Life without a maid.....

Life without a maid....is satisfying albeit busy and tiring. But it really gives me great satisfaction to do all the household chores myself. I cook for the kids, wash clothes, iron clothes, vacuum and mop the floor, tidy up the whole place, wash toilets etc....ooohh...can't imagine i actually enjoyed doing all these! hahaha

My typical day starts at 6.15am. I woke up around this time to prepare sherise for school. gotta pack her school bag, prepare her snack box and water bottle. After that, make a bottle of milk for her to drink, let her do her "morning business", help her brush her teeth, change her into school uniform. Then it's off to tying her hair, before bringing her downstairs to wait for school bus. Her school bus will arrive at 7.20am. I still cannot understand why the school bus needs to be so early when school starts at 8.30am. To think that the kindergarten is just 10~15 mins drive away!

After sending her off, i will be rushing to prepare myself to go to work. When i go home in the evening, it will be another round of tedious routine, which includes doing the dishes, ironing, vacuuming, coaching sherise in her school work, teaching didi some stuff, before preparing the kids for sleep at 9.30pm. Prior to bedtime, i will also read books to sherise. I wanna train up her vocabulary as I want her to be able to read more words. But nowadays, instead of bedtime stories, we will be busy reciting poems or linking memory games, to prepare for Sat's shichida lesson :(

Didi doesn't have much patience and hence reading to him is an extremely tedious job. He's not interested in books of any sort except his favorite Thomas. As a result, I have to buy books that are "thomas-related"...roll eyes.....

Without a maid made me realised how little time I have been spending with the kids in the past. Previously, with a maid, I tend to let the maid handle the kids, while I hide in the room to surf net. I came to realise that this is indeed very unhealthy. So now, it's the other way round. Instead of cooping inside the room, I make full use of my time to teach them and educate them. I have to say it's much more meaningful and it definately bring the kids closer to me. Didi is now very close to me, will hug me every now and then, will look for me when he can't see me, will sit on my lap without me asking him to. It warms my heart every time when i think of those endearing moments :)

As for Sherise, she has always been very close to me, probably because we have been sleeping together since she was a baby. When the maid was around, she will tend to look for the maid because she said mummy is too busy playing computer. It breaks my heart when I heard this statement but I know what she said is true. Now with the maid gone, i can sense that she is actually much happier coz mummy is no longer playing computer (dun have time to play also) and mummy is spending more time playing with her :)

So, without a helper, it is indeed a blessing in disguise. Though it is more tiring to look after the kids and doing household chores, but the result is much more rewarding. I told Sim, if possible, let's not employ maid anymore and he agreed with me. As for now, I need to perform some time management. I always feel I dun have enough time! I slept at 1am everyday and I hope i can sleep earlier with proper planning of time. Yesterday I plucked bean sprouts from 11.30pm to 12.15am and as I'm plucking the sprouts, I curse and swear at myself. Why can't I just buy those plucked bean sprouts? Why am I soooo stupid to buy those that needs to be plucked and wasted my sleeping time plucking? Or better still, don't buy the bean sprouts and save all the trouble! Haiz....constant reminder to myself - proper time management!!

Twilight - Eclipse

Went with Ash to watch Twilight Eclipse today at Cineleisure, 8pm. This is the movie that both of us wanted to watch badly, coz we are drooling over Edward and Jacob! :D
Especially Jacob! Oh my, his body is so HOT!

Prior to watching the movie, we had dinner at Pasta mania. Ash took some creamy sauce pasta which is definately not my favourite and I took seafood Marinara. I'm actually on a serious diet and thus I forced myself not to finish the whole plate of pasta (which I couldn't finish anyway). I also refrained myself from ordering calamari, coz I really dun wanna overeat and stuff myself silly with food.

Ok, back to the movie.....
Reviews:
Besides getting to see the 2 eye-candy, the movie follows the book quite closely, although I would say the book is definately more interesting. I like the fighting part, esp. the part whereby Edward bites off Victoria's head. Cool!!

The part when Jacob snuggled against Bella as a werewolf, it was indeed very heart warming. Immediately I turned to ash and asked her "Do you want to keep the werewolf as your pet?" Wah can see her head nodding up and down frantically. Come on, be realistic please, you will never get the werewolf as your pet lor, hahaha

Recommended to watch, not once, not twice, but over and over again! Just by looking at Edward and Jacob make the ticket worthwhile! Im going senseless and mindless already.... :p

Books!

Chanced upon these books online and I decided to buy it. Reason? Because the books are Disney Princess and Thomas train! The gal is very into Disney Princess nowadays and everything from her school bag, to her water bottle and even her undies are Disney princesses! So without hestitation, I bought these lovely hardcovers for her :)



As for the boy, since he cannot really recognise and recite A-Z, hence I bought him his favourite to motivate his learning


Besides that, also bought these books since they are 3 for $10


I hope I have the time to read them the books..............................

Toy Story 3

Brought the girl to watch Toy Story 3 last sunday, 6.30pm show at JP




Overall, I find the show was ok but I still prefer Shrek, hehehe

There are a few characters in Toy Story which I like and one of them is.....


PEAS IN A POD!!!

They are so damn cute! They have cute faces and they are very mobile, can zip and unzip themselves easily, hahaha

There are of course a few baddies in the show and the most terrible one is LOTS-O! Hate this strawberry bear!



This big baby also puts me off, although he/she did become "helpful" ultimately...



It's a good movie for relaxation, as in you don't really have to give much thoughts about the movie, just go there, sit back and enjoy laughing here and there :)

Next on my list of movies-to-watch? TWILIGHT-ECLIPSE!

Conversation

Nowadays, i find conversing with sherise a joy and i always laugh when i hear her sensible and innocent answers.

Once when we were lying on the bed, she told me "Mummy, dun talk to me ok, im very tired, i want to sleep"...hey, she's the one who always talk to me hor, not the other way round and yet she told me this, hahaha

When i complained of having a headache, she asked me to sit down, helped to pound my head and told me no need to cry, hahaha

Or sometimes when i scold her, she will say "No, dun scold me, kaixin not naughty, you naughty!"

I always dunno whether to laugh or cry at her so called "innocent" answers :)

Photoshoot with Didi Jonas

Today is Jonas 1st birthday, decided to bring the two for a photoshoot for a memorable birthday.

This Jonas hor, i really dunno what to say about him. He dun like Sherise to take pics together with him. In fact, he pushed Sherise away and even pulled Sherise's hair, so that she will not take the pic. When he saw me carrying Sherise, his mood turned bad and he will scream at his sister. What's wrong with him?? Jealous?? Anyway the photoshoot is tiring and Jonas fell down twice from the chair, hahaha

Sharing some pics taken

New updates

Yeah, one of my long-time friend told me she has been reading my blog recently. So, now i have supporter liao, there's no reason for me not to update regularly right? Hahaha

To begin with, let's see how much Sherise has grown...

Sherise Then....(Jan 2009, in her playgroup uniform)

Sherise Now....(Jul 2009, in her childcare uniform)

Realised that she has grown quite a fair bit. Grown taller and hair longer too. So sad, my gal is growing too rapidly and she no longer has those babyish face. Time is passing so fast, in fact too fast for me to capture all her growing moments...