You Don't Know Anything

Last weekend was quite a long weekend with 2 days of public holidays coupled with weekends. Dominic was travelling and I took the kids to stay with my parents.
Two third of the journey, Lucas suddenly remembered he did not bring any books with him. He insisted that I turned back to the house and I refused. We already had been on the road for 40 mins. He was annoyed. Then he said there is 24 hours a day, which is correct. The time he wakes up till the time he goes to bed is 24 hours. I told him it is only 12 or 13 hours. The other hours are when he was sleeping. He did not believed me and was annoyed even more. Then he blurted out 'Mommy, you don't know anything. You only know I have a lot of taxis!' I replied, 'If you said so'. He quickly added 'Yes, I said so'. What a fierce boy. Do you call this parent abuse?

Chloe is not any better either. One morning, I was picking her up from her bed in the morning. She asked 'milk, where?'. Then during breakfast, while I was feeding her cereal, she pointed at her yogurt and said 'Now. now.'

Wow....they are not even 5 and already talk to parents this way. Am I the only parent who get abused by the kids?

Change of Career?

My work from home job is ending end of this year. I have been looking for jobs with flexible hours and so far failed miserably. There is nothing close to what I have now. So, I am wondering if I can switch career at my age??!!

Selling my junk/excess on e-Bay? Was told transaction costs are high (have to pay e-Bay and Paypal) and consume lots of time for a small profit.
Be a property agent?
Be an 'investment' adviser for ourselves (with our peanut capital to go with it)?
Be a full-time homemaker and fire my maid?

Any better ideas?

First week of School

Lucas had 5 days of school and now he is on 10 days break!
What a life - holidays are more than school days.
Thank goodness, he enjoys going to his new school. He starts at 8.30am, and finishes at 1.15pm. During that period, he has his snack time and lunch in school. I thought I can escape the one hour nagging him to eat, but it was not meant to be. When I asked him if he finishes all his food, he replied, 'I had 3 spoons and then I throw away the food.' So, when he gets home, I still give him his lunch, albeit a smaller portion. Yesterday, he said he finished all his food in school. I did not believe him and made him eat half a sandwich at home. 20 mins later, he said 'Mommy, I got stomach ache. I think I ate too much.' :)

His classroom is filled with gadgets and apparatus to play. He loves it. The gadgets and apparatus are all laid out on the tables/floor space - not stored in any storage box - hence easy to access all the toys. He zooms right into play dough first thing - that's because I ban him from playing play dough at home - messy. He is able to tell me in chronological order what he does in school. I take this as good note and the activities are interesting enough for him to remember. Yesterday, out of sudden, he told me 'We watch Good Morning (short story) 3 times and it is so boring!'

Some of the parents are the ugly/selfish few. See, the parents walk the kids to their classroom. That means, we have to park the car. Nursery has different hours from primary and secondary. Since it is not a peak hour, there are plenty of parking space. Of course some of the parents want to park the closest to the classrooms, meaning parking at the road curb and obstructing the traffic, when 10 steps away, there are plenty of parking space. How are these parents going to set a good example to the children! Sometimes, I feel like telling the parents off, but decided to keep my mouth shut. I'll probably talking to the wall.

Chloe's Keeping Herself Busy

Pushing stroller for my dolly


Posing with my brother's sunglasses


All ready for school but I have to wait for another year and more.

First Day of School

Lucas all excited about his first day at this new school. Dominic sent him to school on his bicycle.

Holiday Started and Ended

Lucas had his school holidays last month and he started his new school yesterday.
During his holidays, we did not plan much activities for him and surprisingly the days passed rather quickly. He spent his morning playing with Chloe with some painting and pasting, afternoon watching TV, later afternoon outdoor with his bicycles, playground and trampoline at neighbour's place, night with some reading before going to bed. On one of the weekends, we took the kids to Kuantan, the nearest decent beach around. Lucas loved it so much that he kept asking to go to Kuantan again. He loved the kiddy pool where there were other kids as well. He also loved the pool bar - once he insisted on having a drink at the pool bar. When I asked him what he wanted to drink, he replied 'let me sit down at the water stool first. Then I decide what I want to drink' - like an adult, he savoured his strawberry smoothies in the pool bar.

Meanwhile, Chloe enjoyed the sea. She loved it when the waves splashed on her. She picked up anything she can get from the sea. Once she picked up baby fish which Dominic had to release to the sea. Both kids loved the sand.

For the parents, it was tiring. Both Dominic and I were on 24 hours duty. We fed them, bathed them, entertained them, and can't go to sleep until they were asleep. It was harder for them to entertain themselves as there is no familiar place and toys like at home. With the limited space in the hotel room, it was a challenge trying to contain the energy which they had loads.

All in all, it was fun time for the kids and it is all that matters.