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6 Informative Pregnancy Reads
What to Expect when Expecting My oncologist said if there was a book to read on pregnancy this is it. And she was very encouraging about being my own advocate, especially how people and some doctors...
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Pregnant during a global pandemic: My Miracle baby
What strange times we live in. Baby G is now a little over 4 weeks old. I’ve revisited this earlier draft and just publishing now. I was afraid to do so in advance, with the anxiety of jinxing myself...
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Pregnancy Dos & Don’ts: All the unsolicited advice
For the entire time I was pregnant I likened it to my cancer journey – you get plenty of unsolicited advice and fear-mongering paranoia don’t do this, don’t eat that, eat this ton of supplements, eat...
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Cloth Diapers: Trial and error
Baby G turns 7 weeks this weekend and I’ve been cloth diapering part time for the last 6 weeks since we got back from the hospital. It’s been alot of trial and error, to say the least, wee leaks and...
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Motherhood
We’re just about to hit the 12 weeks mark and time has flown by. I’m surviving and having a lot more fun than I ever imagined. I feel like I’m driving blind every day on the adventure road trip of a...
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Sewing Projects: The Shift Dress
With Covid, no travel, a new baby and all, it is difficult not to turn Chicken Scrawlings into a Mum blog, but I’m still trying and I have lots of backdated content I never got round to posting that...
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Motherhood: 10 key learnings
It’s been a while since I updated, the baby rarely naps and is always curious, wants to chitchat and hangout. A serious case of FOMO. I guess life is fair because he’s very high maintenance in the day...
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Motherhood: 8 Ways to reduce waste
I fell into Motherhood by chance and it has been the most intense and rewarding life experience ever. They say the hardest work is always the best work – unpaid on top of that. Having a child was...
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Motherhood: It takes a village
I can’t believe a year has gone by and the baby is ONE! I finally understand the cliché phrase of “the days are long and the years are short.” We survived as a family – everyone is alive, healthy and...
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Favourite Cloth Diapers
Now that the pet human is 16months old, cloth nappies have become second nature to us. I started when he was 6-7 weeks old and haven’t looked back since. We’ve had to evolve our strategy as he got...
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Married to a (*** Michelin) chef
Happy International Women’s Day! I wish women were celebrated every single day and didn’t need a specific day/excuse for this. This is a long overdue post that I didn’t have time to finish, much less...
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Art Basel Hong Kong 2022 highlights
We checked out Art Basel over the weekend really briefly. The toddler likes looking at things – partly because I also love looking at things and we’ve been going to galleries since he was a newborn....
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Travel: Top 10 Singapore Favourites with the toddler
Walks on East Coast beach at dusk Our trip home to Singapore was brief, eventful and memorable. My son got to meet his grandparents and extended family for the first time. He also ran a very high...
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Hong Kong Palace Museum
Hardly able to take decent photos these days running after my toddler.. so this is as good as it gets unfortunately. An interesting juxtaposition of modern architecture and ancient imperial Chinese...
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Life, Death and the messiness of Motherhood
I finally understand the sacrifices, sheer exhaustion and reality of balancing life and motherhood now that I’ve got a spirited 2.5 year old. In between, life and death happens. I didn’t realise I’d...
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The neverending cycle of the flu
I feel like I can never get a break as the whole family is sick and the toddler has been sick for 3 weeks. I haven’t slept much in the past weeks with the cycles of raging high fevers, multiple trips...
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DIY Play Dough
We started making our own play dough for over a year now because the store bought one dries up really quick and it’s neither environmentally friendly or economical to keep paying for individual tubs...
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Sensory Play: Making Oobleck
I hope everyone is staying dry and safe in this Hong Kong super typhoon weather. We’ve been stuck indoors all weekend, no school on Friday and it’s been a very wet and windy Saturday. We made playdoh,...
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Play: The Tiger who came to tea
This is one of the toddler’s favourite books. We’ve been reading it since birth, and have read both the English and Chinese version of it. It’s his first time in a theatre. We’ve previously sat...
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Madagascar Hong KOng Musical: fun for the school holidays
The toddler absolutely loved The Tiger who Came to Tea by Aba Productions, so I’ve decided that we’ll go see as many shows and productions as we can and figure out what exactly he likes, and doesn’t...
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