Creative art 01 : Telescopes

Last night, Faith kept saying she wants to do some "dip dip dab dab" art craft. We do not understand and asked her what is that. After listened to her explanation, I then explained to her that we don't use container of glue for art craft and only school uses brush in glue container.

This morning I thought maybe she will enjoy something close to what she wants to do. I prepared three toilet paper rolls and some colored paper.

Guess what she made...

She made three telescopes during lunch today and said one for her, one for Kate and one for Megan. They are her NAFA classmates.

After she finished, she put in balacony and dried. I didn't get any photo as I was focusing too much on getting her ready for school.

She enjoyed herself.. with me at the background screaming at her to eat faster and don't walk around.

Surprise birthday present from Brighton classmate

Madness rush twice a day

Twice a day....
1. From the time Faith wake up till she is fully dressed for Brighton school in the morning.
2. When she got home from Brighton and finish her lunch and dress her up to NAFA in the afternoon.

Luckily this is only for a month. I am sure my blood pressure is no longer low as before.

Driving me really crazy when she walks around during lunch and dilly dally when there is already short of time. Only when I show my anger face and she will buck up and do thing with haste. I just don't understand why she has to wait till people get angry and will listen. Are all the kids these days behave in this way?

I don't want to lose my cool anymore and I want to ON TIME from now on. I get very irritated when I know I going to be late.

Revised schedule for my little one:
1. Wake up at 07:45AM SHARP for passing urine and then drink milk.
2. Be ready by 08:15AM and leave home.

3. Lunch is to be completed by 12:30 PM.
4. Brush teeth - Pass urine - Get dressed. And leave home at 12:45 PM.

New rule for her:
1. Wake up and leave home on time.
2. NO WALKING or CLIMBING when having lunch.
3. Brush teeth and wear socks and shoes herself.

Wish me all the best for 7 more days.

How to make hard boiled egg?

I  used to boil the egg for 20 mins or so when we were in Bahamas. Eversince I start cooking at home, I wonder do I really need so long to boil a small egg? So did some quick research online and the next morning I tried this new method I learnt.

Instructions:
1. Put the raw egg in a pot.
2. Fill the pot with water till the water is (approx.) 3 cm above the egg.
3. Put the pot on the stove and turn on the fire. (medium fire will do)
4. When the water is boiling, leave it boiling for 1 min.
5. Turn off the fire after a min. and put the pot aside for another 20 mins.
6. After 20 mins or so (longer than that is fine), pour the warm water away and transfer the egg to a small bowl and fill with room temperater water. Some people said this is to prevent the egg white turning chewy. To me, it seem to be easier to peel off the egg shell.
7. The egg is ready to be peeled and served.

This way it could save me 19 mins of gas and do not need to worry that I forgot to turn off the fire.

Faith's daily porridge lunch

Today I revised Faith's daily porridge's ingredients. I removed potato and baby sweet corn and change red cargo rice to brown rice. Reasons of changing:
- is to reduce the porridge portion so she could take finish up the egg white (currently, she only takes the egg yolk and the egg white will be thrown away)
- she could take a fruit before meal and not wasting her porridge

Faith is a small eater. And a picky eater. We can't (we tried many ways) make her eat more each meal and her current schedule doesn't allow her to take more small meal. What we could only do is increase the nutrients in her three meals. Lunch is the most important to her since she don't take much for breakfast and dinner. I am still trying to train her to take more in breakfast time.

Ingredients:

- 1/2 dried scallop

- ard. 10 wolfberries

- 1 scoop of brown rice (i am using the milk powder scoop from formula milk tin)

- a small piece of carrot

- a piece of pumpkin / sweet potato

- a small piece of cod fish

- a small branch of broccoli

- 3 mini tomato

Instructions:

- Put brown rice, carrot and pumpkin / sweet potato into slow cooker.

- Add hot water till all ingredients covered. Let it slow cook for 2 hours.

- Add in rest of ingredients. Let it slow cook for another 30 minutes.

Sorry that I used "piece" instead of exact weight as I don't have food weight scale. I will update this post again with a snapshot of the ingredients.

At the end of our princess's birthday

Our lovely sweetheart said this to me and then to her dad..
"Thank you for my birthday celebration. Thank you for my birthday. Thank you for everything."

With hugs and kisses when she said this.

Feeling really happy that she appreciates what we have done for her.

Time to take actions!! With one step at a time.

I am pretty much a procastinator. I have a lot of ideas and hope and dreams but didn't take much actions to realize them. Mainly just fear of failure and rejection. Lately, I couldn't sleep well. Pretty worried of my future and time is ticking and not waiting for anyone. I don't want my life to be an empty book with nothing to share when I am old. I got to take actions!! One step at a time and the spirit high up.

(1) I am going to note down my passions/ hobbies/ things that I spend most time on. This way, I could deliberate them and focus on one or two. Doing too many things might cause one feel exhausted and give up easily. That is what happened to me!  Very often, I have spent much time on chores and trivial things. Yes, I still have to work on chores but I will consistently think of way to speed up the process. If it is still taking much of my time, then we will look into getting a part-time helper.

(2) I will start looking for full-time permanent job at the same time. I need to support my expense and earn my keep and broaden my circle of friends and keep my mind alert and stay tune. Wish me good luck on this!

Take actions ... one step at a time.  Don't get too stress up and stay cool and happy....