To my dearest love,
We are married for 8 years! It seem like we just get married not long ago. It has been always fun to be you. Life would be boring without you. We learnt this during the time you are away for long business trips. We have then appreciate each other more than ever.
Few words from bottom of my heart...
Thanks for your care and love.
Thanks for your patience and tolerance.
Thanks for everything you have done for me.
I love you, baby.
Looking forward everyday to be with you.
xoxo, alyssa belle
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Saturday, 28 May 2011
Different ways in letter tracing
Using rice.
Faith has a lot of fun with this. It just get a bit out of hand when she started to pretend cooking using the rice.
Other suggestions of letter tracing :
- You could put shaving cream in zip lock and let them trace.
- Use stick on sand when you are the beach.
Friday, 27 May 2011
Will you give your help if you were me?
There are many incidents occurred in the past months leave me in dilemma on whether or not to assist my girl whenever she asked for help.
Incident One (Happened this morning)
My girl was playing by herself happily. She is quite good in putting stories she learnt from books or video or nursery rhymes into action. Story for this morning is "London bridge". She laid two beach straw mats across the coffee table and sofa. She then used some puzzle pieces on the mat between the gaps of coffee table and sofa. As the mats are not secured to anything, the "bridge" fell. She then get very upset and made a big fuss over it. I then asked her could I help her to build a more sturdy "bridge". She said yes.
When I was half-way through helping her, she all the sudden complained loudly saying non-stop that I did wrongly. I asked her why but she couldn't tell me. She just keep saying I did wrong. I was pretty upset and walked away.
What would you do if you were me?
Incident Two (Happened this afternoon)
Recently I brought a circle puncher from Amazon. My girl was excited and wanted to play with it. She has been punching circle herself using this puncher then. But today she asked me to help her to punch circle instead of her doing herself. She said she was doing artwork and needed circle. We were doing it happily and all the sudden she clamored her unsatisfaction over the paper I punched.
I then asked why but she just keep saying I did wrongly. I then told her to do herself.
What is wrong here? I wonder why. I know she is going through emotional growth and get very sensitive sometime. But how could I make it better and avoid this happened again and again.
Incident One (Happened this morning)
My girl was playing by herself happily. She is quite good in putting stories she learnt from books or video or nursery rhymes into action. Story for this morning is "London bridge". She laid two beach straw mats across the coffee table and sofa. She then used some puzzle pieces on the mat between the gaps of coffee table and sofa. As the mats are not secured to anything, the "bridge" fell. She then get very upset and made a big fuss over it. I then asked her could I help her to build a more sturdy "bridge". She said yes.
When I was half-way through helping her, she all the sudden complained loudly saying non-stop that I did wrongly. I asked her why but she couldn't tell me. She just keep saying I did wrong. I was pretty upset and walked away.
What would you do if you were me?
Incident Two (Happened this afternoon)
Recently I brought a circle puncher from Amazon. My girl was excited and wanted to play with it. She has been punching circle herself using this puncher then. But today she asked me to help her to punch circle instead of her doing herself. She said she was doing artwork and needed circle. We were doing it happily and all the sudden she clamored her unsatisfaction over the paper I punched.
I then asked why but she just keep saying I did wrongly. I then told her to do herself.
What is wrong here? I wonder why. I know she is going through emotional growth and get very sensitive sometime. But how could I make it better and avoid this happened again and again.
Thursday, 26 May 2011
Zoobles Collection from McDonalds
When they are sleeping
When they are awake
I still miss out one member "Bunsie". Hope I could get it before stock last.
More close up pictures...
Seamus
Pandama
Shellberry
Penny
Costello
Rocky
Thronton
Faith's gift from Cartier
Nice gesture from Cartier during our visit to Cartier boutique at Nassau downtown.
A coloring book and coloring pencils in a beautiful bag.
Each coloring page accompanies with colored picture for the kid to follow. All colors used are within the coloring pencils provided. Best of all they are on good quality drawing paper.
Do remember to bring your kid along to Cartier boutique next time.
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Roasted Pork Ribs
My first attempt. Very tasty. My hubby and I love it to bits. I followed the instructions (not all instructions) from cooking.storyofbing.com. I skipped balsamic vinegar since my hubby don't like the vinegar. And I missed out an instruction and mix the honey at the start.
Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Home-brewed coffee
Every morning, my loving hubby brews this coffee.
(The orange spot on the coffee is the reflection from ceiling light.)
This is the coffee powder we used. complimentary from Steven.
Thanks dear for your nice coffee every morning. I love you.
Monday, 23 May 2011
A sad story from an old schoolmate
This morning, one of my good old friend Rene msn me (not once, thrice) and asked me to call her in Singapore immediately. I was pretty worried what had happened. She did not ask me to call her before. Usually we communicate via msn or whatapps.
I managed to call her and get to know that one of our Secondary schoolmate is going through difficult times with her family. Recently, she has been avoiding all friends' calls except her current BF's call. And this makes my good old friend felt uneasy.
From the call, I spoke to Rene and the BF of our secondary schoolmate and get to know the one-side story.
Here is her story... She was married for 10 years and has two young kids from this marriage. Her marriage wasn't blissful. Her ex-hubby is over possessive and whenever she went out with her friends, he sent her nasty and insulting sms(es) to humilate and threaten her. She was so scared that she trembled when she read the sms. Rene saw her tremble once before when she was out with her. Her ex-hubby had abused her once before. She is fearful of her ex-hubby. Even till now she is still fearful of him. She felt that she could not live with him anymore and after a long thinking she made a decision. She signed separation letter early this year and left the house. His ex-hubby then begged her to give him another chance and promise to change. He told her to stay in the house and he moved out. Which means she has to take care of their kids while working full time. She sort of agreed and continue to stay on. But her ex-hubby did not change and continue threaten her during this period. Now she got so afraid that she didn't go out with anyone else.
During the separation period, she gets into another relationship. When she is not completely out of her previous relationship, she got herself into another one.
The whole relationship is so complex that I took a while to piece them together. I really don't know what advice I could give Rene or the BF. I feel that the only person could help is our schoolmate herself. Noone self could help her.
(Hmm.. You maybe wondering why I end up spoke to the BF when I called Rene. Don't ask me why. This caught me in shock when my good old friend just passed the phone to him and asked him to talk to me as if I will have an answer to all the problems.)
After speaking for an hour, our call ended with a heavy heart. I am pretty upset of what had happened to our sec. school mate. I believe she has went through a lot a lot for the past 10 years. Now I could only hope she will see and feel what she truly wants and what is best for her kids.
On the other hand, I thank God for giving me a great loving hubby and a sweet girl. I feel so blessed. I will remind myself and treasure what we have.
I managed to call her and get to know that one of our Secondary schoolmate is going through difficult times with her family. Recently, she has been avoiding all friends' calls except her current BF's call. And this makes my good old friend felt uneasy.
From the call, I spoke to Rene and the BF of our secondary schoolmate and get to know the one-side story.
Here is her story... She was married for 10 years and has two young kids from this marriage. Her marriage wasn't blissful. Her ex-hubby is over possessive and whenever she went out with her friends, he sent her nasty and insulting sms(es) to humilate and threaten her. She was so scared that she trembled when she read the sms. Rene saw her tremble once before when she was out with her. Her ex-hubby had abused her once before. She is fearful of her ex-hubby. Even till now she is still fearful of him. She felt that she could not live with him anymore and after a long thinking she made a decision. She signed separation letter early this year and left the house. His ex-hubby then begged her to give him another chance and promise to change. He told her to stay in the house and he moved out. Which means she has to take care of their kids while working full time. She sort of agreed and continue to stay on. But her ex-hubby did not change and continue threaten her during this period. Now she got so afraid that she didn't go out with anyone else.
During the separation period, she gets into another relationship. When she is not completely out of her previous relationship, she got herself into another one.
The whole relationship is so complex that I took a while to piece them together. I really don't know what advice I could give Rene or the BF. I feel that the only person could help is our schoolmate herself. Noone self could help her.
(Hmm.. You maybe wondering why I end up spoke to the BF when I called Rene. Don't ask me why. This caught me in shock when my good old friend just passed the phone to him and asked him to talk to me as if I will have an answer to all the problems.)
After speaking for an hour, our call ended with a heavy heart. I am pretty upset of what had happened to our sec. school mate. I believe she has went through a lot a lot for the past 10 years. Now I could only hope she will see and feel what she truly wants and what is best for her kids.
On the other hand, I thank God for giving me a great loving hubby and a sweet girl. I feel so blessed. I will remind myself and treasure what we have.
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