Surprise eggs

If you don't have kids yet, you won't know what they are because before my kids came along, or rather, before they turned 3 and above, I didn't know these exist.

They are some Easter-egg-looking milk chocolates with a plastic capsule in the middle housing a surprise toy. 

Malaysia only has the Kinder Joy surprise eggs for sale (upper left orange eggs). And they are costly, mind you! The rest of the Disney surprise eggs came from Singapore and they cost even more! If you watch the "unwrapping" of surprise eggs on YouTube, you will find hundreds of videos on them. 

Kids. Oh, I give up! 

Oh my!

Oh my! I haven't watered my garden for a while now, have I? Even the year last updated still shows 2012 and that's not very current, isn't it? Hey, I have very good reasons (donch we all?) for a lil' ignorance here.

Actually, I have been gracefully reminded of my garden by my blogger friend, Desi, who gave me a call a few days ago and said "hey, you haven't been blogging much, have you"? So oops, there!

It is time to clear the weeds in the garden and plant some fresh seeds, aye! So here I am sitting at my workstation, feeling slightly cold from the slow humming air of the central air-conditioning in my quiet office, slowly sipping on my cup of steaming hot chocolate and overlooking a rainy and very dark afternoon outside my window,

Oh my! I have so much to write, so where shall I start? Hmmm, chronologically, shall we? Let's start with:

January 2013 (ahh! 2013 is more like it, innit?)
Actually January this year was an extremely busy month for me. We have just moved into a new house and there was soooo much to do. Rewind 4 months into 2012, we put our condo unit for sale and it was snapped up within a week! We had a month to vacate the place for the new owners and there I was, frantically looking for a reliable Mover. For the price we paid, I must say that the Movers did a very good job with their wrapping, packing and boxing of all items and furniture, heavyweight, lightweight be it paper, glass or wood. Close to 90 boxes altogether, off they went into storage for hibernation. Bizarre experience!! We were kinda homeless for a bit since the new house wasn't even ready yet. Renovations took the longest time - 3 months to be exact! I don't even want to start talking about opening the 90 boxes... >.<

February 2013
Oh my, February! The stork arrived with my 2nd bundle of joy right before the Chinese New Year. So here's yet another introduction (5 months too late) to my 2nd Siamese Princess of Ranong - Clarissa. This photo was taken when she was about a week old, measures only as long as the baby bolster next to her. How cute! :)

May 2013

I have skipped March because that was when I get to experience a whole month of being a full time mum (and a full time "cow" breastfeeding ALL OVER AGAIN) to Clare while spending all my free time clearing storage boxes and figuring what goes where.

I have skipped April too because that was when I went back to work feeling fatigue most times as sleep was never in my schedule. I think I have dozed off in front of my laptop many times but after 2 weeks, my body began to adjust and was kinder to me. Little Clare slept a little more at night too, allowing mummy many nights of 3 hours of uninterrupted sleep and *THAT* was heaven, oh my!

And then came May and Kimberly turned 2. If a picture speaks a thousand words, here are 2. :) That was Kim's cake with her favourite Pocoyo & Friends characters and a Trunkisaurus from mummy...

Today

So here I am experiencing motherhood twice over and a long way to go. To summarise, it ain't easy at all and when you think it will get easier when they get older, well, there shall be another set of worries. I will leave that till later... but right now, I am just concentrating on breastfeeding and sleeeeeeeeeepp! :)

Toodles!

Good to be One

Motherhood has kept me extremely busy, not to mention how it just saps the energy out of me. Breastfeeding added into the strain but I am not complaining when I know I'm giving her the best. I am still expressing on-the-go (on the job) and it surprises me how well I have done in the past one year. *Giving self a pat on the back* It's good to be one! Mummies-to-be, don't ever complain that you have no milk. Yes, the journey of breastfeeding ain't going to be easy but hey, with determination, willpower and discipline, you know you have it and you can do it!

Cliché but true. They grow up too fast. Kimberly has just celebrated her 1st birthday a couple of weeks back and it must feel good to be one too! :)

9 months

Wow, has it been 9 months already, my sweets? I am grateful. :) And this marks that I have been breastfeeding for this long too! PTL!

An Introduction

I have been meaning to blog. I have been reminding myself every passing week that I wanted to blog. Ironically, at any one point I wanted to blog, there WAS something I wanted to blog about but for some reason, it never gets blogged. 6 months have gone by since my last blog post. Half a year seems like a long time and no doubt, *some* important events have taken place within that time frame. That’s one reason why I must note them down in case I get too old and memory fails me. Gasp! I hope that doesn’t happen.
Note to self: Play more games on iPhone for mental stimulation.

So where were we? Aaah! An introduction. Yes, an introduction to a life. A new life. A new breath of life.
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Sorry peeps. I am four and a half months too late in introducing Kimberly, my lovely little 7th generation Siamese Princess of Ranong. Tiny little foot, eh? That was taken in the first few days of her life. Kimberly was born petite like me at only 2kg and measuring only 43cm but as healthy as a hopping rabbit.
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Today, at four and a half months, I’m proud to say that this fully breastfed princess is now more than 5kg and measuring close to 60cm. So there! She's the reason for my lack of posts. :) My, going to work after having Kimberly has never been this tough. Neeways, Kimberly says hello and mommy signing off for now!

This marks the beginning of motherhood for dear Primrose...