RA n Trystan

lately me rhumatoid arthritis (RA) flaring ... been lying down a lot, not cleaned the house much, sleepy, etc ... me parents been of great support bless them. me baby boy also been very helpful, understanding n caring. Trystan amazes us everyday, every day he does an amazing n so sweet action that makes me smile ... smile n forget me life issues.
some examples (a few amongst so many):
he covered me up with his blankie when i was having a nap,
he massaged me when i was lying down in pain,
he said "thank you daddy, mommy boubou" when his daddy was sweeping the floor after me being not well for over a week,
after me folded the dried clothes to b ironed Trystan picked up the pile of folded clothes to give to his daddy to put on the iron table.
...
thank you my baby boy :)

1++ Constructive learning

Our life journey is a learning curve modelled by our surroundings, people who come across our path, life scenarios and challenges encountered, personal and group issues resolved, difficulties faced, joyful and sad events, and help received and given.

Today i know that yesterday was a high coordinate on my learning curve and that i shud make the most out of it. How to learn from it? By constructively analysing the situation n taking in advice from others.
People do not like being told what to do
People do not like being told how to do stuffs
People do not have time or do not want to read long docs or listen to long explanations
People do not like change

After analysis of the feedback received i need to:
Summarise oral n written communication.
Provide examples of what is required to be produced or changed

1st signs of independence? Trystan pipi aroser story

Trystan's now 2 yrs and 2months. Recently started his potty training and uses small disposable containers as potty ... Trystan's scared of the real potty.
Trystan knows how to sit on the toilet to tata but not to pipi ...
Trystan wud read a book while doing tata ... He'd also asked for the sprayer when he's done :)

Story of trystan pipi aroser
Trystan: "pipi la moc pipi la moc"
Mommy: "Do it on ur own trystan, pick up the la moc and do pipi on your own."

Trystan went to his la moc, picked up the container that popo prepared as trystan's la moc, trystan put the container to his tiao tiao, lifted his tshirt up and pipi in his la moc.

While he was doing pipi, trystan moved slightly to the right ...
Koung koung: dont move trystan

Trystan stopped moving and twisted a bit to the left to move back to his original position.

Trystan finished pipi

Trystan: arroser now

Trystan headed to the door. He stopped at the door to change his shoes from his shoes endan to shoes dehors.
Popo opened the door for trystan.trystan stepped outside and headed to the flower pots. With his left hand he picked up the water bottle and was trying to pour some water into the pipi container to dilute his pipi before watering the plants with his diluted pipi. Learned by observation ...

Popo helped trystan to dilute the pipi and water the plants.

A proud grown up trystan watered the plants then came back inside ... Satisfied :p

Work @ nihs & family time @ home

Since we started this new academic yr, me not been bringin any work home ... Ok maybe some work but minimum ... Anyways less than last yr for sure!

Me wud instead stay @ work till quite late, average earliest wud leave school'd b around 4. Wud generally leave school @ 4:30. But there r times been n wud stay till 6pm ... Till the support staff kick me out!

Also been taking yoga lessons @ work :)

All this is now possible as me not have to rush to pick up trystan @ fairy glenn day care play house.

And when it comes to saturdays then its mommy n son time. Trystan n i wud stay home together until everyone else come back home from work ... It is quality time spent with me boy! Not do any work on saturday ... Maybe i'd do some work when trystan wud have his 1hour to maybe even 3 hours nap time! But wud try to not do any work when trystan's awake.

Sundays n bank holz will force meself to do household rasks rather than nihs work ...

Lets hope this system will work! For me on a family life basis as well as for me professionally

Message to form 1A 2009-2010

As I was to starting to write my message to form 2A 2010-2011 for VIRTUS (the school's magazine/yearbook) I remembered the message I wrote to this group after their first yr @ Northfields ...

So here it is:

Fate has been particularly nice to me this year; mother-to-be and form teacher of form 1A. My kids (as I like to call the form 1A) have been and still are my inspiration to motherhood. I like to think that there is this special bond between them and me; this special bond that usually unites a mother to her children. We've been sharing good times; the birthdays and awards, as well as the bad times, the injuries, the departure of one of ours. We have learned to know each other, to respect and to trust each other. Unfortunately due to my big bump during camp time, I could not be of the party (I would have been more trouble than help); but my heart was with them and as soon as they reached school I ran to see them to have feedback of the two days spent at camp. All this to say, thank you form 1A for making every day at Northfields a special day.

CAS coordinator

Today during our staff briefing it was announced that I am the new CAS coordinator.

How did this happen??
hummm let's see it all started because I was helping the new PE faculty head (CB) who was at that time in charge of PreCAS (CAS for lower and middle school)  ... Free during the PreCAS lessons so why not help me colleague ...
From only helping I was asked to be in charge of one of the 'choice of PreCAS' session ...
then introduced as CAS coordinator by the head of upper school in a House Assembly/meeting ...
and here I am ... the new CAS coordinator!

New CAS coordinator who will get her Harry Potter office key tomorrow from the previous CAS coordinator (KD) ...
key along with files, logbooks, etc ...

Heard that there's a lot of extra work to it all ...
actually today CB told me that it took her 2 weeks to organise the PreCAS choice for this term ... promising ...
And KD told me that I have to mark the CAS logbooks for this Friday ... Joy!

Hope it's all gonna be worth it ... finance wise and career wise ... as well as personal enrichment wise :p
+ let's hope it's not gonna be too much work to deal with work, house and baby ... :)

Back to blogging

... I am back to blogging ...
... I want to be back to blogging ...
... I need to restart blogging !!!

This year's a hectic one ...

new life ... seems like complete change of life ... feels like am changing inside out ...
pregnancy was a great experience last year ...
and now am a new mum ...
baby does change ur life ...
now I've been back to wk ... about 10 weeks already ...
tiring ...
especially lately with the markings of the internal assessments ...
markings which I was not meant to do but which I ended up doing ...
half of it all @ least ... opening one's mouth does help take the load n pressure off ...
another good reason y it'd b good coming back to blogging ...