A Homemaker’s Diary

Last year I was all into rose gardening. I have about 30 different type of roses in my garden. Gradually some died and I was left with 15-20 pots. But after 4 months of pregnancy sickness, only 3 pots survive..huhu!

But the good thing is all the pandan plants given by a friend live well. At the moment I have 3 big pandan plants which I plan to use during my confinement.

I think for 2014, I’m going to stop planting new flowering plants (unless it has some medicinal value). My gardening plan for next year is to plant more edible plants, vegetables or herbs.

To those who are interested to decorate their own kitchen with handmade craft, you are welcome to learn the art of decoupage for a minimal fee of RM60. I will conduct a class on 17 November 2013, Sunday, 2pm. The duration of the class is usually around 2 1/2 hour.

You will learn the basic technique of decoupage using paper napkin/serviette, how to color the background, do some shading on the frame/ceramic plate and how to write the wordings on your craft work.

If anyone is interested to join the class, kindly contact me through email [email protected], sms or whatsapp 012.648.2121.

I’ve decided to do something else apart from coloring, drawing and teaching my son how to read and count. All these while I’m the one who do the gardening around the house. Dear son occasionally help by watering the flowering plants. One day he told me that he wanted to plant daisy and sunflower. So early this year I bought sunflower seeds from tanamsendiri.com.

As I was busy with my craft work and taking care of roses, I kept on delaying the sunflower adventure. A week ago we tried planting the seeds but up till today there’s no sprout coming out from the soil. But the good thing is seeds from pumpkin which I bought from pasar malam did grow.

Next we are going to plant sawi, cili padi and tomato ceri. See whether any of the vegetables does make it through..heh!

It’s been quite some times since my last update, I know. I have been not well with pregnancy sickness since Ramadhan 2013, and Alhamdulillah I am now getting much, much better.

Many things have been put on hold since then. I was terribly sick day and night, even worse than the first pregnancy. It started with nausea, then the vomiting phase, I have no appetite to eat anything and spend most of the time sleeping.

By the time I can drag myself for the first pregnancy check up, the baby was almost 15 weeks..huhu! Even the gynae was shocked since I said we haven’t met any doctor since we realized I have missed my period in July. This week we are going for the monthly check up and hopefully we’ll be able to see the baby’s gender (baby please don’t be shy so that Mama will know whether to buy you a pink or blue romper..haha!)

Dear Son has been very cooperative since he knew how tired Mama could be. He even potty trained himself successfully to the extent of washing up after he poops. Amazing the way Allah plan as I never thought this day will come especially when I am so lethargic with the pregnancy sickness.

Now that the terrible sickness phase is over I am really looking forward to get ready to welcome our second born child. Oh, happy 5th birthday to dear Son (according to Islamic calendar). He was born on the eve of Aidil Adha. I remember hearing the takbir from the nearby mosque the morning after he was born. Thank you Son for the bittersweet 5 years, making me a mother and teach me the value of patience and unconditional love.

To the rest of the Muslim readers, Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Adha. May you always be blessed.