Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
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,
During our paktology days – that’s ‘dating’ for our Ang Mo friend – Ling would often muse aloud about finding some nice coffee joint and stoning (i.e. vegetating) around a couple of beverages. Problem was that I wasn’t a coffee
This is probably the final segment on my gleamings from the book ‘Nurture Shock’ by PO Bronson & Ashley Merryman. A disclaimer here first – I’m no linguist and definitely not anywhere close to being regarded as a language expert.
I was remarking to Ling that our girl is really growing quick, and maybe just a tad too quick! Here’s a recent ‘toilet conversation’ between Mommy and Hannah just before her bed-time. H: Mommy, why are you wearing this pajamas?
We had a rather eventul last week, starting off when our girl accidentally left behind her Pluto – yep the orange plush toy you see in many pictures here on our blog – at a toy store in Compass Point,
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