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.

My house is filled with in laws, out laws and their children. Not forgetting FOOD!

Unfortunately, I am coughing away right now so I have to be picky about what I put in my mouth. Anyway, I am ok with it coz I do not have much appetite to eat for months already.

I hope all of you eat and drink everything in moderate ya. Stay healthy!

Gong Xi Fa Cai

My husband and I spared no expense on our new home. We spent way more than we should have, and we’ll be paying for it for a long time. When we bought our house we thought we were getting a great deal because it was a foreclosure. We knew it needed some work, but we thought we could get it done for under $20,000. Little did we know that once we started work on the home, we wouldn’t be able to stop. We were so excited that we just wanted everything to be perfect. We felt like we couldn’t renovate the bathroom without renovating the kitchen. Then we felt like with such a beautiful kitchen and bathroom, we couldn’t leave the floors like they were. It just became a snowball effect and $50,000 later, here we are. We love our new house so much, and know we need to do everything possible to protect it. We wanted the Best Home Security available, and luckily we feel like we found it. I’m looking forward to many happy years in this home, and hope that our hard work will pay off.

For a SAHM without any helper this is not a good condition. I have to stand by a chair beside me when I cook. I walk like someone who has just gone for a tummy operation/given birth.

My 1yo is napping right now. I am supposed to continue wiping the window panes but I need my tummy rest, so that’s why I am here for a while. I will try to attempt wiping the windows and walls after these.

I pray everything will be well come this Monday. I want to celebrate CNY without any pain on my body.

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?

Thanks to a friend, we had our first roast chicken for this year last Saturday. The taste is better than the roast chicken that I roasted last year. My friend and I ate straight from the baking tray coz we were left with the breast meat. The children took the thigh part and the wings away. Lazy to grab a plate, we just dig in and dip our meat into the gravy left on the tray. Fingers licking good.

It is Jamie Oliver’s recipe which you can get from this link http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/chicken-recipes/roast-chicken-with-lemon-rosemary-ro.

Happy Roasting!

Apart from that, hubby plans to do a complete upgrade to his CC which will cost him at least 15k. Well, we need money to make more money. The business has been running for 5 years and it is high time we do some upgrading before the customers hop over to newer CC.

With the additional family member soon and the ruling that requires all passenger in the car to wear seat belt, we have to get an 8 seater vehicle sooner or later. We need to save for that too.

And we also plan to homeschool our children by 2013 which means we need USD! Time to save my Paypal money; no more buying things online. Hmm…maybe one more batch of cloth diapers.

And my children are growing up FAST! They eat more now. Less eating out then.