No, I didn’t wear jeans for the awards.

Yesterday was the Singapore Blog Awards and for the first time since I got knocked up, I found myself stepping into a club. A real one with dim lights and loud music. Ok, so they only served orange and cranberry juice (you don’t want any drunken speeches) but the criteria for being a real club is the disco lights and booming music. So, double check.

And in case you were wondering, I didn’t go in my jeans. I did think about showing up in my derelict collection of faded jeans and ripped tee (because hello, that’s cool) but I totally lost my coin-collection mug so that didn’t quite work out. Instead, the husband helped pick out a little black number from River Island. Then with my mom being in Sydney and all, we had a bit of problem working out the babysitting because let’s face it, nobody wants to be stuck with 2 babies on a Saturday evening. Good thing we managed to con my brother and his fiancee into taking Tru and my aunt helped out with Kirsten while we sipped our virgin screwdrivers.

Oh, I did manage to meet Ris Low, who was boomz as usual, though sans leopard preens. To be precise, I was sitting next to the guy who sat next to the girl who sat next to Ris herself, but I’m pretty sure being in a 5m radius counts as meeting. I’m such a sucker for celebrities, you know. I’m now also boomz by association. Nice.

Also, since we were already all dressed up and didn’t have to haul 2 kids around, we managed to sneak in a kickass dinner at Dan Ryan’s Chicago Steakhouse, one of our favorite places for 12 oz slabs of meat. I can’t believe it’s been 3 years since we last went there and I finally had a decent meal with the husband all to myself, so yes, it was a pretty awesome night. What can I say, I love date night.

If you don’t already know the results, the award went to Violet, who is admittedly far more insightful, so congrats babe!

Although I do want to say thanks for all the support and votes and encouraging emails this past month. I’m really touched by all the love. And this nomination is really a tribute to all the other mommy blogs because you guys are my inspiration. You make me realize that being a mom doesn’t make us outdated and uncool. You make me feel like I’m not the worst mother in the world for feeding my kids cornflakes for dinner or having them throw massive hissy fits in public or shouting penis at the top of their lungs. That motherhood is all about the journey, and enjoying every moment of it, even the awful ones. That it’s about making mistakes and learning from them. That it’s really a privilege just to be able to know them and love them.

I spend all this time writing the blog and reading all your blogs and I’m really glad that I took the plunge and decided to start blogging. So award or no award, I want to say thank you. You are the best blog-friends a girl could ever ask for.

Updated: I wanted to show you guys pics but I didn’t turn on the flash so I look like a mass of black in all the photos. To make up for it, here’s one from my prized derelict collection, which I totally didn’t wear.