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I know I’m totally disorganized when ….

alternative-mom — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:11:25 +0000

I found two boxes of mushrooms in the fridge. One dried up like shiitake mushrooms and another has mould!
Yikes! I’m totally disorganized at the moment!

48 Hours of Pure Fun Video

alternative-mom — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:12:15 +0000

The Alternative Dad said he would do anything to bring a smile to my face (how sweet!) and he granted me my birthday wish! Instead of 24 hours, I received 48 hours without the kids, on my own last weekend! Thanks, Dad!

Ode to Joy ….

*I don’t know why it is not showing up on my page. While I try to sort it out, you can watch it here.

48 Hours of Pure Fun

alternative-mom — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:38:56 +0000

I’m now making a video on 48 hours of pure fun!

Have a good weekend!

Dream

alternative-mom — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:50:10 +0000

Few nights ago, I had a dream.

I dreamt that my mom was in the hospital and my MIL asked me for a Rolex watch.

At the end of the dream, my mom told me eating out often will result in us falling ill and my MIL told me she was joking about the Rolex watch.

When I woke up, I know that I should cook more for mom and oh yes, I owe my MIL a present, but not a Rolex watch!

My Roar

alternative-mom — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:59:36 +0000

Look, I’m roaring quite a bit lately!

My post on roaring must have something to do with the white tigers I saw earlier in the day. We witnessed the feeding and I love the way one of the white tigers, Ooma (?), stood on twos to intercept the bone flung towards it.

The Tipping Point says that sometimes, small elements in our environment can largely affect us. The image of the prowling white tigers waiting for their feed must have been the impetus for my roar and of course, that picture seems to portray a white tiger roaring (it’s really meant to make you readers laugh – even my sense of humour is back). And if only the white tigers had really roared!

I’m all ready to share with you how I got roaring since my last rut.

That makes me wonder, under what circumstances do tigers roar?

Because I am roaring good times, roaring good finds, roaring good sense, roaring good fun, rrrrrroooooooaaaaaarrrrrrring ……

The Alternative Mom … Ready to ROAR?

alternative-mom — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:18:06 +0000

So, I HAD been overwhelmed, exhausted and all that negative vibes ……

….. and yes, I still experience endless chores, can’t-wait-to-crawl-into-bed-tiredness, 48-hours-day-please-wish, ‘why-must-people-eat syndrome’ ….

….. BUT I’m ready to roar again!

Trust me, this time I know it, it is going to last.

I will tell you the whys and hows and whats and whens in bits and pieces …..

In the meantime, ~~hear~~ watch me ROAR!

Current Working On It.

alternative-mom — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:57:45 +0000

“If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, we should have happier households. Let the mother go out to play! If she would have the courage to let everything go when life becomes too tense, and just take a day, or half a day, out in the fields, or with a favourite book, or in a picture gallery looking long and well at just two or three pictures, or in bed, without the children, life would go on far more happily for both children and parents. The mother would then be able to hold herself in “wise passiveness’ and would not fret her children by continual interference even of hand or eye – she would let them be.”

- Charlotte Mason

Working on the wise the words of Charlotte Mason.

Thanks for all your words of encouragement and cheering me on. I’m almost there!

Energy Sapped

alternative-mom — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:40:17 +0000

So I was asked, how did all that jazz from my holiday fade so quickly?

A week ago, I was all refreshed and recharged. Another week on, I’m sinking again!

Shortly after my holiday, I realise that I sorely miss room service and the chamber maid!

You see, we were on a retreat, and I mean, it was a REAL retreat. We spent most of our time away from most people in Bali. Spent some cold nights in the highlands of Bali and the rest in a villa tuck away in an obscure part of Bali surrounded by tobacco plantations. Who says Bali is touristy?

I did have a kitchenette and wok up meals for the little ones, especially after two bouts of allergic attacks on my Angel! Simple cooking, minimal cleaning!

All our other meals were prepared for us, especially in the mountains of Batukura. We were treated to the freshest homecooked food in such a lovely kitchen! And then of course, the villa had such a large space that we get daily room service.

On that holiday, I had a relaxed pace of life and didn’t have to care about the idiosyncracies of daily life for a while.

The ‘problem’ I see now is, because we were quite secluded, I didn’t manage to draw a lot of energy.

Like me, my Angel is a spirited child. She saps my energy and I’m drained of energy with her daily. The spirited me then needs to draw energy from others. That’s where my problem lies. I haven’t quite managed to do that, not even on our holiday. The person I meet daily is the Alternative Dad who draws his energy from non-living gadgets. In my course of a day, I have problems gaining access to energy! I’m burning out!

And this probably explains why I have lost all that holiday jazz so quickly. I can’t even keep up with my daily responsibilities!

I now teeter on the brink of tetchiness, irascibility and exasperation, resulting in helplessness on how to get myself out of this rut.

I dislike being irritable all day, have absolute zero patience with the children and just want to be alone but yet not.

I have an idea and this idea is going to be my birthday wish.

In the meantime, please send me positive vibes, pray for me, whatever. I need all the positive encouragement, optimism, positive energy and heartening I can get.

I don’t want to complain, I just want to DO SOMETHING!