Slacker Mum

I really have been slacking for the last week. My intentions to finish holidays assignments before my parents leaving for pilgrimage seems to be mere future plans. And hit by stuffy nose and sudden rashes around neck and chin area, all I want to do is sleep and eat.
It is sad how days go by without me doing anything productive. Before I know it, school holidays will be over.
News about pay cut for the ministers are splattered all across the news. But looking at the pay that they are getting anyway, they better not be fussy about it.
Civil servants receive a 2 mths bonus compared to 3 mths last year. I'm not complaining. I had worse year-end news.
Anyway, what is the latest with Izzul and IBG? It is getting harder day by day to make him sit and flash him the reading cards. He has an attention span of a fly. Sigh, just when we thought he was making progress. But I was told to be patient and persevere. He'll come around again. Well, I certainly hope so. Chasing him around the house is more fun for him than me.
IBG is at a crossroad. Our next project we intend to name it after our second. The problem is we don't have a name yet and worse still, it will be a few months more before we know it's a he or a she!
Let's just pray this one decides to show early.
Btw, I receive a couple of enquiries on whether our Baby Kaed will be having promotion for the other bags. Indeed we are - for the month of Dec. Look out for that!

Early education... How early?

Now that I have a little more time for myself with school holidays just around the corner, I manage to start on a book. Whether I can finish it, is a totally different story.


Anyway, I came across again an interesting part about how early should you start educating your child. While montessori and mozart effect begins when baby is still in the womb, Islam encourages the 'education' starts when a man starts to choose 'a woman' for his wife.
Although the relation is subtle, the implication here is almost perfectly logical. We might not be 'educating' anything or anyone yet however, by choosing the type of life partner, he is choosing the conditions/settings that he would like his children to grow in or grow with...
On the other hand, with both parents working, will 'conditions' now is more suited to 'finding the appropriate helper'.
For myself, I am just grateful that my mum still have the vigour to care for my super energetic 1-yr old. I don't think I turn out that bad.. so my mum must have done a pretty decent job eh... ;) ha!

Nov Alert! Noobia Alert!

I really don't know why am I still attending the classes. I don't really pay much attention to the details and I am pretty sure I am not the only one. We are being fed details that we know we are going to forget anyway... so that is why we have the internet, we have wikipedia and books! for reference.... so why bother. But putting things in perspectives, I am in "the system". So I shouldn't be complaining coz one day, I might have my kids reflecting on the same thing.

This Friday is Izzul Haq's Day! I still haven't got for him anything. His grandparents over at punggol already bought him a car. One that he can sit in and we control using the remote. Talking about spoiling. How can anyone beat That present.
But I can give him something that is so priceless.... no money can buy. A mother's love....
Ha!I wonder how would I have reacted if my mom told me that on my 10th birthday...

ANway, updates - I believe some of you on the mailing list would have receive our little mail alert. For those who didn't get... here u go...

Approximately 27 days to 3 months.....sigh

I am counting the days to say goodbye to my first trimester. The all day sickness is daunting. Lucky me that I'm left with only Chemistry lesson and 2 other small courses, all through November. To make this trimester speed through even faster, Izzul Baby Gift is coming up with something new real soon. Hopefully by end of November. Also busy planning for something for early next year. Hope health will be with me to keep me going and keep up to schedule.
Taking this opportunity to congratulate a friend who has taken the first step to build an online empire insyaAllah for Muslimah garments and accessories. TJ boutique offers unique array of clothes for ladies and cute dresses for your girls too. Visit her online site of TJ boutique for a better picture.
www.tjboutique.multiply.com
Kudos to Siti and Juriah and all the best!

Tonight, we showed Izzul the word "Monkey" and "hyena". Then we asked him.."which one is Monkey?". He pointed to "Monkey". We thought it was plain luck or a plain Izzul trait of pointing to anything and everything. We tried again with "panda" and "swan". This time we switch the word of choice on the opposite side. He got it right again. Alhamdulillah. It's a little but I'm feeling so syukur (glad) anyway. Faith and patience, InsyaAllah.

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