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.

I was very excited that we are finally going for a date again. Just hubby and I. We made a reservation to watch Avatar 3D tomorrow afternoon and our children will be in the safe arms of my parents.

Just when I am about to get excited, my right tummy pain became more intense and I was so tempted to pop in painkillers if I can find any. While bathing with the children, the pain was so intense that I raised my voice at them when they dilly dally. I felt very bad after that.

I called hubby hoping that he can come home to prepare dinner for our children and take care of them for a little while while I lie down to let the tummy muscle relax and get some rest. Unfortunately, his helper did not come in yet and he is not sure whether she will come in or not.

I can’t get help from my parents coz they are attending a wedding dinner.

What to do? Cry lor and ask God for help. Thank God the crying and praying helps to release the tense and the pain subsided a little bit and I quickly prepare dinner for my children before they starve.

Just when they are enjoying their burgers, hubby came home. His helper came in. Yay! PTL!!!

I am so happy that hubby is home today until this evening because his part-time has started to work for him again. That is why you see blog diarrhea here. I hope his part-timer will work for him more often this month. I am planning to bake some CNy cookies when time permits.

The timing is just right. At the moment when I almost fall apart, he has a new part-timer and the old ones started working for him since yesterday. God knows that I need a helper badly.

My eldest girl has started primary school and I hope waking up early and going for dance class would help her lose some weight. She has her daddy’s build and low metabolism rate. Dieting or taking weight loss product itself is not sufficient for them to lose weight. They must exercise and sweat it out. Now I worry less about my girl’s weight so dancing is very tiring. Yesterday was her first class and I was so glad to see that she sweats a lot during the lesson.

I foresee that this year is going to be a challenging year for me. I am kind of excited to see how well I can cope this time.

Firstly, 3 of my children is going to school. No.1 to Primary School and No.2 & No.3 to kindergarten with different schooling hours. Yours truly is going to be their driver.

No.1 will be studying in a Chinese school and I know no written Mandarin at all! I have no idea how can I guide her with her homework. I also understand that there will be no English taught in that school until she is in Primary 4. So, I must continue to polish up her English at home.

No.2 will be in 6yo kindy class and she still can’t recognise all her ABC, let alone reading books. My No.1 knows her ABC when she is 2yo and started reading at 4yo. No.2 is going to Primary One next year and I have one year to teach her to read. This is going to be a tough job coz I failed miserably before; not enough patience.

No.3, I am taking easy with him coz he is only going to be 4yo this year.

No.4 started crawling yesterday. Soon he would not want to sit in his walker any longer and wants to explore the house on his knees and palms. When this happens, I can no longer mop the floor once a week and close one eye on the mess lying on the floor. They must be crawling baby-proof!

I am not not expecting the family maid will be back that soon coz MIL’s eyes are still not healed. How to heal coz she did not pantang (abstain) from eating unclean food like seafood and certain kind of fish; everything she eats.

Drive more, clean more, cook more, teach more, run errands for hubby whenever possible and blog too!

Since hubby can afford to take over the household expenditure, I am planning to save my online income for family vacation. I pray that soon, God will provide an honest full time worker to work at hubby’s shop and by that time, I will have saved enough for a holiday destination locally; maybe even buying medical travel insurance for the whole family.

Both hubby and I have worked so hard last year and we deserved to take a short break soon. If God says so lar.

Praise God that hubby went to work later today. I did not have to wake up early to cook for him. I did not cook today coz I forgot to thaw the blended chili last night. I wanted to cook Nasi Lemak actually.

So we planned to eat out and maybe bring our children to circuit city but we received a phone call from my mom that save our money from eating out. My mom cooked Nasi Lemak too! So we head to my mom’s and enjoyed her Steam Nasi Lemak and hubby pack some for his dinner then head to work.

We had a wedding dinner in Holiday Inn Melaka last Sunday. It was great meeting with relatives; mostly hubby’s side. I love them coz most of them are super friendly. =D One of hubby’s nieces adores my 8mo baby and due to it, we were relieved from him for a lil while during the dinner.

And the best part was we were served with a 8 course vegetarian dinner. Our tummy was not full the brim but it was just right. All of us went home “slim”. If not, none of us can go through the motorhomes door!

The 6 of Us.

Hubby has to work but we managed to get him to come home when his part time came in at 7pm.

His niece; Hilda prepared Bolognese Spaghetti for dinner and I bought a Chocolate Fudge cake from Yee’s Bakery. Unfortunately, hubby did not get to enjoy the cake coz he was coughing due to the cold weather. Looks like I never get it right when I buy birthday cake for him.

My 3yo son was admitted there for 1.5 days and we paid almost RM1k for that. There goes our holiday budget for next year. I must refrained myself from planning any holiday for us next year until I can get enough income to replace that amount. Now I am asking quotation for cheapest family health insurance. It is so expensive to get specialist and special treatment from private hospital. When I registered my son at the hospital, first thing they ask, “Does your son have health insurance?” When meeting the Paediatrician, the same question was asked too! Looks like annual travel insurance have to wait since we don’t go traveling every year.

Praise God that the in-laws who is having the maid is staying another day; that is today. Normally they will go back on Sunday itself after staying a night here.

Due to it, I am able to rest today coz the maid is doing all my job and do as much cleaning as possible before she leaves to stay with them for another month.

They will only be back here on the 19th of December for another wedding dinner. But whether MIL and the maid will be back here for good by then or not, I am not putting much hope.

SIL told me that they are not getting a new maid. So, I figured they might keep MIL and the maid with them as long as they could.

I wish the family does not have to come back this weekend because I do not want them to think that I cannot run this household with any helper. But they will come back because there is a close relative wedding this weekend. So, I am praying hard that I will be completely healed by the time I wake up (coz it is 12.47am as I am typing this). So many things to do and so little time. I fell sick at the wrong time!