Wow.. I can’t believe it’s already mid Jan 2010 and already end of Muharram 1431!! How could I have let 365 or 360 days go by in a blink of an eye! A new year, a fresh start, a brand new you..It’s like a second chance that life throws you so you can learn from mistakes of the past and do a better job this year. Perhaps that’s why we love New Year..
To sum it all up, 2009 was a wonderful year, with a lot of changes in my life. And change is good, most of the times. Greatest achievement in 2009?? None other than Parenting. With a 4 year old and a 2 year old around, parenting is
Scary..
When you see your daughter shouts at people,
in the same way you shout at her,
in the same way your mother used to shout at you.
Beautiful..
When you see the warm soft sparkle in your child’s eye
As both of them talk about their most favourite things in the WHOLE WORLD – Barbie, Ultraman & Ben 10.
Mind-numbing torture..
When you spend all day saying, please don’t touch that, please don’t do that, please don’t say that, please don’t stand on that, please just stop that, please try eating this, please take another bite, please say thank you, PLEASE SAY PLEASE…
Magical..
When your 4 year old daughter tells you a joke, and it’s actually funny.
As you laugh, she tells another one, and another one, until you are both rolling on the floor, crying from laughter.
Bleakness..
When, for days, you try and try and try and try AND TRY your very best with a positive heart, to battle with your children’s naughtiness, disobedience, stubbornness, temper, anger, disrespect and appalling behaviour… and absolutely nothing seems to change.
Tender..
When you kneel down, look your kid in the eye and say how sorry you are for being in a bad mood this morning, and she says “Aww, that’s ok. I still love you.”
Precious..
When your kid throws their arms around you, and you both roll onto the floor, tickling, giggling, laughing, poking, bumping, hooting, bouncing, cuddling, cackling, twirling, and you just know deep inside you, that in another 4 years, this all might be “NOT A COOL THING TO DO”.
Panic..
When you wake up in the dead of night, to screams, cries, vomit, raging temperature, shouts, a soaking bed, blood… and you have no idea what to do.
Painful..
After waking up 8 times in the night, you still have to get out of bed in the morning, make breakfast, send one of them to school the other to the granny’s hse and go to office, keep appointments, buy groceries, make dinner (sometimes..hehe), bath children, feed children and bed children.
Pride..
When you hear your kid telling her friends that “Ants are the strongest creatures in the world. If they were big like humans, they could carry a bulldozer! Yeah! My mum told me that!”
Wisdom..
When you try to explain genetics and recessive traits to a 4 year old and she just laughs at you.
Mind boggling..
When you watch your kids play and are struck with utter amazement – They are funny, friendly, unique, sociable, active, open, confident, smart, happy and healthy AND THEY ARE YOURS!
(pictures courtesy of my DearBro & DearHubby)
Happy new year people..Let’s get started!
thanks Fa! It was a brilliant way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
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