Travelling with Petite Travellers

We've mostly been grounded this June school holidays. Save for a short trip up north to Malaysia for our annual church camp (and Legoland thereafter!), we've mostly been hanging around Singapore and keeping very busy. My husband thinks I'm incapable of taking it slow and sometimes I think he's right.

But whilst we have not been travelling much, travel has very much been on our minds, and today, I'm excited to be able to share something that a group of my friends and I have been working on. Presenting… Petite Travellers! A collaborative travel blog about family-friendly holidays for discerning little people, Petite Travellers sprung out of our passion for travel, even with kids in tow. It's been fun getting this new blog off the ground and we hope to grow Petite Travellers into a useful reference for parents travelling with their littles.

We've all contributed posts to kick this off and I decided to write about Sydney, one of our regular travel destinations. We've spent quite a bit of time visiting different attractions in and around Sydney from which I've distilled out our favourite ones. Hop on over to read my recommendations for family-friendly attractions for little ones near the heart of Sydney!

Sydney: Recommended city attractions for Under-6s.

We'll be updating regularly so I do hope you'll visit and bookmark the site. Do also visit Petite Travellers' Facebook Page and like us for more updates. Looking forward to bringing you more travel news! 

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

On the eve of Children's Day, a friend tagged me on HeyBaby SG's Facebook Page, asking me to take some time to celebrate the children in my life by noting down up to five unique characteristics of each child.

It seemed simple enough. After all, don't I know my kids better than the back of my hand?

But the truth was that as I sat, phone in hand, ready to jot down some adjectives about my kids, the first ones that popped into my head were all negative. "Clingy", "Fierce", "Overly-Sensitive", "Bossy". Hmmm. I wasn't exactly celebrating them, was I?

I guess as parents, particularly as the parent who is home facing them 24/7, it is easy to focus on the negative. After all, negative behaviour is what I have to deal with all the time. But when I made a concerted effort to look beyond that, I remember that my children are multifaceted different characters. And that while there plenty of ways which I would want them to change, they also have qualities which are worthy of praise. I know that my darling boy is intelligent, artistic and loving, and my precious baby girl is independent, compassionate and oh-so-funny. I just needed to take the time to remember that.

(Image taken from the HeyBaby SG Facebook Page)

My dear children, you are fearfully and wonderfully made, and I thank God for letting me be your Mummy.

We Are On Facebook!

After waffling to and fro on this, I've finally gotten round to setting up a Facebook Page for this blog.

Besides links to posts written on this blog, I hope to be able to share photos that give you snippets of what's going on in our daily lives, as well as share articles and interesting things that I read or come across that don't necessarily warrant a blog post. Given that I'm so behind on this blog anyway and have a million things sitting around in draft that intend to write about but never get round to doing, I think this might be a good way to keep the conversation going. (Conversation is quite the catchphrase these days huh!)

So I hope you'll hop on over and join me by "liking" our Facebook Page! I've also added the Facebook box to the sidebar on the left for easy access. I'll be seeing you there!