Journal - Drama King

Sean was being a drama queen at dinner just now. He insisted that he saw the clock in the car as 6.65a.m. We were trying to explain to him there was only 60 mins in an hour when he burst into tears. Sigh... What a drama king.

Canvas Scrap - Sean - Puzzled

I think I am quite hooked on this canvas art. I love how the finished product looks so professional and I am going to put it all over my house rather than buy paintings.

When I saw this picture, I knew I had to scrap it as Puzzled. I bought my puzzle puncher from the Gold Coast and I knew that it will be perfect for this Canvas Scrap. I just used my remnant paper from the Basic Grey Grandpa's Attic series and just punched 20 pieces of puzzles. Painted my canvas black and stuck the photos and puzzles on.

Thereafter I used a silver marker to journal around the canvas. I made an error but hey, no one is perfect. I do love this very much and I will definitely try to fill my house with more of my canvas scrap.

Journal - Art Work by Clarissa and Sean

My kids have been taking art for over a year now under the tutelage of Ms Jane Yap. Clarissa enjoys the class most immensely and displayed the most passion for art. They have started to paint on canvas this year and I must say that the results are astonishing.

I have selected 2 of my favourite pieces from the 2. The rose was pianted by Clarissa for me as a mother's day present. The photo may not show it well but it's a rose with a gold swirly background. Don't you think it's precious? I think that it is one of her best work.

Sean has a playmobil fire truck which he has depicted in his painting. This painting to me is like him - in need of action all the time from the fire and his love for machinery - the fire engine.

I am very proud of them both and and thankful for Ms Yap who has lead them so well. I know that they are no picassos but they are both budding artists to me.

Journal - Clarissa - Homework Fiasco

Sigh... what is it with homework and the kids? If these two doesn't mix, why can't we do away with homework then? Life would be so much easier. The school system in this country is so homework - predominant if I must say so. More often than not, I am constantly fighting with the kids over homework.

Clarissa has developed a way of skipping homework all the time. I dread to go to her school as when I do, I get teachers surrounding me just to inform me of the homework situation. Clarissa has deviced lots of ingenious ways to skip homework over the years:

1) The most common - I lost my book
2) My brother lost my book
3) Tear out the relevant homework pages and pretend nothings happened
4) Buying a new exercise book and pretending that she has used up all the pages in the old one.
5) I don't know how to do the homework and crying non-stop.

With such aversion to homework, shall we do away with it once and for all???

Journal - Sean - the Homework Fiasco

Last night we had a homework fiasco with Sean. His Malay Language teacher has given him around 10 pages of written homework. For those who think that this is too much, this teacher has even given more - 19 pages would be her record. As you can imagine, it is very difficult for the kids to complete the homework.

I was cajoling and practically begging him to finish it as chinese school teachers do not spare any mercy when you do not complete your homework. It would normally be a stroke of the cane when this happens.

He obediently went into the room to do it but walked out soon after 10 mins. The cheeky little monkey had finish only the back pages and showed the completed back pages to me. I checked and told him to finish the rest. He went in again and was out within another 10 mins. This time, he tore out all the pages of the incomplete homework!

I was livid and spanked him on his bottom and this time he finally completed the homework. Sigh... Luckily, we live in malaysia, anywhere else, it will be child abuse.

Journal - Funny things Sean said - embassy

My friend Sharon has made an album of some funny things that her daughter has said. I personally think that its a novel idea. Better start documenting mine too before I forget about it.

Sean came home one monday and said "I really don't like this embassy. It is really boring. I don't even know what they are saying." For those who may not know, Sean is currently attending a Chinese school and he does not understand mandarin well. Hence, he is often in a daze what is happening in school.

I didn't answer him at first but then as he rambled on, I began to question what "embassy"? He answered,"Mummy, you know, the embassy that we have every monday?" My dear boy - it is ASSEMBLY!!! We had a good laugh after that but not before he cried when we started laughing at him.

Journal - Paper Clay

Kids were very bored last night. After yelling at them for the upteenth time "no watching tv", I decided to rope them in helping me make paper clay buttons for scrapbooking. I have a batch of tiny cookie cutters from my mother-in-law and the small size was perfect for the buttons.

Off into the night, we rolled and cut. The result was lots different shaped buttons. I really hope that they turn out complementing well with my scrapbook.