Yes... this is a very good vintage
Pic shows Jo Ern inhaling alcohol from hubby's glass. Future wine connoisseur or alcohol junkie? Hmm... I personally wouldn't encourage this at all. Told hubby that addicts get high from sniffing glue just like this. But hubby decided that's a completely different thing. And will offer Jo Ern his glass to smell. She on her part already knows that she won't get to actually drink, and will still happily stick her little nose in the glass and breathe in deeply. Sigh. I shall compromise and take a step backwards. Maybe it's good to have a counter-point to my overprotectiveness.
Since I'm on the topic... couple of other points on which hubby and I think differently:
1. I am following my mum's rule of no snacks right before meals. Hubby on the other hand believes in having many small meals and thus snacks whenever he likes. Only last weekend, with lunch to be served at 12.30pm, he made himself instant noodles with an egg around noon. On the bright side, this is someone who will never complain that meals are late! I have basically come to terms with this. Well sort of, I do get annoyed when he doesn't do justice to a meal I've painstakingly cooked because he just had a big snack of roast pork washed down with Guinness Stout.
Jo Ern is showing the same preference for snacks vs meals. Hubby says might as well let her eat what she wants rather than force her to eat what she doesn't. He will give her the biscuits, bread and whatnot she asks for while I am cooking dinner. I do intend to fight this battle, to get proper meals into the kid! (Hubby says biscuits and bread are also nutritious what... grrr)
2. Hubby recently decided that a 2am curfew was right for an 18-year old girl. I would freak out if 16 years in the future, my precious Jo Ern wasn't home by, oh, 11pm! Heh. But I am aware also that setting unreasonable rules will mainly result in broken rules. Oh well, I still have time to enjoy her childhood innocence and will cross this bridge when it comes.
It's still a long way to go before we start to worry about our little gals' curfews...hehehe. but...12 o'clock is when Cinderella's spell broke, so, I guess that'd be my guideline when she turns 18??? Ahhh, I really dunno. Btw, Jo Ern, may grow up being an official wine taster....she could differentiate different types of wine just by a mere sniff! teehee. Now, I call that originality...
ReplyDelete2am curfew at 18 years old? hmm... i never tot of such rules... not for now... but i think i'll be the flexible type but probably not BH, so i'll let him decide...hahaha... mummy hands off in this topic.
ReplyDeleteI was nodding my head when I read Item No. 1. I got absolutely APPALLED the first few times J had heavy snacks while I was cooking. Grrrr!
ReplyDeleteOlive, haha just put for fun only. I myself can't really differentiate types of wine heh.
ReplyDeleteCat, yours are boys la... can have less supervision.
Y, the only reasoning that get sympathy is that my hard work in cooking is wasted. Can't convince him snacking is not good.
we have wine sniffers in this house too :)
ReplyDeleteHave 1 rule enforced. U practice one, hubs practice one..surely the gal will take the easy way out.
ReplyDeleteI was gonna write a post abt the difference of opinions between both spouses too. I have been at some teeth grinding moments when it comes to clashes of hubby's parental skills. But dun dare. haha. scared hubby get offended. See hw la.
ReplyDeleteur curfew 11pm ah...?? mine will be 10pm! :)
2am for a teenager??? No way no way! Tell ur hubby la..now so many 'buaya' already...dunno how next time 15 yrs down d road.
I was gonna write a post abt the difference of opinions between both spouses too. I have been at some teeth grinding moments when it comes to clashes of hubby's parental skills. But dun dare. haha. scared hubby get offended. See hw la.
ReplyDeleteur curfew 11pm ah...?? mine will be 10pm! :)
2am for a teenager??? No way no way! Tell ur hubby la..now so many 'buaya' already...dunno how next time 15 yrs down d road.
Leona, I was debating whether to write this too. Two things tipped it over to yes: 1) was annoyed at hubby at the time :) 2)decided hubby probably wouldn't read this for a while, if ever!
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