Celebrations!!

Wow!! Has it been 2 weeks since I last posted here?! Are you all still there or have you given up on this blog already?!?!

I know I was very tied up but I had no idea 2 weeks had flown by without me giving you all any update on our lives.

Well, nothing much has happened. We were busy preparing for Isaac's 1st month celebration which happened on the 26th of January and when I said busy preparing, I was not kidding.

See, besides the usual sourcing for a caterer for the luncheon, we went ...... well a few steps further! Our home was about 6 years old now so we decided to repaint it. It was not easy when we were so close to Chinese New Year. In the end the Mrs, ever reliable, found a relative cheap deal and to make it even cheaper we went out and purchased our own paint.

Isaac's Godma happens to be an Interior Designer so she chose a few colours for us. We went ahead without knowing what they will look like because we trust her and a large part of it was also down to the fact that they are mostly mixtures of different colours and not those off the shelf ones hence there wasn’t any colour chart for them.

We were also tired of our sofa so we got ourselves a new one called Tagliatelle from this place Massimmo, you might know the shop if you followed the channel 8 variety program on renovating houses, Home Decor (actually its more like renovating the living room). They need to fabricate our sofa according to our dimensions so it will not be ready till 8th March. Meantime they loaned us a set so plus the original set, we had enough sitting place for our guests.

Lastly the Mrs also spent a considerably time on selecting the party favours for all our friends and relatives. She had a few options but in the end went with the Hershey chocolates with specially printed wrappers. The wrappers were ordered directly from the States while the chocolates were bought from the distributor locally. We had the same idea for our wedding so we were pleasantly surprised when the staffs remembered us from our last order. Apparently till date no one else has gone to them for this arrangement.

Unfortunately we did not have any family portrait taken during the celebration because we were so busy entertaining our various groups of friends and relatives. In fact come to think of it, the Mrs and I were at separate parts of the house most of the time.

Once the 1st month celebration was over, we were busy with the preparation for the Chinese New Year! The main item on the agenda was to find the Mrs and Baby Isaac some new clothing.

It was impossible to find a red top for Isaac so we ended up buying the usual white and blue. Then Godma surprised us with 2 tops for Isaac and both are from Club 21 (Armani)!! We later learned that each piece costs approximately S$290!!! That was crazy!! So now we have to try and let Isaac wear them more often before he outgrows them.

Notice how you would normally not mind spending a tat more buying baby clothes for your friends’ kids but when it comes to your own, practicality seemed to always win? Not that I am going to buy an Armani for anyone’s kid but we have no problem buying Baby Guess, Gap or Zara as gifts for friends but we have to consider that bit longer when we want to buy for Isaac. Have we gotten cheap skate with the birth of a child or are we merely cheap parents?!

The year of the Rat also mark the first year that we can hopefully half our "loses" because we have been giving ang baos for the past 5 years without taking any in return. A quick survey revealed that we have to stick to my plan of having 3 kids in order to not “lose” money during Chinese New Year. Oh dear!! I think…….its official, I’m cheap skate for just thinking it! Ha Ha

With all the ang paos that Baby Isaac had collected from his 1st month celebration and Chinese New Year, including the baby bonus given by the Government, Baby Isaac could actually pay for his own delivery in Mount Elizabeth, the painting of the house plus the catered luncheon. Hmmm.... come to think of it, he may just be able to pay for the new sofa as well!! Not bad huh?! It was very tempting to seek reimbursement or what I would like to refer to as safe keeping the money for him. But in the end we went out and got him a new bank account.

Lastly, in case you’re wondering, I did not get careless and forgot to “Photoshoped” our names out of the wrappers! I was merely too lazy to do it plus I figured I owed it to all 3 of you who are still coming back to this blog with me going MIA for these past weeks!! So there you have it, our names at last!

Hi, my name is Dylan and thank you for following my blog!