The day - 17th. I have mixed feelings in the morning, didn't sleep well last night coz was doing some stuffs last minute. My big baby is leaving me for a few months.
17th morning
She asked for mee hoon kueh for her breakfast or the last-mummy-cook-meal. I guess this meal or the last few days' requests were welcomed with open arms as the mom don't cook that often. haha!
Lesson of the day from Prof Teo : make people yearn for more when you do less of it on normal days
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I felt that loneliness in the car on the drive home after dropping lil' one in school and mom back home. I will try to make myself busy, there are just work to be done at home.
Could have asked mom to stay over but I didn't
Just had lots of work to do around the house. I know it's she mind her own business ; I mind my own. But when I work around the house, I like to have my music blasting, I like to be alone. I don't have to worry about noise disturbing her when she's around.
When I work around the house I don't worry about myself starving because most times I'd get so engrossed and then forgot about my meals. If she was with me, I'll have to stop work to either pack or cook for her. And I can't possibly be cooking instant noodles for her right? I didn't have much time left before I need to pick lil' one up from school so I was trying to complete the tons of housework.
That moment when I stepped into the house.
The house was bustling with noise in the morning. "remember to bring xxxx...", "did you pack your xxx...." The hustle and bustle in the morning has suddenly turned into peace and quiet at home.
Have to accept the reality that 2 of the noisy first floor family has left the house, have to accept the reality that what we had been excited and looking forward to since 2021 is finally here and my baby's going on a new adventure.
House quiet and this pot greeted me. The pot that was left behind after che-che ate her mee hoon kueh. Sigh.....things that I do for my girl.
can I touch the spoon and fork she last touched?
siao eh!
I stared at the pot and felt pain from a piece of my flesh torn off. Too emotional. But put yourself in my shoes, she's never been away from me for so long. And with me being a SAHM, I'm practically involved so involved in them 24/7.
Immediately, I had to stop my mind from wandering off. (Quite silly of me, coz technically they're still in SIN.) I.HAVE.THINGS.TO.DO. I think I should keep myself busy so I can stop thinking and worrying about her??
Cleaning her room
First thing I did was to pull out che-che's bedsheets, protectors and towel for a wash and cleaned up her room. Cleaned the table and shelves, aired her room
I will still clean her room as per usual, maybe less hardworking on the ceiling fan as it won't be turned on. Then days before she returns home will send her blanket to the laundromat for drycleaning, wash her toys, vacumn her bed and lay new bedsheets for her.
Cleaned the house
Two luggage bags out of sight. House looks as neat as before, only 2 person empty for now.
Things I do when hubby is out of town
Dunno why but I had this habit since we moved here and when hubby is out of town. I like to draw my room curtain and put the ironing board near the window. I'll do some ironing in the night before I sleep, all in an aircon room.
Can we go out??
Lil' one kept asking to go out on weekend, she doesn't want to rot at home. Wah.... I hate to go out leh! especially on weekends. Also, not this week as she intends to go back to KC on 25th to pass Teacher's Day gifts, this is the only weekend she has to do her baking.
--- THE DAYS THAT FOLLOWED ---
17th Aug (Thu)
Took the easy way out of packing dinner for her before picking her up from school. I finished housework late and was so so tired.
18th Aug (Fri) : School - therapy @2.45pm - home
First full day just the 2 of us or second day if you take yesterday's in consideration.
Brought her to the Taiwanese makan place at Cineleisure. Now lil' grandma can stop nagging at me.
At 12.36pm, che-che messaged to inform that they've landed at the airport. Flight was delayed and it's 12.36am!!! They still need to collect their car, not sure if immigration will be slow or fast, if there will be strict customs check.
I was still messaging her at 2.18pm (2.18am) and kept urging her to go and sleep. And they haven't made any sightseeing plans yet. OMG! This girl also one kind, instead of playing her stupid games, she could have done a brief itinery or have an idea what to see.
Sent her for her therapy and was discussing with her in if we should postpone her 25th therapy. Making that 2.45pm deadline when her teachers can only meet after 1 can be quite risky for her and me. I'd end up getting so edgy and may drive recklessly. Wanted to push her last session to 8th September as it's probably going to be PH on the 1st. There was a slot on another day which means lil' one will need to get excuse to be released earlier and she would have missed Mr Simon's lessons. Ms Wong overheard our conversation and decided to release her Monday's 5.45pm timing for us. Thank goodness!
19th Aug (Sat)
Lil' one has to do some baking. So we ordered lunch in and I'm lazy to cook just coz I didn't want to clean the kitchen. She wanted Lixin fishball so I had mee-pok for lunch. I haven't had this for quite some time.
yuzu with soda water + yuzu peel. Definitely taste so different from what is served in restaurants. coz there's sugar! Mine is less sugar (I need to include the sugar on the dehydrated yuzu peels)
She baked, I packed. So tired. We have lesser teachers to gift this year. She won't be going back to KCP as she has no time now that she needs to use her Fridays for therapies.
20th Aug (Sun)
Brought her to Hougang Mall. She wanted to go out, right? So I met her request. Hate it! Parking full in the open carpark next to HM and in HM itself. I parked the car in the nearby HDB but it was so far away. Whiny mom!
Dinner - eat whatever leftover in the fridge. Totally forgot about the moo ping we bought at pasar malam. So yummy!
21st Aug (Mon) [school - therapy - home]
Lil’ one has to be back in school today. I didn’t have the time to cook lunch so brought her to Hanis. Such a shame, the staff heard my order wrongly and gave chicken pasta instead of ham pasta. I switched my horfun with hers.
School ended early at 4.30pm. I was waiting for her outside school so was able to reach her faster. Needed to rush her down for her therapy at 5.45pm. We arrived Orchard before 5pm and she decided to have her dinner first so we can go straight home and waste no time. Well..... she can eat fast if she wants to, she finished her slice fish soup in less than 30mins.
7 hours later, on the other side of the earth, che-che had the luxury of eating in IHop for lunch. so unfair!
22nd Aug (Tue)
Went back home after dropping her in school and cleaned the house. Tidied the two toilet’s mirror cabinets and the fridge (aka throw away expired stuffs)
23rd Aug (Wed)
Tidied the yard area. Tidied the second trolley. Didn't have time after that to clear the cleaning supplies trolley, maybe I'll do it another day
24th Aug (Thu)
Went home after Fight-Do as I didn't know where mom went. Did some necessities shopping at NTUC, packed both lunch and dinner for myself, and since I was going home I decided to cook her dinner so I don't have to go elsewhere to pack her dinner before picking her up from school. Porridge seems like a good choice of meal and the mince pork which I just bought came in handy.
Had my Mee Siam the moment I reached home, cleared purchased items, housework, intensive cleaning in the PES.
Alamak, I finally knew what something was missing! Forgot to brew lil’ one’s 田七 herbs this week! So busy around the house; so tired from lack of sleep - more to explain to that later - ; so tired from having to pick her up from school.
25th Aug (Fri) - [school - KC - Mrs Hau]
Lil' one school from 8am - 12pm.
Spent the day out after dropping her in school as I knew she often ends at 11+, going back home and coming out again I will extra journey time. I might as well éat snake' today and do housework later.
After dropping her I went over to Changi City Point's McDonalds, hoping to sit there and do some housekeeping on my phone and also to do my blogging for those "On This Day" where I did the screenshots on the phone. Needed to clear the pictures asap as I have 29600++ pics in the phone. OMG! I was hoping I can find some time to do iMovie too but housework is keeping me so busy.
Anyway, in the end I couldn't do anything coz che-che messaged me at 8+ to help her order her naniwadanshi new CDs.
At 10+ lil' one messaged to inform that she will end school at 11am and there's no need to wait for M as she's at home doing HBL. We made our way to Uncle wanton as she wouldn't allow me to eat it on my own. Uncle managed to cook our noodles in time, I packed laksa and rojak for my dinner and sent her to KC. Sat in Starbucks after a trip to NTUC until she called at close to 3pm. She made her way to PP and then went back home.
At PP : I saw kueh tutu and immediately thought of che-che. She likes this Chinatown Kueh Tutu
Washed the bedsheets 2 days in advance so that I’ll have empty space on Sunday to do hubby’s laundry. Did some housework and sent her to AMK Hub instead of NEX. Mrs H brought forward the meeting, which is good, so I sent her down. I stayed home so I can get some remaining housework done.
26th Aug (Sat) - [home - Dr Yap @ 2pm]
Woke up late and left home at 12.15pm to bring her for lunch before appointment.
I was craving for Project Açai, we checked out the new mall at Woodleigh. Had our early dinner at 4pm and reached home about 5+
I’m reminded of che-che who likes açai from Project Açai
Didn't do any housework today except washing the towels, one day earlier.
Did our first videocall with her and told her we'll make this videocall on every Sat 9am (her time). I want to hug my girl. I miss listening to her ah-boy boy songs.
27th Aug (Sun)
No intention to go out anywhere coz we will have to pick hubby up at the airport in the night
Saw that we have one pack of egg tofu left and decided to steam it for lil’ one. Cooked a small portion (about 170g) of rice in Thermomix.
Nottie Girl refused to let me have a piece of egg tofu 😫
And since I’ve thawed the whole tray of minced pork, decided that I should just cook for dinner and clean the kitchen after that. A lousy cook can only think of thai basil pork. Wanted to finish the eggs also, so the pork and eggs make very good combination.
Prepared her 田七 in the night, will be ready for consumption the next day.
Left to the airport to pick up hubby. So strange for him to come back alone.... missing my big girl. How is she? Did she eat well?
