Latest Additions to The Walls, House (We're Blessed)

What do I do with the limited energy I have nowadays? Besides cleaning and organizing the cupboards/shelves in the whole house, getting hubby's help to rearrange some furniture, spending quality time with family, catching up with baby/parenthood-related reading (to remind myself on what the experts say about taking care of a baby), shopping for baby & my post-maternity self (can't resist some good deals in clothes), etc... I've continued working on DIY wall hangings inspired by Pinterest.

Here are some of the latest:

Father & daughter handprints - done on hubby's birthday to commemorate the day, and also before Shanna's hand gets too big :)

Whale picture for the little boy's room. Thanks to hubby, who made it possible by helping to find the blank canvas' at the most unlikely place - Daiso.

Our little apartment seems to be getting smaller all the time, especially with the additions of a deep freezer and a dryer. The deep freezer was purchased 2nd hand (6 months old usage) from another Intel mom who used it for milk storage. Me, I plan to use it for confinement food storage over Chinese New Year, and also for the milk assuming I have extra supply next time. For now, the freezer serves to encourage us to buy, store and eat more ice cream :P

The dryer has proven very useful as well, with the unpredictable weather nowadays. And I am happy that the clothes coming out from the dryer are so soft and unwrinkled that it saves me some ironing work :) Thinking ahead, hoping it will save me some time spent on hanging out to dry the 1001 little baby clothing pieces when the little one arrives.

Anything that will save us time and doing chores easier is welcomed now and even more so when #2 comes. We expect busy & tired days ahead, but know it will also be rewarding, and somehow with God's help we will make it through.

A reminder of how blessed we already are came when we had this conversation with our babysitter:

T&A: "Aunty, when we bring the second one to you next year for babysitting, how much you want us to pay ar?"

Babysitter: "Har? Aiyo, no need la."

T&A: "What do you mean no need, Aunty? We must pay you for helping us take care of 2 children."

Babysitter: "Just the same pay is ok... it's not important, most important is I'm happy with the children around, ok?"

T&A: "Cannot la Aunty, we must pay you for your efforts & time, is xxx enough? Maybe you can ask around for the normal rates and let us know who much you want us to pay?"

Babysitter: " Har? No need so much la, it's ok la..."

Ends up that probably hubby and I need to decide how much to give our dear babysitter, who has been so good to Shanna and us. We don't feel deserving, but thank God for His blessing.

~ Audrey