Parenting woes #1

There are some truths you don’t figure out unless you become a parent. Here’s one: my child has an uncanny ability to fall sick during my holidays. Yes, I know I’m a teacher and enjoy more protected time than other professions and shouldn’t complain, but this is the 4th holiday such a thing has happened.

Anyway, so I spent the first day of this Sept holidays with my son. I must say that I have become so numb to it that I took this setback quite well.

Today, I already made plans to go out but my son’s temperature was 37.3 degree and my daughter was having diarrhoea. So I valiantly cancelled my appointment because I needed to be on stand-by in case the childcare centre called me to take my unwell children home.

My plans to revive my social life thwarted! So what did I do instead? I did the best I could - had a haircut, ate a free lunch at Swenson’s (courtesy of a voucher given by my insurance provider), sipped free coffee (courtesy of my CrowdTask SG coins) and read Messari’s Crypto Theses 2023. It was great to have uninterrupted time to devour words. But it wasn’t my ideal way of spending the holidays, if you get what I mean.

Tomorrow, I think I need to take my daughter to the pediatrician. My precious holidays are slaughtered just like that. 🥲

The only silver lining out of this episode: Because I let my boy use my laptop yesterday, he knew how to spell zoo. “Z-O-O!” he pointed out the letters enthusiastically on the keyboard.