Spice addiction

I did it again. I have been eating ONE kind of food repeatedly for more than 2 weeks! My mom’s spicy and pungent Sambal Hae Bee (dried shrimps).

“Everything in moderation” just doesn’t ring a bell to me…

I eat it in my egg sandwich for breakfast, sprinkle some onto my rice for lunch, sometimes even with bread for tea!

Everyone loves this at home. The household is into its third container since last month, including one that was slated for our neighbour.

The ingredients are simple: Dried shrimps, onion and shallots, garlic, chilli and belachan. Blend all ingredients and fry until dried up.

The cooking process sounds easy but the actual execution is tedious, requiring a fair bit of patience and love…

Roseola who?

Roseola. Sounds Italian. Sounds like a nice name.

It is a viral illness in young kids, most commonly affecting those between 6 months and 2 years old. It is usually marked by several days of high fever, followed by a distinctive rash just as the fever breaks. The child may also develop diarrhoea from this. The rash may be itchy which cause the child to be whiny and clingy.  The incubation period between exposure to the virus and onset of symptoms is nine to 10 days.

The mystery is finally solved. Bb S was “Roseola’ed”.

We have past the high fever stage (thank God), now moving on to the rash phase.

Tired but relieved that we are out of the woods.  Joys of parenting!

Little red book

 

Our very own little red book, to keep track of bb S’s daily feeding and sleeping pattern. It also spares me from becoming a broken recorder asking the same questions-“ when was the last  feed”, “how long was nap time” every day when I get home. 

Mom called me crazy but I think she will appreciate this little red book in times like this where we are administering several kinds of medicines with different dosage and feeding instructions...

xoxo,

Mini control freak

Thankful list

Fever fever go away

Don’t ever come again another day

Little Sophie wants to play

In between Paracetamol and Nurofen at 4.30am last night, I started to think of my “thankful” list.

Thank God :-

• that neither M nor I are travelling now
• for the comforting SMS from friends to check on bb S
• that bb S’s paediatrician is only 5 minutes from home
• that I only have two results this week, hence no late nights
• for child care leave
• that bb S is still so cheerful
• that we have good help at home

“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God”

~Philippians 4:6

Faith

What’s the difference between faith and ignorance?

Faith = Have good opinion on all things and believe that God handles every situation

Ignorance =A state of being uninformed and unaware which may lead to ‘unwise’ acts

Yesterday afternoon bb S was struck by a sudden high fever of 38+ degrees. After a dose of Panadol, her temperature subsided.  We were not entirely anxious. I continued with my serving in church, while Daddy M seemed to be able to handle her at home, having some ‘fun’ with the cooling gel!

Evening came, her temperature started to rise to 39.6 degrees. I was still not worried, thinking that she would be well soon, the next day, perhaps. She was as her usual self, happily blabbering away.

Somehow, a thought came to me to call my sis to check how would she deal with the fever.

SK: Jie, S is having fever. What did you use to do to the boys apart from Panadol?

Sis: What’s the temperature?

SK: 39.6

Sis: WHAT!?????? Go to the hospital NOW! What were you thinking?! Other kids would have gone to hospital when they hit 38 degrees!

SK: err… oh.. ok (Sis continued to exclaim for the next 5 minutes or so)

And so we spent the next three hours in the A&E (waiting for the most part of it). After sponging and more Panadol, no admission was necessary. Praise God.

So, am I faithful or am I ignorant?

Impulsive buy

Recently, I attended a ‘superhero’ party dressing up as Charlie’s Angels. The invite reads:-

Cool, Sharp & Sophisticated

Black tops

Dark-washed jeans

Heels (yeah, you heard us right, we mean real heels)

Coincidentally, a friend, A, discovered La Prendo in Dempsey with good deals for Christian Loubutins. So this was me, probably not in the best frame of mind (sleep deprivation), buying  my first pair of Loubutin.

 

I hid it from daddy M for one night but succumbed to honesty in the end. THANK GOD for a calm and cool husband who didn’t roll his eyes, didn’t fall off the chair nor drop his jaw after finding out the price.

It’s 60% off retail price and it’s ‘supposed’ to be a good buy, though not everyone agrees with me, especially those who would rather invest in diamonds (wink wink).

A asked me if I felt instantly sexier and more slander… hmmmm I think so… but it’s definitely not the most comfortable shoes on earth. Oh well, I’m 35, I’ve gone through child birth, I don’t buy jewellery, I have not been on holidays for awhile, I don’t usually go on shopping spree. YES this is my self-talk that I deserve a pair of Loubutin.

Potty glamour

Only a baby can execute an unglamorous act so beautifully and adorably…