Did you miss me yesterday? So sorry, I was busy making new accessories for the Christmas bazaar today at the KK Hospital for their staff.

You know how children love to imitate their parents, the way they talk, walk, move and not forgetting the bad habits of their parents. *watch out*

I left my desk full of parts and pieces of my accessories to put my little 2-year-old down for his noon nap.

When I am back, I found my ‘apprentice’ helping me to speed up my work.

Look at that kind of concentration.

“Look Mummy, I can do it too!”

Wow! Look at ‘his’ masterpiece…*wink*

Since my 4-year-old was in such a great ‘helping mood’.

So I assigned him to put all the earrings which I have made onto the earring flaps and then hang it on the holder.

1st, he picks up a pair of earrings.

Making sure that they are the same design.

Put that pair of earrings on his pants.

Take an earring flap out from the bag.

Picks up the earring on his pants and carefully put it into the flap.

Then picks up the other side of the earring and hang it into the other hole on the flap.

Ta Da!

One pair is up! Many more to go….

How did you think my ‘apprentice’ fair?

There are many times in life when parents do not trust their child enough, underestimate their capability…. Let them feel worthy.

They love to make their parents proud of them. Trust that they will do according to your instructions; make sure your instructions are clearly stated.

When was the last time your child did something for you so well, that you are soooooo proud to be your child’s mummy?

Yesterday, certain units in my block of flats have unstable electricity supply since 6pm. It comes on for about an hour and off for a few minutes at first, then as the night continues, it began to have electricity supply for a few minutes then gone for more than an hour, all the way till we sleep.

We had candles at different corners of the living room. We even had one candle on a plate for us to move around with it. We didn’t have proper candle holders. Anyway who would need it when this hardly happen in years!

Luckily we are done with the cooking. Imagine if we were half-way through with the fried fish and it blacked-out….ahhhh…horror!

So we had candle-light dinner. This picture was taken with the flash on. Hey, I have a pretty strong flashy camera ya? Oh please pardon the naked daddy, its hot when there isn’t any wind and the house is full of candles everywhere.

Its boring to have no electricity. No TV, no surfing on the internet, no reading to the kids and it was way too early to sleep!

But the kids love it, cos’ its their chance to have their hands on the illumine sticks again! Luckily we bought new ones 3 days ago. If not I really wouldn’t know how long I can grab their attention for so many hours just by playing shadow games….Phew!

Have you had such an unplanned candle-light dinner before? Share with me in the ‘comment’