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Happy New Year!! I am surprised if anyone is still checking in on this dormant blog, but I thought I'd come back to round up our 2022.  If you didn't already know, 2022 was the year of huge change for us as a family, and even more so on a personal level.  We relocated back to Singapore at the end of March 2022.  The months leading up to the move was, well, stressful and very emotional for me.  I couldn't find any capacity within me to blog about anything.  It's been 9 months now and things are more settled.  I've also started working in a full time role, and being thrown straight into a fast paced corporate world has mostly left me breathless this past year with no time for anything else. Arriving at Changi Airport Cheerful kids I last blogged about the kids' birthdays at the end of 2022 and how time has flown pass - in the twinkling of eye and between two blog posts, the kids' celebrated their birthdays once more.  Isabelle turned 5 and Gabriel turne...

Happy New Year everyone!  Am I still allowed to say that?  I guess so as it is still January ;) So much happened in the month of December that I didn't have time to sit down to blog even though there were so many evenings I contemplated to... and the idea of Netflix or just sleeping early lured me away from this blog. Izzy's handmade card which she did in school Tonight I'm doing a catch up of what we did on the lead up to Christmas and the kids' birthdays. We planned a plethora of Christmas-related activities for the kids.  I guess the FOMO Bel in me was the driving force for them.  It was a bit crazy if you see our list below.  Also for some reason we crammed most of them in the first 2 weeks of December, which looking back was by God's grace.  More on that later. Here is my recap! Santa's Grotto at Bluewater - Thinking that we didn't sign up for any Santa's Grotto for the kids this year, I eagerly booked this and told K that I would drive the kids th...

Izzy's third job was with Lipsy London.  I didn't know they do children's clothing and at the shoot, I was told it is a fairly new thing.  We were meant to travel all the way across London to the North west, and by itself we were meant to take more than an hour for our journey.  But it turned out there were train delays that morning, and it took us almost 2 hours to arrive!  I gave the agency a heads up, and I felt really bad as the agency was texting me to say they were still waiting for me.  We ended up to be 40min late, though it was through no fault of our own. Taking the tube - travelling to the shoot location Hair & light make up Immediately they sat Izzy down for a light hair and make up.  As expected she kinda froze cos to be fair, we rushed in and they whisked her to sit on the high chair and I think the speed of things caught her by surprise.  I had to keep reassuring her that it was fine.  No surprises there, she refused to smile an...