Monthly Archives: March 2008

Yes folks, I am getting bored with the current look; in less than, what- a year?

Yeah yeah, at this point at least one of you would be sniggering, going “I hope you don’t get tired of your wife as quickly haha.” Seriously, I had that exact quote thrown at me at a recent interview. I didn’t think it was funny, and saw it coming light years away.

So, instead of going completely offline and committing myself to a deadline of a “re-launch” with a brand new look for this blog (and we all know how much I hate deadlines!), I have decided to “remain open” during this construction time…

So, please bear with the mess, the nails on the uneven floors, the bare unpainted walls, the bubble wrapped furniture, the uncultured workers, the poor lighting. Please don’t panic if during subsequent visits you find that the look is suddenly different. It is probably that I am toying with different colours…

I will try my hardest to quickly learn the nuts and bolts of this new theme, while remaining true to the theme and content of this blog….!

First challenge, of course, is to find a new banner graphic. I do like the first one I used- the smiley face one on the candle, with the background of a finished dinner and (chocolate cake) desert at Dr Pixie’s…

I had chosen that because I thought it somewhat represented the dinner-together-with-family sentiment, symbolically akin to this blog…

Perhaps I will try and be clever and re-use it?

So it’s the school holidays this week, and Daddee and Caitlin get to sleep in some (since Daddee is playing chauffeur Mummee gets to snooze on regardless).

The timing couldn’t be better. Given we were all down with the flu last week (and Daddee still has a cough; so does Caitlin actually, but we are on the mend) this somewhat lax daily routine has allowed a little more rest for everyone. Oh, I forgot to also mention, that leaving Caleb with my inlaws have also helped tremendously in allowing us to catch up on some rest. Yes, lucky us.

Caitlin was also given some homework to do over the holidays. I am unsure however if these are just catch-up homework (she started her preschool in March when the term started in Jan) or whether it is holiday work as well. But upon seeing some of the work, Daddee is envious and wishes he could swap with her: One of her books is actually a paste-these-stickers-into-appropriate-empty-settings. Some of her completed work are completing a face- as in paste the eyes, nose, mouth etc, onto a blank face; figures doing stuff, etc.

Other homework have included her completing her first writing exercise of ABC and colouring in the corresponding item: A is for (and colour-in the) apple. Naturally, she’s already completed the stickers first cos, like Daddee would, its just more fun.

All this is well and good. But as with all good things, school holidays end this weekend and Caitlin will be back at school on Monday… sigh

Which also means that, by leading by example, to instil a good sense of punctuality in the now-called preschooler, we have to get up early and on time so that Daddee, for a valid external reason like this, will consequently be at work on time, as the example.

In other words, I am showing her the essence of punctuality by being at work on time, because she has to be at school on time.