A Homemaker’s Diary

I am thinking of doing a major facelift to my blog(s) but I am so lazy to tweak here and there..talking about being too long in a comfort zone..heh! Well, it’s about time for me to move the lazy ass and do some money-oriented work here. I am reading and learning about SEO optimized theme and I am wondering whether all my blogs are optimized enough..huhu..perhaps it could help boost my AdSense income monthly if I change the current themes to those that are proven to be search engine optimized.

I really hate digging into all these technical stuffs but I have to. For now what I have done to improve the organic traffic to my blogs is typing in all the important keywords in the All In One SEO Pack, hoping that somehow the post will come out in the front page of the search engine once people search for certain keywords.

It does work for certain blog especially on keywords that are women interest related..hehe..which gives me an extra USD3-4 a month from AdSense. But wouldn’t it be great if I can earn USD30-40 per month, instead..

Let’s see how much improvement the SEO optimized theme could do to my earning. But first I have to ask Hubby to do all the necessary techie tasks..sigh! So much for having a Computer Engineering degree..blerghhh!

“You can trust yourself. Other people’s opinions are driven by their needs and emotions – not by magical insights about your worth.”

I just realized that ever since I become a mom, I tend to be very sensitive and defensive when it comes to people’s remarks about my son. Somehow it feels like a personal attack to me rather than some meaningless comments from people with less empathy and thoughts.

Maybe it’s just me who being very “cepat terasa” these days or maybe it is because I take too much pride of being a SAHM. I feel that people around me are judging and appraising my daily mothering tasks..huhu!

I just feel tired trying to be tactful and being nice to many other stupid mothers who think they know it all just because they have more than one child or years of mothering experience. Setakat bagi bibik jaga or hantar day care tu, tak yah cakap la oiii..

As advised by Hubby, I should choose my enemy better..to friends who feel kecik hati of my honest and bluntly blurted opinion, I am just blowing some steam here..if you know me all these years, you will know that I didn’t mean to hurt you, rather I am the one licking my own wound..huhu!

Take a moment to listen today
To what your children are trying to say
Listen today, whatever you do
Or they won’t be there to listen to you.

Listen to their problems, listen to their needs
Praise their smallest triumphs, praise their smallest deeds
Tolerate their chatter, amplify their laughter
Find out whats the matter, find out what they’re after.

Tell them that you love them, every single night
And though you scold them, be sure to hold them
Tell them “everything’s alright
Tomorrow’s looking bright.”

Take a moment to listen today
To what your children are trying to say
Listen today, whatever you do
And they will come back to listen to you.

~ Author Unknown

Both of us have been down with viral fever since the weekend..huhu! Luckily Hubby is still healthy to take care of us in the house. He was on EL on Monday since I was not really strong to take care of our son alone. We went to see the paed, and oh boy, we have never seen so many sick children before in the clinic since the past visits. Must be the flu bug in the country..huhu!

Actually I have not been feeling well since last Wednesday but I thought it’s something that I ate that causing discomfort to my throat. Usually I will go and see the doctor and take medicine before I really fall sick. This time I took things for granted and poor little one has to suffer instead. It’s his first time having flu and viral fever. Blame Mama for that!!

We managed to go to both open house invitations during the weekend. As usual my fever will only happen at night, so after the open house, I went to see the doc on Sunday, took the medicine prescribed and by Monday morning, I realized that our son has been infected as well. Kesian dia…

Being us the keen parents, we tried all the remedy available – air kelapa muda, jelum kepala air daun bunga melur, kool fever, lap badan with wet towel, giving him bath every now and then, endlessly holding him, cuddling and giving hugs, memberi kata-kata semangat and pujukan supaya cepat baik and of course we dilligently counting the hours to feed him the medicine. Alhamdullillah as of the time I am typing this, he’s well again.

After this I will be more careful to monitor my own health and hopefully our son will have a stronger antibody after his first fever experience..heh!