Category Archives: Close to Heart & Home

Family, friends & home

Belated but made with love

Posted on January 5, 2010 by The Giddy Tigress

I’m not the supermommy people claim I am. My goal of knitting a little something for my kids kept shifting, but still I was determined to complete what I had started. I began knitting a pair of babylegs/leg warmers for … Continue reading →

Posted in Close to Heart & Home, Ethan, Hannah, Parenting & Motherhood | 9 Comments

Joyous hope for New Year

Posted on January 3, 2010 by The Giddy Tigress

  Surely kickstarting the New Year with a delicious dim sum brunch with my family is a sign of good things to come.  I don’t need to read all the predictions and fortune teller articles to know that a great … Continue reading →

Posted in Close to Heart & Home, Relax & Celebrate, Thoughts & Scribblings | 4 Comments

The Santa Claus question

Posted on December 28, 2009 by The Giddy Tigress

  Photo credits We visited the mall on the 23rd of December, doing our last minute Christmas shopping.  It just so happened that we bumped into the mall Santa Claus while we were there, and he gave some candy to Ethan. When … Continue reading →

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Those unchanging things

Posted on December 4, 2009 by The Giddy Tigress

Some things just never change. Like how crowded the popular ngah choy kai stalls in Ipoh are, most patrons being out-of-towners stopping by for a quick bite. Like how crunchy and succulent the ngah choy in Ipoh still is.  And … Continue reading →

Posted in Close to Heart & Home, Drooling & Cooking, Relax & Celebrate, Thoughts & Scribblings | 7 Comments

The ultimate giddy ear test

Posted on November 11, 2009 by The Giddy Tigress

Our fridge is *decorated* with lots of magnets on its exterior, and one of these is a set of Fridge Phonics which Ethan loves to play with.  What this Fridge Phonics set does is sing a song corresponding to a … Continue reading →

Posted in Close to Heart & Home, Thoughts & Scribblings | 9 Comments