All About Your Child

I didn’t realised that things hasn’t been going well lately till Ann pointed it out when she commented on yesterday’s post. From the dispute over the speed of eating, the virus, the ‘Red Days’ symptoms and whatever ‘unhappy’ things which I may have left out…. well, at least the beginning of this week seemed that much better…

First, I saw myself on TV. *Laugh* Remember? The Working Mothers Forum? I was one of the panelist on stage? The feeling was weird! Though it was less than a 2seconds shot, but still, I know it was me up on that stage alright… *laugh* But Allan was a little disturbed when he realised that they didn’t write my name… Oh well, that didn’t bother me at all, ‘cos my face is MORE important than my name… *laugh*

Then, I tried to ‘compromise’ on the food aspect. Whenever Allan joins us for a meal, I’ll give them a smaller portion than usual. A couple of hours later, I’ll let them snack. Giving smaller portions during meal time didn’t improve their speed but it shortens the waiting time for the big man, the time to wait for the kids to FINISH their plate or bowl of whatever.

At the same time, I try to avoid giving too much meat, cos’ they will take a longer time to chew on it, even though I’ve already ‘tore’ it into smaller pieces. That’s the best I could do, and so far for the past 6 meals with Allan, it seems that its working, although he still chants his usual line, “Eat faster… Bite… Chew… Swallow…Faster…” But whenever my man is NOT with us, its back to their usual portions, chatting and laughing as they eat… Well, though it ‘may’ confused the kids, but so far, this method is working and EVERYONE feels less stressful during meal time. *Hooray*

Then an hour ago, *Yeah* my boys, especially my younger one doesn’t need me to pat his bum before he could slip into dreamland! In fact, tonight was the very first time Allan could tuck them in bed! Probably because Allan promised to bring them to the Goat Farm again tomorrow morning! *laugh* Who knows?! Anyway it goes to show that their Anti-Dad cells are dying… *Yeah*

May more of such good stuff continue to come for the rest of the week, the month, the year and many years to come….*laugh* ….. this sounded like a New Year’s Greeting… *laugh* Yeah! I’m laughing… that’s ANOTHER good thing… *wink*

In Spite of being completely dumb-founded after accidentally ‘approved’ the entry of a computer virus YESTERDAY, I still had to be a smiling Mommy.

In Spite of being completely helpless to the undying pop-ups of warnings minutes after minutes, I still have to be a Mommy capable of making my kids enjoy every minute of their school holidays.

In Spite of NOT being able to do what I love (blogging and blog hopping) and feeling agitated all over, I still had to control my temper and NOT vent them on my lovable boys.

In Spite of the ‘Red Days’ symptoms almost tearing me apart, I still need to make sure that everything is in-place for the kids.

In Spite of all of the above, I still have to be the Mommy my boys love to play with, the Mommy who makes them happy just by jumping around to the ‘Imagination Movers’ songs with them…

In Spite of being a completely soul-less Mommy yesterday, my subconsciousness still managed to slap me hard with a fabulous idea, “Get out of the house. Go see the Christmas Lightings at Orchard Road”

In Spite of forgetting to bring along the camera (which is so not-me), we had a great 2hours of being encompassed by dazzling Christmas decorations. (I swore I will bring my camera the next time I’m there which is probably in a few days time!)

Sometimes I’m really surprise by my own patience. In times when I SHOULD FLARE up, I don’t. Yet there are times I could have controlled myself and I can’t. How weird?!

In Spite of our (my Sis and I) disagreements in the past, she is still the ONLY angel who come to my rescue just before the awful day ended.

Friends in Facebook knows how grateful I am to my sis…. but I just wanna say again, “Thank you Sis! Without doing what you did, I won’t be able to type this post at all today.”