Happy 2012! It's the beginning of the 10th week of my motherhood. In another word, it's the end of countdown at clubs & parties and late nights hangouts. Oh well, at the very least, hubby & I attended a bbq party on the 31st evening but we left before 11 pm.
Life is definitely more manageable now with the help of our new Indonesian helper. So far so good but hubby thinks she's wasting too much time and water on laundry and house cleaning.. Isn't that what she's employed for??? She came a day after Zach boy's 2nd full month party on the 18th Dec 2011. We had one earlier on with just family members. So little boy had already 2 parties specially held for him. Approximately 1 grand was spent on these 2 events which include food & beverages, cakes & cupcakes, photographer and rental of the function room. Speaking of which, the photographer named Ray sucked at capturing moments. Regretted that I did not get my very own friends to do it for me which I believe, would have turned out much more satisfactory. By the way, here's the website and I do not recommend it to anyone unfortunately. http://raynmagphotography.com/about/ Perhaps Mag could do a better job but I really am not sure as this is the very first time I engaged their service and also the last time. Oh well, at least the food we catered from Neo Gardens was good and the cupcakes from Sweetest Moments http://www.sweetestmoments.com.sg/ were very pretty. Steep though.
Life is definitely more manageable now with the help of our new Indonesian helper. So far so good but hubby thinks she's wasting too much time and water on laundry and house cleaning.. Isn't that what she's employed for??? She came a day after Zach boy's 2nd full month party on the 18th Dec 2011. We had one earlier on with just family members. So little boy had already 2 parties specially held for him. Approximately 1 grand was spent on these 2 events which include food & beverages, cakes & cupcakes, photographer and rental of the function room. Speaking of which, the photographer named Ray sucked at capturing moments. Regretted that I did not get my very own friends to do it for me which I believe, would have turned out much more satisfactory. By the way, here's the website and I do not recommend it to anyone unfortunately. http://raynmagphotography.com/about/ Perhaps Mag could do a better job but I really am not sure as this is the very first time I engaged their service and also the last time. Oh well, at least the food we catered from Neo Gardens was good and the cupcakes from Sweetest Moments http://www.sweetestmoments.com.sg/ were very pretty. Steep though.
Anyway, on the last day of 2011, we took him for the 6 in 1 vaccination at a neighbourhood paediatric clinic which costed a whopping S$ 202! Nevertheless I was very pleased to learn his current weight to be 5 kg at his 9th week which means he has doubled his birth weight at the start of 2nd month. I think it was last week that Zach boy has started to coo while maintaining some eye contacts. Today he smiled when I talked to him. Aoowww...how cute!! This makes me forget about the episodes of milk bottle strike at his 6-7 weeks when he drank only some 200-300 ml of my hard-pumped breast milk and drove me crazy as I was worried that he wouldn't grow! Babies are really strange little things. They are different every single day.
I am glad that life seems more within control now with Zach's schedule and temperament appear more predictable, FOR NOW. My life went UPSIDE DOWN, INSIDE OUT when I took care of him all by myself for a while after the confinement nanny left on 4th Dec (see, I remember precisely when the nightmare began) before help from family members came in time. It was the most challenging time in my life and I really thought I was having post natal depression. Looking back, I think it was just baby blues that derived from stress and the inability to adapt & cope. How lousy, I know. I never admit I am good in this.
Now, it's time for me to figure out what I want to do in the next few months. Come on, sit down and do some plannings!! Life is too short to just stay home and pump milk!
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Now, it's time for me to figure out what I want to do in the next few months. Come on, sit down and do some plannings!! Life is too short to just stay home and pump milk!
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hello! I was searching for review of Ray & Mag photography and stumbled on your blog. I saw they are quite affordable for wedding photography, don't know if you mind sharing more about their service and why you think you will not use them again?
ReplyDeletemy email is nomoremintyvintage at gmail.com or you can reply here. :)
Thanks.
Valerie
Hi Valerie,
DeleteThanks for dropping by my blog. Of course, my pleasure to share. Am totally disappointed with the standard. Ray did not have much initiative in walking about to catch more interesting happenings around. In another word, many precious moments were not captured. You'd expect the photographer to pay more attention at the baby (since it's his full month party) and interaction between baby with parents/guests. But Ray was like day-dreaming , walking about not focusing on anything. Also, he repeatedly took about 10 photos of the same guest ( a little girl) with no variation . Many photos were repeated. Eg, my boy has like 20 photos of the same kind. They provide 150 shots. Means 20% of the photos are repeats. So, all in all, very disappointed with Ray. :(