Raine was ecstatic when she told me how she was the only one in class who could solve a math problem that her teacher gave. Raine has never considered herself good at math.

But I always thought differently. When I worked through with her the topics she found difficult, I found she knew how to solve the problem. What she lacked was the confidence to know if she’d done it right.

This year, there’s been a huge leap in her confidence level and she’s able to tackle even the more difficult questions with confidence. Like the instance last week when she offered the correct answer when no one else in class got it right. Wow!

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Skye’s been having this on-and-off cough since round about June this year. I’ve taken her to our family doctor a few times. The cough would go away for a while, then come back again.

Although our doctor doesn’t make it a habit to dish out antibiotics, I still didn’t like the idea of her taking so much medication on a regular basis.

So I bought her some cod liver oil ‘plus’. The ‘plus’ version comes with Vitamin D and is supposedly more potent than the regular version. After taking one capsule a day for a month or so, her cough was still coming around on and off.

That’s when I decided to double her intake. The instructions were one or two capsules a day. So I thought why not go for the max and see what happens.

It’s working! She’s been on double dosage for more than a month now and her cough is gone. She herself can feel the difference. I just bought her a new bottle last night.

We did our annual ritual and went to Cosmo’s World at Berjaya Times Square. The funny thing is I didn’t realize how the kids have grown until I take them to places like this where they’re admitted to rides based on their heights.

At the entrance to this indoor theme park, the kids were measured for height. My 3 kids and one of my nieces are now officially ‘adults’ and were subjected to adult entrance fees based purely on their height.

I find this rather ridiculous since the two younger girls are barely 12 and are just tall for their age. Don’t they know kids are much taller than we were at their age?

When we got on the carousel, my two daughters and three nieces all happily climbed onto the ponies and horses. When the carousel operator came around to check, he noticed that the 3 older girls were wearing the ‘adult’ wristbands.

He told them they had to get off their rides because they’re considered ‘adults’ and therefore too heavy. I can vouch that the two younger girls are tall but skinny and definitely not overweight.

Due to their height and ‘adult’ wristbands, the 3 older girls barely qualified for any of the favorite kiddy rides they enjoyed so much last year. The adult rides were too wild and they weren’t that keen to get on those.

It was a total waste of money and time, and they were sorely disappointed. I guess we won’t be going back there next year.