A Homemaker’s Diary

These days it is quite hard to find time to sit down and talk. Being parents are not an easy job for us. As we are preparing to celebrate our son’s birthday, Hubby reminded me that how the birthday will always be celebrated about a week after our wedding anniversary..yes, we have been married for almost a decade now.

It reminds me how young we were when we first met each other back then in college. And once we started working we decided it was time to get married. With the unstable financial situation at that time, getting an expensive wedding ring was really out of question. We just made do with whatever the budget allowed us.

I always told Hubby that he should get me a better ring for our 10th year wedding anniversary gift. And then I found about this eternity ring. For those who never heard of such term, the eternity ring appeared about 4,000 years ago at the time of the Egyptians who were the first recorded people to make and wear eternity rings…(now I feel like Cleopatra..haha!)

Eternity rings are essentially a continuous circle of metal studded with stones either halfway or the full way around the ring. The symbolism of a circle made with precious metal, which has no beginning or end, reflected everlasting or eternal love between two people. In addition, some eternity rings have multiple strands or are plaited to emphasize unity.

As I read further, I found that the eternity rings have more recently become known as celebration rings, given at the birth of a child or marking a wedding anniversary. They are usually worn on the third finger of the left hand, next to the engagement and wedding ring.

Now, which precious metal should I choose? It’s either white gold, yellow gold, rose gold or platinum. Which one would you choose, help me decide.

It’s been a while since I last write something in general. For once I don’t feel like writing, I don’t know why.

November has been a fairly relaxing month for me, judging on how many books I managed to read. Check out my previous posts. Certain days I managed to read books every night after my son went to sleep, which I considered as ME-time…precious hours of solitude in immersed uninterrupted reading. On days like that I read until 7-8am and then went to sleep. Oh, my neighbor’s renovation is still in progress which somehow disrupt my otherwise peaceful sleeping hours..sigh!

And the evenings in November have been mostly soaked with heavy rain which made our plan to go to playground futile.

Just early this month, we made some good play dates with 2 cheerful Indian children who live in the neighborhood. I am certainly not racist. As long as the kids are well behaved I don’t care what are their races or religion. I tried to be friendly with people of my own race and religion but somehow they are not really interested to make friends.

Oh, I am currently busy preparing for my son’s birthday party in December. It’s kind of last minute decision to do the birthday party. He has been excited after attending other children’s party so we thought it’s about time we do a party for him. After all, it’s not every day a child turns 3, right..heh!

So, that’s basically what’s going on in my life in November. What about yours? How’s November 2011 treating you?

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I have been thinking whether to have my son birthday party this year or not..sigh! The thing is he doesn’t have any real friends of his own since he never go to day care or play school yet. If I were to hold his birthday party, it will be my friends’ kids who will be attending.

I have this idea of doing a birthday party once he has entered play school or preschool which will be in like 2 years time. What do you think? Should I do a birthday party this year or we just do something special in family like what we have done for the last 2 years?

For the last few years since we moved here, our neighbors have done birthday parties for their kids in such an elaborate way, some with party goodies in bags, banners on the wall with theme like under the sea, party princess and Cars..huhu! Yes, you read me, I am pressured, not easy being a mom in this neighborhood..huhu!

Maybe in years to come once I am ready to organize a proper birthday party, I should order all these vinyl banners to make up for the lack of enthusiasm to celebrate my son’s birthday in his toddlerhood..haha! Or else, I could save it for his university convocation or wedding.

It’s almost 3 years now that I am being a stay-at-home-mom. What it’s like, you ask? On most days, it’s awful, awful, awful and then some wonderful moment happens, then it’s awful, awful awful again, and then some wonderful moment happens again..(I’m quoting The Back Up Plan movie here..heh!)

But that’s the truth.

I am a staunch supporter for mothers to stay at home and carry their ultimate obligation as a mom, yes to raise your child, clean their poop at 3 a.m, feed them what you cook at whatever hour they feel hungry, not just to come home from office and cuddle your clean, newly bathed precious child and then once she/he poops, you pass to the maid to clean him/her up..that’s just not fair! That’s what fathers in the old days do while moms slave in the kitchen day in and day out. Now moms have the choice to be like dads as well because women these days are modern and have career.

Mothers who are thinking of quitting their job to stay home to raise their own children need to be brave. They always wonder what it’s like being home all day. It’s very lonely and you will have no time for yourself. If you are working, you will have lunch hour, tea break and even toilet break. But you won’t have all that once you are at home alone with your child.

And then come the issue of money. Yes, you will feel the pinch of not having your own salary, greatly. If you used to have like RM2k-3k per month, now you will be lucky if you could have RM200. Of course if you are a tai-tai, money will not be an issue, but then again, tai tai won’t have to clean their child’s poop, they have amah and servants to do all that, so it defeats the purpose of you wanting to be a stay-at-home-mom in the first place.

My advice is, you got to have a strong heart if you want to be a SAHM. You have to sacrifice a lot and be burdened with so many ugly and hurtful remarks especially if your immediate family members are not supportive of your decision. It’s like having a post partum depression all your life to the extent you will no longer care of the pain they cause you.

But the rewards, only Allah S.W.T will pay in justice in later life.