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!