The Burden of Being A Mother

When a child misbehaves, there’s a Chinese comment that is literally translated as, “Mother didn’t teach”. I don’t know if there’s an equivalent in English or any other language. But with that one comment, the onus seems to be placed solely on the mother : to teach values and morals, amongst other things. So if […] Read more…

The Podcast is Up!

On 22nd January 2009, I spoke at The Lunchtime Christian Fellowship Meeting at The Metropole YMCA. I posted about it here at I Did It! The podcast is up now. If would like to listen to my testimony about the grace of God on my life, do click on this link HERE and click on my name 🙂 […] Read more…

Helpful Website for Pregnant Moms

For those who are totally clueless about the various birth positions one can adopt for labour and birthing, you may wish to check out Transition to Parenthood and click on Pregnancy, Birth and Newborn Care. It is a fairly basic website that describes the various stages of labour with graphics on the various labour and birth positions. Direct […] Read more…

Why We Don’t Do Yoga or TCM

I have been wanting to write this post for the longest time but never found time to craft it properly. But with the amount of distraction I have been facing lately, if I don’t write this now, I guess I’ll never write it. And I do think it is important enough that I am also […] Read more…

Pregnancy Musings – Grumpy

I often wonder why I get so grumpy towards the end of each pregnancy. Hormones? Physical exhaustion? What?! Well, except the 1st 2. Perhaps the excitement of having a child outweighed all the physical discomfort back then? Or perhaps it was youth? Like I mentioned before there is a whole lot of difference between being […] Read more…

Something’s Gotta Give

Yes, something’s gotta give. One can’t just keep on adding the things one needs to do without giving up some other stuff. In the same way, one cannot hope to be a fulltime mother and career woman without something being sacrificed. Be it sleep (sleep less), money (to farm out certain responsibilities) or time to […] Read more…

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