23rd Dec. Some of Lynn's cousins came over for an impromptu sleepover on Friday night. On Sat, we took them to ice skating at JCube. At the supermarket, we met this (rather weird looking) Santa giving out sweets (Mabel and Chloe were somewhere else in the supermarket).
On Sunday 24th Dec, the Yap family celebrated Christmas with BBQ and potluck. Here we were posing with 2 desserts, Mango-sticky-rice by Lynnette (and MIL actually), and Black glutinous rice by MIL.
This year's gift exchange, the kids again 满载而归, but I'm extremely upset over insensitive people. Not going to talk about it.
While we adults had a good time buying and wrapping, and the children receiving, I actually felt bad (guilty) when we created so much waste when tearing up the wrappers. Hopefully by end of this year, we can come up with a perfect solution for my dilemmas.
At the start of the New year, I've been to 2 parks. Firstly, it was Hort Park. I've not visited it for a few years liao. It's really beautiful.
And then Telok Blangah Hill Park. It's shady and cooling to walk even if it's sunny.
View from Tree top walk
School started on 2nd Jan, Tuesday. Lynn had at least 2 shaky teeth at the start of the school holidays. Over the years, most of the shaky baby teeth came off by themselves. By end of holidays, one did not dislodge yet, so I urged her to visit the school dentist after school hours. When I came home that day, I asked her about it. Firstly, she said she did. Then she volunteered the information (very excitedly) that it was indeed the last of her baby tooth, as we had suspected! Hurray, she is over the "bo gay" stage. Finally, when I asked if the clinic was crowded on this first day of school, she answered with a resounding "yes"!
I try to keep all her baby tooth. On final count, we have 15. We googled, there are suppose to be 20 in all. I told her that on one of her significant birthday to come, she's going to get these as a present from me, hah!!
On Sunday, 7th Jan, we visited CHIJ Secondary at Lor 1 TPY for the Edusave award presentation. Surprising this year's monetary award is much higher than last year.
This year's speech, Dr. Ng started by quoting the saying "It takes a village to bring up a child" and talked about how "Toa Payoh Village" supports children's eduction. So, a photo of our home, in a larger sense:
That afternoon, we went for English/Japanese high-tea at Sheraton, after her piano lesson.
Lynn asked me if I have any new year resolution; I was at a loss of words, cos I didn’t, but I believe that I should set. 2018 will be a challenging year for both of us. 2017 was a year that I loved myself above everything else. 2018, realty beckons, and I have lots to prove to myself if not my loved ones.
Happy birthday to myself.❤️
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