I'm an adventurer

Stumbled upon this test on Audz blog. Most of her results came out true for her, so I thought I'll try and see how accurate this can be. Only need to answer 2 questions and there, my results below:

the Adventurer
Thanks for taking the test !

you chose AX - your Enneagram type is SEVEN.

"I am happy and open to new things"
Adventurers are energetic, lively, and optimistic. They want to contribute to the world.

How to Get Along with Me

• Give me companionship, affection, and freedom. Oh yeah.. true
• Engage with me in stimulating conversation and laughter. Very true. If you were talking to me and I wasn't paying attention, you should change your topic.
• Appreciate my grand visions and listen to my stories. Grand visions?? Do I have any visions in the first place? My stories, yeah, lots of stories to tell.
• Don't try to change my style. Accept me the way I am. Yep, correct.
• Be responsible for youself. I dislike clingy or needy people. I think so..
• Don't tell me what to do. The irony is, I'm always telling people what to do!

What I Like About Being a Seven

• being optimistic and not letting life's troubles get me down Yep!
• being spontaneous and free-spirited So yep!
• being outspoken and outrageous. It's part of the fun. Outspoken? Meaning not giving other people chance to talk? YEP!
• being generous and trying to make the world a better place Generous? Hmmz... And I only try to make MY world a better place.
• having the guts to take risks and to try exciting adventures Not so yep
• having such varied interests and abilities It's so varied, I can't pin point any of my interestes and abilities. So do I have them?
  

What's Hard About Being a Seven

• not having enough time to do all the things I want Very, very yep!!
• not completing things I start Right on yep!
• not being able to profit from the benefits that come from specializing; not making a commitment to a career WAH!! So so accurate YEP YEP!
• having a tendency to be ungrounded; getting lost in plans or fantasies YEP! YEP! YEP!
• feeling confined when I'm in a one-to-one relationship that was before I'm married to Bob. Now I can't be happier!

Sevens as Children

• Often are action oriented and adventuresome Hmmz..
• drum up excitement Double hmmz..
• prefer being with other children to being alone Oh, I'm no loner. But usually I'm still alone, cos other children hates me!
• finesse their way around adults Ooh, I gotta ask the then-adults.
• dream of the freedom they'll have when they grow up Yeah, yep yep! I couldn't wait to grow up, so I can go anywhere I wish.
  

Sevens as Parents

• are often enthusiastic and generous Okay, quite..
• want their children to be exposed to many adventures in life Yep! I don't want my kid to be too sheltered.
• may be too busy with their own activities to be attentive It's unfortunately true. Poor Tara.

Try yours here!

A job!

Ooh, it's really a happy news for me. I found a job! I got a job!!

Oh.. that makes me a really bad mother yeah? I rather work than take care of my kid. Not that I don't like taking care of Tara, I just feel that being able to have a job and earning my own penny gives me a better balance.

Whenever I'm outside, shopping or stolling around with Tara, and I saw those working people, I'm so envious. And I so wana get a job. And there, I found one!

I will start work next Monday. Actually I told them I can start this Friday, since it's the 1st day of the month. Yeah I know, just work for one day and then rest for Sat and Sun and go to work next Monday again. It doesn't matter to me, I'm so looking forward to going to work so starting this Friday or next Monday does not matter to me.

This job is totally different from my last one. I've got no sales target to meet and I don't need to travel all over Singapore. Yeap, it's a deskbound job. I don't earn like I used to but then again, I don't need to pay for a car so, yeah, it's about there. I'm happy.

But I guess there's things I need to get used to, all over again. The new colleagues, the new work place, the new job scope. I need to get some casual work wear too. I saw my new colleagues wearing what I usually wear on a Saturday and I haven't got much casual wear. I'm used to wearing a bit more office-like cos of the clients I have to meet everyday. Then again, I still feel it's better to dress up nicely when going to work so I'm gonna get smart casuals, to fit in the crowd, and not overly casual, i.e. wearing slippers to work.

Okay, I will get used to it. And these few days, I hope to spend more time with Tara. She's still my No. 1. My evenings after work and weekends will still be hers. But I'm happier this way.

Some of my friends told me I'm crazy, and I don't know how to enjoy life. Hmmz, I don't think being at home everyday with a toddler is considered a life to me.

Then again, different strokes for different folks.

On the Creative Side

The projects I've done these 2 months.

These are done at the crop session held at one of the TSL's members abode. I haven't got any idea what to scrap at that time, so these 2 were unplanned ones and I don't really like them.





And the next one was done at a midnight crop held at Made with Love in Plaza Singapura. I like this one better. And it's a very meaningful one cos there's a bit of Tara's hair which I kept in a keepsake holder.





I also managed to do a door hanger for Tara.



And the following 2 layouts are for the SDU class I attended last Thursday. I managed to complete the layouts on yet another overnight crop which I had with my Sis last Friday. Finally did a layout for Bob! And I love it! Just when I thought it's so difficult to scrap for a big guy and the 7 gypsies papers changed it all. The "Lifetime Promise" layout was done on very beautiful Laura Ashley Wedding Collection papers. I'm gonna get more Laura Ashley papers! Heard they are not going to produce anymore so it's gonna be so precious!





And remember sometime back, I offered to sell my excess lunch boxes and to alter it at an additional cost of $2? This is one of them. Morraine emailed me and actually reserved both lunch boxes. I really took my own sweet time to do. Sorry Morraine! The other lunch box will also be ready soon. By this week, I hope. Let me know if you can meet me up next week to collect them! I did something special for Morraine. I did a "First" lunchbox for her girl, Ashley. There's 12 cards in the lunch box, already half completed, she will just need to put in photos and write some journaling and it's done!! Hope you like it ah Morr..





And this one, a mini lunchbox I did to hold my tools supplies for the SDU classes. I'm suddenly crazy over pink and brown, and the combination of them both. Simply love it!



More projects and layouts coming up!

Goodies from Norway & Amsterdam

The goodies Bob brought back! Imagine this guy even stuffed 2 big packets of smoked salmon in his luggage! He's nuts!

For Tara, he bought a pair of Timberland shoes from Amsterdam, and that cost 80 bucks in Singapore dollars. I thought spending almost $50 for a pair of First Clarks is crazy enough. He also bought a first Hard Rock t-shirt, a set of top and pants, and a pink t-shirt. Which Mummy has one too.

And silly Bob bought all the t-shirts for me in S/M size, even though I've told him countless times I'm an L size for ladies wear (oops, now everyone knows my size!). He said he looked at the L sizes and thought they look big. Yeah, he still think his wife is nice and slim. And that cute pink t-shirt which Tara has one, I guess we will never have a chance to wear them together unless I can slim down before Tara grows out of hers. Or unless I stumped Tara's growth. Only the white Hard Rock tee is in the correct size. Silly Bob.

Bob has a habit, wherever he travels, he makes it a point to visit the local Hard Rock store to get t-shirts and shooter glasses. He bought 3 tees for himself, 2 for me and 1 for Tara. We wanted to get the "First" tee for Tara in Singapore when we attended a birthday party there weeks ago, but Bob thought he'd rather spend the money for one that has "Amsterdam" written on it.

And he bought chocolates. Lots of chocolates. From both Norway and Amsterdam. I had a hard time chooosing what to keep and what to give away. Everyday, I will break a section of the chocolate to savour. I just ate one, gotta stop myself from pinching another piece. Yummy! Love chocolates.

Oh, and poor Bob was supposed to be back in Singapore on Saturday afternoon, but the flight was cancelled and he can only got on the next flight 12 hours later! I had to go to the airport at 3am in the morning with the still sleeping Tara in tow!

Really glad to have my big guy back. Missed him terribly. Oh, the goodies are a bonus, of course!

Phone and Broadband down

Haven't been able to surf the net cos my broadband is down. I kind of have a feeling it's connected to my phone line, because it's down for a few days too. I can live with no land line but I can't live with no internet connection!

So last night, I called up the SingTel people and this morning, they came down to check. Apparently, the cable down our block is damaged, thus affecting my phone line. The first tech guy told me it's the downstairs cable got problem and told me someone else will come fix it. And they had everything done before noon! Applaud their fast and efficient service. No regrets for dumping Starhub and going for SingNet.

Okay, lots of things to blog! Let me get the photos sorted out first. Lots of photos to post!

And Bob is finally back! So I'm a happy woman now, once I get a job, I'll be even happier!! I feel so lost without a job now. Guess I'm more inclined towards being a FTWM than a SAHM.

Emotions Update

Thanks all for the kind advises and consolation. Through here and through sms-es. Thank you all so much. I'm quite relieved to know that this might just be a passing phase for Tara. I will definitely need more patience in teaching her the good and bad, the right and wrong.

I'm feeling so much better now. Still a bit down but it's because Bob wasn't around. In the past, 6 or 7 days without Bob around wasn't that bad. Actually time flies then, maybe because I'm busy with work and back home, with Tara, time whizzed by. Now it's his 5th day overseas, I felt like he wasn't around for weeks!! Really miss having him around. Bob's always a good listener, no matter what nonsense I'm blabbering. He will listen. And I miss that.

As for Tara, she's certainly behaving really well these 2 days. Very sweet, very loving. Lots of kisses, lots of hugs from her these 2 days. Maybe she knows that Mummy isn't feeling good. But the poor girl fell ill. Early this evening, I felt her body was warmer than usual and her face was flushed. Took her temperature and she's running a fever. 37.7 degrees. Fed her fever medicine and brought her home. I think she's really unwell, she wasn't her usual bubbly self and instead of taking her shoes off, like she always does when we reach home, she stood beside the stool and laid her head there instead, and looking at me with bleary eyes.

She's sleeping now. Gotta feed her next dose of fever medication at 12am, 4 hours interval. Her fever went up to 38.2 degrees when I last checked. Poor baby.

Dejected

I'm still trying to get used to taking care of Tara full time. It's a totally different, absolutely overwhelming experience for me. I've had taken care of Tara full days before, but that was only for a day or at most, a couple of days. It's been more than a week now. And I can't say it's very enjoyable for me. But I have to admit that it can be rather fulfilling at times.

When I was still working, Tara's bad behaviour wasn't tolerated and she would either get a smack on her thigh or she would be punished by standing in a corner. But it wasn't that easy to do the same every single day. I realised she's displaying some bad habits, which unfortunately, are what we have been doing unknowingly all the time.

Nowadays, she will smack me back (and guess where she learnt that from!), whenever she's angry with me and she's getting better at it as the day goes. Recently, she realised that hitting me on my face and pulling my specs down at the same time is really fun, cos she can get Mummy's undivided attention, coupled with huge amounts of irritation and anger. I smacked her hard, real hard. And soon, I realised that inflicting pain is really a bad idea. And she's learnt the bad habit of hitting me too. In a way, I've indirectly taught her that hitting is okay, cos Mummy's doing it!

So, I decided to try another method. I used a totally calm and very uninterested (remember she's getting attention) tone and tell her not to hit Mummy and to say sorry. She used to come up to me, stroke me on my arm and hug me, that's her way of saying sorry. But now, she will hit me again and again and again. I would give her a warning and when she refused to heed, I made her stand in the corner. And for now, a warning will usually suffice. She will protest a little and stopped her bad behaviour.

I used to feel anger when she hit me. But now I feel dejected, sad and useless. I wonder why my baby will hit me, I'm suppose to be the person she loves most. It really breaks my heart when she does that. Sometimes I do wonder if she hates me. I wonder if I'm using the right method to discipline her. I even wonder if I'm the right person to take care of her? Or maybe, to console myself, she might be at the terrible two phase and thus, the bad tantrums and behaviour, and it's gonna go away soon. Or will it?

I have been having so many negative thoughts recently. Maybe staying home is a bad idea after all. Or maybe I still need time to get used to it?

MIL will be coming this Friday. Yeah, quite disappointed that I'm still wasn't able to take care of her fully by myself. I had thought that I can do that for a month before my PILs comes back again. I didn't expect, nor I really like the idea of her coming earlier than she used to. But then again, since she's here, I might as well take the opportunity to take a breather.

I plan to drop Tara off at 3rd aunt's place this Sunday, since MIL will be there till next Monday, and drive myself to Orchard road for some time alone. Shopping, coffee, reading or just walking along the road. Whatever. I'm going to do things by myself. Yeah, just me only. I hope I will feel better then.

Busier than before!

When I decided to stop working, I thought that I will have more time to do things that I really love but wasn't able to when I'm still working. I thought I have ample time to scrap, tidy and clean up the house, cook meals, buy groceries, surf internet, do the laundry, on top of taking care of Tara.

I was wrong! I actually found it even harder to do anything! The only time I can take a breather was when Tara takes her nap in the afternoon. And it's a miserable short 1 hour nap. There's only enough time for me to check a couple of mails, tie up loose ends on the sprees I've organized, read a few posts at TSL and the next moment, the little gal would be standing beside me, up from her nap and asking for my attention.

My waking hours are 95% hers. We will watch VCDs together, sing and dance together, read together, do colouring together, take a walk in the garden together. Only when she hit the pillows, then I get my 5%. I can't stay up as late as I used to, cos I have to be alert and wide awake for her the next day. She zaps up my energy so by the end of the day, I will be dead tired to do anything else anyway. I'm still thinking of activities that she can do alone. Activities that's safe for her, as well as for the house. She did colouring alone once, and the colour pencils were thrown on the ground within minutes and without leaving some marks on her high chair first.

And since I've stopped working, everyday is packed with activities. Birthday party, dinners, visiting etc, there isn't a day I can be home for the whole day.

I need time to scrap! Lots of things that I want to scrap.

Just me and Tara

Bob left for Norway yesterday night. And will only be back in 8 days. I thought I have gotten used to Bob's travelling but I was wrong. I felt totally alone today. And I'm wondering how am I going to survive till the next Sunday. Lonely. Low spirits.

I know I have Tara with me, but it's a different kind of companionship. The best part is, Bob had to go Vietnam once he's back from Norway.

It's cruel. He always has to travel when there's some major, if not, important change in my life, which is when I really need him to be around.

First was when I found out I was pregnant, he started travelling more frequent. Even when I'm less than 2 weeks from my expected due date, he had to fly to India to helped clinched a deal for his colleague. I had to stay over with my parents, cos they were worried I might popped anytime.

Then when I gave birth to Tara, he had to leave me alone at home with the confinement lady only 8 days after I've delivered. It was a major emotional time for me then. And his travelling wasn't any lesser.

And now I'm not working, and he won't be around for more than 2 weeks this month. There's no one to look forward to at the end of the day, no one to cook dinner for, no one to listen to my chit chatter, and no one to watch TV shows with, no one to laugh with me over Tara's silly antics.

I miss Bob badly.

Overnight Crop

Bob left for Norway this evening. So I invited my sis over my place for an overnight crop. The last overnight crop also at my place, my sis fell asleep with her daughter, and left me scrapping alone in the hall.

Hope both of us can keep awake long enough to finish those "back log" projects!

Eeewww!!

I just pulled out a poo from Tara's butt. It's stuck halfway so I thought I might as well pull it out for her.

It's gross enough. The best part is, the poo is attached to a long piece of veg from her National Day's dinner! Yikes! Super gross.

To have or not to have

Last night, Bob and I were discussing our plans.

To have or not to have. Baby number 2, that is.

There were a lot of factors to consider. Factors like, who's gonna take care of No.2? And Tara? My mum? She's not that willing to look after Tara sometimes, I feel. So who else? Send Tara to a full time child care and get Mum to look after No.2? Bob is only willing to send Tara to a really good one if that's the case and it's gonna set him back about $800 a month, I thought he's crazy. Besides, we need to pay Mum for looking after no.2 and a part time cleaning lady for the house chores too. And that's gonna be hefty!

I told him since he's so willing to fork out so much, we might as well spend $500 plus (besides the initial costs) to get a maid and another $300 plus to get Tara in a regular playgroup or something. But this is something I need to check. Now I don't even know how much it will cost to send Tara to such playgroup. Bob's very particular about the school so it might not be that affordable. As for the maid, I will have someone keeping the house in order every day. Why not right?

And I don't feel safe having a maid alone with 2 kids so I told Bob we might need to get my MIL to stay over permanently, something which I might not look forward to, but it's the most ideal solution. And I'm always not that keen having strangers in the house. So I really need some getting used to with the maid around.

And there comes another headache. How to allocate the rooms? Who's going to sleep where? Remember I have only 1 guest room available? And it's taken by my PILs? I told Bob we might have to let Tara continue sleeping with us till she's max 6 years old and till then, we can think of how to create a additional room. Cos now, it's not easy to have one. Lots of factors to consider too. We might have the maid sleeping in our current study. And where does the desktop and printers go? To our room I guess. How about my scrapping stuff? I don't know man!

And nope, if you are thinking of that. I don't intend to be a full time SAHM for now. I'm looking out for jobs already. Why? I still prefer to be financially independent. I need the money for my addiction!

And till all these are ironed out. I'm holding plans for no. 2.

Fireworks Festival!

We have the opportunity to watch fireworks at the "comfort of airconditioned office".

BIL's office is on the 2nd floor of One Fullerton. His company actually invited their clients to watch the fireworks in their office! How cool is that!

But it wasn't that cool when we reached. There were 800 other people there for the same purpose. We are suppose to watch in the executive's (aka boss) office. Tara and I were one of the first to trot into the office, after queuing outside with an equally impatient crowd. Women and kids are supposed to go in first but being Singaporeans, some men actually squeezed their way through too.

We managed to get the "first class seat" beside the full height window. I sat down on the ledge so that those behind can get a better view. The adults standing nearer to the windows should squat so that those behind them can get to see the display too. But nope, they didn't do that nor they were nice enough to let some of the kiddos get to the front. Bob told me some kids were stuck behind because of some inconsiderate adults hogging the best view. Even Bob at 1.75m, standing just a short distance away from us, can only see 60% of the view. I guess the only things those kids saw were butts and legs.

While waiting for the fireworks to start, a little girl on my left kept asking me when is the fireworks starting. I told her 5mins, and she repeated her question every 30 secs! So after replying the hundredth time, I told her I don't know and said she had to wait. The little boy on my right was so excited talking that his saliva kept splattering onto the side of my face and I'm sure my hair caught the most of it. Tara was a little cranky too. And she was about to throw her prissy fits when the fireworks finally started.

Oohs and aahs amongst the crowd. Tara was captivated by the beautiful display of the fireworks too. And for sometime, forgot that she was sleepy and hungry. I sat on the low ledge, with Tara on my lap and a little girl leaning on me, and her hair was tickling my face half the time. I felt my legs getting numb and I was about to give up and thinking of how to squeeze out of the crowd when the fireworks finally ended.

Bob told me if I still wana see another display, I can arranged with BIL for the Saturday's slot. I told him no way, man! The type of crowd puts me off.

Anyway, for those who weren't able to see the spectacular fireworks display. Here's a very short and shaky video I took. By the way, this is the Singapore's team display. I kind of hope to see the display by the teams of other countries.

Caught her!

A couple of months back, Gene found Talia sitting on the dining table, playing with
her flashcards.

A couple of days back, I found my little girl up on our dining table too. If you look closely at the mess, you can see something small that caught her attention. It's always the same things that she risks life and limb for. Think food. And nope, it's not the bread.


What's with kids and dining tables nowadays?

Class at the Scrapbook Design University (SDU)

I went for my first class this afternoon. It was so fun and very informative.

We were taught various other uses for paper punches, as well as how to coordinate colours better. During the class, we were given small projects to do. At the end of the class, the instructor, Sharon, sent us out to the shop to choose papers for our layouts for next week.

We were each given a bag and a binder file for the notes that will be distributed at every class.

I can't wait for the class next week. I'm beginning to get hooked on classes!! What I need now is more money. Hiak hiak hiak.

Happy National Day in Advance!

Just in case I don't get to log on tomorrow.

HAPPY NATIONAL DAY TO ALL!

We will be going to Party World with Tara in tow tonight. No plans for tomorrow yet. But I hope we can chill out at home all day. Thinking of making a pot of stew beef tomorrow. *Slurp* The thought of it makes me salivate. Bob's requesting for stew beef and butter rice since don't know when. Maybe I should grant his wish!

This Friday, we will be going to BIL's office to watch the fireworks. Yeah! Love fireworks.

You peeps out there enjoy your National Day! Proud to be a Singaporean. And remember to wear red.

A new word

This morning, Tara came up to me, gave me my hair clip and said very clearly "头发". I replied "Yes! It's for 头发" and she repeated the word again.

Wow, my baby has learnt so many chinese words from my FIL. Hmmz, I'm puzzled now, should I teach in Mandarin or English? It's going to be funny speaking dual language in one sentence right?

Ooo.. Nice!

Imagine after having 2 kids and still having a figure like that? Click here

I will die a happy woman....

My day today..

I brought Tara to Angela's place for a swim! It was great! Angela managed to coax Tara into the pool! She's no longer afraid of going into the water. But once in a while, she would still climb out of the pool. Nonetheless, it's a major milestone for her.

After the swim, we went to Angela's place to shower and change and headed to Jurong Point for lunch and grocery shopping. I think I'm getting too adventurous. I was carrying a huge and rather heavy bag, and bought a few bags of groceries. Had to take a cab home. The cabby had to helped me carry Tara over the pavement step. Just realised I got a small but angry looking blister on the area in between my pointy finger and my thumb.

Yeah, serve me right for thinking that I can carry so much things.

Ooh, back aching now...

Refuse to call Mummy

I wonder why, she can sweetly call Daddy and everybody else but when it comes to calling me, she will talk in gibberish. The other day, I told my Mum about it and she asked Tara to say Mummy and she said it nice and perfect. She made me feel like the boy that cry wolf.

To further convinced myself that she indeed refused to say Mummy, I deliberately said a whole list of names to call. And inserting "Mummy" randomly. She can call every single name except for Mummy. She can even pronounced the difficult ones like "奶奶", "舅舅", "姑姑". Even though 舅舅 sounds like "dou dou", at least she meant to say it proper. And how she call "Mummy"? Just gibberish.

I wonder why.

My days as a SAHM

I spent the first day clearing out my store. Bob and I went Ikea and bought $180 worth of new shelving for our store room. I spent almost 7 hours rearranging the store, fixing up the new shelving, and throwing away stuff we don't need. Bob came back for half an hour to help me fix the shelves cos I wasn't able to do it alone. Imagine holding to the stands and trying to balance the shelving? After 6 hours, I've got a well-organized store! Though it's not really neat and tidy, everything was arranged properly and within reach. Unlike before, we gotta dig real deep to get something. Satisfaction! Not without some "sacrifices though. I grazed the skin on my middle finger when I tried to fix the screws, dropped a folded chair on my right foot and got lots of body ache from the climbing and stuff. My inner thigh still aching now.

Because of the body ache, I wasn't able to accomplish much on my second day. Only managed to clear the dining table and tidy up the hall a little. I'm supposed to tidy up the study but it's just so difficult with my both legs aching. Left the house in the evening and had steamboat with the gals. We went to the Hainan charcoal steamboat at the 7th storey motel near Bugis. Had a wonderful time just yakking and munching away. Verdict on the food? Not much variety, a little ex, and taste okay.



Yesterday was the third day of staying at home but my first day of taking care of Tara full time. The first two days, my PILs had to bring Tara to Bob's 3rd aunt's place so that I can tidy up the house in peace. Yesterday monring, I woke up at 8 plus. Tara and I spent the morning eating breakfast, watching and singing and dancing to Hi-5 together. The little girl refused to take her nap and thus, deprived me of a much needed sleep, since I woke up so early. I tried putting her to bed 4 times, but none successful. I gave up, and went about sorting the package of scrapbook materials I got from the vpost delivery morning. While doing that, the little girl started to misbehave. I punished her, she cried and finally decided to take a nap. I didn't get to rest though, had to do some chores and by the time I'm ready to leave the house, she woke up. We went to the library and to Jurong Point for our meatball linguini lunch before we left for my parents' place. I decided to take the bus, since my parent's place is not accessible by train. When I reached the interchange, passengers were already boarding the bus. I had to close the pram and while I was doing that, Tara followed the queue boarding the bus. I frantically hollowed her to wait for me, while I fumbled with the pram. Three helpful passengers helped me to carry her onto the bus and I dashed in after her. Tara coolly walked to the back and tried to climb onto the seat. Two aunties helped me pull her up cos my hands are full with the bag and the pram. Wow, I'm really grateful for their help! I guess I shouldn't have brought the pram if I'm taking the bus, Tara refused to use the pram anyway.

And this morning, my second day of full time SAHM, I was woken up by Tara at 7.45am. YEAH, 7.45am!!?? I don't even wake up this early when I'm working. Bob was already getting ready for work so I might as well join him for breakfast. I stepped out of the house and saw my neighbour, Sie Sie, stepping out too. She looked at me and said, "Wow! So early? You are not even this early when you working!" Yeah, she's right. I'm so tired and bleary eyed. After breakfast, I decided to bring Tara to the garden for a walk. As we were walking, I felt so relaxed, so exhilarated, knowing that this day will pass by without the usual work pressure. I sat down on the bench while Tara ventured around. I find myself enjoying the fresh morning air, the peace and quiet. Even when I'm on leave from work, I still get calls from clients but today, I know that I won't be disturbed like before. I can't stop smiling to myself. I think I can do this everyday! Reading the papers, enjoying the morning breeze, while watching over Tara.



When we came back, I let Tara watched 30 mins of Hi-5, sang and danced with her, read 5 short board books, and tried to get her to nap. It wasn't easy. I had to close the day curtains, on the radio to symphony to create a condusive sleeping environment and pretend to sleep.

She's finally sleeping now. In the hall. With relaxing classical music. Hope she sleeps for at least 2 hours, so I can do my own stuff.

Now, I'm going to get some receipes from May's blog. Next week, I'm gonna cook proper meals for Tara, and Bob too. Yeah, I love my SAHM life. For now... at least..