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i had initially wanted to blog about some cute Tobias stuff – but i think i’ll hold that off for another day – i was reading other mummy blogs & came across a rather interesting one – interesting to me – The BiPolar Diaries – she is a mummy, a professor & a photographer too. Plus she shares a Christian worldview. i have just started reading her blog about a week or so ago – very interesting – in fact she has several blogs going – check her out & the links on her page too.

Anyhow, she was posting about re-doing a bathroom in her home & had a link to a home reno website which also had a little quiz about What’s Your Style? – it sounded fun – so i took the test & asked my darling hubby to take it too – i can’t give a link to the results but here is what it said about my style: Your style is eccentric with a touch of sweet & classy. (now how do u like that?? Me – sweet & classy 😉 My darling hubby’s style is eccentric with a touch of sweet. People often ask why i married my hubby – i always reply,:” He makes me laugh.” – which is a very important thing for me – now i can add another answer to this – we share similar home deco styles – hahahhaha 😉
Here’s the link for you to try the quiz for yourselves. What’s Your Design Style?

Here’s another matter of interest for today – we now live in the land of Chocolate & Cheese – well, things are certainly shaking in the cocoa industry – it seems that chocolate prices might rise cos the largest producer of cocoa – the Ivory Coast – has been at war & production is affected – so chocoaholics – stock up before price hikes – hahahhaha 😉 check out the article here.

The other fun thing i have come across today is Blogthings – interesting quiz & other stuff you can put on your blog.
Here’s one which i did today – What does your name mean?

What Sandra Means

S is for Sassy A is for Animated N is for Normal D is for Devilish R is for Relaxed A is for Alluring

So is this an true assessment of me?? You tell me! To be Normal & Devilish at the same time might be too much of an oxymoron? Besides i have never thot of myself as normal – hahahhaha 😉

Have fun – i might post more such stuff.
That’s all from me today!
syc

Yep, me – little ol’ me is getting interviewed – a fellow-mummy-blogger was offered to be interviewed with 5x questions & she has, in turn, offered to customize 5x interview questions for any other blogger. So this is my offer to you also – if you have a blog & wished to be interviewed, leave a comment stating your desire to be interviewed, with your blog address & email & i’ll get back to you as soon as i can with the questions.

Here are my questions, posed to me by Stay-at-Home-Motherdom & of cos my answers to her 5x questions:
1) What is the most difficult thing about being a parent?
Well, i think that would be knowing if you made the right decision for every step of your child’s life. i’m a 1st time mum – so i worry about all the little things – whether we have been too hard with discipline or too soft, whether he’s getting enough vitamins in his food, whether he will be hurt by others if he doesn’t learn to stand up for himself (on the other hand, we don’t want him to be aggressive). Whether i was right to be fussy about him tidying up, or about him not spitting his food, or about him doing well at his various classes, or maybe i have signed him up for too many classes, or whether or not he will retain enough to be able to speak all the languages that he needs (we have a unique situation with this) etc… so many little things… sigh!

2) How long have you been married? What initially attracted you to your husband?
We will be married 5x years come September this year. Yep, 5x years already!! However, we have known each other for more than 11yrs now. hmmm… what’s the initial attraction?… hard to pinpoint now – it has been more than 10yrs already since that time. i guess it was his strength in personality – the strong silent type, he is. i’ve always wondered what made these strong silent types the way they were, what made them ticked. Now when people ask me why i married him in the end – well, he makes me laugh! i think that is so very important in a relationship – the ability to get each other to smile, even in bad situations. The down side is, of cos, it makes it hard to stay angry at or with him for too long – hhahahhaa 😉

3) What is one of the most significant moments in your life that deepened your faith?
Well, it would have to be when my now darling husband broke up with me (we broke up 1x time & got back together). i had never allowed myself to love someone like i did him & he broke my heart. i cried for months, blamed God but mainly blamed myself. & finally i ran away from the country altogether. Then away from family & friends, in a strange new country, i had to learn to depend so completely on God – i was a poor student, depending on my very small savings to survive the years in university in a foreign land. Of cos, i had no intentions at that time of ever returning home – but God had other plans. So i returned home after my degree & we got back together. From this 2 years plus “adventure”, i learned that God’s ways are higher than my ways; that God will always provide no matter what; & that God is always on time, never early, never late, just on time.

4) What is your favorite non-fiction book? Why? What is your favorite fiction book and why? What children’s book would you recommend to others?
hmmm… this sounds more like 3x questions than 1x 😉
Anyhow, … non-fiction book? … honestly, i don’t read non-fiction lots, except for books about babies & children – what i do read, or at least used to read when i could get it regularly is Reader’s Digest. i love the various articles about true life stories of people – esp about them surviving adversities & the medical articles (i read quite a bit of that cos i have a life-long medical condition.) Of cos, the other non-fiction book i read is the Bible – i don’t read it as much as i would like to or as i should – but it is truly the best read ever – it is, after all, the Truth.
Fiction book – that would have to be JRR Tolkien’s Hobbit & the Lord of Rings series. i just love the use of language in the book – not just the use of the English language to paint such wonderful pictures of Middle Earth, but the creation of other languages too – elvish & dwarfish, also the drawings, the creation of an entire world for you to disappear into whenever you open the books. That’s the joy of reading!
Children’s Book – well, that is easy – any Dr. Seuss book – they are my absolute favorites. i had them as a little gal. i read them to my baby brother & now i’m reading them to my little boy. The rhyming is just so enchanting & the stories quite funny, the illustrations even better! so have a read please – visit seussville.

5) What is your favorite website and why?
Oh, tough one… i would have to say no fav website – i surf mainly for information & to keep up with friends (via emails & blogs) – this is what i call practical surfing so not much attention paid to much else besides info. Also i used to work as a Creative Producer for a web development firm – so that has sort of spoiled my eye for websites, only the most eye-catching or out-of-the-box ones catch my attention & of cos, with practical surfing, i hardly come across anything that great, even content-wise.

That’s my 5x questions all answered.
So leave a comment if you wanna be interviewed & of cos the condition would be that, you have to email me once you have posted your answers to your customized questions on your website.

syc

i got news today that it is confirmed!! My brother is coming for a 1x month visit – finally, someone from my family will be visiting us! He will be here from 2nd August till 30th August. Looking forward to having him here. The poor thing however would have to transit for 12hrs at Dubai to get here – he’s so worried about what to do during the 12hrs 😉 i’m wondering where to take him to once he’s here – hahahahha 🙂

On other news, Tobias ate his 1st full scoop of ice cream by himself on Saturday!! Some may wonder why this is such a big news – well, cos he has never liked ice cream before! We have tried many times in the past to offer ice cream to him (wanting something we can bribe him with should such a need arise). In the past, he would taste 1x teaspoon or at the most 2x & turn his nose up at ice cream. i think the change came slowly. It may have started on a hot day this spring, when we had tea with a friend & her son – we all had an ice cream each. Tobias wanted exactly what Jamie (my friend’s son) was having – he didn’t quite finish but he was really into it. So this past Saturday, we went to the shopping centre to get some stuff – he saw the ice cream shop & wanted one. We said after lunch. After lunch, we asked if he wanted his ice cream. Tobias said he wanted to play in the play area – so i said,”You either play or have the ice cream.” He chose play – so we thot that was the end of that. After play we went to buy stuff. Halfway thru buying stuff, Tobias asked,”Where’s my ice cream?” We laughed & said after we finished buying stuff. He reminded us again while we were going down the escalator – so he got his 1x scoop & enjoyed it.

My darling hubby has been really great! He built me my book-stands in only 2x nights!!! & this is after he gets back from work as well!!
Now i can display my books at the book parties next week with pride 🙂
Here’s a picture of his handy work:

PS: this picture was taken & uploaded within minutes of him completing it!

😉 syc