Archive for August, 2006
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Thursday, August 31st, 2006Tee placing flowers for my mother to find when she wakes up. My mother is ill and easilly tired. She is also Tee’s most favourite person in the whole wide world because she gets her way with her Nana ALL THE TIME. I represent the link between my daughter and my mother and moments like this are […]
“Pitt-Pitt” shoes (No, not Brad Pitt)
Thursday, August 31st, 2006I’m sure you know them, pitt-pitt shoes, more aptly known as squeaky shoes. Those ones that go “pitt-pitt-pitt-pitt-pitt-pitt-pitt………pitt-pitt-pitt….pitt-pitt”. Tee outgrew her first pair very quickly. At the time, I hadn’t even realised what I’d purchased as she’d tried them on at a very noisy place so any “pitt-pitt” was deafened. She immediately took a liking […]
As I bid my 2 year old farewell….
Thursday, August 31st, 2006Tee, of late has been choosing others’ company to mine. While that finally means HURRAY for me (more reading time, more writing time, more anything ME time!), I can’t help but feel responsible that……maybe I am not entertaining her enough. Maybe I’m not interesting enough. Maybe I’m just not a good enough mom.
The girl is […]
My Daughter Thinks I’m a Magician
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006Do your kids think that too?
Whenever Tee wants to watch a TV programme of HER choice, like Barney or Noddy or Baby Einstein or High 5 or The Wiggles or Teletubbies or Thomas…….she will ask me for it. All well and good if the programme is on and I can silence her with the remote control. […]
My contribution to Niagara Falls
Monday, August 28th, 2006Visualise this:
I sit in an empty bath tub facing the taps. I put Tee in front of me and turn the taps on. And because she fights with me for the shower head, I pull it behind me and leave it there as the water runs. Then I shower her with my right hand reaching behind me […]
How to make an American Paper Bag
Sunday, August 27th, 2006
One thing I wasn’t used to when living in the US was the American grocery paper bag. Coming straight from London where all my groceries were walked home in white plastic carry bags, the paper bag seemed flimsy, difficult to carry and not leak proof. OK, I know it helps with the environment and all […]
Love has no bounds
Saturday, August 26th, 2006
The two loves of my life…..
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Bathroom Time
Saturday, August 26th, 200615 minutes tops for me – I don’t do morning showers. I used to pre-baby but no more. In fact in 15 minutes, 10 is spent brushing my teeth really well cuz I love food too much to risk losing any teeth. If I throw in a shower at all, it’s an extra 5.
I do […]
Our Potty Dance
Saturday, August 26th, 2006So we developed a potty dance today.
Together, my daughter and I. It goes like this….
Just before T gets off her potty, I go
“ARE………………we REDDAY????” (me swinging my right arm in a circle up high as though I’m twirling a lasso)
“GIMME A RIGHT FIVE!!” (she slaps me a five)
“GIMME A LEFT FIVE!!” (she slaps me another five)
“GIMME A […]
I Confess
Saturday, August 26th, 2006that the real reason you don’t see any pics or links here is because I havent figured out how to post them……..
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Books that I connected with
Friday, August 25th, 2006My earliest memory of reading was 4 years old. I was at kindergarten when Christopher (a boy shorter than I) read me a book in attempt to impress entertain show off. But because I could actually READ, I wondered what the hell he was trying to achieve. I must say 30 years on, men haven’t […]
Gangster in my family
Thursday, August 24th, 2006who is a mouse, really……
It’s T I’m talking about. Her mannerisms are loud and rambunctious. She doesn’t talk to herself. She yells to herself. There is not a quiet moment when she is awake or around in the same 100 square metres. She sings, she makes up stories in that little head of hers, she orders […]
T-Shirts that will put an American Quilt to shame
Thursday, August 24th, 2006Let me tell you a little secret of The Hubs.
He still has T-shirts dating back to 1985 (the pile he got from Michigan, which I’ve mostly thrown out without his knowledge) and 1995 (the pile he got from New York City, which I’m planning to throw out soon - ahem…without his knowledge). These are favourites […]
Broken Records
Thursday, August 24th, 2006When my Father-in-Law went on about my Mother-in-Law sounding like a broken record, I sniggered whilst a secret elation filled me that I was included in this little family ring of ‘let’s take the piss out of MIL’. They were in their 70’s after all and forgetting that you’d already told someone you bought prawns […]
Countdown to the biggest event of the year!
Monday, August 21st, 2006My little pumpkin’s 2nd birthday……
The Hubs complained that this birthday was bigger than the grand wedding of our local pop princess, Siti Nurhaliza (which is all over the local news at the moment). Ever since I started making him help out. All I needed him to do was to help take us out to buy […]