I'm a full-time mummy

Wow! I can't believe it's been 3 months since I started my tandem nursing journey!

It's been a bitter sweet journey, of course I had to struggle and battle the negative emotions at the beginning stage, but thank God, I have found support from my husband and through my many bloggy friends. Thank you all for helping me get through it!

In the beginning, Ben wanted to nurse when he saw me nursing Alyson. I then got to limit down his nursing to twice a day, before his afternoon naptime and before bedtime at night. I will either be tandem nursing them both (Ben on my left, Alyson on my right) or I'll let my hubby take care of Alyson in the next room or I'll nurse her until she's asleep and then spend the time with Ben before he sleeps and asked for his feed.

3 months on, Ben is down to nursing once a day most of the time, which is before his bedtime at night. I don't know how we eliminated the afternoon feed, it just happened. One moment I was nursing Alyson and I told Ben to watch his Fireman Sam video on my iPad while I nursed Alyson, next moment I found him asleep already. It happened a few more times after that and Ben is no longer on his afternoon feed.

As for bedtime, Ben nowadays will tell me 'OK time to sleep!' and I will get ready and then he will tell me 'This side!' (pointing to my right breast) which I'm taking the advantage of that to teach him the difference on left and right. He will then nurse while I talk gently to him, telling him what he has done good and bad for the day and that he should and should not do anymore and we pray and thank God for the day and so on.

I will then tell him 'OK, enough' after a few minutes, to which he will normally tell me 'Last only!' meaning he wants another go at the nursing as a last time and I will usually relent and let him nurse a bit more and then when I tell him 'OK, enough' again, he will unlatched and tell me 'Mummy hug Ben-ben' to which I of course, will hug and cuddle next to him and we will keep quiet and he will fall asleep after that.

I love these moments! I'm not sure how long our tandem nursing journey will last, I will cherish it while it lasts!

Here is my review for the "Healthy Eating for Kids" book:

Title: Healthy Eating for Kids
Author: Trevor Dumbleton
 ASIN:  B005UPPHA8
File Size: 314kb
 Format: Kindle edition

Description from the product page:
""Healthy Eating for Kids" was written with the busy family in mind. Most recipes can be prepared in 15 minutes or less, which is less time than you might spend waiting in line for a hamburger and fries.

The recipes in "Healthy Eating" also come in kid-sized portions. If your child is a picky eater and refuses to eat the dinner that you are preparing for the rest of the family, you will be able to whip up a healthy alternative in minutes. On the other hand, if you would like to make a "Healthy Eating" recipe for the whole family, it is simple to do, since it is far easier to multiply the recipe than it is to sort out the portions for just one person.

60 fun and healthy recipes in six different categories, including:
* Snacks
* Drinks
* Lunch at Home
* Packed Lunches for School
* Evening Meals at Home
* Desserts

Each recipe is designed to include the vitamins, minerals, and macronutrients that your child needs to stay healthy, strong, focused, and energetic. We've put an emphasis on ideas that:
* Are healthy
* Contain nutrients that are difficult to add to a child's diet
* Fast and easy for parents to make
* Use ingredients that most households have on hand
* Encourage your child to get involved with his or her own nutrition "

This is a very easy and simple recipes book to refer to when you want to make healthy food for your children. The recipes are categorised under: Snacks, Drinks, Lunches (at home / packed to school), Evening Meals and Desserts.

I like the easy to read format where each recipe is covered in 1 page. I also like the additional remarks and/or tips at the end of each recipe.

Room for Improvements?

* I would prefer if the book includes recipes for breakfast as well

* I also noticed some of the font sizes are different in some pages, maybe it's just my weird preferance for everything to be standardised.

You can get this book from Amazon.

I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with a PDF copy of the book by the author in order to facilitate my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine. And if you'd like to read my previous book reviews, you can do so by reading this post of mine called "My Book Reviews"

I remember one of my favorite childhood games was Bingo. It is such an easy game to play! You just need a paper and a pen, then you draw out 5 by 5 boxes and fill up the boxes with numbers from 1 to 25. Okay, granted, my version of Bingo is much simpler and easier.

During my school holidays, I would play this game with my cousins whenever I followed my mum back to her hometown. Even in school, after we finished our year end exams and have got nothing to do, my schoolmates and I will play this game. And when I started dating with my boyfriend (who is my hubby now hahaha..), yes, we played Bingo too!

Boring? Nah... this game is so addictive and exciting! We will rush to call out the numbers we wanted and scrambled to look for the numbers and strike it off the list and prayed hard we will be the first to yell out 'BINGO!' and claimed the glory of being the fastest winner of all!

And now, this game can even be played online! Imagine that... an online bingo game! Makes me want to relive the glory of one of my childhood treasured memories of playing and winning this game!

How about you? What is your favorite childhood game?