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My darling Kaylin,
Happy, happy birthday! I can hardly wrap my head around it, but you’re officially two years old.
Your first year went by a lot slower than your second, maybe because all you did was eat, sleep and poop an awful lot. You took your first steps the day after your [...]
This is Kaylin, putting on lip balm while on Skype with grandpa because she wants to show him what she’s learned to do. I think the little princess is growing up far too quickly, but I must say I’m starting to enjoy dressing her up.
Honestly, when she was born, I had no idea [...]
Last year, I did one of the scariest things I’d done so far with Kaylin – Y and I took her on an eight-hour flight to Melbourne. She cried a couple of times on the way there, and more than a few times on the way back, but we survived. And nobody shot us dirty [...]
I found out Kaylin could feed herself quite by accident. I was at a wedding with her, the daddy had another wedding to attend so he wasn’t there, she was really hungry, and I was, um, busy talking to people who had come over to our table to say hello.
Her food was right [...]
I wrote this on 7 March 2010, 11 days before Kaylin was born. But for some reason, I never got round to clicking the ‘Publish’ button. Until now.
xx
Dear baby,
We don’t even know if you’re a boy or a girl yet, but it won’t be long now. It also won’t be [...]
One of the best things about working at home but not taking care of Kaylin 24/7 is the opportunity to observe how other people take care of her. Not supervise, monitor or watch over like a hawk, mind you. Observe. I am, after all, totally new to this.
I love how my mother-in-law and [...]
Going into motherhood, I definitely expected to have less time for myself. With a job, a baby and a husband, who has time for a life, right? Wrong. As I quickly discovered, my biggest challenge isn’t that I can’t find time for myself; it’s that I won’t.
Yes, you read that right.
For the longest [...]
I’m sure you’ve heard about the side effects of motherhood – lack of sleep, no time for yourself, poor diet, zero exercise…
It’s all true. I’m working on getting enough sleep, eating healthily and doing at least some exercise once a week, but I’m yet to figure out a solution to the “no time for [...]
Hubby imagines fatherhood hasn’t changed him much, and that’s true to a certain extent. He still works long hours, he still sleeps in as much as he can, he still takes the occasional trip without me (us) if it comes down to it.
But then a few weeks ago, we were having dinner with [...]
You know how people have been talking about tiger mums? And how most Asian parents are such sticklers for discipline and excellence when it comes to their kids? As a new mum – Kaylin just turned one a couple of weeks ago – I, thankfully, haven’t had to deal with the all-important questions yet. [...]
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