Mother's Day
Yet another day in the calender but it is on this day, that I am made to feel a lot more special. My two beautiful children have started compiling their gifts as early as a week before with little hand crafts and drawings/colorings from their school, kindy, BaoBei centre and Children Church.
And earlier that day when hubby was away on a business trip, he had someone delivered...
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| FLOWERS... with a special message which obviously I cannot post here!!! |
Hubby can be very romantic at times, but this is totally, totally unexpected because he's not away for long anyway. My good helper have them dried and placed in a glass bottle for safekeeping. : )
When hubby came home that evening, he brought us out to The Good Batch for dinner as a celebration and appreciation to both Joanne and myself. We had the kids thank Kakak for her work in our house, as she takes off a lot of my load.
When I read about the sacrifices and dedications of many mothers who slog from the wee hours in the mornings, to the late hours at night, without complain and without help, I salute them. Whilst I feel touched at hearing and reading wonderful Mother's Day stories, I cannot fully relate as my domestic helper, Joanne does all the cleaning, washing and majority cooking. She ensures the kids have ironed uniforms and clean school shoes and have their water bottles always filled. I feel blessed as she is our answered prayer, and takes a whole load off me from the house chores so that I can concentrate more on my project works outside and
As I reflect on my duties as a mother, I know I have a lot to learn. Victoria and William each present to us different sets of challenges as parents! Sometimes we make mistakes as parents and sometimes we pat ourselves for job well done, but at the end of the day, I know it's only because of them that we have the privilege to celebrate parent's day.
My role model remains my mom - to me, she is the BEST mom and grandmother - ever patient, ever loving, ever forgiving, never complaining, never comparing, never calculating.
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| A Korean dinner with Popo and Korean family who calls her "Mummy" too |
Father's Day
Father's Day was celebrated with just as much love, albeit less glamour of outside food... we had
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| Homebaked shepherd Pie... first time bake and I have to say... as humbly as I can... it's DELISH!! |
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| Nutella Croissants - which doesn't look nice nor taste like artisan bakeries, but at least it didn't give us a tummy ache... hehehe |
To the man who prioritizes family time over work...
Daddy / Hubby, your sacrifices will pay off! We love you more than we show or tell you!
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| Taking an evening swim over the weekend |
