New year, new beginnings

Here's to the new year
New hopes
New dreams
New life
New challenges

Today was the first day of school. My baby went on the school bus for the first time (we made this decision so that I won't have to juggle a new born AND be chauffeur next month) and a little part of me wept. She looked so small climbing up the gigantic steps of the school bus, but she was bursting with excitement as we've been talking it up for 2 weeks. The send-off party/cheerleading squad consisted of hubby and I, the grandparents, as well as our neigbours who happened to be downstairs. so one kid on the bus, 6 adults clapping hands!

Today was a wonderful day otherwise, as hubby was off work, so we could trot downtown for lunch and spend the time making new year resolutions. I've resolved to print it out this time and paste it in our room. who knows which notebook we wrote last year's resolutions on! and its anyone's guess WHAT those resolutions are. I've pared mine down to a simple one that covers pretty much everything.

Be a better home manager.

I realise that my life is chaotic because I'm way way too lassez-faire about everything. Everything happens too spontaneously. Run out of milk? Go to NTUC now before breakfast. What to do in the evening? How about the library? It kinda throws everything out of whack when no one has a clue what's going to happen day to day, hour to hour and the little one's bed time is whenever I've persuaded her to go to her room. What this all means is, for 2010, I'm going to put myself and my family on some sort of schedule/time-table so that everyone knows what on earth's going on and we can be flexible within that schedule. it makes it easier for little Paige (yes, that's going to be her name) to fit into our routine. That will also ensure that Maeve has the right balance of outdoor activity daily (cycling, scooting, swimming etc) as well as some quiet indoor ones (puzzles, blocks, painting, play- pretend), as well as some, *drum roll* Mandarin time! So the deal is she gets one hour of immersion from 8-9pm in this language (flash cards, music, videos, games, plain ol conversation with her linguistically challenged mother). God help me! Then daddy takes over to do the bed time routine and i'm off duty for the day! Which explains why i can update this blog today at a sane hour.

Tomorrow I'm going to start doing up a time table which the whole family can refer to and hopefully stick to, and start planning more nutritous meals that don't include ice-cream after dinner and cake for supper. yes, sugar-ladened food will only appear on sunday. let's see how i long i can keep to this.