It's Playtime...

My little Daniyal, now six, would always be

thrilled at the thought of his mommy staying at

home and playing with him. Even when I am at work,

I would picture Daniyal looking at me innocently.

Apart from checking his bag and making sure that

his books are in order and homework done everyday,

I look forward to spending sacred time with him

and my girl, Qil.

I suppose it has to do with the inner most desire

of most working moms to spend good quality time

with their little ones before tucking themselves

in and bracing for another dreadful working day

the day after...with deadline and drop dead

boring meetings with directors and other supposed

'superiors'.

Like most parents, I have not been spared of

moments when I'm home with my precious and they

would run up to me and scream, "Play with me!".

Needless to say, I would be dumbfounded with an

emptier than blank look on my face! Smiling at

them, I would then calmly seek answers from the

all knowing guru - the Internet?! They say

Science saves the day again! I must say I have

learnt some things myself playing with them.

We started on origami and my children simply love

folding the papers! There is also a lot of values

that they can learn from origami : like learning

to be patient and peservere if you got your

papers folded inappropriately! Needless to say,

it was also an 'awwwww.....' moment when the

little ones made flower origami for me...

We often visit this site as it gives simple

techniques of folding which is suitable for the

little ones. http://www.origami.com/

At times, we also experimented on face painting.

We would at times rope in the children's cousins

in the face painting party. It's really endless

fun and laughter as we watched how we could turn

into butterflies and she-tigers by simple strokes

of the brushes!

Mom could also be the princess she had always

wanted to be, or even unleash the wolverine in

her...all with the magic brush strokes of face

painting ....