Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
The cheapo 14mm f2.5G lens I picked up earlier this year has become my current mainstay lens since purchase. It’s a delightful pancake kit, relatively sharp in the center and very quick to focus too. The one downer of this
Another weekly update on the ongoing construction of The Minton condo. This might be one of our last visits before the project reaches technical completion next month or so – on account that our baby boy is due very soon.
Hannah has turned four years old today! The both of us had to go to work regardless – we’ll make it up for her tonight and tomorrow evening too – but she had a cute line this morning while we
I have put on at least 10 kg during this pregnancy and am feeling easily tired in the last trimester. I promised to bake rock cakes with Hannah a month ago and since both of us are having school holidays
Our small-group friend recently bought a bread maker machine. Ling does a lot of baking at home, though it’s been mainly pastries and the occasional cake. I’ve been packing quick ready-made sandwiches to work several days each week, so figured
Another weekly update on the ongoing construction of The Minton condo. There’s a couple of other very non-new home posts that we’re planning to do too – including our girl’s recent birthday celebration in school, and also a new baking
Our once a month visit to the nearing completed The Minton condo has changed to fortnightly and now weekly visits. We normally visit in the mid-mornings and where possible only when I’m certain of getting reasonably decent lighting for pictures.
Yeah it’s been just 2 weeks from our last visit to The Minton condo, but with many residents keeping their fingers cross (or hopes high) that completion is just a month away now, I decided to really pick up the
Another recent conversation with Hannah, and on last Friday just before Mother’s Day. H: Mommy, mommy, I’m going to give you a surprise tomorrow! M: Really?! That’s nice, sweetie. H: The paint is still not dry. Tomorrow it will dry
It might be middle-age or just maybe the slowly but ever steadily increasing demands and expectations at work, but I’ve increasingly become an angry driver when on the road. Not in aggression or exhibitions of dangerous driving, mind you –
Hannah added a new plush toy to her Mickey Mouse Clubhouse collection over the weekend, and this time round, it was the titular character to match her earlier Minnie Mouse acquisition from several weeks ago. There were several available sizes
There’s been lots of excited discussion in our new home’s The Minton FB group about when the project will complete. A couple of residents are confident it’d be done by June, though every time we go by for a photo-visit,
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