It has now been two weeks since little Missy C has been… out, and we are just beginning to settle into a routine. She feeds every 3-4 hours, yes and even through the night. Her jaundice has cleared up which means that I can start stretching out her night feeds. We haven’t yet begun that considering her temporary cot is right next to our beds, so when she cries, I can’t help but get out and service her. Feeding her with a warm bottle of milk gets her back into a deep sleep and within 20 minutes from waking, she’s out cold, drunk with milk.

I have somewhat been well rested. All thanks to my wonderful family, and super husband, Dave. My family does all the cooking, hang out the washing, do the dishes and pretty much all the homely things. Super Dave has been that big support, emotionally and also been doing the diapers (kinda).

He also handles Missy A. He makes sure she’s fed, changed, and ready for school, and while she was sick, he was monitoring her temperature and played Doctor Dad. When I was tired, he’d watch over Missy C making sure that I had some peace to sleep. When I was feeling the blues, he’d cuddle me and see me through the tears and assured me. He also enforced my sleeping, making sure that when there was a time to take a nap, I had to nap (which kinda also didn’t work since I downloaded StoneLoops on my iPhone).

Today, he’s back at work so I’m flying solo. So far… so good but I am certainly missing him – we all are. Dave, I love you so much and thank you so much and  …come home soon!

I’d like to think that I have a wonderful marriage. I love my husband, and my husband loves me. Certainly we have our little arguements and disagreements… but at the end of it all… there’s alot of luuurrrvvee. (Everybody says awww….)

ANYWAY… so as my advice on keeping things that way… what I like to do is to every now and then surprise David Lee with something. Whether it is as a gift, or something done just to show him that I love him. We have been trying to be very simple and clear about what each of our love languages are (google 7 love languages – totally recommend this for everyone whether in a relationship or not or just want to improve on relationships, family etc…) and one of Dave’s is a ‘doing’ one.

So as a surprise… Missy A and I WASHED the car! In my fat, pregnant, water-retained, body… DOING this… is my way of showing him some love. He understood the length Missy A and I went, just to show him this…. AND I think he really appreciated it.

The car wasn’t very dirty to start with… which has been a habit I’ve been trying to pick up. I try to take everything that is NOT suppose to be in the car (i.e extra pair of shoes, a left over cardigan, used tissues..) OUT everytime we park the car at home. Sounds simple right?? Bleh… I find this really hard for some reason… and when I do do it… all the ‘rubbish’ mess ends up in our room floor, or the kitchen floor (I am honestly… a rather messy person… ). Also as Missy A was cleaning, I tried to explain to her WHY we were cleaning which also got her excited in anticipating how Daddy would react. I think it was also important that she understood that we can all show love to each other in different ways.

ANYWAY… so we took out all the mats and vacumned the insides of the car while Missy A had a wet micro-fibre cloth to wipe the chairs and dashboard. E-A-S-Y.

THEN the fun part was to go drive through to MOBIL and get the car automatically washed! $7 … so E-A-S-Y! You really didn’t think I’d get the hose and bucket out to wash the car myself?? (lol.. love does have its limits!).

Have break… Have a Kit Kat.

OMG it took me like 5 mins to get the car into the right position. I’ve never driven to one of these before… so I kept driving over the plate that I was SUPPOSE to be on but the traffic light kept going GREEN rather than red, but if I kept going… I would have just driven OUT of the machine… (confusing stuff)…

Anyway… all I had to do was just dry the car with my CHAMOISE and pick my hubby up. Should have seen the bright eyed grin on his face.

$7 Car Wash

$2.90 Kit Kat (so pricey…)

Look on hubby’s happy chapper’s face – PRICELESS!