Phew... another week of school holidays down. It's been trying, to say the least, having 4 bored kids at home 24hrs a day. Annie however, was away at Miri, visiting Sei Ku and Hughie with Popo for 10 days. So that eased the chaos a bit...! :)
So let's see what we did recently...
We packed the goodie bags for the kampung kids Christmas party again this year.
We packed 600 of these. This year we were much faster, we finished in a 2-hour session. We must be getting better and also the smaller ones are bigger now so they can
really help! :)
We've also done
most of our Christmas shopping...
I managed to sort and wrap them up in a night.
We also went for the SSPCA (Sarawak Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) Christmas Charity Bazaar. Sis no.2 had plenty of coupons to share with us.
Grandma's birthday was on the 14th. We celebrated with dinner at Sarawak Club's Hornbill restaurant.
I brought Alaena and Claire for their optometrist appointment with Aunty Monica. Alaena is just slightly long sighted and does not need glasses.
Claire's astigmatism is stable with no deterioration so far. They also took their height measurements because apparently if they grow very fast, it may cause long-sightedness! I never knew that!
Brought them for a chocolatey treat at a bakery nearby after that...
Solomon was supposed to have a school year-end party, but he fell sick instead and had to give it a miss. We dropped by his school to pick up the present
(cool Winnie the Pooh shades) which I left with his teachers a few days before.
"Santa Claus"
(his principal) himself/herself came out to the car to give him the present. Solomon was initially speechless and kept staring at "Santa Claus"! After a while he had a big smile and shook Santa's hand and waved goodbye happily!
He was overjoyed to discover the sunnies! He didn't have his own pair and kept snatching his sisters' pink sparkly ones! :)
We've also been digging up clay from an empty lot by the roadside near Kung Kung Titus' house. We're going to process the raw, dirty clay into clean, workable clay for modelling. Right now they're in chunks, ridden with stones and grass. The kids are impatiently waiting for them to dry so we can move on to the next step. Will write more when we finish the all the processing and modelling.
Anyway, Christmas is coming soon! Busy, busy busy...
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