I'm a full-time mummy

Amazing how a plain old cardboard box and the wonderful imagination of a child can take them to places far and beyond! The moment our 4 years old boy got into the cardboard box (we have quite a number of these boxes at home) he started doodling and drawing steering wheels, buttons to press all around to launch his spaceship-racing car-house or whatever he fancies the cardboard box to be at the moment.

I also make use of the opportunity to teach my kiddos to share and play together since we only let them have one cardboard box at a time, so they have to play nice and co-operate together.

I also get to rest a few minutes while they both have a go at the cardboard box hahaha... nice, nice...

Hello! Here's the next number writing worksheet I created for my 4 years old boy in our homeschooling lessons. Here's a picture of my boy's worksheet (taken on 30th April 2013) on his first attempt at writing number 8.

And here's a picture of another worksheet (taken on 6th May 2013) on his second attempt at writing number 8.

As to what concept I used to teach him how to write number 8, I told my 4 years old boy that a number 8 looks like 2 circles stacked on top of each other. My boy on and off relapsed on writing this number so I have to keep letting him practise writing it every now and then but he's getting better and better each time.

Btw, in case you are wondering why my boy 'colored' or struck off the objects at the bottom of the page, it is because I taught him to strike off one by one as he counted the number of things in the table.

I don't have designing experience but if you would like a copy of the learning to write number 8 template that I created, feel free to download it here (Learning to Write Number 8.pdf (237.11 kb)) Please note that it is for personal use and I do not own any copyrights to the images used in the worksheet - all the images are from Microsoft Clip Arts.

That's all the updates I can share for now, feel free to ask and share if you have feedback!

It is still the school holidays season here in Malaysia, and yes, even though I'm a stay-at-home mum and our 2 kiddos are not at the school-going age at the moment, I do feel the need to go for a short getaway, a trip for the family you know?

As a stay-at-home mum, one of the things I look forward to is taking a short break from home, to be away with my family on a holiday, just relaxing and not being cooped up in the house. And what more now that I've started homeschooling my 4 years old boy and we are pretty much at home most of the time. All the more reasons we should pack up and go for a nice little getaway!

And because of the school holidays season, I've been seeing posts shared by friends and ex-colleagues about them enjoying some family fun on summer holidays, with pictures posted on Facebook, Seoul, UK, United States, Bali, Hong Kong, and many many more! Arghh.. total envy, envy!

Just in case you are wondering why don't I do something about this since I badly wanted a holiday, well, I did purchased some travel vouchers few months back with the intention to have my small family of four enjoying a weekend breaks for everyone at a historical town about few hours traveling distance by car.

We normally go to family-friendly and near to the places of interests particularly beach area and with lots of good places with delicious food to eat but this time, I decided on going to a historical city with tons of delicious foods to try out and there is a nice little swimming pool in the hotel that our kids can go to with their daddy to have some kiddy-fun time, but as for this going to be heavily pregnant mummy, I am very much looking forward to eat all the yummy foods I can find!

Sadly, I have yet to be able to find the right weekend to redeem the travel vouchers as of now. It's either hubby's schedule is too packed, or we have church classes and doctor's appointment for the kids and myself (for my preggy bump!). I do hope to be able to redeem the vouchers by July this year, since I'm due to deliver our third child in September 2013!

What about you? Do you have any family holiday trip?

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