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Goodbye 2018 ; Hello 2019 :)

12/31/2018

Ending 2018 with messy hair, sweaty body due to confinement and sleepless nights. To be honest, I don’t even feel like it’s the end of the year. No time and no mood for celebration this time round.#talkaboutmotherhood

But well, this year has been a hectic but awesome year for me. I have managed to travel to Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. It is also the start of my voluntary service back to the community while meeting so many people with positive vibes.

I’m very fortunate to be filled with loves from many awesome friends. Most importantly, Our family added an additional member. At the age of 30, I am a proud mama of 2 wonderful children and a supportive Husband 👱🏼‍♂️.

Though there are hiccups in life, I grow to learn from it hence I’m thankful for everything I have encountered.

May 2019 be another year of great adventure. I am looking forward to the challenges! 💪🏻

#Goodbye2018 #Hello2019 #ineedmybeautysleep

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New Year Resolution 2017.

1/1/2017

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It seems to get more challenging to blog as Morris grow older. Totally have no time to sit down so to pen down the resolution for 2017 till now. With appreciation, 2016 passed back real quick and now, it is already the start of another year. I think it is always good to write down some thoughts and resolution for recap at the end of the year and i hope to keep this habit going for long.

Career path vs Family. I guess with Morris coming along, the intention and the career minded self changed to one who prefer to spend more time with family. Having more energy to priortise and focus on the loved ones are far more important than to advance in career. Unfortunately with the high living standard in Singapore, both parents are required to work so to own a relatively comfortable lifestyle. I hope that my priorties remains unchanged and family should always come first at all times.

Education vs Affordability for Morris. We have been speculating alot when it comes to putting Morris in school. The seperation anxiety from GrandmaKwan is severe and it is extremely difficult to find a school that meets her requirement. After some discussion, we decided to place Morris in a playgroup - Chelseakidz while still having grandmaKwan to babysit him. The playgroup is a 2 hours session from Mon-Fri which we believe it will let Morris to explore a little more. Most importantly, it is for him to grow some independency as well as to be less shy like how he is now. It cost us alot more than the usual playgroup but We just hope to bring him FUN which we are not providing at the moment.

Traveling. Both of us loves traveling and exploring new countries. This year wise, we hope to explore places we have yet been to instead of going to Taiwan / Hong Kong again. Hoping that we can clock in either Korea / Australia this time round. Adding on, my first Girlfriend trip to Tokyo together with Cynthia will happen in March!!! So excited that this is materializing! Something i have not done before but i know with Cynthia along, things will be awesome!

Home Sweet Home. Something that will change this year is that we will own our a place that is ours. The need involved in maintaining cleaniniess for the place as well as grocery shopping (oh! i love Groceries shopping) for our home. Most importantly, hosting for gatherings and have friends coming over for meals are what we hope to have in future!

Self-reflection. I guess i am lacking the drive in life and i do hope that in 2017, i can find something that i really like doing and have passion in as it does feel kind of sucky to be leading a mandane life. Or maybe this is the path for me. Will be looking at courses to attend for the year and i am considering to pick up property license. Let's see how it goes!

Savings. With increase in expenses as well as school fees for Morris, it may be difficult to maintain the current savings target. I need to review and adjust the target to ensure that a certain amount is set aside for monthly savings. I am hoping to save at least $1000 a month? lol! Afterall, renovation cost us a bomb and savings greatly depleted.

Okay, Hoping for the best in 2017!

Tan Family signing off.

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Thank you 2016!

12/31/2016

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A couple more hours to the end of 2016. I take this moment to be thankful for the life i have been leading this year. Things may be tough at times where Morris was diagnosed with HFMD but we were blessed with good health for the rest of the year.

In this year, we managed to travel to Hong Kong and Malaysia for road trips. In additional, we headed for our advanced diving cert too. Life may be stressful as it is but with my family, things seems a lot easier. While we have Morris, we are happy that we are still spending some couple time to do things on our own. For this, we appreciate grandmaKwan's help to babysit our precious son.

We have also taken the keys for our house and it is in the midst of renovating. Though there are some hiccups during the process of renovating but we believe it will be ready soon and this will be the best gift for the year 2016.

Hope 2017 will continue to be good to us and to you!

RECAP ON THE NEW YEAR RESOLUTION - 2016:

Usually i will think through on the resolution for the year about one week before i begin to pen it down in the blog post but every since i am a mother of Morris, time is short. Been battling with time, work and stress everyday. So now at 1am, i finally decided to sit down and think what should be the new year resolution for 2016 and i still have to pump before i sleep for the night.

Main resolution remains unchanged where i will be hoping for the stability and health for my family. I am still working on some self-searching and hoping i am able to find passion and move towards the goal in life. Perhaps some business? perhaps more time with Morris?

Lesser procrastination is one of the area i wish to improve on. Been running too many thoughts in mind and the bubbles will usually burst towards the end. I hope this year i will DO IT instead of think and think and think non-stop.
JUST DO IT!

END OF 2016: I think i have managed to be more decisive in the way that we headed for diving despite having Morris. And also, the decision to wean Morris off was a smooth journey and this continue to remains as a precious memories of ours.

I have been breastfeeding Morris for the past 14 months and i hope this can continue to breastfeed Morris till he is 18 months old. Although supply has dipped drastically since a couple of months back then and we have started replacing one of his milk feed with fresh milk. I am still enjoying those nursing moments with him. It is so precious and its imprint in my mind as he slowly grows up.

END OF 2016: I decided to wean Morris off breast-feeding when he hit 2 years old as the supply dipped badly since my menses returned. It is like 3 pumps per day is even lesser than 1 bottle feed of his. It was rather stressful at that moment but i am glad Morris accepted Fresh milk well. The transition was good where papaTan managed to bottle fed the last feed daily and we were thereafter nursing for comfort only. The boobs remains precious to him as at times he will request for his "neh neh" while asking me to breastfeed him. Afterwhich, he will just latch on for a couple of seconds while request to switch to another side and this also lasted for a couple of seconds. LOL!

Since we have yet to complete my resolution of heading either Korea or Australia for the year 2015, i will extend this for 2016. Hoping to continue our travelling routine like how we have done so for the past few years. It is really rather tough now since we have Morris by our side and the handling of Morris onboard plane is a real headache. Our encounter to Taiwan with a flight journey of 5 hours requires plenty of attention to Morris. No more resting on-board plane where toddler comes around. I still believe it is good to go travel before Morris turn 2 years old since majority airlines are either free or charge a minimal fee for baby on-board planes.

END OF 2016: Well, we managed to fly to HONG KONG for 10 days during mid year with GrandmaKwan while we covered Malaysia a couple times this year. I am honestly pretty proud that there are total of 13 custom stamps on Morris's passport at the age of 2 years old.

Conceptualize some home decor ideas for our home which is expected to come during the 1st qtr of 2016. We hope we can finalize some basic ideas incorporate some of ours concept to the designers one. Perhaps a walk-in wardrobe? A platform bed? A place call home.

END OF 2016: We ended up only taking our keys during 3rd Quarter 2016 and it is in the midst of renovating right now. We are very proud of the house as we took charge for the interior designs and planning. We have our open-concept kitchen with a big island, platform bed as well as a walk-in wardrobe. :)

Continue my baby-wearing journey before Morris goes all wrap-strike? try new wraps and move old wraps. Always enjoy babywearing Morris and i hope this interest continues to run for the year 2016. Perhaps more handwovens or some really epic purchase will be good to end of the days of babywearing.

END OF 2016: Sadly i do not get to babywear Morris much these days as he is getting a little too heavy. My back is not allowing me to babywear him for long hours no matter how expensive / good quality the carrier is. Furthermore, i would prefer him to walk and run around me as this burns the boy's energy level. He is honestly far too active!!! But at least, i managed to put my hands on some seriously awesome unicorn hair made wraps! LOL! It is like wearing Chanel on me!!! These memories stays for life!!!

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Goodbye 2018 ; Hello 2019 :)

New Year Resolution 2017.

Thank you 2016!

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