A Woman's Weekly

Ok, I guess I should update on what it’s been like for us three weeks into the new year. ;-p

Miss D’s learned much since starting Year 1 formally. She did fall asleep in class on the first day of school. She related that she just couldn’t keep her eyes open! Hehe… Belum biasa bangun awal sangat bah that time. She was Ok from day two onwards. AND she has also learned to memorise Daddy’s handphone number as well as discovered the use of public phones. She has since been making roughly 20 phone calls a day to Daddy when at home and attempted one call from the public phone at school, which was unsuccessful, resulting in her losing 50 cents. ;-p Her next goal is to memorise Mommy’s handphone number.

Miss Mel’s command of Mandarin has picked up and she is quite pleased about it. She loves drawing & painting and is very good with colours. She has matured in many ways too, especially in her interaction with Spunky, which I suspect had something to do with being out of Big Sis’ shadow at least for half the day. Our conversations in the car on the 20 minute drive to Kindergarten is precious.

The rambunctious youngest one keeps Mommy REALLY busy at home! Spunky takes cooking utensils out of kitchen drawers, sings songs she made up loudly complete with gestures and actions, and tries on many pieces of folded laundry. Half my time is just picking up after her. ;-p And yet, the moments that she makes me smile in the day outnumber the times she has me pulling out my hair. Just can’t stay mad at this One for very long. )

I shan’t bore everyone with MY daily routine but I would say that I’m feeling a little irony here, cos I had a list of things I wanted to achieve for the home once I came on full time, but I haven’t crossed off even one item yet. ;-p

There is a highlight to my day though. It’s when Daddy comes home. He has less chores to do these days, so more time to touch base with Mommy. It’s the best thing.

So in summary, so far so good. )

Here’s something that got me laughing out loud!

New Year, New Season here at A Woman’s Weekly.

Had a great New Year’s Eve with Church Members at Promenade Hotel. I felt that Pastor’s thoughts for the congregation regarding what had happened in 2007 and what to look forward to in 2008 was inspiring. I certainly kept it to my heart as I begin the new season of becoming full time homemaker. I loved that at the stroke of midnight, the worship band sang ‘Glory to God in the Highest’. It is a good thing to end the old and start the new year with the Lord.

And everyone looked so good that night! The Powerhouse girls turned up looking very pretty all of them.

Of all the handphone text messages that we got that night, I thought this one was most meaningful to me.

‘The year is almost gone, but it has also made us strong. The path was long but we walked it with a song. There were fears and tears but we also had reasons for cheers.’

Have a Blessed New Year everyone!