SAHM or FTWM??

Angie tagged me on whether I wanna be a SAHM or FTWM.

It's really very much depends on how u define SAHM. If being a SAHM with a helper to do all the house chores, and I got to spent all the quality time with my baby for fun time like playing, singing, reading stories etc....YUP! I would definitely dive it for it.

But as for now, my vote goes to FTWM. Reasons being:

1. First, I am a bad cook, with no talent and no interest. I just love to eat good food, so I would leave this important job to someone whom fit the shoe :)
2. Income is a very important source for me to be self-sufficient and allow me spending flexibility either to my baby or what ever I wish to do. So pretty hard to give that up at this moment :) unless there is an alternative solution, such as a full-loaded supplementary credit card from someone??? (day-dreaming...)
3. Being a FTWM, I would be able to meet up with other mommies, exchange parenting tips & sharing experiences which I believed it's a good source for me to learn to be a better mother to my baby
4. I can be a up-to-date modern mum , rather than a "wong ming poh" at home only which is a definite no-no-no

~~~Instructions~~~

Here’s how it works:
1. So easy peasy, if you were given a choice, would you be a SAHM or FTWM? Just provide 3 darn good reasons.
2. Include your post link to the list below and Finally,
3. Tag another three mommies

Again I will tag:
1) Lee Lein - another task for u :)
2) Shirley - you haven't even started on the last one I gave you, but that doesn't mean I am gonna leave you out this round :p

Yummy chicken porridge

Jojo's first chicken porridge and he just love it!

He had taste chicken before. But, this is the first time we grind the chicken meat into the porridge. Jojo loves it and I enjoyed seeing him having a good meal :) thus the recording

Meaning of Joshua 陈明宏

Was tagged by Evan's mum last Friday (Thanks Angie!), and it's the first tag I ever received..hence I was pretty excited about doing it yet have no idea how to go about it althou' I have seen tags in other mommies' blogs before...

Anyway Angie told me it's just copying something over to Jojo's blog and inserting comments on the subject.

Unfortunately I didn't have the time to update Jojo's blog at all over the weekend. Ok, will try to catch up on this over these few days...

Here's the stories...

Jojo's full name is Joshua Tan Ming Hoong. 陈明宏.

Joshua basically means "Bringer of truth" in spiritual connotation and he would be blessed in what he does (hopefully!)

Personally I like the Chinese character of 明 which means smart & intelligence & 宏 which means great & famous.

Naming my baby was really a 'big task' for us especially both of us don't really know how to start. We were trying to consult both our parent on this, if there is any prefered 'family names' which we need to follow or any 'pantang larang' on naming we should note etc.....well, both grandparents also no concerns thus ok, meaning we can just name anything for our baby..


What we did were:

1. My friend lends me 2 books on naming, one for English names and another on Chinese names. I felt that the Chinese one was difficult to follow, so at the end I just put it aside. Then we pick a few 'favorites' from the English naming book - Jonathan, Joshua, Issac, ..etc. The English one was quite good coz it provides meaning on each of the names.


2. Coming to decide on which English name was not easy. Another friend of mine shared on how her baby 'choosed' his own name. What she did was during her pregnacy, she explained to her baby that she was going to choose a name for him. She choosed some names earlier, and called them out in schedule to her baby. Then she told her baby to 'kick' her if he likes the name she called out. After repeated them a few times, her baby decided his own name. Sound interesting....so I try the same on my baby, unfortunately I was not so lucky :( my baby didnt response at all..


3. At the end, daddy is the one decided to name our baby Joshua!


4. As for the Chinese name, I was thinking of paying someone to give Jojo a 'good name' coz there was so many 'rules' to follow for Chinese name. And I was concerned if the name may affect Jojo's luck and fortune/destiny in future.....But at the end, hubby objected the idea coz he thinked I was too supertiteos.


5. Then when the due date was getting nearer & nearer...and I started to worry! So I kept pressing hubby to come out with the Chinese name. Suddenly one day he came back from work and told me he want to name our baby "Ming Hoong", which to him means "Famous". So I start to check from websites which Chinese characters are the best for "Ming Hoong" and this is how I ended naming Jojo 明宏, which in the website was specified as 稳重、有创造力, 温 和 、 浪 漫 、 有 情 有 义. Not bad, plus I like the character coz they are simple and nice,
   
   **Start Copy**
   
   Proposition: What is the meaning of your kid’s name?
   Requirements: write about what or how or why you giving the name to your kids.
   Quantity: FIVE PEOPLE.
   Tag Mode:1st - You leave their blog and post link and add to the list below.
   2nd - Let the blogger you want to tag know they been tagged by comment in their blog or etc.
   1) Msaufong - Meaning Of SQ & Kiki’s name
   2) Miche - My ACB
   3) Sweetpea - My Little Fire
   4) Yvonne - The Meaning of Ryan’s Name
   5) ShoppingMum - Justin & Isabellea
   6) Judy - Meaning of the name Terry
   7) LiL’deviL - Mini Hawke
   8) Mrs. Wallace Notes - My Daugther Name
   9) Raising Belle - Monkey Girl
   10) Hin Lerk's Diary - The meaning of his name
   11) Our Baby Evan - What's in your name?
   12)Tiffany - Meaning of Joshua 陈明宏

Okay, now I would like tag LeeLein and Shirley.

JOSHUA

I bought these cute alphebets when Jojo was about 5M old, and stick them on our bedroom's door.

Every morning & night whenever I carry him into/out from the room, I'll let him look at it and read out his name for him....( i m trying to test-see if this will help him in reading & writing his name easier in later stage)

anyway this now becomes one of his favorite spot. He will laugh and try to touch the alphebets everytime he see them :)

Just a thought!

Hubby and I don't have long eye lashes.

But Jojo's lashes is definitely longer and prettier than ours..

his eyes r bigger and more killer look too..(definitely killing his mommy, me la..)

So hubby always says..hmm, how come Jojo doesn't follow us?

So I told hubby...minus plus minus equal to positive, so tat's the results lor :D