I hate it when I feel helpless especially when my children is sick. I remembered when I was small, whenever I am sick, my mom is always there to comfort me and take away my discomfort. Why can’t I do the same with my children?

He stripe off his clothes, rolled on the bed and cried, “stomach pain, stomach pain”. He is having fever at the same time too. I applied YuYi oil on his tummy but it does not seems to reduce the pain. Text hubby on Google chat for other remedy. “Try rubbing onion on his tummy”, he told me. That worked like magic. After a minute or two, he doze of to sleep! But the sleep was short. He woke up crying in pain again. I cried along with him coz I cannot take away his pain. I felt so hopeless for being a helpless mommy.

When nothing less works, I prayed more fervently.

The next day, he woke up early to his cheerful self again. Thank God for His speedy healing touch.

As children we look forward to Chinese New Year because that will be the day we can get lots of cash. As parents, I don’t really look forward to CNY coz that will be the day we give away lots of cash. hehe. Anyway, thank God for His blessings. We received more than we gave.

For the past few days, my children have been discussing on how to spend their angpows collection and asking me permission to spend them. My eldest wanted to buy a doll house, my 2nd girl, jewelry and make up set and my boys wanted the revell model kits. Will they get what they wanted? Of course, NOT! We need to save money for their homeschooling materials. Homeschooling is cheaper if you have many children but it requires a lot of investment to begin.

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I couldn’t figure out what to buy for my girls this Christmas. I’m sure my eldest is bored of receiving books as gift from me. My 2nd girl wanted something we couldn’t afford to buy. Thanks to the recent family holiday, I found the perfect gift for both my girls. The had so much fun playing congkak at the Kid’s Club that they did not want to go home until we let them play around round of congkak. So congkak it will be as their Christmas present this year. I still have no time to go hunt for one though. I still have 10 more days to go.

Last week, we finally went for a movie with our boys; Real Steel. Since it is not a box office movie, the movie ticket only cost RM7 for adult and RM5 for children. It is a movie worth watching more than once. I like their robots. They can really create such unique robot. I think some parts they used metal hose. My 2.5yo boy got very excited when they started fighting. I think he kicked and punched the front chair a few times. Thank God he didn’t get scolded by the boy sitting in that chair. And now, he is very much interested in robot toys. As for my firstborn son, he’s cool about it. He is more interested in the robot dance. Didn’t talk much about the movie or wanted to fight like robot like his younger brother. Both my sons have opposite personality.

All of us have blind spot. Life has been very busy since the family maid left. Most of my time is occupied with my newborn baby, my toddler, 2 school going girls and house chores.. Least that we realised, we have been neglecting our 5yo son. Since he is already 5yo, he is a big boy to us and we thought he does not need much of our attention.

Lately, he prefers to stay with my parents and often tell my mom that we don’t love him. A few days ago, one of our BILs commented that he is very “far off”. That got us on our feet. Every child need our attention. No matter whether they are at whatever age in their life.

For a start, as a gesture of our apology, hubby suggested to bring him for a movie. Just him without his sisters. Unfortunately, my thrifty hubby changed his mind after looking at the ticket prices. Since when the price increased from RM10 to RM12? If the 3 of us go, enough to buy the original VCD. So, no movie day out with our first born son.

Guest post written by Kendra White

I think that not only one of the best reasons to have a kid is to bring in a new life into the world, but also all of the first that you get to share with your child. Right now I’m enjoying having my first child and experiencing first holidays with her, including Halloween to start off the first holidays. I know that she doesn’t know what’s going on but it’s also so exciting for us!

I decided that we should all dress up together as a family theme for this costume party that my sister’s throwing for her kids. So I looked online with my wireless internet Killeen to find some ideas about what be good for it and I came up with the idea of us dressing up like counting sheep.

I thought that it would be incredibly easy to dress up in white sweat suits. Plus, it’s very friendly for me because I’m still not quite down to my pre-pregnancy body yet. So we just went and bought some white sweat suits and then also some fabric to make the numbers on our suits as the actual counting numbers.

My 8mo can really sweat. When she was on 100% breastmilk, the spot where she laid her head will surely be damp. Recently I have started her on formula milk. On some nights where the temperature is warm, her pyjamas will be soaking wet even with the ceiling fan spinning at no.4. The only way to cool her down is to switch on the a/c for her. On normal nights, we will get damp pyjamas like she is sleeping on a heated mattress pad.

She also finds it hard to sleep right after drinking formula milk. So what we do is, we let her drink her milk topless then switch on the a/c to cool her down. Once she has cooled down, then only we wear the pyjamas for her and I’ll nurse her to sleep. If not, I will be nursing her from left, right and to the left again and still she can’t fall asleep. I’ll then hand her to her daddy to be carried outside to sleep on his shoulder. Thank God we found the reason to her “amnesia”.

Since I stopped working, I only buy new shoes and new clothing for my children once a year. That is for the Chinese New Year celebration. I have turned into my parents. When I was small, I only get new shoe, not even privo shoes, just a normal shoe from the “Kedai Pondok” a month before the Chinese New Year. Sad huh? At that time lar. Thinking back, it is a good practice because we appreciated our shoes and took good care of them. Now, I want my children to learn the same thing like I did.

I was pretty upset with myself for forgetting my firstborn son’s birthday. He is the son that we have been waiting for after having 2 girls. How could I forget? He is also the only child that I gave birth without hubby beside me in the labor room. I asked my son whether he is angry at me for forgetting his birthday and not buying any birthday present for him, not even a barcode scanner. He told me this, “Mommy, I cannot get angry because today is my birthday.” He also forbade me from scolding him throughout the day. He said, “Today is my birthday, you also cannot get angry with me.” 0.o

To compensate my forgetfulness about his 5th birthday, I allowed my son to spend his birthday angpow money to buy a few kids games of his choice. He bought a kite but got no chance to play with it yet because daddy is busy working in the evening and no one can bring him to the beach to fly his kite. He bought 2 water guns to play with his 2yo brother and a set of shooting jets. We also brought him to McD for dinner on his birthday.

For the first time after 8 years of having children, I forgotten one of my children’s birthday and he is my firstborn son. Months before his birthday, I did plan to have a birthday party for him and get the jungle gym installation connecticut to put up a swing and slide set in our backyard for his friends to play. Unfortunately when his birthday month came, I was down with mastitis, my MIL was hospitalised due to appendicitis and one of my nieces was hospitalised for a day due to a deep cut on her nose bridge. Due to all those, I totally forgotten about my son’s birthday. If not for my hubby who told us about it on the day after he came home from the hospital, I will totally forgotten about his birthday day.

My firstborn daughter turned 8 years old yesterday. Instead of bringing everyone out for a dinner, we brought her alone; just mommy, daddy, baby and herself. It is her special day and we granted her wants. She wanted to eat wedding food. We treat her with these yummilicious dishes.

Sweet and Sour Pork

Fragrance Chicken Salad

Creamy Cheese Beehoon with Tiger Prawn

 Seafood Fried Rice

I bought for her a roller skate and a book, Big Nate (she has been requesting me to buy her this book for quite sometime already).

We still walk around on a polished, black cement flooring. Dunno when we can afford to change to pergo flooring.

The Malay book is an incentive when she did well in her Chinese spelling.

But she told me that she preferred the book more than the roller skate and wanted to spend her birthday Angpow money to buy more books. Since I have RM50 MPH voucher, we brought her to MPH to buy some books of her choice. She got all these and paid RM44.70 on top of the RM50 vouchers.

While at MP, she couldn’t resist the smell of freshly baked Famous Amos cookies, so we allowed her to buy 100g of it. If on other days, I would tell her that I will bake for her later. Not worth the money spent for just a 100g.

That’s about it. You know what, I still remember the labour pain that I had to go through to give birth to this beautiful daughter of mine. It was the toughest and most painful birth out of 5. Hubby still remembered the “dirty job” that he did.

On Monday, I told my eldest girl that I wanted to buy a birthday present for her daddy. She was very excited upon hearing that and told me that she wanted to buy a present for her daddy too. She even told me to use her money to buy the present because it is her gift to daddy.

After a few minutes of silence, she changed her mind! She does not want her money to be spend on others because she wants to save it to buy psp for herself. Something that she has been pestering us to buy for her because her other cousins are having it. DUH!

Today my girls were not in school because their school observes the All Souls Day. Only Catholic celebrates this day. And only some Catholic schools close on this day. So, I took this opportunity to bring my children out for an outing. The only place that is safe and convenient for me to bring my children age 1.5yo till 7yo is to McD at MP. We were there for 2 hours; they enjoyed their meals and then played till their heart content at the playground. Unfortunately, my 1.5yo had a colon cleanse the moment we arrived home; he purged 2-3 times! I think it is due to eating too much french fries.

My eldest often told us that she wants to be a doctor. It will be wonderful if that desire of hers come true because there is not doctor in our family yet. Looking at her maturing level and wisdom even at 7yo, I got the feeling that she might follow after her daddy’s footstep; she might be a Mesothelioma lawyer one day. Whatever vocation that she chose, we will fully support her.

I really thank God for allowing me to fully breastfeed my 4th child till he is 1 year old. Today my baby turns 18 months old; 1.5yo already! And I am still breastfeeding him when he wants to sleep. I still have breastmilk you know.

We save a lot when we don’t need to buy any formula milk for him! Milk is darn expensive these days and I just changed his formula milk from Enfagrow (i think it is the most expensive brand in the market) to Dumex; the milk that hubby and I grew up with.

Besides saving our moolah, breastmilk keeps my baby immune system strong and keeps me slim! hahaha. You can find out more about the benefit of breastfeeding at breast-milk.org. I need to go do my Saturday chores now. Tata!

Drugs addiction in teenager is so rampant now. What has happened to our future generation? I blame it on the media and the government. As parents we are forced to work more than we should to give the best to our children as portrait in the media; car, branded clothing, more cash, private or international school etc. Due to all this, parents do not have time to nurture their children according to God’s way and let the world took over parenting. That is why you see there is so many drugs addiction and alcohol centre coming up like this Malibu Horizon which is well known for their non 12 step program.

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.

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.