I know, I know. I write on a streak for a few days or even a week and then disappear for days. It's not like there is nothing to write about or even that I'm too busy (although I did have a busy weekend), but just plain tiredness or inertia that takes over. When the mood strikes I can type out these long essays in less than half an hour, but when I ( Read more... )

If anyone is checking the frequency of my posts the pattern really shows which weeknights have good TV programmes on and which nights don't! One does need to have something to look forward to after the children have gone to bed ( Read more... )

Yesterday The Bun attended his very first Halloween party. He doesn't have a clue what Halloween is all about, since we never had much to do with it in Singapore. We do have a Halloween book so he was aware that kids would dress up as witches and ghosts and various other creatures, and that there would be candy. In The Bun's mind, sugar takes top ( Read more... )

Yesterday The Bun came home from school with Ellie the Elephant, a stuffed toy elephant. In his class, the 'special helper' of the day gets the privilege of taking Ellie home and showing her around, and it was The Bun's turn. He was very excited about this and carried Ellie everywhere he went ( Read more... )

*** I posted this last Thursday but LJ decided to eat the entry, so here it is again. ***

Tomorrow will mark the end of The Bun's first month in school. One month! I know not how time flies, but fly it does, and it also proves how time can really ease things. Nerves, especially.


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Tomorrow will mark the end of The Bun's first month in school. One month! I know not how time flies, but fly it does, and it also proves how time can really ease things. Nerves, especially.


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So much for my plans to create interesting, nutritious lunchbox meals for The Bun to have in school. In the last few weeks of summer I began some lunchbox experiments, mostly to work out how much food would fill his box (it has to be filled so that the food doesn't move around) and to get him used to the idea of eating from it. We tried cheese and ( Read more... )

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As much as I'd hate to admit it, I've been the classic cliche when it came to The Bun's first day of school. As expected, we've had issues with separation anxiety - teary mornings and that overwhelming feeling of guilt when you just have to turn your back and walk away, leaving him in the arms of his teacher, who tells me later on that he's ( Read more... )

Next Monday, The Bun will embark on a big milestone: his first day at school. This will be his first foray into 'real' school, the start of his formal education for the next couple of decades, maybe. We've been talking about it endlessly at home and the whole family has been pouring themselves into preparing for the first big day ( Read more... )