7:30am

It's been a long time since I get up from bed at 7.30am. CQ who was carrying Jamie, came to the bedside. "...Jamie is having high fever" woke me real hard from my sleep!! I shall not discribe how we spent the rest of the day.... use your imagination.

Voila!!

Was doing my marketing at Sheng Shiong and I saw those raw "la-la" ...... WITHOUT ANY HESITATION, I bought a bag, cooked (my first time) and ate it all up while Jamie was having her afternoon nap *yummy, yummy!!!*

Pretend Play

Nowadays Jamie likes to pretend play. This morning, she began to feed her fav Elmo water from the bottle *toy* and not only that.... she will make "sip sip" sound as if Elmo really drinks! lol !!

Yea!!!

Earlier the night I hinted to CQ *again* on our long awaiting holiday trip. I guess its more of MY holiday trip instead of ours cos' I don't think he would want to put down/rush out all his piling up post production work here and "wasting money" away somewhere else.

Anyway, this time, he finally agreed! Yippy Hurray!!! I was d*** happy, over the moon I tell you! So now I am gonna be busy with all the checkings, flight, prices, hotels, places of interest etc etc. Hopefully this time, with God's grace, we CAN really go for a good and relaxing holiday (Jamie coming along of course).

Scrapbooking

I have been browsing thru' my laptop over Jamie's digipixs for my new found hobby.

Everything's in place. Album, acid free vellum, tools, stickers, eyelets, brads, snaps, embellishments, pattern papers, cardstocks ...almost everything you name it, I have it. That's me. I hate doing something halfway when I realise that I do not have them. So, I spent months in purchasing them from scrapbookingcove.com & another source who does it freelance. Seeing Jamie's bb photos made me realised that time really passes very fast. That's just a barely less than 20months ago when she came into this world. See the diff ? At birth & 6 mois old. And more to come.....stay tune!

T.G.I.F

Since this month Hsiu Chin is still doing her confinement , with Nigel & Karen's generousity and hospitality, we had our event held there. Honestly speaking, I wasn't quite well prepared for the event as compared to those years without Jamie. I mean, we usually will spend some time during the Good Friday week to ponder over God's mercy and His great love for us. Well from a perspective of a mum, I'm more caught up with Jamie afternoon nap (ensuring that she wakes up by 9am and take her nap by 1pm so that she can wake up by 3pm etc) & preparing her dinner early. My heart wasn't settled even though when we were there. My eyes were literally busy looking out for Jamie and making sure that she don't knock on things and is not "harrassing" anybody. I suppose this is what most mums are capable of !!! It was till when Chunquan's led the worship. Suddenly memories of the past flashed before me. Memories of those days when he led worship. It was so 100% God, 100% him...and I'm beginning to miss those days when he strummed and plucked the strings, producing such wonderful music. Above all else, I thank God for Chunquan. For his willingness & availability to lead worship though in the mist of his fire fighting schedules (something which I don't expect him to take up the responsibiltiy) And our dearest Jamie simply has so much fun playing with the IKEA plastic green bib and the 2 tins of potato chips instead of her fav hand puppets, Ernie & Big Bird! She just loves to play with things that I think she will not play with. But seriously, Jamie has at least rewarded 3 stars for her good behaviour & "co-orperative" spirit! :D

Taken earlier on... see how girl-girl Jamie has grown into!

Around the World

Thanks Elaine for the wonderful link!!!

Strangely the thought of holidaying lingers in my mind since many many months back. Infact I've been hinting to Chunquan months ago about our "soon next upcoming" family trip before Jamie turns 2!

Travel around the world has always been my dream way before I got married though I din manage to travel alot as I wish I would.

I'm really hoping that we can go for a good holiday, the three of us... else it'll be even more challenging for us to go when No.2 comes along in near future.....

NOW I'm really hope we can explore the "white spot" instead of the red ones...

Love God with Everything You Got

Deuteronomy 6:5 - And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. There are always two sides to a covenant—and both parties have responsibilities to fulfill their side. Now God's side said that He made an oath with mankind because He loved us. And because of His love for us, His covenant is to bless us in every area of our lives.

God has given us His all and He wants our all in return. He expects us to love Him more than anything else because He loves us more than anything else.Now this is not hard for us to understand. I mean this is the same way we want our relationships with other people to be. Take the marriage covenant for example. We want our spouses to love us until it hurts. We want them to be aggressive towards us with their love.Well God is the same way. He loves us with all He has and He expects us to love Him with all we have. Not only are we to love the Lord with everything that is within us, but also we are to teach our children to love God too. Some people think it's cute when their kids hip hop, sing worldly rap, or whatever. But, what's cute is when our kids know about and love their God and can lift their hands to God in praise and say, "hallelujah."If you teach your children now to love God with all their heart, soul, and mind, they will have the whole covenant working for them from day one.So, it's about time we get in on our covenant blessings. God wants to bless us coming in and going out. But, we have to love our God more that anything else. References: Deuteronomy 6:5-11; 10:12-13; Matthew 23:37-40

Hi-5

Recently I have been teaching and reinforcing numbers, colors and shapes to Jamie as I feel that she should pick up these basic before I move on with other stuff to teach her.

Days ago, I was counting her fingers the usual way, saying "one, two,..." then suddenly she uttered "t-h-r-e-e" !! So nowadays, I will count the steps whenever we climb the stairs. Seeing her progressing gradually in recognising shapes, colors and number puts a big smile on my face, of course!!

Rest

Everybody fell ill since last week. Jamie was the first to have some coughing symptom last week. But she's recovering pretty good and by now her cough has more or less stopped.

Though I have faithfully taken doctor's prescribed medicine, my cough doesn't completely recover . And two nights ago, I suddenly developed high fever (39.2 degree celsius). Just seen the doctor earlier on to keep the medicine as spare just in case I don't recover well.

Chunquan also fell ill 2 days ago ... haiz.....

Bean Bags

I am crazy about making palm sized bean bags for Jamie. So I got up early this morning and brought Jamie to IKEA as I was told that IKEA sales has just started. I bought all the available colors, ie, red, yellow, blue and black, each half a meter for a mere $8! Thrilled and excited, I am now looking forward to Friday as I'll be going to Alice's house to sew them (with the help of Alice, of course!)... Hurray!!!

Zoo Visit

This morning was Jamie's first zoo visit with Karen and her 3 kids. As this week marks the start of the 1week holiday for the children, I thought it will be good if we can go out together with Karen's kids. So Karen and myself finally agreed to visit the Zoo this morning.

Instead of enjoying walking and seeing the animals, the kids enjoyed themselves the MOST at the Children 's World Playland all soaking wet including Jamie and Baby Jonathan!!

Off Day

I was exceptionally happy today as I went to Church, sat through the entire service ALONE! Yes, I AM ALONE... without Chunquan and Jamie, especially! It was such a looong time ago way before I got married when I went to church alone. It was refreshing and good.

Why? Well, I'm supposed to attend a seminar around 11am and if Jamie is to attend 8am service...then continue with the seminar, I doubt she will be able to sit through the 4hrs long stretch of time. Hence both of us have decided that I should attend the morning service first and while he will attend the next service (so that both of them can rest a little bit longer) and I will bring her along to the seminar. What a perfect plan! BUT, Chunquan having worked till almost midnight the day earlier, overslept (despite me SMSes and calling to his mobile) till my MIL had to go over to our place to wake him up! So, in the end I had another "freedom" at the seminar without her!! Luckily she wasn't there as its almost impossible for her to stay "kuay-kuay" for an hour with all the rest of the people in the small crampy room. I finally met Jamie while lunching with Daryl. Ya, Chunquan needs to meet his client. After our lunch, fed Jamie, we had another round of shopping till almost 5pm! (I had breakfast and my fav tea before the service commenced. Then had some light snacks with Prisc & Dave before we proceeded to the seminar. What a rare occasion when I can really enjoy my meals without having to feed Jamie ! )

Heat Again...

After days of rain, today seems to return back to its "humidity" ... I mean, hot, hot...hot & HOT!!!

Jamie dun seems to bother much though I'm already complaining away. I will never "feel" the afternoon weather so much as now that I'm a SAHM. And I think my cough and phlegm is back again as well :(

I have noticed that Jamie now enjoys dancing, stomping & clappnig in front of our blank TV while the music is on. She is so cute! And I have no regrets giving up my career for this little angel of ours.

Last night I met cousin's son, Michael, in the train and we were talking about renovation & kids. He will soon becomes a father in two months time. I was sharing with him the joy of being a SAHM and the struggles I have gone through. Though I think he is not convinced of giving up one's job for a mere new member to the family, but I strongly feel that it's a rare opportunity to be able to spend 24hrs with your own child while being able to control, make schedules & teach right value systems to your kid while they are young. What a priviledge!

Chingay Parade

This week's special.

All the trees along my estate's main road were brightly decorated. I was very thrilled right in the beginning of the week! There were road blocks and one can easily identify the policemen and guards here. In fact it was a 3hrs+ long Chingay programme tonight! Yup! What was performed weeks earlier at downtown can be seen right here at our heartland !

Chunquan was home around 5pm after a long hours of wedding shoot. After he had a short nap, we took Jamie down, awaiting for the parade to commence.

As expected, it was simply too crowded that we couldn't really see anything except trying to cut through our way to the main road to catch a glimpse of the performers. After an hour into the performance, I decided to catch a helicopter view from home.. hence we left Chunquan continued to snap some photos.

Hospital Visit

Just came back from a hospital vistation. Yes Hsiu Chin just gave birth to a healthy little Esther late last night.

Looking at baby Esther just flashed back fond memories of those days when Jamie was born. Those were the days when we held her fragile warm body, holding her tiny little hands and enjoying quiet moments when she sleeps. Time really flies!

Late Nights

Jamie has been going to bed passed midnight for the pass 4 days. Tue & Wed at Church, Thurs at Maggie's dad's funeral wake and tonight from Church after late night supper at Pasir Panjang with Daryl, Meilian & Iris.

I'm very certain that she has enjoyed herself alot outside with all the aunties and I'm so amazed by her full burst of energy as not even a sign of tiredness was shown even back home!!

Santification Week

Tonight am bringing Jamie to Church for our following days of Santification Week's program.

Though not expecting anything out of it as a matter of fact that my attention span is also shared with Jamie. But my heart still yearns to go and hear from God. Let God speaks to me...