School Holidays Again

Johnny and myself have recovered from fever, but my health is still not good. Thank God, Kyrene did not catch the fever bug from us. I try to pile everyone in the family with lots of vitamins, fluid and rest. I wish I could have prepared more healthy food for them but I am too weak and tired to cook for the past weeks. Hope things get better as the weeks go by.

School is out for Kyrene from 24May to 24Jun. She has some holiday classes to attend, otherwise, rest of the time, I would have to think of something for her to do, especially arts and crafts stuff. So many times, she rather stay at home to do arts and crafts than to go out shopping or visiting. Other programmes that we have lined up - watching a play on Vesak Day, her classmate invited her to his birthday party on one Sunday, meeting up with some friends that we made during our last Tokyo trip, and meeting up friends from Kindermusik/Julia Gabriel, so on and so forth.

This June is going to be very eventful, stay tune...

Sick Last Week

Last Tue, I came down with fever. It started with running nose, then in the morning, when Johnny asked me to take Kyrene's temperature, I decided to take my own temperature too. It turned out that Kyrene was not having a fever but I am. When I drop Kyrene off at her school, I suddenly felt very weak. Luckily I managed to walk home. I sms Johnny to ask him if he could come back in the afternoon to help take care of Kyrene, I was afraid that I may faint anytime. He came home that afternoon and decided that I should go see the doctor in the afternoon. For the whole of Wed, I took medicine and rest in bed for the whole day.

On Thu, I felt better and asked Johnny to go back to work. By late afternoon, Johnny came back. His turn to come down with fever. He was shivering all over when he came back from the doctor. So, the next 2 days, it was his turn to take his medicine and slept the whole day. For him, he recovered faster because he was prescribed with antibiotics.

Apparently, many people came down with fever these few weeks. My brother-in-law was down with fever on Tue too. Sigh... blame it on bad weather... Global warming...

Mother's Day

Last Sun, 13May, was Mother's Day in Singapore. My mum invited the whole family to some Mother's Day Celebration Lunch organised by Compact Life Pte Ltd (company selling health products, which my mum is a member & customer of for a number of years). Well, we were keen on going but since she already booked a table, and didn't want her to be unhappy, we went. It was held in some function room in Yio Chu Kang (or was it Ang Mo Kio) Grassroot Club, near Yio Chu Kang MRT Station.

The programme stated that it starts at 11am, but we were only allowed into the function room at 12 noon. The food is average. The entertainment, er, well, not the youngster's cup of tea. Some of the singers totally unheard of in our era. And Hokkien & Cantonese songs, something Kyrene definitely does not undersand. Not forgetting to mention that the sound systems was terrible and yet so loud, that you can hear it way back at the other end of the building. The lucky draw prizes also limited and not that great, and we are not so lucky to win any prizes. The whole event is more for the company to get people to buy their products. You get sales people coming to your table every now and then to ask you to buy something. Kyrene was busy doing her own drawings for each person on the table, while my niece & nephew were busy chatting among themselves to keep themselves entertained. We were so glad that it was finally over at 3pm (supposed to end at 2pm) and can't wait to get home to some peace and quietness.

Mum, thanks for the lunch, but please, don't do this to us again next year.

Kyrene's 1st Trophy

Last Sat, 12 May, was Glory Kindergarten Family Day Carnival. Luckily, we decided to attend this year's event, Kyrene actually had a chance to collect her 1st trophy which she won for a drawing competition held during International Day in her school. Also, she and the rest of the kids performed several song items for the parents.



There were also lots of food and games. Kyrene enjoyed playing the games a lot. She even helped to get a souvenir for her cousin, Isaac, by playing a few rounds of the games. We invited my brother-in-law and his son, Isaac, along, so that Isaac can familiarized himself with the school surrounding. Isaac will be attending nursery in Glory Kindergarten next year.

Spring cleaning

Our spring cleaning is not limited to once a year affair during Chinese New Year. Friends who know me for many years would have known that I often spring clean my house once every 2-3 months. My spring cleaning would include rearranging the furnitures and redecorate the house. If I recall correctly, this should be the 3rd time I have done this since I became SAHM slightly more than 6 months ago.

This time, I decided to move Kyrene's stuff up to one of the bedroom (she calls it her Play Room now). Her collection of books and magazines have also been moved into the study room upstairs. The lower level of the house is much less cluttered, so its easier for me to clean on a daily basis. Not quite done yet with my spring cleaning, thus explain my less frequent posting this week.

Some may notice my blog also changed in design and layout. Yes, my blog is also not being spared. It will be revamp every other few months. And I promise I'll write more interesting stuff.

Poor child

Last Thu, my nephew, Isaac was warded in the hospital for fever & cough. Doc said he got lung infection. As Isaac does not like to eat medicine, so he had a hard time recovering. He was put on drip to get the antibiotics into his body system and he did not like it either. He was so happy to see Kyrene and us when we went to the hospital to visit him.

On Fri, I went over to my brother-in-law's place to help out with the maid to take care of Cheryl while they are at the hospital. Cheryl has grown much and its much easier to take care than before. Kyrene loves to help to take care of Cheryl. Fri night, Johnny had to work, so I had to work doubly hard to take care of Kyrene alone at night. Kyrene stated one condition for letting her daddy goes to work, that is, I play with her with her cooking toys. So we play masak masak till 11pm, at the same time, did the laundry.

Hurray as Isaac was able to discharge from the hospital on Sat. We went to fetch him from the hospital to send him home. He was glad to be home, he was happily playing with Kyrene with all his fav toys. However, when it comes to medicine time, oh, our hearts sank, when he started crying so pitifully and said "no, no, no medicine". We got to coax him to take his medicine, reminding him that if he doesn't eat his medicine, he will have to go back to stay in the hospital.

We decided to change the layout in our house again. So gonna be busy and tired. More cleaning to do...

Midweek

Hey, its midweek again. Like Kyrene, who is always asking when is it going to be Saturday and Sunday (cos Daddy doesn't need to go to work, can stay with us, and on Sun, we can all go to church), I also look forward to weekend as I don't need to take care of the family alone.

Ok, I need to include one more member of the family in this blog. That is Audrey, our pet dog, also known as the elder daughter of the family. Audrey just turned 6 yrs old in Mar. Overall, Audrey is a good dog, she is nice to Kyrene, love to sit on people's lap and get lots of tender loving strokes, and loves to go to the balcony in the morning to sun tan. Just one thing, she can be temperamental and throws tantrums at times.

Lately, Audrey has been throwing tantrums again. How does she throw tantrums? By pee-ing all over the living room. Just yesterday, she jumped onto one of our Ikea chair and pee on the cushions and chair. My friend was telling me that she is trying to mark her territory. Probably so, eversince I stopped work, I mopped the floor more often to make sure the house is sweet smelling and recently, we just throw away our sofa (which has been her bed as seen in this picture since we brought her home) and gave her a towel to sleep on instead. We did so, thinking that it will be cooler for her, and to prevent her from getting bumps on her back. I also suspect she is throwing tantrums whenever we do not spend enough time with her at home.