Mothers' Day 2012

This year I celebrated my 4th Mothers' Day with 2 gals. 4 years back I was with my mum and sis watching a concert on Mothers' Day and then I was still expecting Atria. Time flies!

I cannot really remember what went on during all the years of Mothers' Day. But this year, I remember the hub so sweetly gave me a new phone. And I also dedicated a section on PL for mums day.

The gals gave me each a necklace and a flowers. Both are projects the CC asked them to make. So sweet.

It is really nice to spend the quiet evening with the hub and the gals. And that made my mums day even more meaningful.

Struggle

Atria is our first born. I think we expect a lot from her. Sometimes too much for her to handle. I know it is not healthy. But somehow we cannot stop.

It kinda breaks my heart every time we need to scold her. But at times, we really do feel the need to reprimand her so that she will behave.

I realize we are not as strict with Astria, always thinking she is still young. But in fact, she is already 2 yo.

I have to constantly remind myself that Atria is only 3.5yo. And it is normal for a 3.5yo not to listen and understand our instructions. But I guess the control freak in me will not be able to restrain my control over the gals anytime sooner.

But it always breaks my heart to see Atria cries as she is not able to "do" what we expect her to do. She is in a constant struggle with herself to meet our expectation.

It is time for us to step back and look at our gals again.

Project Life 2012

I first saw a blog post in 2011 about Project Life. I thought, what a wonderful way of documenting our life.

I always felt a little guilty for not taking enough photos and not developing photos of the gals. I felt pressurized to do so as my sis are good at all these. My mummy also added on the pressure too.

And since I started scrapping in 2008, and more regularly in 2010, I wanted to do more. Not just the photo. I want to document life.

But my working time and other commitment does not allow me to scrap about Everyday things. I simply don't have the time.

I was so happy to know project life. But again, I was not too sure whether I am able to sustain it. Through 52 weeks.

So at this juncture, I am so happy to say that I made it to week 19.

As I looked back at the past weeks, I am so thankful for PL. Without it, I would not be able to document my life with my gals growing up so fast. PL reminded me to take more photos of my everyday. Need not be the perfect photo. In fact, it is the imperfect that are always more interesting. PL also "forces" me to journal my life, so the little things in life are being documented. These might not be BIG enough to be in a photo book or a scrap layout.

Although some weeks are not as interesting as others, there are part of my life. And as the year unfold ahead of me, I can't wait to see the full 52 weeks at the end of the year. And I am determined to carry on till Dec 2012 and will be documenting my life with PL in 2013.