R : I know what I want for my birthday! Me : You do? What? R : Blu-Tac! Yes we have another low maintenance child 🙂 Today our 5th child turns 5. She has been waiting and waiting for this day patiently. And diligently crossing out the calendar. She had her day finally planned out […] Read more…
Month: February 2010
Miffed
Sometimes (most times?!) I feel miffed that we can’t be as relaxed in our homeschooling journey as our sisters in the States can. We, in Singapore, have to make our children not only sit for the PSLE but meet the benchmark set by our Ministry of Education (MOE), which is a higher standard/level than what students in […] Read more…
My Grandmother
Everytime I start a sewing project, I think of my paternal grandmother 🙂 Sadly when she was alive, I seldom thought of her, nor even had decent conversations with her even though she lived next door to us. No, it wasn’t the language barrier either since I can speak Hokkien passably. Looking back I guess […] Read more…
Leave and cleave
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. (Genesis 2:24, KJV) I have been thinking about this for a while especially in light of ladies who move in with their in-laws after marriage. I am thinking – how does leaving and cleaving […] Read more…
Colour Coordinated
Making everyone dress in the same colour is fun! Here are some pictures of us in our colour coordinated clothes as we went visiting this Chinese New Year. In red Visiting relatives in bright red makes everyone’s day. The girls are in skirts that I had sewed for them. The baby doesn’t have a red […] Read more…
Sewing Up A Storm!
Once in a while, I get inspired enough to drag my sewing machine out of the store room and sew some stuff for either myself or the children. One day while checking my blog’s stats, I came across The Cheeky Wife‘s blog which had lots of sewing links on its sidebars. I clicked on a few […] Read more…