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The Yummy Mummy train
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A n00b mother balancing East and West talks shop, occasionally freaks out, and waxes lyrical over her transition between DINK and Baby-Makes-Three.
#1203305 in All , #2780 in Parenting

TTT – On becoming Singaporean

1) My daughter, the SingAustralian Yes! It is official. We’ve received the certificate and the passport, and so our daughter isn’t just OZ-OZ-OZ-oi-oi-oi anymore. She’s also a Singa...

2 days ago

Her Mother’s Voice

So Arddun’s doing a splendiferous job of ignoring me. Already. While pregnant, I had touched lightly on the concept of first-time obedience and how the perfect child would ideally respond to yo...

3 days ago

(Un)steady as she goes

I’ve been asked quite a few times to put up a video of Arddun walking. Easier said than done, because putting up a video would imply having a video of her walking in the first place. Which is l...

5 days ago

TTT – A week of visiting

1. Movie Morning Isn’t it always the case in Canberra that one gets along swimmingly with a new friend before A Big Change comes along and it all goes poof? Canberra, I find, has quite the tran...

24 may 12

Month Eleven

It continually freaks everyone in my mother’s group out that all our babies are 11 months old. Just one month shy of the Grand Milestone: the First Birthday. I vaguely remember carting Arddun a...

18 may 12

TTT – Walking, Hunting, Ironing

1. Rounding the wagon Ever since Arddun’s 20+ paces, it’s like she’s made a mental breakthrough with the whole OTHER use for legs, other than crawling. I won’t go so far as to...

17 may 12

My first and second Mother’s Day

I can’t decide if it’s my first or second Mother’s Day. It feels like today should officially be the first because the child, you know, is grown and tangible and extrauterine. Which...

13 may 12

Recipe: All things white and beautiful

It’s official: Arddun has an intolerance to salicylates, of all things. And salicylates are in EVERYTHING veggie and good. Actually, they’re even in skincare products and anything that us...

11 may 12

Going places

Arddun hasn’t been showing a huge interest in walking. She’s been crawling and standing around for four months, but we’ve never put her in a walker and she has never pushed around h...

07 may 12

Morning clarity

So this has been my morning. After receiving some discouragement about my mothering methods last night, I spent the greater part of this morning battling with Arddun during breakfast when usually, it...

04 may 12

TTT – Stay-at-home pleasures

1. Steam mop Oh you crazy household device – where have you been all my life?! Singapore’s not big on steam moppery, and we had been persuaded – early in our marraige – by a c...

03 may 12

The importance of being earnest

Now that I have a baby, I’m in a desperate hurry to grow up. There’s something downright scary about having a blank canvas of a human being living with you. Because nothing quite points o...

03 may 12

TTT – It’s a deliciously mad, mad, mad world

The tardiness can be explained – we’ve been modemless, and even though I could still get to the interwebs through my iPhone, I really don’t enjoy blogging through a handheld device....

27 apr 12

Blair Waldorf, aged 5

I love modern libraries, especially the children’s section. Because it’s not all about keeping the peace anymore, but about fostering the love of books and learning. Gone are the bad old ...

22 apr 12

Open doors

I debated weaving some masterful allegory about embracing the new opportunities that each open door gives us. But only because I wanted so desperately to put up this video of Arddun in the elevator. ...

22 apr 12

Not dull dhal

Whether you make this vegetarian or add a bit of meat, this puree is tasty, colourful, and was a huge hit with Arddun. Ingredients ¾ cup (180ml) water 100g pumpkin, chopped coarsely (or 180g if going...

20 apr 12

TTT – Good masters, good memory, good weather

It’s been such a long time since I’ve done a Thursday’s Three Thank-you, I know. And it’s not like I haven’t felt thankful since The Big C hit our shores. I think I̵...

19 apr 12

Crack up

Caught this video on Mommy Shorts this evening, and just had to share the love. I have to admit that I cried with silent laughter through most of the video because something akin to dread mingled wit...

18 apr 12

Month Ten

This mini milestone blows my mind because it means she has spent a WHOLE MONTH more outside my tummy than in. Yes. When you are a mother of a firstborn – and a smitten mother at that – yo...

18 apr 12

The Gene Pool

Travelling with baby did shrink our socialising considerably – at least with this trip. And as you can imagine, I really didn’t feel like whipping out the camera and going all happy-snapp...

16 apr 12

Flight school

Okay. So I’m hardly a flying-with-baby pro, yeah? But since I’ve done the deed a couple of times now (to Brisbane, to Singapore, to Sydney), I thought I’d summarise some of my findi...

12 apr 12

Spot the mommy with gender issues

After the nth time a total stranger cooed adoringly at Arddun with the following words… “… you’re such a cute boy!” I decided to make a poster. To the well-meaning aunti...

12 apr 12

Breaking the habit

The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. The whole point of getting out of the house and going away somewhere is the change of scenery. ...

07 apr 12

The Big C

As with everything else in life, one never truly gets it until it hits home. You think you understand that babies will turn your world upside down… and then you finally get one, and you’r...

06 apr 12

Come fly with me

This evening, SBS News carried a short report on how Malaysian Airlines has declared a war on babies and their inconsiderate parents by banning infants from flying first-class on their 747s and, when...

05 apr 12

The Lorax is coming…

I used to be scared of the Dr Seuss books. Too quirky, too creepy, too drug-induced-frenzy for my 5yo tastes. But Tony grew up on the stuff and he personally bought The Lorax for Arddun before she wa...

03 mar 12

TTT- Cheer, Choice, Chocolate

1. Girly nights Rosine hosting a Hepburn quiz. I knew none of the answers. Zip. Had an Audrey Hepburn do last Friday evening that involved dressing up. Which, in Mother of Baby land, meant throwing o...

01 mar 12

Cold turkey

Yesterday, Arddun broke up with me. Or at least it felt like it. Mind you, I think she’s been hinting at it for a while. Each breastfeed was getting shorter, each bottle with a little more left...

28 feb 12

Hiding in plain sight

The moment: a full half minute, trying to figure out where her toast disappeared to. She tried, mind you. She looked over her chair on the right. She looked over her chair on the left. She even looke...

28 feb 12

Someone’s been in the kitchen

And left a mini trail of destruction in her wake. I got home from grocery shopping this evening, only to find half the magnetic contents of my fridge strewn across the kitchen floor, and the remains ...

26 feb 12

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