Allysa's First Christmas

As I pondered on this title, I felt guilty. We did not have a major celebration or rather, missed one, due to our house-moving. I was totally wiped out by the end of Christmas eve and even Christmas itself. (Quality) Time was spent unpacking, organising and cleaning up our room. I knew I just had to get things done instead of living out of boxes or with baggages laying around our room. Afterall, it is not wise to live in the mess especially with a baby sleeping with us.

Besides, as untidy I can be sometimes, I can't stand clutterness. I will feel trapped and can't seem to move on whenever the state of my room is in a chaotic state. Not only it affects the outlook of my room, it directly affects my mood as well. So in order to keep an upbeat attitude, I have to make sure my room is (as well as it can be) neat and tidy.

So back to Christmas, we had an initial plan to have dinner over with some mutual friends but had to call it off last minute. And I thought perhaps I should get a christmas pressie wrapped out for Allysa so she can have the fun of ripping apart her pressie. But I was lazy and on second thought, why waste the money to spend on something that will, in the end, most likely be destroyed by myself. Besides, we had unwrapped the toys and books we had gotten for her before Christmas.(I was too eager.)

Fortunately, we had two kind souls whom believed in the good old fun of "ripping" the presents. And of course, I had to capture Allysa's first rip-off of her presents.

(Pressies...)

(Exploring her pressie)

(Look of contentment)

(With her new swimsuit from Uncle Stanley; in lovely pink!)

Auf Wiedersehn 2010!

or translated to english simply means "Goodbye 2010"! Well, I used to have some german language classes when I was in secondary school and I remembered this phrase "Auf Wiedersehn" really well.

Once again, a year has come and (almost!) gone. So have you realised the resolutions that you had set yourself up for this year? Or have you had your 2011 resolutions all penned out? And I guess it's always okay to extend the dateline of the resolutions that you had set up for this year.

As for me, I had not quite got the time to sit and think through the resolutions for 2011. But then again, I don't usually fulfilled my resolutions and too often, forgot all about them once comfort sets in.

I'm certain next year, 2011 is not just any other year. It's going to be an exciting one with more and new adventures ahead. The year that I dived in with a brand new role - Mum to my baby girl and of course as I muses and chronics about my journey through motherhood and growth of Allysa.

I'm hopeful!

Last but not least, I would like to wish my readers. wherever you are, an advance "Happy New Year!"

(From: You should know who)

Love and Peace,

Transition In Progress

My sincere apologies for not posting recently...this was due to the absence of internet connection at our new place. That's right, we have recently shifted(on Christmas eve and Christmas) so I am still in the midst of settling down in our new abyss. But I can say, we are totally loving the new place. Just managed to steal some internet time at my mum's place.

So my dear fans, I will write soon and I can't wait to upload more photos of Allysa. It has been too long.

Stay tune!

Put Your Foot In Your Mouth

And literally, it is! I have seemed to come across an interesting sight (these couple of days) whenever I am changing Baby Allysa on her changing table. And boy, is my baby flexible!

(Opps, caught in the act!)

(The al-mighty Jaws)

(Yum!)

Blabbering Baby

Allysa has begun to develop a liking to "self talk" to herself. And by a 5 month-old and 2 weeks standard, it simply means blabbering to herself in her own language. Well, I can't make out what she is trying to tell but her facial expression tells me it's really something deep.

(Sweetheart, thanks for your daily dosage of laughter.)

And of course, this never fails to amuse Mommy (all the time)!

"You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing." -Michael Pitchard

I can't believe ...

that my blog hits INCREASED which also means there are people out there who reads my blog (not me)! Hurray, it is definitely a form of encouragement for a budding blogger. So to all my closet fans (you know it! tsk tsk....), thanks for following my blog (so far), thanks for your time and attention And your interest in my life and thoughts.

(Oh gosh, I can't believe this is happening!)

Great ... now it spurs me to blog and post more regularly. And my sincere apologies on the lapse in my posts; lazy blogger is still on her recovery route.




Till then, have a great weekend to my dear fans!

Confession of a lazy blogger

I have to admit I have not been a good blogger who does a good follow up with my regular posts. There are some reasons to the delay in my posts.

• Self Doubt - I questioned myself on who is going to read my entries or even care about how I feel and what I do? I'm not born a writer neither did I score an A* for my English. Won't it be totally embarressing if others read my entries and spotted grammatical errors? *blush* Then I realised, this is what happened to me all the time. Experiencing self doubt. That causes me to delete the previous blogs that I had attempted to set up or why there is a huge gap between my entries.

• Inspirational Period - I realised I get the mood to write like in the wee hours when my mind gets really active after my teh-terik during supper. Then again, my mind gets active whereas my body and eyes are tired. And during the daytime? I'm busy with caring of baby and other chores that left me high and dry with no mood to write at all. But hey! Today, I just felt the urge to write and here I am, blabbering away, before I forget what comes into my mind.

My ideal workstation

So here right now, on the 14th Dec 2010, 7.18pm, I made a promise to myself and fellow fans (if I ever have any) to write and posts my blogs/muses/rants/photos more regularly. Thou shall not hesitate to share my thoughts and we are who we are. We should not let others impression of us to determine who we are.

This is a blog of my life, my thoughts. Nothing pretentious, simply me! Feel free to leave me comments and I will be glad to make a friend.

Massage For Mom

What a day! I had finally get my tired ass off home and headed off to what I think I really need to soothe the aches I have been experiencing in my wretched bones - Chinese Tui Na! And boy, the experience was awesome. Well, I wouldn't say my therapist was the best but I guess I just needed a pair of hands to rub the aches off my bones, to unknot my knotted nerves so that my chi can flow smoothly and of course, to top off the experience - the warm herbal bags that were placed on those injured areas! There is just one word to describe my experience - Sssshhhhiiiiooookk!



My body has suffered under the extreme conditioning of carrying Baby A. And goodness, Baby A is definitely not a light as a feather sorta of baby. (well, I'm sure you can see from the photos of her) I had my right wrist injured on a fateful afternoon a month ago when I carried her to our bed. It hasn't healed eversince and not after a few sessions of chinese massage as well. I guess the only way for the injury to heal completely is not to carry her at all for, maybe at least, a week or two? But seriously, how can that be possible? My sweet o' baby...How can I resist not cuddling up with her at all? So there I am, bearing the pain and gritting on my teeth, whenever I performed the unbearable stunt of carrying her around now. It has been almost a month that I think I have grown accustomed to the pain. Of course, it gets pretty uncomfortable everytime I experienced that kind of pain at my wrist.






And I was "psychoed" to sign up another package of more Tui Nas (freak! the therapist always does that) for my poor wrist. Then again, I reckoned that was what I needed to - more massages to soothe the nerves so that it can get better. Besides, I was more convinced when my therapist told me that her company is going to increase the price for Tui Nas soon; like in a few days? So being a Kaisu Singapore, of course I must grabbed hold of the opportunity now. This leads me to think, sigh...not another PACKAGE I signed. But I assured myself, this is a worthy investment if I am going to do it like once a week and I get a FREE session by the 6th visit. At least, there's a freebie. So well, I still gain. =)

My Christmas Wish List

OMG! I came across this stuff on the web. And I think it's the coolest series collection of Sex and The City. It comes with a very chic packaging, the full series in DVD and the two movies and some extra bits which is the icing to the cake.



I have been yearning to purchase the full series of SATC since I watched the show like 7-8years ago? And now what can I say? I was just swooned over by the wardrobe, the places they visit and New York. I'm just a total city girl at heart.



Anyway, I'm glad that I have waited enough for them to come up with this collection. Hopefully, a kind santa will pop this collection into my christmas stocking. *wink*

Pink In Perfection

A Beginning

Finally, I have came up with my blog. I had wanted to do this for awhile - to set up a blog whereby I can share my random thoughts, muse about motherhood and pretty things I adore. I'm so glad that I had it set up. Well, it's a good way to get started and I'm satisfied how my blog looks like.


At least for now.


(And for the photos that you saw, it was a test trial of using Picasa to upload photos directly to the blog. So I'm going to just keep them here. Love Picasa!)


Love,
Yvonne

First Upload of Photos