A Homemaker’s Diary

Tomorrow will be 1st May. Happy Labor Day to all those working. I have some plan till noon for tomorrow but after that I am not sure whether I will have the energy to spend on gardening.

I would love to repaint the front gate in white and rearrange all the roses in pots. The nursery nearby does have pedestal for plants. It will be great for my small rose garden to have the pots arranged in high and low position. I could check on the leaves more easily and make sure every time I spray them with fertilizer or organic insecticide/pesticide, each leaf will get their share.

The rose above is known as Jingga Irisa. I think it belongs in the hybrid tea rose family as the flower blooms on single basis on each stem.

Time does fly after all in parenting world..haha!

When my son was a baby, the first year was like a terrible nightmare. The second was not a rosy journey either. Now in his third year, things are getting better.

By the end of this year he’ll be 4. So by right in 2013, he has to go to kindergarten because he’ll be 5 (if counting the age by school year). Sometimes I really regret giving birth in December. In toddler’s progress a few months makes a lot of different. Some skills are very hard to teach until he has reach a certain phase.

The first step that I have to change in order to prepare him for school is to make sure he can sleep early at night and wake up in the morning. Being a night owl myself, I find it really hard to change the sleep cycle, thus why I am still typing this entry at 4:50am..huhu!

I have found a preschool that starts at 1:30pm but I’m sure I don’t have much choice when it’s time for him to attend primary school. So even if we are not a morning lark by nature, we have to do something in order to go with the school schedule.

So far I have managed to persuade him to sleep by 1am for 2 consecutive nights including tonight. The first day, he woke up at 8am. I’m not sure about tomorrow. I hope I will have the energy to be up as early as him..huhu!

We went to IKEA on Saturday, or rather I was the one who went into IKEA while both father and son spent time in Starbucks.

I was hoping to get some gardening supplies like the colorful spray bottle and perhaps the galvanised plant container to be hanged at the gate. However those items are out of stock. I ended up buying two pots of plants – Dracaena and Calathea.

Remember my new year’s hobby on gardening roses? Somehow I have influenced SIL to start a rose garden on her balcony. Now every time we talked on the phone we will discuss the progress of our roses..haha!

I just hope I will find the container to be hanged at the gate so that I could grow more roses. The space where they can get ample direct sun light everyday is very limited with the current 28 pots of roses I have.

Kelas decoupage akan kembali dijalankan May ini.

Kali ini peserta akan diberi pilihan samada nak membuat decoupage atas pinggan seramik atau cermin kayu IKEA sebegini.

Jika ada masa, mungkin boleh diajar teknik crackle dan trace wording dan warnakan dgn acrylic paint seperti dalam gambar contoh. Selalunya masa 2 jam tak cukup utk buat teknik2 advance sebab utk crackle effect, medium pada kebiasaannya tak boleh dikeringkan dgn hair dryer, kena kering secara semulajadi.

Jadi pada yang berminat untuk belajar teknik asas decoupage, sila sign up utk kelas 13 May ini. Yuran RM60, tak perlu bawa apa-apa bahan, semua disediakan, dan tentunya hasil decoupage anda boleh dibawa pulang.

For the past one month, my son and I have been involved with the gardening regime diligently. Every day he will ask me to go out and water the plants. On days that I need to do some repotting, he even help me to fill in the pot with soil. Like today he helped Mama breaking the empty egg shells as fertilizer for the roses.

Of course there were days that he will come up with a lot of mischief, like today when he almost poured a box of Daia into Mama’s rose pot while Mama was busy rinsing the smelly canvas. There were incidents of almost knocking the plants with his bicycle and in his playful run, pushing Mama into the thorny rose pot..huhu!

One day when he grows up, this will all be memories that I will cherish.