One night, I felt frustrated.

Everyday seems a Mad Rush Against Time, meeting everybody else expectations.

We feel frustrated once in a while, with endless things to do and when we start to feel overloaded and unappreciated, and when we can turn to nobody else.

Sometimes, we contain our frustrations well.  However, there will be these days when somehow, we seem more bothered and that is when we start to show our frustrations.

So, that night I was irritated. I became impatient and short-tempered.

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Then, as I went back to my room after a bath, I got a pleasant surprise.

There, standing beside my notebook was a sexy “Wonder Woman”.

[That Wonder Woman was a figurine that came with the purchase of a magazine by Papa Ed and that figurine has been kept by Darren.]

Pressed below the figurine was a note that read: “Surprise! I love Mummy. Mummy is a wonder woman.”

That was a token of appreciation, love and comfort - from my two little boys who can turn my world upset down on one hand and yet continues to bring the greatest joy in my life on the other hand.

Next, I heard some giggling and then the two boys appeared beside me all smiles, with a ”Surprise! Hehehe!”

At that moment, I felt guilty.

Err… my “mood swing” for that night somehow made a 360 degree turn.

[Never know that there is any antidote in this world that can cure frustrations and irritation so effectively, haha].

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Hmm…I have experienced the POWER of a child’s little thoughtful gesture on a mother. 

“Think not of what we have been contributing for our children. Instead, think of what they have been contributing for us - building in us that strength and forbearance.”

This is my belief.

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