I'm a full-time mummy

Dearest lovely melodious voice of mine,

I lost you on 1st July 2012.

It graduated from a sore throat to itchy throat to mild cough and finally losing you.. Okay, at the moment of typing this blog entry (1st July 2012 5pm), I have cracky frog-like croaks, I can muster up a few syllabus and soft whispers if I really really need to but that will put a strain to my already sand-papery throat.

Now back to why I said it is a torture for me to lose you...

#1: I cannot communicate to my children

And by communicating I actually meant scolding. Heh... I realised that without you, it is really hard to get the attention of my hyper active 3 year old boy. Normally I'll be calling out Ben's name every now and then to make sure he doesn't get into mischief and that he does what I told him to.

Now the sucky part of losing you is simple things like my boy asking me to see what he built with his Lego toys, normally I can just tell him 'Yes Ben, mummy is looking! Wow! That is amazing!' but this time I could only nod and mouthed out the words 'Wow!' and then give him a thumbs up signalling good job! Lucky for me, he gets the meaning of thumbs up and happily trotted off somewhere usually.

Now, the problem is when we went out earlier today, I was carrying Alyson and Ben tried pushing Alyson's stroller to follow daddy who wanted to go to the restroom for a while. You should've seen how pissed off I was trying to call Ben's name, trying to stop him from following daddy (hubby didn't realised Ben wanted to follow him, else he would've brought Ben along) and in the end, I just croaked out Ben's name and told him to stop. There are a few people nearby the restroom area looking at me weirdly, yes I know I have sexy frog-like croaks... sigh...

#2: I cannot communicate to my mother in law

Now, my MIL has hearing problems. And memory problems. She forgets things easily. I told her earlier this morning that I lost my voice and few hours later, she comes asking me stuff and when I tried to mouth out the words 'No voice' she doesn't get what I'm trying to say. Not only I have to try repeating that, I also have to sort of increase the volume of my dying voice since my MIL has hearing problems. Arghhh... torture!

#3: My husband laughing at my voice

and it is not helping with my attempts to stay happy...! Arghhh... right about now, in the whole house, he is the only one who could understand the words I mouthed off and everytime I mouthed off something, there is a smirk on his face! You can see how hard he tries to hold himself from laughing at my sexy-croaks..! Arghhhhh!!

Oh voice, please don't go away anymore.. it is really torturing to lose you!

Sorry for being so quiet on my blog lately, have been busy rushing to compile and submit my hubby's business taxes (in Malaysia, individual with business income need to submit their taxes by 30th June), and hubby's aunt came down from Sydney for 1 week holiday (she's going back later tonight) and you know, SAHM life with 2 hyper active kids...

Oh well, just want to share a recent event where I was gobsmacked at what my 3 year old boy did during his Sunday school classes. As usual, the routines in the class would be, singing songs, storytime, offerings and prayers, wash hands, snacks and crafts time and free play after everything is done (most of the kids will be gone after crafts time actually).

So anyway, last Sunday, we did everything and Ben wanted to play with some of the dinosaur toys in the class. So I thought, OK, it's not often Ben behave so well and I should not stop him from playing these toys when he asked so politely. I told him to pick just a couple of the dinosaurs and play for a while.

Out of curiosity, I asked him whether he could draw one of the dinosaur (T-rex actually) for mummy so we can show it to daddy later (daddy is in the main church hall listening to the sermon).

To my surprise, Ben took one of the color pencils and started drawing. Okay, doodling more like it, but while he was drawing it, he told me 'This is the head, the eyes, the 2 hands, and the body, and the long long tail and the 2 legs'.

Oh my... and when I looked at his drawings, I was really surprised and yep...

Gobsmacked at what my 3 year old boy did!

It may not look like a dinosaur but to me, it is the most beautiful thing ever!

It's just amazing that I almost cried with joy!

I think I can understand why parents put up their childrens drawings on the fridge and wall!

I am always on the lookout for products that my family and I can use around the house or when we go for our outings, so when I stumbled upon this product, I emailed to ask whether they are OK with international bloggers reviewing their products, and my oh my, they are happy to provide me their products for my review! So here goes my review for the "The Mommy Hook":

Description from the product page:
"You’ll be totally hooked on our indispensable mommy accessory. Built to last, lightweight and versatile, The Mommy Hook fits virtually all stroller handles. Use The Mommy Hook on your stroller or shopping cart to hold diaper bags, shopping bags, camera bags, groceries, toys, purses, and much more. You can also use The Mommy Hook to carry items from your car to your home. "

As mentioned earlier, the reason why I requested to review The Mommy Hook is because I feel it can really help when I have lots of things to carry around when we are out and about!

When I first received the item, my first impression of it is: "Strong stuff!" It is quite heavy to be honest and after checking out every nook and corner of The Mommy Hook, I can assure you it is made of good and sturdy materials which WILL be able to hold loads of stuff at one go!

I managed to use this product on several occasions but sadly the pictures taken are not clear or close-up enough as I was busy carrying my baby girl and not able to snap the pictures fast enough!

Pictures below taken in a hurry showing how I hook The Mommy Hook onto my baby's stroller (ready to use anytime!) and how my brother in law used it to carry ours and his stuff around.

This is a good product to be considered if you always have a lot of heavy things to carry around when you are out (like grocery shopping and so on) and you can just hook it onto your stroller so that it is ready to use at any time!

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