A Homemaker’s Diary

I’ve never been to one, but I know this weekend there is MATTA Fair in PWTC. I think it will be held from 11th to 13th March 2011, 10 am to 9pm.

For those planning to travel this year (and have ample time and energy), this is your chance to get a dirt cheap package.

Actually I am planning to see how much the travel agents could offer for package to Resorts World Sentosa but since we are not sure the exact date that we could travel this year, I rather not waste my time and money to book the package.

I know a few people who got great travel packages especially newly married who planned for overseas honeymoon. For us, until we could sort out dear son sleeping time, all this travel will only alleviate the problem.

Dear Son, grow up fast, Mama wants to go to see Taj Mahal..haha!

I was actually searching for ABC alphabets game when I found this scrabble. I was hoping to find something like I saw on Playhouse Disney. I only saw 1,2,3 plastics toy in Toys R Us but couldn’t find single pieces for alphabets.

I thought this could be a good game for my son to know and learn alphabets. I am never fond of flash card methods. As I am a practical person who learn by understanding how things work in bigger picture, I thought teaching my son alphabets by showing what you can do with it is more interesting rather than learn and memorize what they are one by one…(if you get what I mean).

After all he is now all into Thomas and Friends. I try to incorporate his current interest with learning materials so that he won’t feel that learning is all work and no play..haha! I want to make the learning process fun and not losing his interest too fast. He has a very short attention span (which is normal for toddler below 30 months old) but he is showing great interest to learn new things.

I hope he would be able to read by the time he’s 5. Both of us were early readers, I think as far as I can remember by the time I went to preschool at 5, I was already reading and writing. Hopefully the apple won’t fall far from the tree..hehe!

I have to admit, I am bad when it comes to house chores like cleaning, arranging, decorating, scrubbing, mopping…well, you get the ideas. I think the only thing I’m good at is sweeping (if compared to Hubby..haha!) You see, 13 years of being together and almost 8 years of being married certainly won’t impress Hubby when it comes to my skills in keeping the house (or whatever space I used to live in) neat and tidy.

However since we bought this house and I somehow read an article about how we the mothers should do fewer things at home but do them better, I decided to implement some of it. So a few hours ago I tackled a part of the “junkyard” at the family area upstairs, threw the stuffs (which must be sorted but not sure when) in the blue IKEA bag, cleaned up the shelves using broom, and dragged the shelves inside the bedroom cum play room.

Those shelves are now meant for Dear Son to practise his arrangement skills. He is supposed to arrange his toy cars, trucks, backhoe, skid steer, Lego toys and such on the shelves. Or at least that’s what I understand by reading the Montessori books that toys need to be arranged neatly on shelves rather than dump them all in toy box. Hopefully dear son will have a clearer picture and better skills than his Mama in years to come when it comes to this home improvement matter.

Errkkk, the “junkyard” is now a mess because I accidentally killed a lizard while moving the shelves and it turned off my motivation to finish up the cleaning tasks..(what a lame excuse..haha!)

I’ve spent almost the whole Wednesday figuring out how to manually upgrade the current wordpress to 3.1 version and install new theme for this blog. Well, for the past 5-6 years that I have been blogging, all that kind of technical works have been done by dear Hubby.

As the result of my experiment I lost many visitors to this blog because I activated a plugin that corrupts the front page..huhu! Unless the visitors are clever enough to click on older posts link, they won’t see any post on the home page..damn!

Fortunately, no serious mistakes have been done (except for the lost of mental energy and precious time) and by the time dear Son took his evening nap, I managed to install the new theme and put the widgets back. I am currently using theme Coraline. The header above has been customized using a picture of Son’s feet painting.

I am now confident to upgrade wordpress for my other blogs. But this time I think I will do it at night so that I won’t lose visitors during day time especially during office hour..haha!

For those are are not aware, there is Hari Kraf Kebangsaan 2011 going on at Kompleks Kraf, Jalan Conlay till 7 Mac 2011.

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Actually I was supposed to go to the place in search of new tudung saji today but the plan was scrapped because I heard that Hindraf will be having demostration nearby KLCC..sigh! I hope we could still make it next weekend before the exhibition ends on 7th March.

I think last year was the only year that I didn’t go to Hari Kraf Kebangsaan. It’s a great place to see many local crafters come and sell their work of art to public. Will write more about this year Hari Kraf Kebangsaan once I am able to make it 🙂