Last night, I had a very deep conversation with my three-year-old. It went something like this: Ben: Mama, do ah ma and gonggong (referring to his maternal grandparents) have children ? Me: Yes, dear. Me, yeeyee and jiu jiu (referring to my siblings) are…
Dear Nat, You’re four months, coming to five now and you’ve been flipping with every chance you’ve got. You’ve started to take some semi-solids and how you love your porridge! You’ve had close to fifteen days of green mucousy stools and Mama’s brought you…
The car’s at the mechanic till Tuesday, so we were all home bound this weekend. For the first time, we didn’t have to crack our heads to think of where to go for breakfast / lunch / dinner, or where to head to so…
I think we spoil our kids silly. First we got them an extensive road system (actually it’s really for fatherkao and Ben). Now they have an aquarium. On Saturday we went to Kid’s Kampong at Pasir Ris Farmway. It was Becks’ first longkang fishing…
This is what happens when my children’s father has unfulfilled childhood dreams. He goes to Planet Toy, blows a couple of hundred on Takara Tomy’s diecast cars and tracks. He says he would never allow our sons to say ‘I’ve always wanted one of…
What do you do when you’re stressed out? Some people go for a run. A friend of mine does yoga. My husband shuts himself out from the world and takes long baths. I scrub toilets with a toothbrush. And bake. It usually has to…
I’ve heard them all and wouldn’t want to hear them again. Everywhere I go, people I meet see me with three kids and they ask if I’m going for the fourth. And when I say, no, thank you, they say why not, you’re so…
It’s been a crazy week. I returned to work after being away for about four months. And it felt like I had amnesia for a while. I couldn’t remember my passwords. I forgot names of colleagues. I felt a great sense of disconnect with…
When Mama’s at work, Nat’s at infantcare and in good hands!…
To my dear children, The world you will be growing up in would be so much more perplexing and complicated. I pray you will make God your guiding light in every step of the way. I had a childhood in a much simpler world.…