I have a number of books I love. But this, is my favorite. It’s the one that healed my heart and helped me crawled out of my darkest moments. I am really thankful for having spotted this book. I don’t know where I would have headed without this book. Probably still wallowing in bitterness.

So even though I have recommended this book to a couple of people, but I’ve never offered to give this book away. But yesterday, I was thinking of giving it away. Only thing is, I wonder if the other party will read it from cover to cover, or will the book be left idle to collect dust in a corner.

And perhaps I am being too presumptuous by thinking that this book can help others like it helped me?

The never ending 10 kisses
Daddy: Kiss daddy 10 times!
Boy starts kissing and daddy starts counting.
“One, two, three, four, two, three, four, five, six, five, six, seven, five, six, seven, eight, seven, eight…”

＼（－－）／

The sofa kiss
Mommy: Will you still kiss me when you grow taller?
Boy: Ya!
Mommy: Can mommy still kiss you when you grow taller?
Boy: Ya…but you have to stand on the sofa!

（￣へ￣）

The boy and his dad have been going to EC House for their haircuts recently. Surprisingly, the standard is quite good as I couldn’t see much of a difference between my husband’s usual $45 haircut and a $10 haircut. However, I still snub at the idea of having my haircut there or for that matter, any salons.

First, I prefer to have my hair cut by my hairstylist who will painstakingly take an hour just to shape and style my hair because he’s a perfectionist. Second, I hate going to any other salons because those people are absolutely tactless. They’re always telling me that I have very little hair and then making stupid suggestions of what I should do. Like I need them to tell me! It’s most annoying that all they want is to push me products when they don’t even know what’s the causes of hair loss. I even remember I had this shampoo girl pointing to my scalp and then making loud comments at a salon in town and I had to control myself from hurling the hairdryer at her!

What these people don’t seem to understand is that there are many causes and as I’ve mentioned in my beauty blog, a good hair loss treatment is in its ability to act effectively in both external application and in internal consumption of hair loss vitamins like the Vitamin B family, Vitamins A, C, E and H as well as Zinc.

So when my husband suggested that I join them to have my hair cut at EC House, I told him I’ll rather have my hair grow all out of shape than to risk having my hair embarrassed.

Inspired by what he saw in the English assessment book, the boy asked me to bake a cake for him! I guess it’s really a motherly thing to do, but unfortunately, it’s not something this mother wants to do. Although I’ve tried baking a couple of cakes and cookies successfully eons ago, this is definitely not an activity I enjoy. And I totally blame my home econs teacher for killing my interest!

But yesterday, my interest was slightly renewed when I spotted these. Easy to bake Gourmet Cupcakes which come with Cupcake Maker sets at the toys section. They’re very pretty!

Hmm…maybe I can give these a try? Afterall, they’re for ages 8 and up!

My relationship with my in-laws has come a long way. In a phrase, I can sum it up as “from misgiving to understanding.” 

We started out with plenty of  skepticisms and I am not at all surprised if they didn’t like me initially. But over time, especially after giving birth to my son, things took a turn for the better.

There were many instances when I didn’t see eye-to-eye with my MIL, and despite what I might have said, I knew deep in my heart she only harboured good intentions. And strangely, I could communicate quite well with my FIL on a number of topics. Sure there were awkward moments when we didn’t share the same viewpoints but let’s just say our relationship got better over trying times.

In fact, I recently told my husband that he’s lucky to have them as his parents. They may have their imperfect moments but the beautiful thing about them is that they truly care for their children and only wish the best for them.

So while I am not sure at this stage if they will move in with us at all, but if they do, things may not be as bad as I initially imagined it to be.

I believe that the key to having better relationships is to open up our hearts sincerely.  I know for sure that my life would be a lot more fulfilling if only I can learn to master this ability.