When you have 3 kids aged between 3 to 9 and without a maid, you will rather stay at home than going anywhere if you have to bring all 3 kids along and alone. I have been full time mother for less than 2 months. There has been no big challenge for this period until THIS weekend. Hubby is away for conference for few days, so I have to take care of 3 kids and doing all the house cores all by myself. It has been messy since Friday. My youngest girl was having fever since Thursday night. And my no. 2 also joined her sister and infected by the same illness since Saturday. It has been terrible for the past few days. I had to wake up every 2 to 3 hours at night just to ensure their fever is under controlled. Mothers should understand my pain when I said the kids are having fever.
Both the girls' body temperature sometime reached 39 or even 40. My youngest girl felt so uncomfortable and cried. I had to insert Voltaren (12.5mg) into her buttock to cool down her high fever, then I used a wet cloth to wet her whole body repeatedly for half an hour (same for no. 2). I have inserted 2 Voltaren to each girl's buttock, with gap of at least 12 hours, for the 4 days fever as their fever was so high. Both girls are taking antibiotics prescribed by doctor. While taking care of 2 sick girls, I still have to fetch my eldest girl from 1 enrichment class to another from morning till evening! If my hubby is at home, I can just leave the kids at home and I do the driver job. But he was not around, I just had to carry along my girls to everywhere that I go.
I have not finished my story yet. On Sunday morning, my eldest girl had a dance performance at a school. It was supposed to be no big issue if all the kids were fine, but not with 2 sick kids who were having fever and so weak..just imagine. Not only I had to bring my second girl to consult doctor, I also had to rush to the school to bring my eldest girl to meet up her dance members and get ready for the performance. My poor no. 2 even vomited when I feed her the medicine while watching the performance! How I wish I don't have to be there, just not everything in the same weekend. I was at the school for about 3 and a half hours. It was supposed to be a very short performance, but the earlier programme were overrun and the dance performance delayed by about 1 hour!
I am so exhausted today after having sleepless nights for 4 days continuously. My youngest girl looks like already recovered today as she did not has fever since yesterday evening, but not for my no. 2 as her illness only started on Saturday afternoon. Hope my no. 2 is getting better today and I can have a better sleep tonight. That's the end of my crazy weekend.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Friday, August 20, 2010
What to cook
I have plenty of materials in my fridge and I am thinking of what to cook for dinner tonight. When looking at recipes from blogger and found this garlic pork recipe from Ohbin. Looks very yummy. Will try that out tonight.
These are other dishes that I cooked recently which are presentable. LOL. Actually I cooked very often, but most of the time, I didn't take picture of the dishes as they are either not presentable or we are too hungry. ;-)
Fresh san yao chicken soup with red dates and wolf berries.
Fried big prawn with garlic...lots of garlic
Broccoli with fresh mushroom and carrot
Last but not least, the simple dish, steamed egg with minced pork.
These are other dishes that I cooked recently which are presentable. LOL. Actually I cooked very often, but most of the time, I didn't take picture of the dishes as they are either not presentable or we are too hungry. ;-)
Fresh san yao chicken soup with red dates and wolf berries.
Fried big prawn with garlic...lots of garlic
Broccoli with fresh mushroom and carrot
Last but not least, the simple dish, steamed egg with minced pork.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Improvement
I am happy with my girl's exam results. Although most of the papers scored between 85 to 95 which were within her normal standard for the past examinations (ranged between 70 to 100), a slight improvement of average marks (increased of 3 marks) was achieved. That's not a significant improvement. However I was only full time with her in the same month that she had the exam! I felt great and satisfied. That's what a SAHM can do, by having more time with the kids to coach them. When I was working last time, I only had the night time of about 2 to 3 hours to coach her in her studies and homework. My friend said she does not need to coach them but just rely on the kids' tuition teacher to do that. I personally do not like the idea of sending the kids to tuition for all subjects and on weekdays. The kids are already having so much homework from school, and by having tuition on weekday, that means additional practices and exercises for them to complete. Being a student in a popular and very academic result oriented Chinese school, my girl has average of 6 homework every day since Primary 1. I pity her for the huge number of homework that she had to finish when she was just aged 7. Just imagine a small girl doing her homework until 12 midnight and yet still could not finish. Anyway she is in Primary 3 now and already got used to it. She normally finished her homework by 10.30pm nowadays.
Note: My girl is in afternoon session from noon to evening.
I am not that type of mother who is pushing very hard for our kids' academic results. In fact, a lot of freedom is given to the girls. I just want them to try their best in every exam that they have. At least you have tried, and at least you have done your best. My opinion is attitude is much more important (well, I didn't say my girl attitude is good, but all we as parents can do are just to encourage them to have the right attitude towards their studies and always emphasize that they are responsible for it). What is important nowadays is not really the academic results but more on ability to communicate well with others.
Note: My girl is in afternoon session from noon to evening.
I am not that type of mother who is pushing very hard for our kids' academic results. In fact, a lot of freedom is given to the girls. I just want them to try their best in every exam that they have. At least you have tried, and at least you have done your best. My opinion is attitude is much more important (well, I didn't say my girl attitude is good, but all we as parents can do are just to encourage them to have the right attitude towards their studies and always emphasize that they are responsible for it). What is important nowadays is not really the academic results but more on ability to communicate well with others.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Affordable smart phone
Both my hubby's Sony Ericsson hand phone and our 2 years old Olympus waterproof digital camera are having some problems during the past week. We have to replace both these 2 toys as soon as possible. Normally I will read up some review and search in the web before making the decision to buy which model/brand. As hubby is so busy with his office work, as usual, his secretary (aka his wife) has to read up the phone and camera reviews and give him the comments and the relevant links. Is this also task of SAHM?
For the hand phone, we are now looking at smart phone below RM2k. I have shorlisted a few models and the top pick in the list is one of the latest HTC babies that was launched in July 2010 - HTC Wildfire (The low-cost version of HTC Desire. I love Desire, but it is too costly to us at the moment since we are upgrading few things in the same month).
Hubby is interested in the new Android and this device runs Android™ 2.1 with HTC Sense™, which matches with his requirement. This is an entry-level Android device with a generous 3.2 albeit low-resolution QVGA 320 x 240 screen, WiFi, Bluetooth and A-GPS support, as well as a 5MP camera with LED flash and auto focus. The processing power for the Wildfire comes in the form of 528Mhz Qualcomm MSM7225 processor with 384MB of RAM. The Wildfire has 512MB built-in memory and it supports expansion in Micro SD format up to 32GB. Details of specification could be found in the below website.
http://www.htc.com/sea/product/wildfire/specification.html
I have read through many of the reviews from CNET, Techradar, Phonearena and etc and the main negative point is the low resolution display screen whereas its main plus point is its cost as an inexpensive Android phone. We would like to find out more based on the actual phone but was surprised that the phone is out of stock for most of the hand phone dealers during our weekend shopping. So, we have to do some shopping again next week for the phone.
As for the camera, we have yet to decide which one to buy as there are still a lot of reviews and comments need to be read up since this is the first time that we are going to invest in a DSLR camera (or digital camera with SLR photo quality). Money, money and money again!!
For the hand phone, we are now looking at smart phone below RM2k. I have shorlisted a few models and the top pick in the list is one of the latest HTC babies that was launched in July 2010 - HTC Wildfire (The low-cost version of HTC Desire. I love Desire, but it is too costly to us at the moment since we are upgrading few things in the same month).
Hubby is interested in the new Android and this device runs Android™ 2.1 with HTC Sense™, which matches with his requirement. This is an entry-level Android device with a generous 3.2 albeit low-resolution QVGA 320 x 240 screen, WiFi, Bluetooth and A-GPS support, as well as a 5MP camera with LED flash and auto focus. The processing power for the Wildfire comes in the form of 528Mhz Qualcomm MSM7225 processor with 384MB of RAM. The Wildfire has 512MB built-in memory and it supports expansion in Micro SD format up to 32GB. Details of specification could be found in the below website.
http://www.htc.com/sea/product/wildfire/specification.html
I have read through many of the reviews from CNET, Techradar, Phonearena and etc and the main negative point is the low resolution display screen whereas its main plus point is its cost as an inexpensive Android phone. We would like to find out more based on the actual phone but was surprised that the phone is out of stock for most of the hand phone dealers during our weekend shopping. So, we have to do some shopping again next week for the phone.
As for the camera, we have yet to decide which one to buy as there are still a lot of reviews and comments need to be read up since this is the first time that we are going to invest in a DSLR camera (or digital camera with SLR photo quality). Money, money and money again!!
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Acceptance to Standard 1
Last week, we have received the long waiting letter of acceptance for my 2nd girl to standard 1 next year. I have registered her into this popular Chinese Primary school when she was 5. Finally she is accepted to this highly demanded school...BUT I am not sure whether its a good news or bad news coz my girl is quite weak in Chinese. All these while she did much better in English and Bahasa Malaysia than her Chinese. Anyway, hubby insists that she should be studying in a Chinese school. Well, I can only pray that she can cope with her studies in a Chinese school where all the subjects; Chinese, Moral, Science and maths are all in Chinese.
Back to the acceptance letter, parents are required to bring the letter to school for confirmation during the month of August. I have done mine 2 days ago. I was given the notice about the orientation day, schedule to buy standard 1 books in December and forms to fill up and to be passed back to teacher during orientation day in end Dec. The process is the same as per my eldest girl 3 year back. How time flies.
Next year, my 2 girls will be studying in the same school, but it does not help in my life as a driver as the eldest will be in morning session whereas my 2nd girl will be in afternoon session!
Back to the acceptance letter, parents are required to bring the letter to school for confirmation during the month of August. I have done mine 2 days ago. I was given the notice about the orientation day, schedule to buy standard 1 books in December and forms to fill up and to be passed back to teacher during orientation day in end Dec. The process is the same as per my eldest girl 3 year back. How time flies.
Next year, my 2 girls will be studying in the same school, but it does not help in my life as a driver as the eldest will be in morning session whereas my 2nd girl will be in afternoon session!
Exam over!
Finally my girl's exam is over. Finished on Tuesday, so, she get to enjoy her playtime now (in fact she didn't touch her books other than homework since Tuesday evening). I will let her play and enjoy her own sweet time to the max until the preparation for the next exam in September...gosh...the honeymoon period is so short (considering about 3 weeks preparation prior to the final term exam)! Anyway mommy is finally free to do own things now! (glad to gain back my normal life..haha)
For the past 2 weeks, other than cooking, fetching the girls as usual, the rest of my time were mainly studying with her. Hope she is doing better than the earlier exam. Books were all over the places in my house during exam time, especially dining table and living room. This picture was taken during exam time. These books and dictionary (except for the BM Dictionary) on the dining table were only for 1 subject...Chinese Essay!
For the past 2 weeks, other than cooking, fetching the girls as usual, the rest of my time were mainly studying with her. Hope she is doing better than the earlier exam. Books were all over the places in my house during exam time, especially dining table and living room. This picture was taken during exam time. These books and dictionary (except for the BM Dictionary) on the dining table were only for 1 subject...Chinese Essay!
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