Cemetery Pants

Crazy Conversations of a mum

Girl: Mummy what is cemetery pants?

Mum: Never heard of it. 

Girl: Well then, what is cemetery?

Mum: It's a place where they bury dead people.

Girl:  And pants?

Mum:  That's trousers.

Girl:  Hmmm... I wonder what my friend was trying to say. She said we'll have to wear cemetery pants.

Mum: Maybe she meant symmetry pants?

Girl: Anyway mum, today teacher asked all the std 1 to 3 children and all the boys to leave, then she talked to us about period. What is period?

Mum: It is menstruation. You know about that.

Girl: I thought period meant time like in our timetable. How come they call this period?

Mum: Well, as you know many words have several different meanings. This is just one of them. It also means its the period of time when you have your menstruation.


*Lightbulb Moment*

Mum: Oh, I think your friend was talking about sanitary pads! (not cemetary pants)


Girl: So what is the meaning of 'sanitary' and what does 'pad' mean?


Mum: Well sanitary means clean and pad is like a cushion. ..........

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Colored Contact Lenses

Green Contact Lenses

Many ladies are now wearing colored contact lenses for cosmetic reasons. These days there are a wide spectrum of shades to complement your looks. For example, there are special shades to blend in with the color of your eyes. You can easily find the best contact lenses for dark brown eyes as well as other shades for different colored eyes.

However, what many people do not know is how to choose those contact lenses. There are many things to consider like whether you need a prescription for colored contacts. If you are wearing contacts, can you switch to color, if you are not wearing contacts, can you wear them just for cosmetic reasons. Can you wear colored contact lenses if you have astigmatism and many more important questions.

Warm Honey Lenses

Apart from these, there are many other questions you should ask yourself before you decide whether contact lenses are for you. You may want to know what colors to choose, how long you can wear colored contact lenses and how long they last.

I feel that before you make a decision on whether colored contact lenses is for you, you should read up more on the FAQs for colored contact lenses. This should give you a better idea before you go out to get colored lenses. It is always better to do some research before you start wearing something so personal as contact lenses.

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A Mother's Love Packed in a Bento Lunch Box

Image Credit: Bento Lunch Jar from Jojirushi

Occasionally I bring lunch for my kids in school. I love observing the children in school especially the little ones. It is even more fun to watch the young ones at the beginning of the year. Watching them struggle with breaking a hard boiled egg shows me the independence that a child learns away from home in big school for the first time. It is quite a wonder to watch them really.

Recently I was with my kids at their school lunch when a Standard One Child aged 7 sat down in front of my kids. He was alone and he had brought with him his big bag of lunch in a food warmer bag. I watched him unzip his insulated food bag then peer into the bag to find out the contents then saw his face light up in a big smile as he saw the many items his mother had packed for him.

There were little love notes with instructions attached to everything. His eyes lighted up again when he saw a note attached to a small packet of snack. Then he took out his tiffin carrier of food and started opening it. There was brown rice, vegetable and fried fish on the different tiers. He opened up his flask and peered into the drink and again smiled happily. He read his mum's notes to him and smiled to himself.

Then he proceeded to eat. When he had finished, he put together his tiffin food carrier again and snapped it shut. Then he struggled to open his snack which so delighted him earlier. After several attempts, he gave up as he could not tear it apart. Aww... He kept his snack and flask into his food warmer and zipped it up, then he left the table..... without his tiffin carrier. Haha. I had to run after him with it.

He was a delight to watch and it just reminds me that even when the mother may be working and may not have the luxury of being around physically, her love is always around and touches a child's heart.

It is important to make that effort of doing small things for our children like the small lunch packed full of love.

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First Time Having His Molar Tooth Extracted

The boy had his tooth extracted recently. It was actually his fourth visit to the dentist for the last two months. His gum was swollen due to a bad filling. He was given antibiotics the first visit, a medicated filling on the second visit, a temporary filling on the third visit. On the fourth visit he was supposed to get the temporary filling replaced by a permanent filling but his gum was still swollen so he had to have his molar tooth extracted. It could no longer be saved.

He was very brave at first, nodding and asking the dentist questions. He was ok when the Local Anaesthetic was injected but when the dentist started to pull, well, thats when the flood of tears came. He had to be consoled by 2 nursing aids and the dentist. All 3 fussed around him, wiping his tears, offering him warm water followed by a cup of hot milo. He cried and cried.

The dentist was very gentle and patient with him and the entire extraction took well over an hour! He had ice-cream after that and he said today is a bad day at first -100 points for visiting the dentist but +100 points for the ice-cream so it evens out.

Later on (about an hour after the dental visit) his body started to itch and his old spots from last year's epstein barr virus infection started to become inflamed. Red, itchy, slightly swollen and a couple turned into blisters. They look like very bad bruises all over his body. He tends to get this whenever he has a fever and infection.

So it was off to the doctor we went yesterday. The doctor was not sure whether it was an allergy reaction to the Local Anaesthetic or an infectious mononucleosis.  Infectious Mononucleosis - I must remember to check up more on that later. He was given antibiotics for 4 days plus antihistamine and a cream for 5 days.

For the sake of memory, I am recording down the Local Anaesthetic here so that I may refer to it later.

He was given 1.6ml of Scandonest 2% which was injected to the gum. The ingredients in the Scandonest Local Anaesthetic are mepivacaine 36mg and adrenaline 18mcg.

Hopefully he will recover by Chinese New Year.

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Perimenopause

During my recent health check, my gynaecologist told me that I am going through perimenopause,  the transition period before menopause sets in. I asked her what that meant and whether it required any treatment but since I did not have any symptoms accept for irregular periods, we decided to leave it alone for now.

My period started becoming irregular when I reached the age of 44. It had been very regular up till then, almost like clockwork and then suddenly it stopped for 4 months. I even thought I was pregnant at the time. I went for a check up then and was told that I was having hormonal imbalances. I told my husband that it explains my sudden bursts of anger. (Excuses. Excuses)

Anyway, since then, my period has been irregular, usually once in 4 months. I haven’t paid much attention to it. I guess I must record it more frequently to know the time lapse between each period.

So, how does it feel like to be going through perimenopause? Just the same, no difference. I feel as young as ever, in my  heart and mind, though not necessarily in body.

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