My little Daniyal, now six, would always be thrilled at the thought of his mommy staying at home and playing with him. Even when I am at work, I would picture Daniyal looking at me innocently. Apart from checking his bag and making sure that his books are in order and homework done everyday, I look forward to spending sacred time with him and my girl, Qil.
I suppose it has to do with the inner most desire of most working moms to spend good quality time with their little ones before tucking themselves in and bracing for another dreadful working day the day after...with deadline and drop dead boring meetings with directors and other supposed 'superiors'.
Like most parents, I have not been spared of moments when I'm home with my precious and they would run up to me and scream, “Play with me!”. Needless to say, I would be dumbfounded with an emptier than blank look on my face! Smiling at them, I would then calmly seek answers from the all knowing guru - the Internet?! They say Science saves the day again! I must say I have learnt some things myself playing with them.
We started on origami and my children simply love folding the papers! There is also a lot of values that they can learn from origami : like learning to be patient and peservere if you got your papers folded inappropriately! Needless to say, it was also an 'awwwww.....' moment when the little ones made flower origami for me...
We often visit this site as it gives simple techniques of folding which is suitable for the little ones. http://www.origami.com/
At times, we also experimented on face painting. We would at times rope in the children's cousins in the face painting party. It's really endless fun and laughter as we watched how we could turn into butterflies and she-tigers by simple strokes of the brushes!
Mom could also be the princess she had always wanted to be, or even unleash the wolverine in her...all with the magic brush strokes of face painting ....
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