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All children are blessings

Posted on 25 Dec 20085 Mar 2017   by CY

My Christmas post! One of the two discussion books our small group has been studying this year is on family. And as these discussions go, a couple of times the issue of having children has come up a few times.

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Tot Naming Part II

Posted on 22 Dec 2008   by CY

Part II of baby naming, and a continuation from Part I I blogged last month. Here are the names going from F to N. F – Didn’t choose any names from this alphabetical character, since it wouldn’t have gone very

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Longing during pregnancy

Posted on 28 Nov 2008   by Ling

One thing I missed a lot was wholesome home-cooked food when I started going through the first trimester of my pregnancy. I missed my mom’s stir-fried veggies, be it cauliflower, spinach, kailan, kangkong, beansprouts, the list goes on. I used

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Red Dates, Longans and Ginger Tea

Posted on 14 Nov 2008   by Ling

The name of the drink is quite a misnomer for there’s no tea content at all. Boon Yee, my dear ex-colleague, shared with me this antedote to ‘morning sickness’. Her mother in-law made it for her during her difficult first

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Misery

Posted on 8 Nov 2008   by Ling

Today’s the fifth day of my fever and cough but it feels like I’m trapped in a time-zone. When will my misery be over? My gynae told me on Tuesday that I have nothing to worry about even with all

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First Trimester

Posted on 27 Oct 2008   by Ling

Three things kept bothering me during this period of pregnancy: Nausea Bloatedness Constant exhaustion So far, I didn’t vomit. Thank God! It’s just that the lurking background nauseous sensation kept me from feeling normal. Chewing on a few pieces of

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Hey, we've got a new topic to blog now…

Posted on 21 Oct 2008   by CY

… because Ling’s expecting.:) Ann – we did say it’d be announced here LOL.:)

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Hallucinating Hunger

Posted on 21 Oct 2008   by Ling

It hit me 6 hours after breakfast 2 days ago. Boy, it happened in the midst of marking my student’s essays and I thought the words just lifted themselves off the page! I had to stop and go ransack the kitchen for food. Yang

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