"Time not enough"

Phew! Finally finished my errands yesterday for the mid-autumn festival, dashing from place to place to buy mooncakes, pomelo, "piglet" biscuits....etc This is the life of a working mother, maximising the use of her "free time" (yeah cos doing these errands mean I will have to forgo my lunch :p) to complete her mission. This also applies to other missions e.g banking, marketing or simply shopping for something that I need etc

Since becoming a mother, I have treasured my lunchtime more than ever. Not that my lunchtime has increased from an hour to 2 hours. (Instead it has reduced from an hour to 45 mins!) But it means I need to accomplish more things with the same (or less) amount of time I have. Yes, time is precious for me because I hope to rush home immediatley after work to spend time with my girl. It can be a very simple chore like taking her for a walk at the void deck, changing her pajamas, running around in the house or saying a prayer with her before she sleeps etc. If I have to run my errands after work, I would have missed out some of the activities or worst still, I may not get a chance to talk to her as she could have fallen asleep by the time I reach home. That means I would have spent one less day in my lifetime with her. So sad huh? As a mother, you would feel that taking charge of the kids after work is necessary and feel guilty whenever you are not able to spend time with them. In my own definition, I feel that is how a responsible mother should behave. (No offence to other working mothers) Is that only myself feeling this way or that is generally the way working mothers feel? Actually I am considered lucky in the sense that my work does not demand me to work late everyday and most of the times, I am able to get off from work on time. However, even with that, I have only 2 miserable hours to spend with my girl everyday (reaches home around 7pm and she sleeps around 9pm).

Sometimes I really wonder how other busy working mothers coped with that little time with their kids and how I will be able to cope if I have another kid? I always feel that 24hrs is not enough for me cos I simply have too many things to do or want to do. I am already feeling that I dont have much time doing my routine tasks, not to mention doing my personal stuff. My wedding photos which I wanted to scan and put on the website is still left unscan. The malay language book borrowed from my SIL is still left on the shelf (I wanted to take up a third language when Trenyce was 1, now she's 2 already!) Oh, let me count when is the last time I have a simple meal with my galfriends...hmm

Baby Choice, Now you have a choice!

I was reading MyPaper some weeks ago and there was an interesting article on the paper that spurs some exciting conversations recently. The article was about how to assist parents-to-be on getting a baby of their preferred gender. There is now a methodology that claims to be 99% accurate and money-back guarantee if the result turns out to be different – Choice Baby. Reading testimonies of other parents, this method seems reliable but I find it a little strange these testimonies are quite outdated (I think around 2002-2003, about 3 years back). Though it doesnt really matter but will be more convincing if they used more updated sources lah.

Many interesting grandmother tales followed after the article was published. Baby talk became the topic of the town in my office.

There is one really interesting one I would like to share. This is given by a friend's friend (duno how many frens passing around already). The way to use it is to base on the mother's lunar age e.g. if you are a 1976 dragon, you should be 31years old this year, and the lunar month you can try to conceive in order to get the baby of your preferred gender. Check the pic.



Sound simple, right? You can try to count backwards to check your current child and see if it fits. Can be a little tough if you dont exactly remember the lunar month you conceive the child as I suppose most of us only remember the english calendar. I attempted for my little girl and it seems to tally. Should I use this for my next baby...hmmm....how about you?

A touching story

A brand-new, free Chinese newspaper, MyPaper hits the streets today. While flipping thru the new edition, there was this article that deeply touched my heart. This is a real-life story of a mother who lost her 8-mth old. The name of the bb boy is Evens. He suffered from some heart problems and died suddenly about 9 weeks ago. As I read her journal, I shed tears many times (even though I am in the office).

Unfortunately, MyPaper does not have the webversion so I cant really share much of what this writer, who currently resides at Taiwan, has written. But I am glad she shared the story with us. It makes me realise how precious our little dearies are. To see them growing strong and healthy is truly the best gift our heavenly father can ever give us.