Hoping for a better next week...

Rain and sun happening all at once this week...we have a day of rain and wind, then a day of hot scorching sun and then rain and wind again...and we are having this alternating weather the whole of this week. We can see clinics and hospitals getting real busy with a lot of people seeking medical treatment for flu, cold, gastric flu and whatever ailments we can think of catching in this horrible weather. At home, almost everyone is sick except me and Hao. I am crossing fingers that we will not be catching any bugs any time soon, because I am hoping for a better next week after stuck at home with 2 extremely sick and cranky boys (plus the horrible weather) and I am running out of energy and ideas of how to entertain them at home amidst the wet rainy days (confined indoors) and hot sunny days (too hot to go outside) LOL

Am a little discouraged this week as I couldn't start my gym routine and maybe it's the depressing weather adding to my already depressing 2 weeks at home. Everything and every food is screaming FAT FAT FAT at me. I am cutting down on food intake to only eating necessarily and avoiding anything sinful, which includes snacking on titbits. It helped that the kids are sick and they are also being banned from eating titbits these 2 weeks. Apart from that, we are having water parade everyday to hydrate ourselves constantly and of course with us all being bloated with water, we hardly think of titbits and eating.

Hubby is also not feeling good either. He had to go for a one week business trip in China despite being down with severe flu and with the hot weather in China and neverending business meetings and constant flying from point to point, it seems that he has caught the bug again after nearing recovering. He sounded really bad on the phone but thankfully he'll be back tonight and hopefully will be able to rest over the weekend before starting work again on Monday.

That aside, I am thankful that parents in law are away in Shanghai visiting brother in law and wifey. The hardest part when my kids fall sick is to be in a constant battle with parents in law trying to feed them foods that they have to be abstained from and also stopping them from sneaking forbidden foods in their mouth, not to mention the never ending supply of ice cream which is the main cause why the boys are not recovering from their bad cough. Its a constant battle when it comes to foods and even much so when they are sick. It's just our different upbringing and also they believe more in chinese treatment while I am more westernized. They believe in pills and concocts from china medicine while I usually seek advice from our GP. Both sides want the best for the kids but differing views always end up in a battle.

So here I am, on a rainy friday afternoon, praying for a better next week!

More time ~ NOT!

Just as I was so happy that I could have more time for myself, the kids had to fall sick and confine me back home again with them. Last Monday, Min was down with gastric flu and bad cough and running nose. He stayed home with me for the entire week and is still coughing and having running nose now. So my plan to go to the gym went up in smoke and I had to resign myself to fate that I was stuck at home. With him sick, I couldn't even go around to mum's place as I had to quarantine the kids from Ashlynne, who was due to fly to Melbourne with sis and Kevin for a holiday on Friday. It will be bad if the virus passed onto her and she falls sick during her vacation. Then Ee started to cough too. Slight, but since I hadn't got any transport to go out, I let him stayed home too. There I was, stuck with 2 cranky and bored kids at home.

Hubby will be flying off to China for a week's business trip tonight and again, I thought to myself that I will have the car to drive and the kids are due back in school, I could go to gym this week and perhaps return the library books due, and also maybe visit hubby's cousin who had just given birth. Alas, Ee had to vomit this morning and fever started too. There again, another of my peaceful week will be gone with Ee down sick and I will be again, stuck at home (without hubby around) and entertaining them myself.

When, when, when can I have time to myself???

More time for myself?

With our move back to in laws place (thus I no longer need to do housework :P) and Min and Ee in morning school, I found that I have much more time for myself now to indulge in my own little pleasure - reading. I have been downloading ebooks to read on my PC and borrowing books from the library almost every other week. Its really wonderful to be at last doing something that I like, not having to rush through everyday like a trapped bird at home, having to meet others' demands and putting myself in the last position. On Tuesdays when Hao goes for his CCA in the morning, I even have 2 hours of ME time to spend, which I usually spend in the library or running errands etc. Sometimes I even take a leisure walk at the malls before picking the kids up from school at noon. Now I am even contemplating going to gym on Tuesday mornings after I drop Hao in school, so that I can shed off the kilos I gained from the birth of my 3 boys :P Right now, I am feeling good about my new found self, although at times, I do feel guilty to be thinking about ME than the kids or hubby. I guess it's been a while since I've thought about my own needs and it feels good :)