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wow! 1 Jan 2014 was when i wrote my last post.

sorry to those (handful of my friends and family) who’s been dropping by regularly checking in for a new post. i apologise for the lack of post the past 3 weeks. i don’t have a valid reason to my lack of post but i have one word for you – laziness. yes, i’ve been bitten by the lazy bug and haven’t been up to much interesting events that is blogworthy. but don’t worry. i haven’t forgotten about this little corner of mine and i intend to keep it alive for awhile. i foresee some interesting posts coming up from February onwards.

so, a friend of mine shared a link on facebook few days ago and the title to the link caught my eye. It  says “successful parenting without spending money: a mother’s story.” i was intrigued. normally i dont click onto links like that but i had to. i wanna read about it. i clicked on the link and it was about this woman in the UK who started a blog  “free our kids” to document this challenge she set for herself of going a whole year without spending any money on children’s products for her son. she's lived like this for more than one year now and i'm in awe of how she does it because i struggle to go through with my play to "buy nothing for myself for a month" last july. 

after i finished reading the article, i visited her blog to find out how she does it. she writes about her creative ways of homemade toys and toddlers activities and her blog posts are often accompanied by photos of her son enjoying his homemade toys. this kid looks like the happiest child in the world with his homemade toys. sometimes i often forget what our kids really want is is for us to play with them and spend time with them. they really wouldn't know any better if the toy we just brought home for them is one of the latest toy in the market or one that is hand me down from another child. of course this only applies to kids under the age of three but i would take full advantage of this age before they become aware of the world of consumerism and start demanding for the latest toys they see on tv. 

i'm a true believer in hand me downs toys (to a certain degree anyway). as long as the toys is cleanable and disinfectable, hand me downs are perfectly fine. afterall, they will only be played for a very short period of time before they are tossed to the side for another toy. but i do stay away from hand me down soft toys, books or anything that can't be cleaned thoroughly. 

speaking of hand me downs, i'm actually quite chuffed about how useful and how much value i've gotten out of this second hand baby capsule we picked up when we had boo two years ago. boo was the second baby to use it and the capsule has been in storage since he turned four months old. i lend it to Kirsten last June and she's been using it since Liam was born. as soon as the capsule was returned to me two weeks ago, i passed it onto Vivian so she could use it when her baby arrives in March. once she's done with it, maybe we'll get to use it again ourselves? hehe, the greenie in me is quite happy about the amount of use we got out of the capsule and how well i'm extending its life. 

anyway, i think this post is getting too wordy and due to my laziness, i don't have any new photos to share with you. i shall stop here. i will try my best to prepare a more interesting and photo loaded post next time?