There’s dirt on my shirt And leaves in my hair There’s mud on my boots But I don’t really care Playing outside is so much fun To breathe the clean air And feel the warm sun To stomp in a puddle Or climb a…
If there’s a Dark Ages to my history of motherhood, this should be it. It’s now looking like the darkest ever. The toddler and preschooling years were pretty manageable. Exhausting but manageable. There were poopy diapers to change, dirty mouths to clean and lots…
It’s been two weeks since Ben started putting on his Ortho-k lenses. I shared in Part 1 why we decided to make that his choice of visual aid, and how we got him started by first taking him to Aero-V for a check up…
Invites & Tryouts Product Reviews The Kao Kids
Solution to tracking after-school routines: the 3M Post-it® Super Sticky Dry Erase Surface [Review]
I need a way to keep track. Of my kids, and what they need to do at home, that is. Every day, while I am busy at work, my kids would call me on my mobile (and sometimes they sound so like one another) and ask…
So I last posted in January that I was super bummed that myopia and astigmatism had finally hit my firstborn (ugh, sneaky thing), which started me on my quest to gather research about childhood myopia and how to control it. There’s tons of literature out there…
Dear Lord, What was on your mind when you gave me these? These very beautiful little people. And this wonderful person who chose to marry me. You must be thinking of how blessed, how loved, and how happy I would be. With these people…
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Getting good light wherever – Review of 3M’s LED P1610 Polarizing Task Light
Do you have this problem? You get the kids a study table and then they draw and do their work everywhere else EXCEPT at their study table. And then you go on and custom make a pretty study area with some personalisation here and there for each…
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For learning and the love for wildlife – Safari Zoo Run 2017
This has got to be the most meaningful Zoo Run yet. To run for wildlife conservation, and to be educated along the way (literally) – what a new twist this adds to participating in a run. Last Saturday, the boys and I, together with…
As if things can get any worse. Becks was on the mend after the episode of the stomach flu and being in the hospital and life was pretty much back to normal again, or so I thought. This week we set out and about our usual business,…
It’s been a really tough week on the home front. I’m running on a full, almost 24/7 schedule of running the business – and just returned from Co-working Unconference Asia in Chiang Mai, when I received a few calls from unknown numbers on a…