Yay! We had an uninterrupted sleep last night. A first for this week! Since the asthma attacks started last Friday, I have not been sleeping well, constantly awakened by my daughter but I won’t complain - if it’s hard for me, how much harder for her?
She’s feeling a lot better but we’ll still take her [...]

Thanks to all who expressed concern over my family’s recent health issues. I appreciate all the warm wishes and suggestions. I suddenly felt having a bunch of friends physically near listening to my woes.
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We love Dubai. I love my work here and unlike when we were living in Japan, my husband is enjoying the zero overtime [...]

I sleep at least 6 hours everyday, work is not that hectic and at home, I have my mother helping me with my daughter and with (most) household chores yet everyday inside the car on my way home I feel so drained, sometimes tired to even talk!

I am caught up with things that I feel [...]

Last night, I had an exchange of intelligent discussion with my daughter. I brought home a strawberry flavoured Fruit-tella. It must have been in the bottom of my office handbag days before, can’t remember when really.
Pristine is not used to us bringing candies at home. Believe or not, she must be the only child who [...]

In less than an hour, it’s another weekend for me. This week finished very quickly although I had boredom attacks once in a while but if some good things never last, the bad ones don’t either. The boredom I had vanished once I came home yesterday and had mommy things to keep me busy. 

How can [...]

About a month ago, our 3.5 year old daughter decided to pack up and sleep outside our common room. We had been co-sleeping for 36 months and for the past six months, she is sleeping in a separate bed just beside our main bed.

Since last month, she had been sleeping with her grandmother almost every [...]

Houston, I think we’ve got a problem. Looks like my mother is having OCD. 
The desire to not write anything about this has got the better of me. This is still a parenting blog and I need to vent.
All mothers are worriers, or should be worrying at some point in time about their parenting. Pregnancy, childbirth, sick [...]

It’s good to have a full two-days rest. I took a break last Thursday to attend Pristine’s Art Festival in her school. Then of course I had the usual Friday break. What a difference a two-day vacation made.
  
Left: entrance to the school; Right: Scenes from the park - a drawing using KG1 children’s fingers [...]

My lipstick can last up to 10 years. I am keeping at least 3 colors but rarely use them especially if I have to send off my daughter to school in the morning. Before I hand her over to the bus attendant, she is showered with mommy kisses so I purposely don’t wear my lipstick [...]

I had too much reading of bad news today and I terribly regret it. Never again would I start my morning with unpleasant news, especially concerning kids.
First, a couple of children run over by vehicles, either by their own school buses or other children’s parents INSIDE school premises. The picture of the 7-year old girl [...]