Toilet training is not one of my favourite things to do as a parent. It is something I would gladly pay someone else to do it 🙂 But there you go, our 7th child seems to have been completely toilet trained, day and night. But there are of course still accidents. Especially when she is […] Read more…
Travelling on a restricted diet
When we took our 1st vacation of 2011 at Batam in April, we were blessed by my lovely mother-in-law who cooked several meals worth of food and brought them over via the ferry ride! How blessed S is to have grandparents who love her so much that they were willing to inconvenience themselves twice in our […] Read more…
A Typical Day
What does a typical homeschool day look like in our larger than average family here in Singapore? Actually it is only typical for this season of our lives. It keeps changing when the family’s needs change. As the old adage goes, the only thing constant is change, is definitely true here! How we homeschool and […] Read more…
Cooking for an allergic child
One never stops learning. When I was growing up I never cooked anything except instant noodles 😀 When I got married I had to learn how to cook rice (and use the washing machine too!). So you can say that I am so not Nigella Lawson 😀 Fast forward to today, I not only have […] Read more…
Chinese New Year and GAPS
We survived Christmas on GAPS mostly because we didn’t have any Christmas dinners and parties 🙂 Well, I did have one with my friends. It was a lunch gathering and I brought my food along. But Chinese New Year is a different ballgame altogether. There will be many visits and lunches and dinners out. Oh […] Read more…
Doing GAPS in Singapore
While reading and reading and reading, I have come to the conclusion that the Gut and Psychology Syndrome(GAPS) diet by Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride made the most sense. So here is my story of doing GAPS in Singapore. What is the GAPS Diet? Here is a great summary of what the GAPS diet is at Sustain […] Read more…
Count Your Blessings, One-By-One
Do you grumble a lot about your lot in life? Like the person who always sees her cup as half empty instead of half full? Do you know what the cure for this illness is? For it is an illness to be discontented all the time. The cure is counting your blessings. Deliberately writing it […] Read more…
Teaching Children to Sleep on their Own
Teaching a child to sleep on their own has been a lifesaver for me! I feel even more strongly about it now, after we were blessed with our 7th child. You see, our 7th blessing does not go to bed on her own. She needs to nurse to sleep and sometimes requires to be attached to me the whole night to sleep 🙁 It is very, very tiring on my body and no one sleeps well. Read more…
Stomach flu but we got through it!
Since becoming a mother more than 13 years ago, I have had very few brushes with the dreaded stomach flu. Usually we would just get the runs and it would last at most 2 days. I recall only one or two incidents where just one child threw up. Stomach flu does its round Well on Sunday […] Read more…
Cultivating A Habit of Staying Home
I like staying home. My children for the most part like staying home. Do you? Of course we do go out but we probably go out much less often than the average family. Neither my children nor I clamour to get out of the house. The boys do itch to be released to run around […] Read more…