after that ends. A bit frantic trying to organize early bed times, meals, sending the kids off earlier so on and so forth. D helps as much as possible but he has to be at work by 9, and he works all the way in Jalan Ampang so no delays starting his journey as driving would get a tad bit nightmarish.

Speaking of jobs, do you know that each time you check someone out on LinkedIn, it notifies the person? Yep, it sure does. And D has told me for the past few month there's this girl from our past who has constantly been checking him out on LinkedIn. I mean, I know she's somewhat a stalker but...? I don't know, we laughed it off and just connected it to the fact that she has always been a 'curious one'. One time she checked on D's LinkedIn and two minutes later Tada! one of her close male friends connected with D on LinkedIn. Probably sitting around over coffee letting curiosity get the best of them..hahaha. 

Anyhoos,

2014 was fabulous, didn't go on holidays as much as I would like due to it being D's first year in the Management team at his new company, and 2015 does not look too good either due to..some other stuff. Moving into banking and finance is hard work but rewarding. I am proud!

But hey, we're getting better financially year by year and here's hoping that we'd be able to have more fun travelling soon.. :)