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What I Learned This Week

Friday, May 29th, 2009

School Holidays are HERE! I am so ready to turn my back on everything school-related! From the early morning drudgery to homework badgering and exam revision three-point drill. (Woah. I just made that term up. I’ll get to how I coined it for a later post. MUCH later.)

Anyhoo.

This week, I learned that I have the potential to be what is called the ‘hovering parent’. I am always fussing over all aspects of my Children’s development. Have they grasped the concept that was taught at school? Were they able to see the consequences of their actions? Do they realise the depth of our love for them?

Sure, a parent ought to care for, protect and guide children during the 7-9 y/o window of opportunity, when they are most likely to retain most of their childhood memories, which subsequently shapes their values as they enter their adult life. If there be any strength in this pursuit of my Children’s life however, when worked to the extreme could become a weakness instead.

I had to remind myself of this especially at swim lessons this week. Let the Coach do the work of teaching. Stop asking the Child whether she gets what is being taught. Maybe I should excuse myself from the pool while lessons are going on.

Sounds a tad OCD no?

Tsk.

I also learned this week that I gained some new subscribers to my blog. Yay!

And finally, I learned that Big Sis was selected to represent her class to sing an English song at the School’s Inter-Class Singing Competition come next semester, in June. She was selected based on good diction.

Hmm. Okay.

So, what did YOU learn this week?

Head on over to Musings to see what everybody else learned this week. ;-)

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What I Learned This Week

Friday, April 24th, 2009

After an activity filled Easter and post-Easter, this week’s lessons fell mostly around Problogger’s 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge.

I learned that in the world of ‘pro’ blogging, I am what is called the Toddler Blogger.

Despite the fact that I started blogging in 2004, the world of ‘pro’ blogging is a million miles away from just updating friends and family about the latest happenings of our home. I have SO MUCH more to learn from it all.

In the course of learning however, I ‘met’ many stay-at-home Mommies like myself who are making waves out there, and I have enjoyed every single one of their blogs. (Like the owner of THIS blog Carnival. ;-) ) They have been helpful, informative, endearing and at the very least, ‘takes me out’ of the four walls of my home and the loads of laundry for a while. And all the talk of laundry among Blogger Mommies this week make me want to revamp MY laundry corner!

Blogging for a stay-at-home Mommy like me connects me to the world wide web. That, is a vast ocean of resource, information and connection.

It’s no wonder then that Mommy Blogs Are The Blogs To Watch this season. I hope mine will count among them sometime.

So, go ahead, connect with Musings to see what She’s learned this week. ;-)

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Link Love

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

My friend is nominated for the Supermummy Amazing Blogger Award.

Calling all Mommies out there. Go give Aunty J some Lurve…

;-)

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What I Learned This Week

Friday, April 10th, 2009

I learned that my Youngest One behaves quite differently at preschool than at home and even at Church. I was told that at preschool, she is one of few who are exemplary in their conduct and eagerness to learn. She’s naturally curious that’s true, and loves inquiring about things, which we all love. But then I was also told that she’s always gracious in her ways among her friends. Wow. Now how about more of that for us at home Sweetheart hmm?

I learned that when I embark on a project at home, like baking birthday cakes and revising with the Children for an upcoming school test, is the time to get some help with household duties. Thank God that while this realization just dawned on me, my superhero Husband came to the rescue and lifted weights around the house. I love him so.

I learned that our local cocoa works just as well in cakes and desserts as those imported ones. Good yet cheap. Sabah is the region’s leading cocoa producer after all. No sense breaking the bank getting them cocoa then.

Now y’all know how I love Musings and the life lessons she shares with the blogosphere. Go check her out on her latest edition of WILTW. ;-)

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What I Learned This Week

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

I learned that I should’ve prepared a different activity for the pre-schoolers (including my Youngest) who came to Big Sis’ birthday party this past weekend. One Darling stayed with her Mommy throughout the games, another Darling followed her Mommy everywhere and my Youngest just pushed her way into the crowd and stuck it through, but was at one time drowned out by the voices of the ‘bigger’ little people surrounding her and collapsed into my arms crying. She did recover, as always, but it would probably be nice if she were to sit with the other two Darlings doing a little activity of their own.

I learned that when you’ve run out of icing sugar, use the grinder accessory that comes with your blender and grind your caster sugar to a powder. Pure sugar! Unlike the Namye brand I got for the Bff which turned out to be a mixture of starch flour or something like that. Ew.

I learned the lyrics to Hannah Montana’s song ‘True Friend’ in the midst of organising Big Sis’ party. I found my thoughts going to the Bff and how true the words were of our friendship. I pray my Girls will have precious friendships like we have.

I love Jo Lynne’s musings on life’s ‘lessons’. Go check it out too. ;-)

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What I Learned This Week

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Break it down!

– is what I learned this week.

If you remember, earlier this week I desperately looked to coffee to get me off my sorry butt and get going with the 1001 things I had to do – two Kids’ birthdays and a church event, back to back. And then some.

I felt pressure on my shoulders the way I usually do when I’m stressed.  Just categorizing my schedule to urgent, important and important but not urgent caused my face to break out. I was mentally and physically fatigued from all the thinking, planning and driving running around.

I don’t know about you, but when I’m that stressed, sometimes I destress by sleeping. And that was what I meant to do, but my mind kept telling me I can’t do too much of that either because of what’s ahead.

And then I remembered that I chose the song ‘Still’ for last Sunday’s Worship Service. I found myself telling me, you know Didi, the Lord already knew you’d be in this position. Time to take the words of that song to heart again.

Thank God for that revelation!

Because when I hummed the song as I went about my activities, Break it down! just dropped into my head. We hear about how in order not to feel overwhelmed by the task at hand, we should break the task down to smaller, more manageable tasks and tackle those one at a time.

And that is what I have done. I broke it all down. I gave myself an achievable goal in terms of how much time I’d need to complete each task. When the given time is up, I stop and move on to the next thing. (The BFF calls it The Race Against Time!) I’ve even managed to break it down to spending as little as possible on putting together my Daughter’s birthday.

Interestingly, I’ve now achieved more than I thought I would. The mind clears up and suprisingly, things fall into place nicely without me having to worry about them. The Kids’ school tests are next on my list and I find myself happily crossing out items in the run up to that week and even looking forward to the time of revision together with them.

Break it down Babes. It’s the way to go!

Check out Musings for more stories on what others have learned as well.

And check this space again later today for American Idol recap. Hehe..

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Wordless Wednesday

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

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“I’ve got you under my skin…”

Was going to participate in a Things I Love Thursdays carnival but realised over where the host of that carnival is, it isn’t Thursday yet. So I decided to do a Wordless Wednesday instead, on Thursday. Hehe…

Here’s a picture I took of my then 1 year old Precious when I caught her holding Daddy’s hand in the car while he was driving. I remember thinking, “Look at how small those little fingers are. So precious!” It’s one of my favourite pictures of all time.

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