Writer’s Workshop: Vastly Loved

Dominique Parenting and Kids, Thoughts mama kat's writers workshop, talkative thursday

Our new wedding bands

This month was a month of shopping for me. I was revamping the kids wardrobes and sprucing up pockets around the house.   I purchased quite a lot of new items for everyone but the item which I love the most was the new set of wedding bands which R and I bought to replace our existing ones.

The wedding bands which we used to wear was bought way back in 2000 when we decided to get married.  It was a pair of simple  identical platinum bands which we spotted in a jewellery shop in Hong Kong.

R and I can still use the bands however the coating on the white gold band has long tarnished and has been recently causing us minor skin irritation. The bands were a discomfort to wear and therefore we decided that we should get a new set.

We decided to get a new set which represents how we are now in our relationship. The new set of wedding bands were to be a reaffirmation of how we feel for each other.  We are the same  but yet different two people who have pledge to spend our earthly lives together.  We are focusing on our own unique identity as individuals who are connected with each other.

We decided on different bands and chose what we liked.  My band had diamonds while his was black. The bands were the same yet different.

It felt really nice to be shopping for wedding bands  and I felt like a teenager all over again.  This time I got the bands engraved as the first set wasn’t engraved at all.

R & R 16.06.2001

 What did you buy this month that you love?

Is there a story behind that item as well?

Writer’s Workshop: You Can Say that Again

Dominique Parenting and Kids, Thoughts mama kat's writers workshop, talkative thursday

Tiger girl and Me

Being a kid really has lots of privileges which evaporate once you become and adult. What that used to be tolerable or dismissed by others suddenly becomes  unacceptable.

Here are some of the things that they can say and get away with.

1. I can’t walk anymore.
   (Translated- You have to carry me)
2. I have no hands!!
   (Translated- I want you to serve me- feed me, get my things for me)
3. I don’t know how to do it. It’s too difficult
   (Translated- I want you to do it for me)
4. Why is he so fat? He needs to go on a diet.
5. You must be at least 100 yrs old right? You’re seriously so “OUT”(dated)
   (Translated: Go away you old person. You bug me!!)
6. I’m only a kid!!
   (Translated: I’m not expect to understand this and don’t wish to understand it too..cut me some slack!!)
7. Why are you not married?
   (Translated: Darn.. I lose out on another opportunity to collect red pocket money from you during Chinese New Year.)
8. No.. I cannot sleep alone.
   ( Translated: I prefer to sleep on your bed with/without you)
9. Mummy I like the bracelet that you are wearing. I want the  exact same one.
   (Translated: I want your bracelet. Give it to me.)
   * To prevent this from happening again I’ve gotten exact copies of Mom and daughter bracelets for Tiger girl and me.

Are your kids like my kids?

What are the things that your kids

say and get away with?