Bye Bye School, Welcome Holidays!

Today is Cass’ kindy’s parents-teachers day where the parents will meet the teachers and collect the child’s report card.  I wonder how she has fared in her first ever classroom style exam.  For BM, she has just started to master suku kata and has just started to get the hang of stringing the suku katas…

Hot Hot Day Again

Today is another skin grilling, super hot, hazy and humid day.  A 15-minute laundry hanging at my balcony at 10am, with streaks of burning hot sun rays roasting my skin all over made me perspire as if I had spent half an hour in the sauna, I kid you not.  Yesterday I looked at myself…

My Monday – 20 May 2013

This week is bound to be a nail-bitting 4 days for me from today through Thursday. My 3 daughters will bring home their Mid-Term test papers for me to sign. I think Alycia is going to be A-OK with her overall results. I have no idea how Sherilyn and Cass have fared.  While Sherilyn is…

Beet Root Smoothies

Today, I made some healthy smoothies with beet root, the root that is a well-known powerhouse of antioxidants and soluble fiber.   With one medium size beet root, I made: 1) beet root + green apple + chia seeds smoothie for myself. I used about 3/4 of the beet root and 1 whole green apple….

Scorching Hot Weather

The weather for the past few days has been killing!  A 5-minute stroll in the open air during the day when the sun is scorching hot can literally grill your skin till it browns with sweat sizzling out from every single pore on your body.  It is so hot that I have to shower 3-4…

Exam Season Yet Again

It’s the most dreaded time of the year again. This time, I have 3 times the amount of stress as Cass is in her 2nd last year of kindy and has to sit for the twice-yearly exam as well.  Today, I spent my morning doing revision with Cass.  It is a kindy holiday for Cass…

Happy Mother’s Day!

I received a big surprise in the post box on Friday. It was a handmade Mother’s Day card from one of my blog readers!! This is the same lady who made me a Mother’s Day card last year! Last year, the card was pink and the hand-sewn alphabet on the card was the letter ‘S’….

Little Helper

She may be a rascal giving me plenty of hair-pulling moments everyday but when she is good, she can be such a saint who tugs at my heartstrings.  Her latest new found skill since last Friday is choosing fruits and veggies. At the night market last Friday, she did a very good job helping me…

Hooked On The Wimp

I’ve got a confession to make and I’ll bet you’ll roll on the floor laughing till your stomach aches.  I have always reprimanded my girls not to spend hours on end sitting on the royal throne to perform their business with a book in hand but I am now starting to follow suit my girls’…

My Health Freak Breakfast – 25 April 2013

After a  half-hour workout in the gym today where I burned 300+ calories, here’s what I had for breakfast: 1 packet of Ryvita’s mini cream cheese & chives rye crackers (shared with Cass) and half a bowl of honey nut granola topped with untoasted hazelnuts, pistachios, pumpkin seeds, chia seeds and three juicy strawberries. I…

New Found Flash Cards

Cass was rummaging through my drawers  last week and guess what she fished out from the deepest end of the drawer that I hardly open? Boxes of flash cards on Math (division, addition, subtraction), words, opposites and nouns! They were all new and I was so pleasantly surprised with her unintentional discovery!  I inspected the…