Friday, September 07, 2007

Volunteer work for school

Few weeks ago my friends and I volunteered to cook for the school canteen to raise some money for their Second Language program which happens to be Indonesian Language. We had a good time cooking, packing and selling fried rice and spring rolls. In the end we managed to raise about AUD500. It's nice to know that you are contributing, even on a smaller scale. So to all my dear friends, thank you for making it happen.





Monday, August 27, 2007

Cake Anyone?

Monster Mom is so busy that she's too tired to update. She has to accompany Atief which is attending his pre-school until 12.00 and then drive back home to prepare some meals and wait for Iman and Nana to return from their school. The house will be like a "war zone" when all the kids gather together against their Monster Mom. By 6pm, they want their dinner served and will be in their bed at 9pm. Monster Mom too will be in her doona, thinking about what to cook for the next day as well as planning some strategies on how to trick her chipmunks to follow her orders. Really need to read hubby's Sun Tzu's Art Of War book that's been lying around...hopefully that won't backfire.... The kids seems to know the tricks..... argghhh!!!!
This is life... until December. Can't wait to go back....

Nevertheless Monster Mom just wanna share some pics about Atief's cake making session.




Atief and Jessica

Natasya, Riley and Matthew

Cathy,Joanna, Meg and Phoebe.

Jemma and William

Mrs Mc Cotter

Snowman cake is ready

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Freezing fun

The kids were looking forward for their first encounter with snow. Since all of us had recovered from our so called "Gold Coast issues" we decided to go to Perisher Valley for some "white cum freezing cum windy" experience.







Being Atief, he wanted to go home just after 15 minutes of playing with the snow. Imagine how Iman and Nana felt about that!!!!

Monday, August 06, 2007

Gold Coast Trip

During the last school holiday, we managed to go to the Gold Coast . The kids were so excited about it though they spent some 14 hrs of journey in the car! These are a few snaps of our trip.

Kids posing at Sea World



Ibu and Iman. Iman threw up after the ride... he was too sick but tried his very best to keep up with the rest of us. Poor Iman!


Ibu went up this while Ayah babysit the kids.



Atief was tired from all the walking but Ibu refused to carry him. Over to you Ayah!



They wanted to go to the beach though the water temp was 19 degress... Ok...



That's all they can managed... no more than that. The water was freezing. The had fun albeit the chill. Kids...



Atief just couldn't take it anymore... hahaha.....



On our last night, we had a nice dinner at Bali Hut - a restaurant in Twin Towns.



The trip was full of challenges. Iman, Ibu and Atief got sick. Ayah and Nana took care of us... And so Ayah had to drive all the way back just by himself this time... sorry hubby!!! Whatever it is, we had fun. The kids enjoyed it. That's all that matters. More pics at hubby's blog.

Monday, July 30, 2007

The cleaning epic

Our playgroup decided to do some cleaning to the place since it was our turn... which was a month due. A few of us managed to make it. I never knew cleaning could be fun... when you do it with your friends and not ALONE!

This is Gill drying a baby toy or was she playing with it? I can't remember.


This is Melissa trying to carry something....


This is Mel tidying up a corner.... happily....



Yvette was trying to pose for me but decided to look the other way at the last minute!




Our group photo.



And as a token, we got this from Gill. Yummy!!



I came back at 9.30pm to this. Courtesy of the kids....How nice!




You want to know why the did that. Because they did this earlier in the day...





And you guys were still wondering why I call myself MONSTERMOM!

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

The end of project S4



Finally! My project has come to an end. I can now resume to my reading again. Phew....

From left, the scarfs are for Atief, Hubby, Iman and Nana. My presents for my beloved. These will be ur birthday gifts for this year. No questions!

Hihihi... I can save all the money for MYself!Yeehaa....!

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Dress-up time

Kids were to dress-up in Hollywood film characters for their last day of the term. Iman dressed up as Superman while Ibu bought a cowgirl hat for Nana. Nevertheless, Ibu had to make sure that Atief got his suit in order for him not to throw tantrum...




Nana smiling happily in her class. Behind her - Anakin Skywalker and a princess...



The teachers dressed up as in Charlie & The Chocholate Factory film characters. It was so cool...





Iman and his classmates dressed as Harry Potter, Witch and TMNT (teenage mutant..)



They've got pirates, Puss in the boot, The Incredibles and others. Fascinating!



Atief's 2 week adventure

Our Thursday playgroup went for a bus wash trip in Tuggeranong. The kids were so anxious to go onto the bus and Atief as usual kept to himself for the first 15 minutes. After that he joined the group with Spotto game and waking up the sleeping busses. The whole journey was about an hour. The mothers turned out to be more excited.....





For the last day of the term, Atief's playschool had a bear picnic. They ate their lunches, played bubbles and got some bear biscuits from Julie (the teacher). Bye! Bye! Atief will be joining pre-school next term. Hopefully this time, he won't cry that much and Ibu can leave him instead of waiting inside the class..... I wish....




Sunday, July 01, 2007

Tag For Charity

Dear friends

Idham is planning to compile and bind 100 bloggers’ memes, for which every meme, he will contribute RM127 to Darul Izzah Orphanage (DIO). I would like to thank Ween for tagging me on “this tag for charity”. So here it goes.

1. A person is only as good as… his relationship with god.

2. Friendship is always…about bringing joy.

3. To love is to…understand.

4. Money makes me... want to work to earn more and more and more.

5. I miss…. my childhood.

6. My way of saying I care is by… doing what my loved ones want even though I hate it.

7. I try to spread love and happiness by…smiling endlessly.

8. Pick the flowers when…it needs to be…not because you want it.

9. To love someone is to…know that he loves you too.

10. Beauty is…love.

11. When I was thirteen, what I remember the most was.... my first period.

12. When I was twenty one, I remember....learning what responsibility means.

13. I am most happy when ..... I see my kids laughing.

14. Nothing makes me happier than … knowing that my loved ones are happy.

15. If I can change one thing, I will change.... the numbers in my bank account.

16. If smiles were everywhere then I … will feel young and healthy.

17. Wouldn't it be nice if we could contribute to world peace.

18. If you want to loved .............then you have to …love thyself first.

19. Money is not everything but it is something…

20. The most touching moments I have experienced is….. when I have to watch a sad scene in hindi movies.

21. I smile when ……I’m feeling happy.

22. When I am happy, I.......... smile.

23. If only I don't have to ….see the unhappiness around me then....... I’ll be more relaxed.

24. The best thing I did yesterday was........... knit my son’s scarf.

25. If I ever write a book, I will give it this title,….."My Secret Identity"

26. One thing I must do before I die is................perform my Haj.

27. Doing this meme, I feel like .......smiling endlessly.

If you are tagged, you need to write an entry related to the meme. At the end of your entry you just need to tag as many persons as you like. You will then leave a comment in their blog to let them know they have been tagged. And to include this message, "By doing this meme you are contributing rm127 to the Darul Izzah Orphanage".

To all bloggers below, pliz do your part.


These kids are counting on you...


Thursday, June 21, 2007

It's playtime again

Last weekend hubby was still busy with his papers and so the kids and I decided to leave him at the college and go to this place called Kid Zone. Yeap! It's play time again... for them...






Luckily I had the chance to enjoy my latte .




I was even able to continue with my knitting project which eventually was halfly done.




Overall we had fun and as usual Atief slept all the way home.


There is another place called Kid City which is 10 times bigger than KidZone.... Iman especially will be thrilled when he knows about this.... shhhhh.. Maybe next week.. or next next week...

Monstermom...signing off...
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