All About Your Child

As you know, I’m a SAHM. So no matter where I am, my children will be. Even when I’m bathing, they will come over every other minute and ask…..

“Mommy, are you bathing?…..Mommy, are you done?…..Mommy, are you putting shampoo on your hair?….Mommy, I don’t hear water-sound, so are you wiping yourself now….are you coming out now?”

So when I went to the hospital to visit my FIL, naturally they will go along. Everyone knows how ‘natural loud-speakers’ kids are, and being active 90% of the time, you could hardly get them to sit still for more than 5mins.

When my boys see their cousins, it’s party time! All of them would laugh and speak louder than usual. Even though every adult would go, “Shhhhh…..this is the hospital, the patients are sick, they need to rest, so you need to talk softly…” a thousand times, they would still forget this golden rule the next minute.

I’m glad that my boys obeyed the “NOT TO RUN ABOUT” commandment, but not my nieces and my little 1year old nephew.

My second sis-in-law had not brought her only daughter to see my FIL for the past 1 week since his hospitalisation, in order to prevent the need to discipline her in public.

My eldest sis-in-law’s kids, who stay with my parents-in-law, would naturally follow my MIL on every visit.

Being active is usually ‘acceptable‘ but sometimes being kids, they would say whatever that comes to mind and THAT may be ‘unacceptable’ to the ears of the patients or the patients’ families at time….

“Mommy, why the uncle got that thing stuck in his mouth?”

“Mommy, why that uncle make so much noise?”

“Mommy, why that uncle sleep like that?”

“Mommy, why that uncle poo-poo on his bed?”

“Mommy, why that uncle vomit?”

“Mommy, why that uncle’s leg got that big white thing?”

“MOMMY, that uncle not moving, IS HE DEAD??!”

and the ‘why’ questions continues….(my FIL stays in a male ward, so they saw male patients only)

Even if I wasn’t a SAHM, I believe I’ll still bring my kids along whenever I visit a family member or relative who is hospitalised. It’s vital to let them know the importance of being healthy. Actually, these few days, my elder one has started to eat slightly more vegetables, he used to eat only ONE vege per meal….

“Mommy vegetables are good for my body right? I want to be healthy, don’t want to be sick. If I am sick, I have to stay in the hospital and cannot go home….I don’t want that.”

I think there’s some kind of effect after seeing how people suffer in hospital…he doesn’t want to see himself in that state….

So are you like my 2nd sis-in-law, who prefers not to bring her kid to the hospital to prevent unnecessary noise pollution?

Or are you like my eldest sis-in-law who doesn’t have a preference if the kids went there or not?

Or are you like me, who thinks that hospital is another educational centre, where kids can learn alot from there too?

It’s torturing when you face a problem and you have no idea what causes it and how to solve it!

My account was suspended for 3 days because there was An increase in users, or a large surge of people at the same time. – That’s the bottomline. Sounds rather ironic, being penalised for such an issue.

Anyhow for those of you who are IT savy, you may want to read the following email sent to me by my hosting company support group, if not, you can skip all the italics and scroll right down to see my posts during my MIA from this site.

“Hello,

Part of your account was disabled for using to much processor power.
An increase in users, or a large surge of people at the same time can
create a problem like this. A plugin that is malfunctioning or is not
efficient can also have this effect.

There is a plug in we recommend people install to reduce the amount of
CPU the server uses when someone views the page. It is called
wp-super-cache and can be found here: http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/

This plugin parses (processes) the pages and creates an HTML file to
show viewers. This allows your blog to serve more people at once, and
lowers the cost on the processor per view.

I cannot activate the file until you take some action like installing
this plug in. I am aware you will need to log into the admin section to
finish this. Please goto http://www.hostgator.com/ip.html to get your
IP address. The number will in the xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx format. Email me
back when you have this. I will enable that address to connect to the
full site.

When this installation is done we can activate your account.”

(when I asked him what other factors could result in my site being suspended other than there was “An increase in users, or a large surge of people at the same time” he mentioned the following….

“There are multiple things that can create an increase in CPU usage.
Popularity is one aspect, and the cache plugin will reduce the amount of
load created by people visiting the site. Another would be ineffective
plugins, some bad search engine crawlers, spam bots, cron (scheduled)
wp or unix jobs, and many other variables.”

keeping my fingers crossed….’cos some of the stuff mentioned here are beyond my control….wish me luck, won’t you? *wink*

Before I started this blog, I was using Google Blogger. So for the past 2-3 days, I was blogging over there – http://allaboutyourchild.blogspot.com. The following were the 2 posts over there when my (this) site was inaccessible.

Today’s Post: Can I have some good news, please?

Thursday’s Post: What a lousy excuse!

So, in future “Touch Wood” if my site is not accessible again, you could pop by over there to see if I’m still alive. *laugh*