Something that I'm looking forward!

This December, Lee Family is going to Bali for our first family vacation!

I'm pretty excited cause we have been to Bali during our honeymoon and now we are going back 2 years later with Baby D.

Saw the Groupon was having a deal on the villa that we used to stay during our honeymoon and we decided to purchase it and revisit the villa again!

Villa Kayu Raja

This time round we are planning to stay at Bali for 4D3N.. make sure of the time there to visit some "must visit" places.

• Ubud Art Market
• Rice Fields
• Tanah Lot
• Kintamani Tour
• Jimbaran seafood

Recently I've been checking the weather forecast and was quite disappointed to see that "Thunderstorm".. also daily!

Let's hope that when the Lee Family are there.. the weather will be nice enough for us to stroll along the streets and visit those attractions!!

It's out first time bringing Baby D who is 22 months old on an overseas trip!! I feel like packing the whole house along!! Pretty paranoid that her diapers and formula milk are not enough for this trip!


Now I have to pen those itineraries and also Baby D's luggage packing list!

In case I'm too lazy to pen my next blog before Christmas..

Wishing one and all a very Happy Holidays!!

Xoxoxo
Felicia

Now I know

It's been 20 months since I'm a mother. I have my share of ups and downs... and I'm sure this feeling of motherhood will last me a long long time.. but it's only recently, in fact this week that the meaning of Motherhood hits me hard.

All these while Baby D maybe a stubborn girl but still she is a happy girl.. a bit of reasoning, a bit of bribing, she will still listen to us. But this week, she caught the flu virus bad and it isn't her first time that she caught it.

It was so bad that she had high fever.. the moment baby D has high fever, all she wants is just Mama. I can't leave her sight to make milk nor prepare the medicine. It seems that only my presence can calm her.. my voice can sooth her and my hugs and kisses can heal her.

It is this notation that makes me think that Motherhood is really wonderful. I'm still in awe that this little human being is soo independent and yet so dependant on Mama. How long will baby D be dependant on me till? All these will go away the moment she has grown up. Some day it will reach to point when my voice can't sooth her nor my hugs and kisses has magical kisses.

I may complain that I dun have time for myself and it is tough to juggle between a wife, full time working adult and a mother.

Babies dun keep. I'm just gonna increase my patience level and enjoy this journey!

Xoxoxo
Felicia

Friendship

As I grow older, got married and have a family. I wonder if I will still have my friends with me?

I not the kind of person who have alots of friends.. those who I called good friends (aka sisters kinds) are just a handful. I'm thankful that I have 2 good sisters whom I've been contacting since Secondary School days.. they are my oldest friends.

Next batch of friends are the ones that I've made during my working days. These group of girls are the only ones who are I really hang out with and meet up often. But recently I felt that one of them have fall out of grid.. Felt sad that best friends has become strangers.

Well, life still lives on. At least now I know who are my true friends.

Xoxoxo
Felicia

Motherhood vs Just Me?

Now that I'm a mother.. I can start to feel the difference when I'm single and when I have a toddler on my hip.

Things are different. My weekends are spent mothering that little human that I've created. I spent time playing with her, bringing her out and do some mother daughter bonding.
Time actually flies when you're out.. well for my case cause my in law place isn't really baby proof and D is super curious that she will touch EVERYTHING! (Itchy fingers and itchy backside cause she can't sit still)

Trust me, I love our weekends like this. But at times, I just wish have a day to myself to do things that I want.. Stuffs like, going for yoga classes, manicure / pedicures, going to hair salon to get my hair done and etc. I'm able to do these "my errands" on weekdays which means that I will need to apply leave.

This year.. a big bulk of my leave went to house renovations. I need to take leave here and there to ensure that delivery is on time, to check out works are done according to our preferences and etc. This leave me with having to think carefully whenever I wanna apply leave to run my own errands.

I just wish that I can split myself into two.

Xoxo
Felicia

Home Renovation {Part 4 - Handover & Home Styling}

Our renovation has finally come to an end!! We were pretty excitied when our contractors are ready to handover our place!

Our Living Room. We super love the IKEA Chair & our mini Sofa! They are sooo comfortable!

Kitchen area.

Super loving the komplacpus top!

Shoe Rack @ the entrance. 

Study Room

Kids Room

Finally purchased our TV! 

More pictures to come and these are just the initial stage where we start to do our decorating!

We have unofficially moved it.. well maybe just the weekends only. More like a staycation house!

Thus far.. all carpentry stuffs works fine (In terms of cupboard, drawers etc). Both my parent in laws claims that our contractors did a pretty good job.

The only spoiler is our aircon! Damn it!! Firstly aircon was not cool at all.. got the Panasonic guys to check and realize that the condenser gas is leaking. So the aircon contractor got this team down to repair and that was 3 weeks ago.

Last week, again the aircon isn't working! Not cold at all.. have to get them to come down to service.
And they even have the cheek to say to me that hopefully this is the last time they service our aircon!! Wah lau!! In the first place, if you do a good job, you don't have to come down to my place numerous time!

More furniture are coming in this weekend so take the chance to tidy the house and post up more pictures!

Have a great weekend and make a wise choice during Polling Day!!

Xoxoxo
Felicia

Home Renovation {Part 3 - Carpentry Works}

So here's a little update on my house renovation.

We are pretty happy with the outcome! Finally we have a home to call our own.

A heaven for us to return.. 

Carpentry works are up for the whole house as well as lightings that we purchased from Taobao.

It really pay off to read the reviews of the items carefully. Cause those lights that we carefully purchased are of good quality.

When I first know about Kompacplus, I tell myself.. I'm so gonna do this for my place and there is my dream come true.

I love the woody grains and how sleek the kitchen top looks.

It's really a pity that due to space constraint we couldn't do a mini walk in wardrobe. Cause it's my dream to have one! But still, this is good enough.. And I think I make a pretty good choice to have 2 different laminates  shades together!

Another piece of work that my contractors did for me that I super love!

We are pretty happy with the workmanship from Mr J&E. You can see that the quality is there. We have no complaints about this duo! Thumbs up!
Though Mr E is the only project manager and they have at least over 10 projects on hand thus a little reminder as and well is required.

And right now, they have handover the flat to us. So we can't wait to start decorating and move in real soon!!

Source: Pinterest

See ya next time!

Xoxo
Felicia