Ever since hubby told me to really consider homeschooling our children by next year, I have been Googling about homeschooling programme, talked to my SIL who homeschool her 5 children, talked to her children about what they have learned, got some AOP books from my aunt who homeschool both her children, took a look at ACE workbooks and met with a mother who just started homeschool this year using the Sonlight and Noeo Science curriculum.
Meeting with some of these mothers motivated me to start homeschooling as soon as we could. But finance is the obstacle now. We need time to raise up the fund for it. We weren’t prepared earlier for homeschooling so we did not have any education saving for our children.
We wanted them to go through what we went through; government school then to local university with scholarship or government loan. We need not save for their education cost, just like how we got our degree.
Unfortunately, due to the deterioration of Malaysian education standard, we see the need to homeschool our children. We see the need to put character first before academic excellence in which the government school does not emphasize.
We are praying that God will bless us with more than enough to finance our children homeschooling needs.
Day in day out I rush through the day chauffeuring my chidlren to school and back, do laundry, cook, clean, mind the lil ones, assist the school goers with their homework, take a short nap if time permits, get the children to bathe, eat their dinner and get them ready for bed.
I just realised that I did not really spend quality time with each of my 3 school going children. This just struck me yesterday when I told my 9yo that we might have Congkak competition this CNY and she wants me to practice with her to prepare for the day. I told her that I will when I am free. Her replied was, “Mommy, you do not have free time. Even when you have free time, you would want to rest.” It is so true!
I feel so sad for her. She longs for my time for her. Time I spend assisting her with homework does not count. It is “work”. I know that the other 2 feels the same. I don’t even have time for myself. How to find time for each and everyone of them?
Can I say that most dads are clueless when it comes to buying gift for their children? Unless they are single parent and they spend most of their time with the child/children. When it comes to buying gifts, hubby will leave it to me to list of the options and he will decide whether it is appropriate for our children. Not everything that our children wish for Christmas will be approved by their daddy like Gameboy, PS or PSP. For those dads that have been given the responsibility to pick Christmas present for their children this year, here’s gift ideas dad. Have fun shopping.
My girls’ school gave each of them a school holiday homework book that contains all the subjects. My eldest, Std 2 finished the whole book in a day. She hates homework and she does not want the homework to spoil her school holiday. My 2nd girl, Std 1 couldn’t be bothered. I have to encourage and bribe her to do those homework. So far, she is taking 2 days to finish one subject. Up till today, she is done with Maths, Malay, English and now in the process of finishing the Science subject.
As for my eldest, I can’t let her brain go rusty during this school holiday so I planned to buy some Std 3 exercise books until I discovered she brought home all her Std 3 text and exercise book. Save money, we shall use the books then. I managed to persuade her to do some Maths exercise; 3 pages a day. After we have completed the whole syllabus which we could, we are going to Malay then English. I can’t teach the rest coz they are all in Chinese.
My 2nd girl did not bring home any Std 2 textbooks nor exercise books. Not a problem coz she needs to brush up on her reading in Malay and English. So, we will read, read and read this school holidays.
I really praise God for allowing Rebekah to start walking way before she turns 10 months old. Now at 10 months old, she is able to take more than 10 steps. The best walking moment so far was when she “chased” after her daddy the moment she sees her 2.5yo brother runs to the door to greet his daddy upon his arrival home from work. That was the first time she walked all by herself (she stood up by herself and walk without me asking her too) and also more than 20 steps.
Being the 5th child, she gets to spend her time on the floor more than in my arm. She did not start crawling faster than a normal baby. She started crawling about 8mo but once she can crawl, she does not want to sit in the walker anymore so we just let her roam freely on the floor. The more she crawls, the stronger her legs grow. At the same time, she could pull herself up by holding onto the furniture and walk with support. Seeing her brothers and sisters running around the house is another motivation for her to walk. At times she forgotten that she can’t run, let even walk. She stood up, took her first step (to chase after her bro) then fall on her knees.
Can you believe it? The famous adventure books like The Famous Five, Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys can’t be found in the Melaka Public Library. They only have those super old Enid Blyton’s Rewards series. Very brownish and dog eared.
When I was growing up, I remembered reading Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys in my primary school library. Some of them were even translated to BM! And I went to a very ulu kampung missionary school. The school now is no longer there and the building has been taken over by The Monfort Boys.
I bought a few Famous Five and Nancy Drew for my 8yo daughter a few months back but I stopped buying coz the price has increased to almost the same price as our local bookstore. Furthermore, I need to save for the coming school holiday and Christmas. So I thought, maybe we can borrow them from the public library.
I wonder whether Kampung Buku has the collection. I’ll find out and let you know.
Watch my 2.5yo catches fish (grass carp). He knows how to stop the fish from moving and he dares to hold an alive fish. Dia belum kena cucuk, dia belum tau lagi.
He has been following his daddy fish at the pond numerous time. After observing how his daddy handles the caught fish, he wanted to try it and he has been doing the above since then.
A few days after the video is taken, he finally got poke by the fish’s side fin. After that, he dare not hold the fish anymore but he still dares to step on the fish’s tail for daddy to remove the fish hook.
Knowing him, I am sure, he will hold the fish again soon. Once the pain is gone, he will surely take his chances. Fun mah.
Today is the very first time I witness with my very own 2 biji mata (eyes) my almost 9mo baby eating shit. Shit squeezed tight in both hands, mouth smeared and stuffed with her own poo-poo; sticky, yellow orchre poo! Am I making you gag already?
It was my mistake of changing her into her lampin (cloth nappy) before she poops. She normally does her business a few minutes after she wakes up. But today, there was a delay for a few minutes and I wanted to make her feel comfy and removed her soaked cloth diaper. She pooped a few minutes after I changed her into cloth nappy. Hubby pulak asked me to pack his lunch and dinner so I just left her to crawl while I get hubby’s food ready. Mana tau, while I was busy packing, her poo-poo dropped and she helped herself to this new found breakfast!
I left hubby’s half way packed food on the table and quickly carried her to the bathroom to clean her. I lost count how many times I gag! I scolded her, I gag, I scolded her I gag. She even have the guts to look up at me to show me her shit smeared mouth! I gag again of course. And I have to dig out her poop out of her mouth a few rounds. Dig, dig still got somemore…gag…dig again, gag. Still got some more…aiya…spray with some water lar…eat shit already mah…drink some pipe water won’t cause any more harm.
She still chewing something in her mouth. I made her cry so that I can really see inside. Got shit stuck on both side of her langit-langit and her tongue too. With a hanky, I korek the shit out. Cry, cry lar, easier for me to clean her mouth. You know what, I was so tempted to pour some of her baby shower gel inside her mouth!
After we are done, she can even burp while I was drying her up. Not once but 3 times!
This is even more gross that having to clean the vomit from the floor. That was yesterday. Another daughter. Thank God I did not vomit my breakfast. Did you?
I left the two of them in bed to prepare breakfast. When I am done, I found them in this position. I am amazed that the little one can continue sleeping with the weight on her body. She became a human bolster that morning.
And this is not the first time I witness sure cute sleeping position. It happened to the rest of my children when they were younger. Once I am not sleeping in between them, the smaller ones will become the human bolster. If not, my legs will be their bolster.
Exactly a week ago, my 7yo daughter informed me that she couldn’t find her spectacle. She told me that she left it on my car before she started playing water balloons. On that day itself, hubby and I drove the car out. None of us see any spectacle on the car’s bonnet. Eye witness also told us that there is no spectacle on our car. So, we were hoping that the spectacle will appear soon. This is not the first time she forgets where she left her specs you see.
Sunday come and go and still no sign of her specs. We decided to not wait any longer because her power is quite high so we went to make a new pair for her on Monday. Come Tuesday, she told us that she and her cousin found her old specs at a neighbour’s house. I asked as to why she did not bring it home. She said that it is too broken. I was hoping that we could still salvage it and make it as her spare specs.
Yesterday, hubby made her to go back to the neighbour’s house to find the broken specs and bring it home. She told us the truth, just take a look at her specs. It is beyond repair.
This proved that she did place her specs on the car that we drove out that evening. Only that none of us noticed it.
