Back to Our Usual Days

For over the past one week, our family enjoyed some time being together.  This was why I had not been on the net most of the time.

Initially, hubby asked if I would like to go for a short trip during his leave as he was afraid that I would be too bored being coped up at home all the time.  We dropped this idea after considering that we needed to be thrifty with only one income now, and it was too troublesome to bring Ian along because he was still not able to satisfy a complete meal by eating from our plates.

We had planned quite a few activities to be done during this short break, eg. bringing Ian to swim, to the Sembawang Shopping Centre Splash Park, to the beach to play with sand, to take a family portrait, to rearrange the study room, etc.  Out of all these, we only managed to clear the storeroom, rearranged the kitchen with a new shelf from Ikea, brought Ian to the Splash Park, shopped during weekdays at Metro and John Little, had our haircuts, and went for grocery trips on weekday mornings!  I also managed to start on a quilt blanket which I had hoped to finish before hubby returned to work.

Unexpectedly, we could only execute part of our plans and hubby's maternal grandfather passed away mid last week and he had to shuttle to and fro the funeral.  The other bomb came over the weekends as hubby received an SMS from his boss to cut short his leave and return to work this week, instead of next week.  It was not a welcomed surprise as we hardly had time to rest after the funeral was over, and also because this was a long-awaited break, after being busy for more than one year without taking any long leave. I felt quite frustrated that because we were not able to go overseas, (1) his leaves could be cancelled easily and (2) his phone rung everyday because he was in SG.

All we could hope for the next long break in December would be undisturbed...AND that his phone would stop ringing!!!