It's been so long!!

It's been two years since my last post. It hadn't been smooth sailing as so many things happened in the family. Last year, Dear was emotionally drained and stressed due to a serious complaint at work that dragged for more than half a year. This affected his self esteem a lot and business was really tough for him . So thankful that the case had been resolved. Meimei also had to go through a surgery at the end of last year, as the black pigment on her nail was growing quickly so the dermatologist recommended a biopsy on the tissue which required a surgery to be done. I would never forget crying in the operating theatre when the doctors administered anaesthesia on her, but thankfully the biopsy results turned out fine. I also had to go through a small procedure last year to remove vaginal polyps. What was even scarier was when I almost lost bro last year as he was diagnosed with both colon and kidney cancers and suffered rare side effects from the chemotherapy. But again, I'm thankful that he's recovering from multiple ordeals since last year. 

We ended 2023 with an oversea holiday to Japan and the girls totally enjoyed the trip. They did a Vlog that we could watch over and over again (more for meimei). It was unfortunate that Meimei fell ill during the trip and suffered motion sickness regularly which obviously stressed me up so that explained why I didn't really remember much from most overseas holiday, lol. 

This year, both jiejie and meimei studied a lot harder and I'm proud that they did well in their studies. Although jiejie faced alot of challenges and disappointments in the first half of the year, I'm glad that she overcame the challenges and grew more resilient. She even went for OBS at Pulau Ubin in July, so glad she came back in one piece, lol. Oh yes, she also performed on stage twice this year which definitely helped to grow her confidence. For meimei, it was the first time she had to go through WAs and final year exam, so it's been more stressful for her but I could see that she took pride in her work and having Festive Drum as her cca definitely helped to grow her confidence this year. 

Dear and I even went on a short couple trip to Seoul in June this year. It's our first time travelling overseas by ourselves since honeymoon 15 years ago. Although I was recovering from Covid then, the trip was fun and relaxing. I actually didn't have a gazillion things in mind about taking care of the girls in another country, maybe that's why I didn't feel so tired after the holiday, lol. But not having the girls with us during the trip also made me miss them so much and felt like bringing them to Korea next time. Being a mum is so full of contradictions, tsk tsk. 

Now, we'll be going on the next family holiday in 14 days, and I hope it will be an enjoyable and memorable one in Sydney!!! But before that, we need to have an early bday celebration for mum first :)