This year, if God willing we will leave our hometown 3 times to go a weekend vacation. This will be a record breaker. Since I am married to my husband, we never get to leave our hometown more that twice a year due to his busyness with church and work.

Our family weekend vacation to Genting Highland is confirmed. We will be up there end of this month. This weekend vacation is sponsored by my dear advertisers. I have been saving up my USD for this trip for quite a while.

I was just telling hubby that after his mission trip to Sabah this September, we should make a weekend trip to Cameron Highland to visit a missionary family there. We have been telling them that we will visit since they left Kupang and started serving in Cameron Highland. This year is the best time coz come next year, we will be homebound.

So I suggested we go in October so that I can have time to accumulate my online income for this trip. At first I thought this weekend vacation will be cheaper than Genting coz we do not have to pay for accommodation coz we will be staying in their house but hubby said otherwise. We need to spend double that our Genting trip. Oh! The other half is to give them as love offering. A VERY expensive accommodation! I don’t think I will have enough for the other half and that I have to leave to hubby.

Last night, hubby suggested that we sign up for church camp which will be held this August. We will have the church camp at Port Dickson. Yippie! Another family weekend vacation for us.

Our family is growing, our children are growing. It is high time that we start setting aside a sum of cash every month to be deposited into our savings account rather than wait till we have extra then only we save.

When I was working, I did the savings for our family but when I resigned, hubby did not continue this good habit because we barely have enough every month. In the end most of my savings went into his business and also our monthly expenses.

Now that God has blessed us with enough, we should start saving again for our children education. Since we will be homeschooling, chances to obtain a scholarship is very slim. So, we must work hard and start saving now. We must postpone buying electronic cigarette for my dad for his birthday this year. We will advice him to stop smoking instead so that he can live longer on this earth.

Sunday is the only day that we get to be together as a family the whole day. Sunday is the only day that we can have lunch and dinner with hubby. Sunday is the only day that our children can have their daddy.

Sunday is also church day and the only day that hubby can fellowship with other church members. On other days, hubby will be at work from morning till night. He will have his tapau-ed food from home for lunch and dinner.

I don’t mind if the church takes away my hubby once or twice a month on Sunday but not 2 weeks in a row and for lunch and dinner on the same day. You want him but we NEED him.

I guess the choice is hubby’s. He got to be wise in choosing between his family and church.

MIL and her maid is back. According to SIL, they are back for good but I am not jumping for joy yet. Anything can happened within these few months before the maid return to her country for good.

Since Sunday is the only day that hubby is at home the whole day and night, I took this opportunity to go for a movie with hubby while our children is being babysat by MIL and her maid.

When you have a baby that still breastfeeds, timing is very important. Must choose a movie that starts before 8pm so that I can be home by 10.30pm for my baby next feed.

So last Sunday night, we managed to watch The Prince of Persia show at 7.55pm. No movie night for us this coming Sunday though coz MIL and her maid are going to another BIL’s house for a visit. Hmmmm…maybe we can. My mom is around. hehehehe.

Child minding 6 children does have its side effects. I think I am developing more wrinkles and high blood pressure. It is easy to mind my own children because I have disciplined them since young to be obedient. I also thank God for blessing me with such obedient children. Prayer really works. Unfortunately, my nieces are the ones that makes my blood boils every day when they are here. Their parents did not discipline them at all and let them have their way. Reason given by my brother, “They are young, they don’t know what they are doing. They will behave when they grow older.” It will be too late to mold them when they grow older!

So, while they are here, I try to discipline them my way but I think I really need one wrinkle reducer right now. Very stressful you know. If you want to sponsor one for me, I will take the prototype 37c. It has the perfect blend of powerful anti-aging ingredients to help your skin repair, rejuvenate, and protect your skin.

The family maid came back from her 1 month holiday. Everyone thought that she will not return coz her daughter was very sick. I believe God has healed her daughter and she needs to come back here to earn for the cost spent at during her daughter’s hospitalization.

She will be back here with MIL this weekend. As much as I am comfortable with her not being here, the outdoor needs her badly. Verandah and car porch to wash, windows to wipe, leaves to rake and the wet kitchen needs cleaning from the rat poo.

As a reward, maybe I’ll buy e cigarette for her but she can only smoke when she goes back to Indonesia.

Starting this month, I have resigned from cooking lunch and dinner for my family; more for hubby actually. Reason being, my almost 1yo baby wakes up earlier now which prevented me from cooking. When he wakes up, he wants his nen-nen and 90% of the time, I will doze off again for about an hour. By the time, I woke up, hubby needs to leave for work already. When hubby is not around, no one is there to help me look after baby while I cook and I can’t cook with a baby hanging around me at the wet kitchen; let’s say that the wet kitchen is not safe for baby.

Since my children and I have our dinner at my mom’s almost everyday and she always have left-over food, I suggested that she cook for all of us for lunch and dinner too. She can save money coz I will be giving her extra allowance for the food and there will not be wastage anymore. As for me, I have more time to clean my house, more time for my baby and more online time. I can even do healthcare job search if you want me too. As for hubby, he is enjoying good food and more varieties everyday.

I said “Almost” because, I still need to cook for my children’s breakfast.

That is what my 2nd daughter commented when I told her the reason I was crying yesterday. “Daddy is very rude for not telling you that he is going to botak (bald) Baby’s hair eh.”

I am still very upset and very angry. Not because our 11mo baby is bald now but his action of secretly balding our baby’s hair without my knowledge.

What else he would do secretly?

I cried buckets yesterday until my mattress is all soak with my tears but the anger still did not want to go away.

Today, hubby pretended like nothing happened! He ALWAYS thinks that he is right. And he will NEVER apologise.

I am PMSing again and it falls on the wrong day; Saturday, the day I hate the most. I felt like throwing a heavy industrial equipment on anyone that steps on my foot!

Due to much washing, my right index finger cracked again. It feels like a knife slicing through it when I use that finger. I can’t get all my housework done as planned.

Thank God Baby is kind to me today. He napped for 2 hours and so did I. At least that cools me down a lot.

How many of you can agree with me on the above phrase? I am not talking about incest! I am talking about your dad’s character in your husband.

The father is the first and most significant role model in a girl’s life. That’s the first man that they loved and look up too. Unconsciously, we will look for a man just like our dad provided he is a good dad.

I married my dad. My hubby manages our finance just like my dad; even my mom commented on that. My hubby does not talk much; just like my dad. My hubby leaves the household chores solely to me; just like my dad. Never once I see my dad sweeps, mop, cook or hang the laundry. My dad never bath us!

Thank God my hubby is not 100% my dad. He is not hot-tempered like my dad. He does bathe his children, mops, sweep, cook and hang laundry when I show my long face.

I see my hubby as the better version of my dad.

This “Family Planning” got nothing to do with making more babies or stop making babies.

For 2 Sundays, hubby and I got the opportunity to go out “dating”. Leave the children with my mom and we went to have our quiet dinner.

We took this opportunity to share and plan.

He shared about his business and his business plan. By God’s grace, we hope to settle the business loan by the time our youngest baby turns 1 year old.

I shared about our children; their education, and walk with God. I felt that I have a greater task than hubby. I am to raise godly children! This gives me goosebumps!

I shared about my thoughts; being poorer than my other siblings. Hubby made me realised that we are not poorer than them. We just don’t owe the banks and credit card companies a lot money. And we do have a house; 2 apartments to be exact. It just that we don’t live in them and don’t pay for the monthly installment thus I don’t feel like owning them.

Glad to know that I am more blessed than them.

I felt so relieved that my Primary One daughter has completed her very first examination. We can let the textbooks take a rest for a lil while.

So far, she got back two of her exam papers and her result is very satisfying. She can do better without careless mistakes though but no one is perfect. When I was in school, I did a lot of careless mistakes too and this maybe part of the reasons I get very upset when my own daughter did the same thing.

I am telling myself to take it easy and she is only in Primary One. Let school be fun for her and never to pressure her but encourage her to excel.

I have stopped considering entering the workforce again.

After 1.5 years not needing to step into the office and more than half a year without any helper helping me with my household and kids, I got the hang of it and kinda loving my new “job”. Even if there is jobs in philly that offer very good remuneration, I will pass without thinking twice.

I find satisfaction and fulfillment when I see my children grows up right under my nose.

Hubby is so relieved that his preaching is over. Even though he has been preaching numerous time, he still feel the tense when it is time for him to preach again. His sermon this time was about Joseph. And I felt so kuncheong whenever he mentioned, “my wife” in his preaching. Dunno what he is going to reveal to the congregation about his wife!

As for me, my freedom is having to have my privacy again in my home coz MIL and her maid has left for KL yesterday. Freedom for me means not much free time to be online but I am free to do whatever I like and wear whatever I like at home. And most of all, no one interferes with the raising of my children. No Mak Mak and Kakak to run to when Mommy says, “No!”

Just now I make my face thick thick and send all my 4 children to my mom’s so that hubby and I have can a peaceful dinner. We went to Malim food court to enjoy hot steaming claypot Bak Kut Teh. We took our time to enjoy our food which we seldom get to do when dining with the children.

We had quite a show during lunch today. After church we brought the children to McD to enjoy some ice-cream. After ordering 2 Sundaes and 1 Sundae Cone, my son insisted that he wanted Sundae Cone and not Sundae. The cone was for my 2nd girl and she refused to share with him. After a good 15 minutes of crying out loud by my son, my 2nd girl finally gave in. It was quite a show.

We built a pangkin in between a durian tree and a rambutan tree last Chinese New Year and wrapped it with the rubber mat. It was the best outdoor furniture they ever built. Hubby slept on it when we gave our rooms away to his sister’s who are back from Australia and UK. I went to sleep at my mom’s with our children.

After the Chinese New Year, it was kind of abandoned and the dogs took over it and make it their bed! The puppies torn the rubber mat and it needs replacement if anyone plans to sleep on it this Chinese New Year.

MIL’s maid really had a good life in KL; small house without huge compound to maintain and good food everyday. She is fatter now!

Two days ago, I bought her a blouse for Chinese New Year. It was M size but it was fitting for her. She them told me that she has put on weight. So I went to change it to L size; not fitting but I can see her bulging tummy! She has really put on weight!!! Must introduce weight loss products to her lar.

She told me that besides not much to be done in BIL’s house and eating a lot there, she is excited thinking that she is going home soon. Senang hati!

Only this Ma’am susah hati.

I love my Baby boy so much. Every time he smiles, I think I fall in love with him again and again. His smiles will melt everyone’s heart; seriously! Even hubby told him that if he is a girl and older (of course), he will definitely be attracted to him. I told him a million time that I want him to be my boyfriend.

I do not know what I did to get such a handsome and happy boy. Could it be the prenatal vitamins? Or the stimulation that he gets from his 3 siblings that laugh, giggles, scream and talk to him everyday when he was in my tummy?

I read that a few of my fellow blogger friends are flying away this Chinese New Year. Not sure whether they are heading to Poipu vacation rentals but I read one of them will be celebrating Chinese New Year in HongKong Disneyland.

I realised that KL people and the rich prefers to go for vacation to celebrate their Chinese New Year. One thing that is obvious is they have very small family. I can imagine how “quiet” their Chinese New Year celebration is going to be unlike those with big family like mine. Furthermore, the rich prefers not to distrubute their wealth with others. Many times I heard them saying, “Better I use my money by going for a holiday with my family than give to others.”

I guess they never experience the joy of giving.

Two Saturdays ago I suffered so much pain on my lower abdomen. When bathing all my 4 children that evening, I thought I was going to die coz it was really really painful. I gave a call to hubby get him to find out the funeral costs just in case my time is going up that day. No lar, I called him to come home to prepare dinner for our children coz I can hardly stand to cook. Sadly, he can’t come home coz his part-time has not come in to work yet. So, I bore the pain a lil while more and prepared a quick dinner; hamburgers.

Last Saturday, the pain came back again but it was not as severe as two Saturdays ago. Well, I am most busy on Saturdays and the children are home. I go more work and cleaning to do and I get easily stress up when they mess up the house and when they had siblings fight.

Now, my toughest assignment is to stay cool on Saturdays despite the workload and screaming children.