Stay at Home Mom

Are you a Stay at Home Mom just like me? “Stay At Home Mom" (SAHM) - I am forced to use this term until someone – please someone!- come up with a better name for us. Even the terms Housewife or Home Maker or Mess Manager doesn’t sound appealing enough for me. Maybe “Home Executive” is a bit ok.

The day of a SAHM neither begins nor ends. It goes on and on and on with endless chores to complete. It is a work which demands from us 365 days a year, 7 days a week and 24 hours a day. Are you really happy to be in such a demanding job? But one sure happy thing about this job is that you will never get fired from it.

Common household chores

Cooking food for the family
Bathing kids
Folding Laundry
Cleaning the house
Clearing the clutters in drawers, shelves etc.
Washing dishes
Picking up toys shattered around
Tucking your children into bed at night

If you have kids, you understand the expression “piles” of laundry - unending, unconquerable piles. The simple truth about laundry is that it is never done. This depresses me. More to the point, it annoys me.

A clean kitchen is nigh impossible to keep in a house of kids. Crusty cereal bowls, dried up juice glass, the crumbs on the counter, the spills on the floor
…… and with every sticky footstep the pressure builds.

Doing these chores repeatedly makes us get bitter and feel unappreciated. Isn’t it? Some sort of frustration creeps in. You start feeling like a SERVANT. Being a stay-at-home mom isn’t easy. Days spent without a single adult conversation, quieting your child’s screams in the store, cleaning bloody knees, carpooling, disciplining, changing diapers, packing lunches, cleaning house and planning meals may leave you wondering, “Is this really worth it?” The “I’m just a mom” syndrome attacks routinely, suggesting the world is moving on without you while you watch Barney with your 3-year-old. The demands upon a SAHM’s time are limitless. That’s just the truth. So unless we consciously choose to create space for our own-selves, we will find ourselves suffocating beneath the weights of legitimate but overwhelming demands.

Of course, we all crave an exciting and passionate life. At the same time, we believe that staying home to raise children is a priority and a gift. You surely can win over these conflicting feelings. Here are some points for you to remember and think to yourself during your work at home:

• You are the nurturer.
• You set the emotional and physical tone of the household.
• Your children feel safe around you and derive comfort from your attention to their needs. Your husband does, too.
• It is an expression of love each time you do an act of service for another person.
• Through every chore you convey that you care about them and that they are important to you.

These thoughts will definitely make you feel like a GODDESS and not anymore like a servant.

Mother's Wisdom

Wisdom is the fruit of experience. Good decision comes from experience but experience comes from bad decision. Every mother is bestowed with Mother’s Wisdom. SHE KNOWS.

• She has uncomplicated faith that there is something special about her child.
• She is unfailingly good natured.
• She doesn’t wait until something goes wrong.
• She isn’t scolding when she is doing it.
• Anything anyone else can do, she can do it better for her child.
• She accepts all nitty-gritty truths.
• What her child wanted from her, she wanted to give it to her child.
• She has prescient observation.
• She never lets anyone forget her child’s accomplishments.

A mother is a large hearted, sweetly eccentric woman, warm in her affection. I am sure, SHE KNOWS.

These are very serious in the tone of their explanation. For a more light hearted explanation, just read ahead........

My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE - "If you're going kill each other, do it outside - I just finished cleaning!"

My mother taught me RELIGION - "You better pray that will come out of the carpet."

My mother taught me LOGIC - "Because I said so, that's why."

My mother taught me LOGIC . . . #2 "If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the shops with me."

My mother taught me FORESIGHT - "Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident."

My mother taught me IRONY - "Keep crying and I'll give you something to cry about."

My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS - "Shut your mouth and eat your tea!"

My mother taught me about STAMINA - "You'll sit there 'till all that spinach is finished."

My mother taught me about WEATHER - "It looks as if a tornado swept through your room."

My mother taught me THE CIRCLE OF LIFE - "I brought you into this world, and I can take you out."

My mother taught me about BEHAVIOUR MODIFICATION - "Stop acting like your father!"

My mother taught me about ENVY - "There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do!"

My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION . . . "Just wait until your father gets home."

My mother taught me about RECEIVING . . .. "You are going to get it when we get home!"

My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE . . . "If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to stick that way."

My mother taught me to THINK AHEAD . . . "If you don't pass your spelling test, you'll never get a good job."

My mother taught me ESP . . . "Put your jumper on; don't you think I know when you're cold?"

My mother taught me HUMOUR . . . "When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me."

My mother taught me how to BECOME AN ADULT. . . "If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up."

My mother taught me about SEX . . .. "How do you think you got here?"

My mother taught me about GENETICS . . . "You're just like your father."

My Mother taught me about the WISDOM OF AGE . . . "When you get to be my age, you will understand."


This is a popularly forwarded humour............but well portrays a Mother's Wisdom. SHE KNOWS.

Resist the Super-mom myth

Are you a modern mummy who is a pro in multi-tasking? Yes. Today’s mummies can mix up a bowl of cake mix with one hand while sticking a plaster on a toddler’s knee with the other, breastfeed a baby and attend phone calls. Mummies juggle juggle juggle various works endlessly. But finally, everything seems to be incomplete or half-done. We strive to be the ideal Super-mom.

Today’s mothers are overwhelmed by the demands of modern life. As Marg Stark writes, “Mums adore their kids but sometimes hate being a Mother”.

A paradox, isn’t it? Why is it so? Because we can’t meet the exhaustive standards required of “a good mother”, according to today’s definition. We are conflicted about the yearnings of our hearts and guilty about having mixed feelings when we love our children.

Mums are really frustrated with all sorts of modern expectations.

We are responsible for how our kids turn out to be. Yet, we are also limited in the discipline we can use. In other words,” Society doesn’t trust me to spank my kid responsibly, but I’m the one society blames if my kid gets out of line.”

Haven’t you felt the same thoughts revolving in your head several times? Any way, Parenting is much harder today than when we were small. We parent by referring to a child care book, rather 10 child care books each contradicting one another. At some point, we turn out to be intensive mothers.

Intensive Mothering is demanding, child-centered, expert-guided, labor-intensive and expensive. Media keeps bombarding us with messages about must-have products to achieve perfect parenting. We become victims and go on a buying spree. Media try to make the most out of our motherly love. We buy educational toys, CDs and all baby stuffs just becoming a prey to the Commercialization of Parental love. We throw gala-like birthday parties for our kids and teach them to overdo and overspend rather than appreciate simpler and less fabricated delights.

Why not try to put a Full-Stop to all these? Instead, parent the private way. Slay the beast of expectations. Stop believing that experts have methods that will work for you. Relearn to be you. Kids love the real “You”.

So just resist the urge to become Super-mom and be what you are.

“Teach your kids not the little virtues but the great ones.
Teach your kids not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money.
Teach your kids not caution but courage and contempt for danger.
Teach your kids not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth.
Teach your kids not tact but love for one’s neighbor and self-denial.
Teach your kids not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.”

“A child’s love is unconditional. There is nothing on this earth that compares with the feeling that you are the balm a little person carries with her through an entire day in the big, scary world that exists apart from you.”

Yes, I am not a Super-mom, So what?

(Reference and quoted from ‘What No One Tells the Mom’ by Marg Stark)

Addiction to Television

Did you watch the last football World Cup final on television? If you did, you were one of 1.5 billion people who saw the match. That means you were part of a viewing audience of around a quarter of the world’s entire population. That is just one example of how powerful television is and how it can connect so many people around the world. Television is part of our everyday lives these days, but it has been around for less than 80 years.

Television has become a necessity in all our houses. It is a luxury turned into a necessity. Food, Cloth, Shelter- next is TV with the highest priority. It is a necessary evil (just like Marraige, ha, ha,ha! ). It has conquered a very strong place in our LIVING room. ‘Living’ rooms are loosing their real sense. No more do we live there, just watch, watch, watch TV endlessly.

Remote-Control fights and Channel changing are the only sports introduced to every kid in a very tender age. Barney, Hi 5 friends, Dora and Power Rangers though claiming to be educational just mesmerizes the kids. Kids may eventually turn out to be excitement junkies. TV plays the role of a baby-sitter for enormous kids. The exceeding increase in Myopia (that is, short-sightedness), attention deficiency, no physical play and increased lethargy are the adverse effects of TV on kids.

Some adults are TV-aholic (just like some being workaholic). They need TV in background for all their activities. Turning off TV brings in a sense of emptiness. It has become the default white noise in every home. When somebody smokes, people around are affected as a result of passive smoking. Similarly, when adults watch TV, kids are the passive viewer and they are affected a lot.

Have less TV time in family. Have more outdoor fun. Let kids enjoy playing instead of watching somebody else play on TV ……It’s only a false happiness they derive by watching somebody else having fun.

Remind yourself to switch off TV whenever possible. Don’t let the TV monster steal away your precious time and wonderful experiences.

Tears

Tears are very powerful way of expressing one’s feelings. Many a times it is difficult to control our tears, especially in very emotional situations.

Every tear has a meaning or a story behind it…

Tear Reasons

- outpour of pain either bodily or heart-felt

- extreme happiness

- repentance

- a state of bliss

There are numerous languages, gestures and body signs in this world. All these may be difficult to understand. But the meaning of one’s tears could be easily understood by his fellow being.

Why do we cry?

You heed every cry then the world will be a better place to live in. Situations become miserable only when somebody’s cry is paid no attention to.

Wikipedia says that Tears are a liquid produced by the body's process of lacrimation to clean and lubricate the eyes.

But is that all? Tears produced by emotional crying may be a way that the body disposes of toxic substances. It may seem strange to think of crying as beneficial, yet many people say that "a good cry" makes them feel better.

Mummies are very prone to tears….Parenting makes the heart too tender, as a result there is flow of tears every now and then.

Let all our tears are happy tears…..

Angels as Daughters

I love my kids. Maybe, I love them more because they are girls. Having daughters adds spice to mother’s life. Isn’t it? There are a lot, u can do for them.

You can put simple make-up for them, try new hair-do for them, decorate their hair with flashy clips, do henna art for their tiny hands, can sew fancy designer wear for them and make tiny fur purses, hand bags, hair bands, beaded bracelet and neck lace for them. These are all very interesting, up to me.

Herein, I have discussed some of my time-pass activities. But in a way, they are very informative and teach my kids new skills without even their knowledge. They learn it practically.

Sewing

I am trying my hands at sewing dress for my little angels. The material hunt is the most thrilling episode. Buying apt cloth, matching or contrast lining, zippers, frilly laces, buttons, matching threads and other add-ons …its really a big process. Of course, buying a ready-made one for a bit higher price is quite easy…but I think, hand-made dresses are really heart-made. Wearing them for special occasions really creates an ever-lasting sentimental memory.

Involving kids:

Unlike buying readymade over the counter frocks, while stitching their dress, kids also have a role to play. They have the option to choose the desired color material or the design of buttons etc. Step by step when they see it getting completed, they love trying it on and on. Finally they have an attachment to the finished product. They would love it however simple or un-fitting it might be. They could perceive the amount of love and hard-work mummy has put in to make it for them.

Scrap-booking

Scrap-booking is also an excellent hobby for mummies. Of course, nowadays every mummy is ever-ready with camera to capture the wonderful shots of her little bundle of joy, why not organize them by scrap-booking? Earlier, I saw a very useful tool by Google for organizing the photos scattered around different folders and drives in your computer.

It is Google Picasa. It is Free. Try it and I am sure, you’ll thank Google for providing such a wonderful tool free-of-cost.

Google Picasa

After organizing them in computer just choose the best ones, crop it, adjust brightness and contrast to your satisfaction.

Now, you are ready to do scrap-booking. U can do it as a book, chart or can do it digitally also. To begin with, u can see here :

About Scrapbooking

Involving kids:

Kids like to watch us treasuring their photographs. It improves their self-esteem. Believe me; they won’t disturb you, all thru the process. Ask your little helper, to lend a helping hand in gluing pictures, embellishment, stones and stickers. They can help in other decorations and frame work too.

Gardening

I don’t have an extensive garden. But just a small balcony corner has turned out to be cozy greenery. It is a nice place to take a refreshing look every morning. Little flowers smile at u with lots of confidence. Fast growing creepers are a booster dose for your life. When I see creepers catch whatever support they get, I become more enthusiastic to grab all possible opportunities. The way they turn, twist and climb teaches adoptability to the surrounding environment.

Involving kids:

Just sow some seeds in a small pot. Any available seed at home would be fine…tomato seeds, chilly seed or onion bulb, sprouting potato. Or u can start with money plant, button rose or table rose. Mustard seeds are all time favorite for science projects. Ask your kid to water it and see it grow. Ask them to talk with them too…u can see them say wonderful tales and plants are good listeners.

Cooking

I cook for my family day in and day out. I try something new every-time just out of curiosity, boredom or lethargy. It turns out surprisingly great. I strongly believe that cooking with love produces remarkable results. Your dish should be a blend of different ingredients soaked, cooked and garnished with love. We eat with our eyes first. So make it colorful. The concept of Rainbow Diet, comes in here. Add colors to your food. Eat colorful items.

Have Fun and Stay Fit with Rainbow Diet

Involving kids:

Kitchen play set attracts every kid. So playing with real utensils and trying simple recipe is a big accomplishment according to the kid. They like to take part in measuring ingredients, mixing, sauté and serving.

Mc Donald Game

Every kid likes Mc Donald. Then why not, try playing this and explain your kid, whats happening on the back stage of the fast food chain....Play Game

Living in a Foreign Land

Living in a Foreign Land

You should be lucky enough to live in any foreign place, other than your birth-place. If you are a keen observer of events happening around you, then living in a new place can teach you loads and loads of History & Geography.

Unknowingly you get to know the details about the geographic location, climate, language, culture, customs etc…of your living foreign place. You get to learn pages and pages of facts explained in Geography book just hands-on, as a breeze, in a very few days.

The most common tendency is that, we take our birth-place for granted. We show the least interest to visit the tourist spots in our own city. But a new place kindles our interest to visit many adventurous locations. It just wakes up the “Explorer “hidden in each one of us.

In foreign land, we are out of our safe niche. This makes us feel alienated sometimes, so we keep our eyes and ears wide open. Put-in more data inside. Try our best to mingle and be one with the locals yet keep our identity distinct.

As far as, I am concerned, Singapore has taught me many new things. Now I know the location of Singapore and other neighboring countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Korea more accurately in the world map.

Learnt a lot about this Island City - its National flag, National flower, some history regarding its independence, clean politics, important inspiring national leaders etc…

I learnt many new English words like alighting, curb side, escalator, barbeque, sand castle, glider, rolling pin, malls, hand dryer, finger bowl, stroller, trolley, skimmed milk, peanut butter, margarine, marinate, hot dog, cock tail and many more…Of course, all these are very common, but earlier I never knew the exact term to refer to these or haven’t come cross such words.

We tend to read and hear news, just to keep an update on what is happening back-home. Thus, we know more of current affairs in general.

Happy that now I can understand the most common acronyms used here as HDB, MRT, LRT, PUB, PAP, PCF, RC, CC, PIE, AYE, ECP, ERP, JB, SCV, KFC, CHIJ etc..

Can understand the meaning behind their Singlish

• Go where
• Long time no see
• Die ah
• Blur Blur
• Aiyah
• Ya la
• Then how
• Crazy eh

So in a way, Blessed are the ones living out of their native place……..!!!

Lantern Festival and Lion Dance

Lantern Festival and Lion Dance

I am gifted to live in a foreign land with different cultures. I enjoy participating in Chinese Lantern Festival, here in Singapore. My kids take the paper lantern and go around the void decks and Multipurpose Hall with their neighbourhood friends. Fireworks, Crackers and Candle-Play are yet another enjoyment.

HDB (Housing Development Board - Government built apartment buildings) blocks are epitome of the racial harmony in Singapore. I like the mixture of noises and aroma from different houses in HDB. The Malay mee goreng aroma, Chinese soup aroma, Indian fried food aroma mixed with all the take-away food which most of them carry home, gives a unique blend of smell to our HDB Kampong.

The Mahjong play noise, football noise being played int the banned areas, screechy common litter bin, non-stop announcements from lifts, footsteps, locking and unlocking of doors, relaxed chats of old uncles and aunties, kiddies play during school holidays, garang guni man – All these make me think that my ever silent HDB is still ever alive.

Chinese pray God with utmost sincerity. They make a lot of offerings. We have been to Chinese temples and had a chance to observe their prayers very closely. Lion Dance performed in temple during festivals is meticulous. Every moment is filled with thrill. The dance is believed to usher good fortune, as well as ward off evil spirits. The lion dance calls for perfect co-ordination, elegance and nerves of steel. Two dancers are usually needed to give life to a "lion" - one to control the movements of the head, eyes and mouth; the other to act as the body. The first dancer that controls the head determines the movements, while the second must work in tandem with him. The quick flickering eyelids, wagging tail and side to side movement make all the kids dumb-fold. The performance on the poles is a note-worthy one.

The Lucky Second Child

The Lucky Second Child

There is a saying that “You grow your first child like a King and the second child like a Pig”. It is true, most of the time. But ironically, the second child turns out to be the luckier one as time passes. Let us observe how this happens?

At the sight of the newborn first child, parents are overwhelmed with emotions. They want to show their kindness to the baby in every possible way. The first baby gets lots and lots of gifts in the form of a brand new nursery, attractive cot with mobile, toys, books, clothes etc. Every cry of her is paid heed to. Every movement of her gets attraction and appreciation. She becomes the cream of the family. Hardly, does she know that all these are only short-spanned.

The arrival of the second baby in the house receives an experienced welcome, not much tensions and thrills this time. Since the brand new parents have become more experienced parents then, there is nothing to worry for them. Their minds are free of the hundred and one questions that they had last time, regarding child birth. This time they have sort of a relaxed and calm feeling.

If both children are of same sex, then the second one becomes the sole resort of all hand-me-down items. But still, the second children are always very lucky by their birth order, in many ways –

• They are in experienced hands of parents. So they escape from the ‘Test and Try’ technique underwent by the elder kid.
• They have the company of the elder kid all way through. Most of the time, elder kid is their caretaker, baby sitter, friend or playmate.
• They have more clothes – passed on items + their own ones.
• More toys and apt toys.
• They have comparatively more powerful immune system, since they share things with the other kid, right from birth.
• They are very smart and out-spoken. They understand the concept of ‘Survival of the Fittest’. So ready to go the extra mile to attract more attention than that given to her sibling.
• Sibling Fights make her ready to face the outside world with more courage.

Thus the second child turns out to be the Smart Cookie of the Family.

50 reasons why it's fun to be a parent

Parenting

I love the noble profession of Parenting. There are many reasons which makes me relish parenting, 50 of my most genuine reasons are ........

50 Reasons why it’s fun to be a Parent

1. Experiencing the unexplainable bonding between a parent and child.
2. Enjoying their oatmeal kisses and sometimes too tight Fevicol kisses.
3. Seeing them laugh while sleeping (although they cry mostly during sleep-time).
4. Getting a fresh morning hug.
5. Being very authoritative with someone all the time.
6. Having someone to take side with u all the time.
7. Having someone who adore u (at least when they r still young).
8. Hearing endless school stories.
9. Seeing them perfectly snug in your lap.
10. Eating kiddy snacks for the second time.
11. Playing hide ‘n’ seek by bringing out the real kid in u.
12. Dancing merrily.
13. Singing lovely nursery rhymes.
14. Exploring their poop in diaper.
15. Choosing from a variety of toys.
16. Tasting all flavors of baby food.
17. Enjoying birthday party of their friends.
18. Getting more concerned about saving money.
19. Getting more serious about Future.
20. Perfecting your self to be a role-model.
21. Trying different healthy recipes.
    
22. Sacrificing your pleasures for them.
23. Getting meaning for your life.
24. Enjoying horse-back, peek-a-boo and elephant walk.
25. Arranging trips to zoo, bird-park and beach.
26. Choosing the best for the best kid on world.
27. Working enthusiastically even when u r sleep deprived.
28. Giving advice to new parents.
29. Giving ample reasons for being late.
30. Seeing them sleep with utmost peace and beauty.
31. Seeing them imitate u in all ways.
    
32. Beholding world thru child’s eyes.
33. Finding happiness in small things of God.
34. Wondering how a sticker can make any kid happy.
35. Knowing bubble can attract any kids’ attention.
36. Fascinating at the memory power of every kid.
37. Relying on them completely for all your thirst of love.
38. Feeling hungry when they r in hunger.
39. Understanding the feelings of all children of their age.
40. Getting a fan who praises u to his/her friends.
41. Feeling the pain when they r in pain.
    
42. Realizing the greatness of family.
43. Learning to value your own parents truly.
44. Mind reading your kids.
45. Surprising them with gifts.
46. Getting drenched in their ocean full of hugs and kisses.
47. Going for endless shopping of clothes, nappy, toys, nursery things, books etc.
48. Waiting patiently in hospitals.
49. Fulfilling some of your dreams thru them.
50. Re-living your childhood.

Boring Housewives

Boring Housewives

Whenever a group of housewives chit-chat, what would u think their topic of discussion would be? It would be mostly centered about child-rearing, endless household chores, tried and tested recipes, on-sale outlets, discount vouchers, downsizing agony and other petty things.

These same topics are being talked over and over from different angles. Sometimes it would be interesting to overhear the chit-chat of housewife aunties. They are very contradictory. (Me too, started saying boring, now saying interesting). They negate their own statement in a fraction of a second. Every woman in the chat wished to out-wit the other and portray herself as the most busy body.

Sometimes, they praise their kids for being too good. The next moment complain about the toils of motherhood and all the sacrifices they have made. They praise and curse their husbands in a recurrent loop.

They want to prove their fellow friends that ---

• Its me who bought cheap and best items, at-least 5 cents less than yours.
• Its me who is busy all the time.
• Its me who has tried all slimming techniques.
• Its me who had the most difficult pregnancy and child-birth.
• Its me who has the most devilish mother-in-law on earth.
• Its me who up-bring my kids smarter than yours.

Most of which won’t be true most of the time. Every rule has an exception. So, exceptional housewives do forgive me.

Housewives are thirsty for appreciation. Most of the time, their hard-work is unnoticed or un-recognized. Consequently, they become victims of flattery. For e.g. try saying a housewife that she looks more attractive when she puts eye-liner, then she would be flattered a lot. She would make it a point to put eye-liner often and would repeat your words of appreciation to most of her friends.

So they may be a boring template sometimes ……

My lovely Singapore

My lovely Singapore

Singapore is a small red dot in the world map. It is a city capital. It is a country. It is heaven on earth. She makes even heaven envy at her beauty and elegance.

When one sets foot on Singapore at the Changi Airport, one can feel the warmth and hospitality. At the Changi Airport, the pin drop silence, speculatively clean arena, cordial people, busy minds, helping hands, clear cut information and ambient scenario would just baffle anybody.

The vast pleasant fresh greeneries further welcome everyone to the city. Roads. Every road is well maintained, has directing boards, margined with flora.

Singapore is a very safe and secure place to live in. It is a blend of globalization and true culture of kampong i.e., village in Malay. There are 3 ethic groups in this lion city: Chinese, Malays and Indians. So there is a fusion of cultures, food and dressings. Racial harmony prevails not only in words but also in true sense of brotherhood.

Singapore is a lucky child to get Sir Stamford Raffles and Lee Kuan Yew as its leaders. Though most of the people settled here are immigrants, government is smart enough to control the sprouting of racial and communal riots.

Singapore is ever-changing but ever young. She grew at a stead-fast rate only after her independence in 1965. Fortune favors the fittest. This adage promptly suits her. Once you are honest and hard-working, Singapore can put you in great heights. Hand in hand, never does she hesitate to control violence with stern hands.

Singapore usually thinks big and attains unreachable limits in all fields. She is ready to learn from winners and embrace all foreign talents. So never worry about Singlish or your kiasu state lah….

Majulah Singapurah !!!

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Photo Enhancing

They say , that a picture can speak a thousand words. In earlier days, limited number of photos were taken. But they were framed and treasured. But now, with the advent of digital cameras, we take innumerable snaps. Less care is taken for shooting, organising and displaying them.

Most of us have an urge to take too many shots with digicam unlike in the cameras with films. Why ? B'coz we can instantly send them to trash bin, ie, delete them, without the waste of any resource. So just imagine......how will the shot turn out when it is taken with the intention of deleting .....? Alas, u have missed taking a masterpiece.

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Feeling Great

Feeling Refreshed


Hai Friends, Been to COMEX 2006, here in Singapore. So many techno gadgets. Life has become too techno-istic ( my own new word discovery). Even my way of cooking has evolved. Doing techno cooking most of the time far simpler and easier than the traditional cooking. Thanks to all these gadgets.

Aerobics class are really doing wonders to my body and my attitude. Feeling a lot more refreshed physically and mentally. I eagerly wait for my weekly classes. A get-away from my family and enjoying my-time.

I enjoy doing online share trading. Tricky market. Very elusive and fools even the savvy trader most of the time.

Singapore govt. is striving to have more baby population. Quite interesting and good. Kids r God's replica. Innocence is a bliss at times.

Mummy of Gals

Mummy of Gals

Hai Friends, I am Vani. I have started blogging with lots and lots of anxious expectations. I look forward to getting like-minded moms as my friends. I am a proud mother of 2 beautiful girls. Maybe, this is how, I think abt me when I am too optimistic. But times r not the same always na. Sometimes, I feel too stressed, depressed being a full-time mom.

Maybe, being a full-time mom hinders my desires from being fulfilled. Just as the majority be-at-home moms, that I have seen, I wear very casual loose home clothes, don't bother beautifying myself too much, and be lazy and lethargic.........

U know, I never knew, when I became a typical be-at-home mom myself. I never even imagined I would become one. My college friends, if they see me now, would take time to recognize me. My 2 kids r 4+ years and 8 months old. So I haven't lost much of the weight, that I gained during pregnancy.

When I look in a full sized mirror, I don't see ME. I see a trade-mark AUNTY !! Oh God, when did the cute and bubbly teenager became a huge and heavy Mummy !!!

Hai

Hai Friends,
Today is indeed a very great day for me. For, I have hurray ! set up a niche for me in our wide cyberspace.