So life these days is all about doing things within 1-2 hour blocks. Every activity I do must fall neatly within such blocks because I have to feed my squidge of a son every 3-3.5 hours. So what activities can be done within 1-2 hour blocks?
1. Surf the web
2. Blog
3. Cook lunch
4. Read
5. Nap
Aiyoh... has my life really become so boring? Dear readers, any suggestions on what else I can do? Pl pl ... ^__^
After what seems like an eternity of feeding and sleeping, feeding and sleeping, our son is finally showing more signs of wakefulness & playfulness. It's quite common to see him flailing his mittens about, smiling & making snorting and preening noises after each feed. Yes, the son is also smiling more. Whoo Hoo.
Excuse me while I be the proud mother and show off pics of smiling son. What can I say... he's quite cute leh, in a tamagotchi kinda way. ^__^
Being a Stay-at-home-Mum (SAHM) that has an infant permanently attached to her presents problems of a very basic kind. For example, while I'm busy making sure my son is well-fed every 3-3.5 hours, how am I going to settle my own lunch & dinner? I have no time to cook, or even if I were able to squeeze in the time to cook, buying groceries is inconvenient, nay virtually impossible, because I'd have to lug little Daniel about (and he's so fragile, he can't even hold his neck up yet!)
So Husband & I decided to try this "tingkat" catering service. Basically, meals are delivered to your doorstep in tall metal containers (called tingkats). You can order 4 dishes or 3 dishes + 1 soup; and the meals are different every day for a fairly long time, so you don't get tired of the same food over and over again.
Here is a pic of our very first tingkat meal, which we received today.
The verdict? Well, it certainly wasn't gourmet cuisine, but it was decent (not too oily, tasty and fresh). Thank God for tingkat catering - otherwise poor mums like me would be starving to death (or subject to oily hawker food every day!) YAY.
A rare smile from our son, whose first month birthday is today. Normally, he's very grumpy or serious-looking. Isn't he a fatty? Heh ^__^ As part of celebrations, I put on a new outfit for him - a cookie monster onesie! Of course, he promptly spat up some milk on it. Oh well :P
Say Happy Birthday to Little Daniel!
What brand of oyster sauce and soya sauce do you use? I have recently been chided by my confinement nanny for the brands I use. "No no no, must use these," she said, proudly displaying the two bottles that she apparently carries around to all the houses she's served under. "Must note - not just Lee Kum Kee Oyster Sauce ah, must be this one. Lee Kum Kee got many type of oyster sauce - must buy this one. The others too salty. Must." Hmm. "And as for Dark Soya Sauce, must get the brand that has label that looks like this," she said tapping the bottle vigorously to show me the label. "Got more colour la, Dark Soya Sauce is only for colour what." Orh.
Having tasted her cooking, I must admit - a sauce by any other brand is not as good! Have been busy picking up tips on how to cook some dishes, including an extremely yummy braised oyster sauce chicken wings (as good as my braised soya sauce chicken!) etc., Will try to post on them once I try them out!
I've always wondered what's in The Big Bag that parents lug around after they have a kid. NOW I KNOW. Check out my Big Bag and all the "stuff" in it.
My Big Bag was a present given by my in-laws. Isn't it cute? For more Frederick Casey Momo paraphenalia, check out http://www.fc-momo.com, or the shop at Ginza Plaza & Takashimaya Shopping Centre.
Here are SOME of The Big Bag's "innards" ^__^
1. Breast-feeding ziplock bag - sealed bottled milk with teat (a spare supply, just in case); MILO 3-in-1 packet (a hot drink to stimulate flow of breast milk); breast pads (to prevent leaking milk); small towel (to be rinsed in cool water and used to wipe squidge's head to wake him up); cloth diaper (to be used as burping cloth for burping during breastfeeding); Lanolin (gel to soothe sore nipples after breastfeeding); small pack of baby wipes (to wipe here wipe there!)
2. Diaper changing ziplock bag - diapers! (DUH); travel changing mat (DUH); tissue pack (to cover the you know what when changing the diaper); baby wipes (to wipe his little bottom clean!); diaper rash barrier cream.
Add to the 2 ziplock bags an umbrella, wallet, hairbrush, handphone, scrunchie and camera - and voila! You have BIG BAG full of STUFF to lug around. I'm pretty sure I've missed out a couple of items OR as Daniel grows, I'll have to add stuff to the BAG. Maybe I should add some of my favourite snacks to munch on when I breastfeed.... heh heh. Pity ice cream won't last long in there... Anyway, tips anyone on what else I should carry? Mucho gracias!
p.s. By the way, thanks to all the readers who contributed suggestions as to what to pack in the Daddy Bag. Husband & I took in all the suggestions which we found extremely useful!
For a 16 day old, our son sure has a lot of different facial expressions!
Here he is looking "bird like" while being bathed by Daddy. (Hope
Daniel won't kill me for putting such a "compromising" pic of him
on the net!) His wide repertoire of facial expressions also include: looking
like Stitch in Lilo & Stitch and looking like a grumpy old wrinkly woman.
The former occurs when he is hungry and the latter usually occurs after the
One Titanic Struggle that typically accompanies breastfeeding time.
I've been thinking whether I've made having a kid and breastfeeding sound
too easy. Reading through my past entries, I realise I could have created
such an impression - but no, infants & breastfeeding are TOUGH. Jus wanted
to reiterate that my son & I are not of alien species. Being quite human,
there is the mental exhaustion, the physical strain (back, shoulders and arms
aching from all the weird positions I'm forced to freeze my body into as the
little squidge struggles to feed) and all the accompanying worrying (too little
milk, too much milk, engorgement, pain, suffering...). It's still early days
and I already feel haggard. If you're out there reading this, do say a prayer
for me & the little squidge. Once in a while, you get some repose, i.e.,
when Daddy bathes Daniel and you get to take a nice little picture and stare
at it. And when you do, you chuckle at all the tough moments as your stress
slowly melts away and is replaced by a warm, loving feeling. Ah maternal instincts...
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