24 hours ago.....seems so long. Today i'm trying to remember the events of Hannah-Maree's young life till this moment... a young age of twenty months. She's such a bubbly child....always cheeky and smiling....even playing tricks on us adults. Even at this young age she has certainly a mind of her own... and her temper equals that of an adult. She is stubborn too and sometimes very headstrong. ...and all these traits make her a very lovable child. She is also very cute and friendly and strangers we met at shopping centres would stop and say hello and speak to her. This makes me wonder what is in her that attracts strangers to her.
I still remember the day she was born. She was crying and crying and we had a hard time trying to pacify her. It was more than thirty years since i last took care of a baby and i was certainly lost on what to do. i told myself...'well grandma you have to start learning again'. I did ask a few of my friends on what to do and they told me they too had forgotten. One of my friends asked me to look up the internet for information and i thought to myself what a bunch we are......all career women. Then i remembered what my mum said about taking care of new born babies. 'It is easy '. she said. ' Three things would make them cry....hunger, or they have wet themselves or they have pooed'. Well, hunger and poo...easily detected but wetting themselves....not with using baby nappies....the clock is the detector.
Today Hannah is a toddler. My oh my, nothing is safe from her hands. She can remove things from cupboards and drawers....and she just love doing that. Today she knows how to get up to her little chair to reach high places......all these little adventures.....part of modern day of growing up.
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Monday, August 6, 2012
Trying to rememberLego
How time flies...it has been ages since i last wrote on my page. Indeed i have forgotten how long it has been until i went into my page. All this time i have busy with lots of stuff ....mainly routine. Caring for little Hannah-Maree mainly...cooking.....doing the laundry and playing computer games to relax....and also every 3 months going back home to see to the house. Another round of going from office to office to pay the relevant bills. It seems life is just an unending activity of paying bills.
Little Hannah-Maree is no longer little any more.She is a little girl growing up fast...too fast sometimes, At 20 months of age she is very fast with her little fingers on the computer, the ipad or the iphone. This morning, she helped me to unlock a level at Angry Birds which i was trying to do the whole of last night. Kids today are certainly different from the kids of yesteryears. I remembered Christina only grew up with Barbie dolls( which are only the basics) and some Lego blocks. Well, times have changed.....as the saying goes...the only constant in this modern age is change, and we have to learn to face the challenge. I only hope and pray change will be for the better.
As i reflect on the whole of last year...i'm beginning to realize that i'm growing to be more like my mother. Still stubborn at sixty plus of age. Still wanting to have my own way. I'm really wanting to learn to grow old gracefully...and this more of head knowledge rather than to do in reality. As my mother always said, no matter how old one gets...one has to learn. The learning process will never end. It will go on and on no matter how old we get. And i beginning to learn to accept things that i cannot change and to change my own mind set. A hard lesson but i have to learn or i'll end up miserable in life....and life is too short to be miserable. Happiness is a state of the mind so i have to mind the state of my mind indeed.
Little Hannah-Maree is no longer little any more.She is a little girl growing up fast...too fast sometimes, At 20 months of age she is very fast with her little fingers on the computer, the ipad or the iphone. This morning, she helped me to unlock a level at Angry Birds which i was trying to do the whole of last night. Kids today are certainly different from the kids of yesteryears. I remembered Christina only grew up with Barbie dolls( which are only the basics) and some Lego blocks. Well, times have changed.....as the saying goes...the only constant in this modern age is change, and we have to learn to face the challenge. I only hope and pray change will be for the better.
As i reflect on the whole of last year...i'm beginning to realize that i'm growing to be more like my mother. Still stubborn at sixty plus of age. Still wanting to have my own way. I'm really wanting to learn to grow old gracefully...and this more of head knowledge rather than to do in reality. As my mother always said, no matter how old one gets...one has to learn. The learning process will never end. It will go on and on no matter how old we get. And i beginning to learn to accept things that i cannot change and to change my own mind set. A hard lesson but i have to learn or i'll end up miserable in life....and life is too short to be miserable. Happiness is a state of the mind so i have to mind the state of my mind indeed.
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