Sleepless...

Feeling tired, I went off to bed at about 1am this morning but was awaken by Renee's persistent cough(from ard 3am+). So, though my eyes felt heavy, I can't resume my sleep and am here blogging(with a stiff neck). Daddy has just left about 1/2 hour ago and I guess he must have also gone with a heavy heart...

Poor girl, since the time she had the viral fever/diarrhoea when she was much younger, this would be the 2nd time her 'sickness' take so long to recover. She caught a cold during her birthday celebration but had soon recovered then but it now came back with a vengence after she's started school. Usually with the 1st bottle of the chinese medicine, she'd soon be on her road to recovery but this time round, it doesn't seem so. Our partime cleaner told me that it usually takes a longer time for them to recover when they're attending school, geez... She had lost weight, due to her not eating much/finishing the food in school and also her loss of apetite these few days. Really hurt us to see her like this.

We went out late afternoon yesterday, with the main purpose to sign the indemnity form at the SQ office(as I've booked the tickets with my credit card and I'm not going along on the trip), but we were late and the office closes at 6 so we end up having dinner and buying some stuffs from Centrepoint. We proceeded to the airport thereafter and by the time we got home, it was already 9:30pm.

The first time when I didn't go along with Daddy on the trip, I had felt kinda relieved, as I usually have to do alot packing and washing work before and after the trips. And we're not just talking about our own stuffs, Renee's too! But since Renee had felt her daddy's absence quite strongly the last trip, I'm now beginning to feel the same too. So, on the way home last night, I asked Daddy how does he feel about going on the trips alone and I'm surprised to hear him replying that it's very 'sian'. I had thought his answer would more likely be 'like that lor, what to do, gotta go make money'. So I told him we felt the same too...

Oh, at 7:12am now, Renee finally woke up asking to spit out her phelgm(why finally? 'cos I've been comtemplating since 5am if I shld ask her to get up to do it) and glad that she did, as it seems like that itching cough of hers has lessen :)
She's sooo cute, she started with "mommy, I want to spit out" when she woke and though the study room's light on, I still switched on the common toilet light but she insisted that I switch it off hahaha. And after she had spat the phelgm out, she requested : "mommy, I want to orh orh some more". I hurriedly carried her back to her bed and she even asked me "mommy, why can orh orh still?" hahaha, I controlled my laugh and told her "sure you can, u're my precious darling" and she went back to sleep lolz...

I really hope that she'll get well very soon and I'm now considering to let her go to school the next few days but if I don't, then it'll be Term 1 school holidays already and she'll be bored...

Another piece of 'sian' news is that our partime cleaner has found another job and due to the switch, she won't be able to take on cleaning jobs, well at least not on such regular basis and thus I'm to look for an alternative. We had for that moment, thought of hiring a maid but later dismissed the idea again as we felt that it's still not necessary(or maybe even more troublesome) currently. My sis Eileen is helping us to check with another cleaner and if this one's ok, we'll take her on but if not, then we'll just have to settle for professional cleaning help, so sian...

Oh no, I'm still not able to go to sleep! Hope I'll have the energy to tend to Renee's needs later(well, I still have to even if I don't...)