Supper.

Our eldest boys are off to my mum's house. Sara came over to fetch them and Khair start to asking for me the moment he step out of the house! How adorable!

Well, back to our supper earlier. We decided to settle for Cheesecake from McCafe, Hot Fudge Sundees and a small double cheesburger meal.

I must admit that I am never tired of Cheesecake from wherever it came from. I love the availability of Cheesecake from McCafe as it is within reach of 10mins walk from my house. And I find the Cheesecake from McCafe is not so sweet, texture is fine, apart from smoothy feeling once you taste it. And also, its thickness is just fine. Normally I am served with just plain Cheesecake, but today the Cashier add on chocolate syrup and its free of charge! I must say the price is affordable.

Khair's Fairy Tale Party

Theme: Fairy Tale

Venue: Al-Amin Preschool

When: Mid Term

Role: Prince Khair of Anchorvale Kingdom

Props: Personalised Crown & Cape from his almost done quilt made/sew with Love by Mummy.

Rate: 5 Loves

Baby Furqan

One year has passed by very fast. I still remembered well last 12 months, I am still in confinement and the riots started to kick in with 3 kids during the June holiday! But I still feel happy and contented. The feeling is so overwhelmed with a mix feelings.

So much I have been rantings and ramblings about the oldest two boys, yet so little have been mentioned about Baby fur, thou his milestone is steadily healthy and constant.

Getting pregnant with Furqan was a breeze, I must admit all the times. I was very much independent, without Rid to get around most times. And caring for the oldest two kids when Rid is not at home during the night time. I can't put aside the feeling that I am lonely without him during most nights but I am lucky as I felt protected by my two oldest heroes tucking in with me most days. And of course my work online kept me occupied so the loneliness is out of my dictionary. Oh no! Not that anything about Rid is not in the family picture, he is around most time too, except for certain night times where he has other work to do. And I believe due to this independency period, at the same time Baby Fur has practised well inside my womb! He seems to be very independent, moving around the house without assistance thou I glued my eyes on him almost 24/7 to avoid house injuries.

Baby Furqan has his 1st tooth when he is almost 2.5mths which is the fastest among my older two kids. And it didnt stop there, his teeth keep on growing and growing one after another. It seems so fast that we were abit taken aback by the suprise. He seems to explore on things faster. Maybe as he moves around the house and watch how his elder brothers do things. He even knew how to hold a crayon or pencil properly and scribble on a paper!

And, Baby Furqan do not cry unnecessarily. Period. Its the best that we can ask for. Well, experience do come in handy, wouldn't it?

Touch 13mths soon, Baby Furqan has reached his newest milestone of walking independently around the house. Well, he still crawls to get something fast, but he is such a cutety pie when he crawl. Looking at him, really reminded me of Sufi and Khair.

Baby Furqan is 4-in-1... Rid+Sufi+Khair+Furqan.

Im listening to a webinar!

This is the first time I am listening to a webinar session by Suria Mohd. I have been putting it off for quite some time. And I really need to listen to it, i heard that it is so good.

It is really good. Suria talked about herself, talk about how she started to be a teacher. How she was rejected twice when she applied for NIE with the fact her results was acceptable. Suria has a passion to teach, to teach in a different way! She inspired me! And the way she execute her ideas & passion into successful business. I love it.

Listening to her, I am reminded of my passion for teaching & inspire too when I was young. haha. something that i never revealed before. But I know that I am not good at my grades totally! I only have passion and the ability to teach preschool! Thanks to my so called not so diligent in school that time. And I love to teach interactively, maybe not a teacher but I can be one of the future Accelerated Trainer/Presenter?! hah! Bingo!

Got to go, I want to listen to it one more time and do some wake up call!!

10th years Courtship Anniversary

It has reach almost  the peak of our relationship. 10th years of togetherness, gng through thick and thin. Bitter and sweet as sugar. We did not expect it can last till this long thou we prayed hard that the love will last till the end of our lives. And we felt thankful and blessed with the chance of tying the knot together and having three active, healthy princes. Yes! 3 boys in a row and pampering their mother to the max!

So we had dinner at our favourite spot, Pattaya Garden for Thai Food Cuisine. Its been years since we kept on visiting it nonetheless. It has tasty delicacies such as their top tom-yam seafood and their salad.

We hope for more blissful to come our way and be loving ever...

Watermelon juice prepared by Love

We love this! Its deliciously prepared by Rid with honey. A jug full of it, healthy choice for our afternoon tea-break! Thank you Love.

Mid Year Exams

This is the first time for us to go through an experience of our children having exams. Since Sufi started his primary education, he has started to have lots of class test which are meant as a preparation for him to sit for a more important examination. So far, as I did mentioned before we do not intend to sent him for any tution class till maybe when he is at primary 3 onwards if need be. Apart from we coach him ourselves for now, my brother-in-law mentioned that it is not necessary unless the child is having poor grades or poor respond totally. This is to also to avoid lesser stress in the child daily lifestyle thus he can have a more better rooms of expressing himself or feel more relax.

Nevertheless, we still sent him for Arabic tuition because neither one of us can converse fluently. And only Rid can coach him basically.

So I felt that the roles of a parent changed once your child start primary school. It is not the normal coaching or interactive teaching but it involves every aspect of the primary education. And not to mentioned the time mangament that we need to handle very well, otherwise, the child will feel exhausted and we too will get frustrated. So, the education system is so much different now, apart from consistency in the learning process the child needs guidance and moral support. This is something Rid and I try to put in extra effort on achieving maximum results but with much love emphasised.

I also want to share this, my brother-in-law once told us that his teacher at his university told him not to eat chicken during the exams period. I forget exactly how he explained but remembered clearly that chicken slows the memorising skills. Meaning you will have difficulty or finds it hard to absorbed most that you read. And my mother-in-law mentioned that chicken makes you sleepy if you consume too much of it. It might be true as I tried and realised that it has a great impact not only on my kids but on ME.
Whatever methodology, ways, advise that we received or tried, we hope that it works well and blend well into our parenting style and also to ensure that Sufi is comfortable with it. This is our first time and lets see the outcome soon.

All the best Sufi.

Baby Furqan 1st Birthday + Mothers Day gathering

Month of May will be busier every year now. We used to just celebrate Mothers Day & our courtship anniversary but now its going to be birthday celebration too for Furqan.

He turns 1yr old this week and we had a great celebration among loved ones. Since its the same week for Mothers Day, we decided to throw in the mood! Lots of goody bags, food, Barney Birthday Cake and Mothers Day mini-cupcakes. Its tasty!

Baby Furqan enjoyed it so much, he is not cranky nor grouchy at all thou he just got so agitated at me each time he tried to whack his birthday cake! Sooo adorable! We love you baby!

**full birthday pics can be viewed from my FB account...

We had this

Its a simple fare. Today I had two projects done and feeling tired and will skipped the process of cooking lunch and dinner. so we end up with plain rice, an egg and soya sauce for our pre-dinner meals! Its delicious! And most important, the kids love it so much that they asked for more & more eggs!

Now we are all waiting for Rid to buy dinner for us - Nasi Briyani! Our favourite!