His 9th birthday..

My son celebrated his 9th birthday a few days ago. We had a small simple celebration, just the four of us. He wanted to go to Toys-R-Us and before hand he had made a very looooonnnng list of toys he wanted to buy which came up to 400 bucks!!! Hello...ingat mommy cop duit ka?? Before that, we had to go and get his eyes check again!!! Apparently the glasses he's wearing now is not helping him to see clearly in class, we just had that made four months ago!!! Ni kes tengok TV and computer tak pakai cermin mata la ni...so we waited for nearly two hours to see the doctor, even though I have made an appointment earlier but somehow other people went in before us. Not wanting to make a scene (one of those rare days where I don't feel like scolding people..), we waited while my son was asking every five minutes when are we going to go to the toy store. My daughter was also excited to go because she knew she can tumpang her brother's birthday and get herself a brand new toy. That's happens every year...anyway, after all was checked and paid and done, off we went to Times Square. As usual, there was a sea of people, it was a Saturday and the weather was nice, even though a tad breezy. We went straight to the LEGO section and boy, he took his own sweet time in choosing which one to buy. I told him that he was not going to buy ALL the things he had on his list, and he could choose only one, a big ONE box of LEGO. So he had a hard time choosing which one to buy first. He was scared that the other ones would be out-of-stock the next time he comes here. The reason why he had that phobia is because, once we went to a different toy store and he wanted this Lego and we said we could come next time to buy since we didn't have time that day (at least that's the reason I gave him) and when we did go for the second time, the Lego he wanted was not there anymore. Not only that, most of the Lego was gone, a mistake to go that time as it was after Christmas...so he had the right to be scared this time around and worried that it would not be there anymore the next time. Anyway, as we were waiting and waiting and waiting (we were being extra nice since it was his birthday after all), I decided to bring my daughter to look for her toy as my hubby had the "hard work" of helping my son to choose. Well, our little girl didn't give me an easy work either. Since there were ssssooooo many toys to choose from, she was rambang mata already, not knowing which one to choose. After quite sometime, both of them decided on their toys, at last!!! Then, my hubby and me felt hungry from all the waiting and persuading, so we decided to go have lunch (a birthday lunch). Well, the birthday boy decided that he didn't want to go for lunch and he said he felt tired and wanted to go home. Old trick!! Because we knew that the reason why he wanted to go home so soon was to play with his new Lego set. So we dragged him to lunch and he was being such a grumpy boy, he complained that he was feeling cold and his tummy hurt and what not. Mommy's hungry and mommy wants to eat so your Lego just have to wait. But when the food came, he was enjoying his food all the same!!! Siap pau mommy's food lagi. Then we headed home and straight away he opened his new toy and he really like it so all in all, it was a good birthday for him...

All ends well..even though the journey was not that easy sometimes...

how i appreciate good health..

I haven't been blogging for quite a while. Been sick for ages, well, at least that's how I felt. It started with a slight fever, then fever gone, came the migraine for three days, decided to change the medication since the one I was taking was not doing me any good. Bad move! Turned out I am allergic to that medicine, so what happened was what usually happens when I am allergic to some medicine (I have a long list of what type of medicine I am allergic to..and it keeps on changing, doctors are quite puzzled when they talk to me about my so-weird allergic problem). Where was I? Oh yes, my eyes got swollen, couldn't barely open them, my daughter said that I looked like my chinese friend. My son reminded me of the promise to bring him to watch "The diary of the wimpy kid" movie. Sorry dear, not when mommy's eyes are like this!!!! So had to postpone the movie outing to the next day! After that episode of swollen eyes, I had a bit of cough. After two days, it got better so I thought the worst is over!!! Well, I thought wrong. The worst was yet to come. Tuesday night, I felt all chilly and my whole body was aching..a sign of getting a really bad fever. True enough, the next morning I woke up all groggy and my head was spinning. Took panadol and went back to sleep (hubby had to handle the kids, sent them to school and picked them up..). Woke up a few hours later, my tonsils were swollen!! Couldn't even swallow my own saliva without feeling like there were millions of pins down my throat!! I am not exaggerating..it did felt like that! Went to the doctor the next day...I was so glad to see him!! I hadn't been eating normally for two days..all i had was yogurt (even that hurt like..like..like..well like swallowing pins and needles). The doc prescribed antibiotics, and I thought, yeay, I am going to be okay in two days' time! I thought wrong once again!!! The next day my gums got all swollen, so add that to the swollen tonsils, I had a field day, of not being able to get anything into my tummy without crying because it hurt ssssooo much! Called the doctor and went to see him again (twice in five days!) and he discovered I was allergic to the antibiotics (remember I have a llooonnng list of what I am allergic to?). So stopped taking that antibiotics and took a different medicine to reduce the swelling. So after a few days, I got better, thank God. Now the gums on the back of my mouth are still a bit swollen but I now appreciate drinking water without feeling any pain and the fact that I can eat almost normally now. This event made me realised how important being healthy is and we should not take it for granted. When I was sick, I couldn't kiss or cuddle my kids and I miss taking care of them, even though I always complain that I am so tired doing the housework and taking care of everybody. My hubby was extra helpful, he took two days off to take care of me and to take over "running the kingdom". I missed having my morning coffee but one thing that I am not going to eat for quite some time is yogurt because that was all I had for nearly a week and the sight of yogurt reminds me of how sick I was, so now I am yogurt phobia (I am sure that's a word for it..). When my gums are 100% ok, the first thing I am going to do is to buy the foot long subway sandwich and really bite into it! I think the 2 kilos I lost when I was sick will be regained in no time...oppss!!!!

Being sick is no fun!!!!