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.. :)

Little Family Trip

We went on a little trip October 2013. Our little family with my parents and siblings. Landed in UK, where my sister is currently residing and a week later took the Eurotrain to Paris and later to Amsterdam. It was late in the year and it was the end of Autumn and the beginning of Winter. Sejuukkk...!

My kids were absolutely amazingly well-behaved on the flight (13 hours direct flight - no joke) Bundling them up in layers of clothes took a lot of getting used to but we managed fine. It was so worthy - saving up the entire year. We did quite a generous amount of shopping!

Enjoy the pics. They were in a totally different format. Have to reformat so these are whatever I have now. Printed them for Baby A's first birthday party.

Peace & Love.

And then there were four..

I am back at work after my 60 days maternity leave.

Yes. We had another baby :)

Welcomed our second bundle of joy, a baby girl on on 300113. We planned to deliver her on the 31st but my water broke on the morning of the 30th so we have to deliver her that day itself. Lucky for me D still had not left for work, so he could drive me to the hospital.

Delivery was quick, smooth and a happy affair. :) 

Mom and MIL took turns taking care of me for the first two weeks and then the confinement lady came and it was daily massages, herb baths and hot stone massages. Utter bliss. Yes, the bill for that did come up to a four digit number but totally oh-so-worth it!

As usual, I leave pictures to tell the rest of the story.

 That's S, at the time about to be an older brother in just couple of days.

 Once, the confinement lady left - I was sooo done with ginger and soup. 

So D made fajitas as a treat.Superbly delicious.

 That's our pretty girl. Baby A. Few weeks old. Smiling in her slumber.

 A collage of A's picture in her first few weeks.

 That D and I @ brunch with my favourite Survivor players.

My last confinement meal D made for me. So good. But tak cukup!

Yep, apart from welcoming our girl, the highlight of 2013 so far is definitely meeting those two survivor. I think its a well-known fact that I am a massively die hard survivor super fan. I think you can name about any survivor and I can tell you pretty much what season they were on and mind you, that's 26 seasons with 20 survivors on each! So the story was, I followed her on instagram and am facebook friends with him. So she was putting up all the pictures of her Asia travels and I asked her whether she'll be coming to Malaysia. She said she would and let's meet up and this and that and the rest is history.... Starting with brunch and Chawan Bangsar to dinner and a banana leaf lunch on their last day to getting a manicure and pedicure (his treat!) together with her. It was pretty much awesome hanging out with them. She's on a year's sabbatical, traveling throughout South East Asia - super awesome. Inspired D to pretty much do the same, but obviously not NOW.  

Leave you with a quote - Internet stalkers are two kinds of people (those who really love you and those who reaaaaally hate you)

Don't lie. I know you're the first kind. You're obsessed with me. Or else you would not be here even after I've stopped writing for so long.

November Babies

It's that month of the year again. Pockets get thinner and we grow older. S had his birthday celebration at my Mom's though pretty much nobody was around - only us and Wani. Daddy bought half a dozen Delectable cuppies at RM11 each. Crazy. Not a price that I would ever pay. For cupcakes!! But later on the Friday, we had a party for him at school :) Mommy and Daddy took the day off to pick-up the cake, assemble the goody bag,  cook some stuff for the kids and teachers. It was so so fun save the part where he wailed when we started singing Happy Birthday. Yeah, he did it the previous day too..with his cupcakes. God knows why.

For D - I bought him what he always wanted. I pair of Ici Berlins. Yes, they cost a bomb but no..I dont mind, seeing how he bought me that phone for my bday last year. I love it to bits, so Im hoping he loves my gift too. He want to get me a handbag - but I'm still contemplating which bag. Id love a nice, roomy but full calf leather bag. And I am in no hurry.so that can wait til I find the perfect one. MBMJ come to Mommah!

I had a nice surprise for my bday..D walks in after work carrying a huge basket of roses and lilies! And a beautiful worded card that made me tear up a bit. Awww... mengada.

I leave you with pictures as they speak a thousand words. Cliche. Baby S's birthday, mine, D's bday dinner at Tony Roma's with my family,  our weekend trip to Cherating paid for my the MIL, and just some random stuff over the gorgeous, rainy month of November.

:)

Visuals

Life in pictures. Because I have no space to write. Between work and post-graduate studies, I take it easy and record stuff in pictures.

S, on our weekly Sunday afternoon pool dips.

Throwing a tantrum 0_0

Yellow pool at the new apartment. Not ours.

Reading list for school. Not good progress.

S and Daddy on a shopping spree.

Had an awesome weekend with both Saturday and Sunday lunches at Sushi Zanmai. Yums. Just thinking about it gets me wanting it for the third day in a row. Watami? Whattheheck?

How was yours?