Disappointing

After the 1st few days of school, it has become relatively hard to get Renee up from bed in the morning. The 1st day was easy, she was excited, so she woke up the minute she heard my alarm beeped but the 2nd and 3rd day, she began asking "can let me sleep for a while more pls?", something which I don't wish to adhere as snoozing, like lazing in bed, can be become a very bad habit. However, since it's her first week, I had allowed her an extra 5 minutes. However it got worser yesterday, after the '1st' weekend, she not only asked for the extra sleeping time, she even threw tanthrums before dragging herself to brush up.

Fore-seeing more of such days, I had a talk with her, telling her that wasting time in snoozing, lazing in bed and in the toilet will only make her late for school and on the other hand, I'm getting tired of having to go through all the fuss again. Today, I saw great improvement - she woke up when my alarm beeped, though not without asking for the extra 'time' :D, but she didn't fuss like the past few days.

Renee had been good for not catching the 'bug' til over the last weekend(many of her schoolmates had taken ill 1 after another since sch re-opened) and I had caught it too. Not wanting to wait til her phlegmy cough worsen, I told hubby that I'd like to take her to the doc after school today and if he could let me have the car for awhile but he's got a golf game. However, he offered to take us to the physician(which was even better 'cos I had thought to just go to the western if there's not enough time) and since I'm also not feeling well, I put my name in the appointment too. My symptoms : heavy head, irritated cough cause by phlegm, stuffy nose, slight fever - caught it from our dear princess. Good thing we've brought her there today as the physician said that her body heat is rising and she'd get fever the next few days, phew, hope we're able to prevent that on time.

Despite these symptoms, I still decided to go ahead with my plan of a birthday surprise for hubby and asked him to send us to Compass Point instead, after the consulation. After our lunch snack, we did some 'walking around' as requested by Renee before proceeding to the supermarket to buy the vegetables. After checking out the various confectionaries on their cakes, we finally made our choice but afraid of damaging the cake, we both took the risk of getting caught in the rain and took the LRT instead of a cab - I can't hold on to her if I had to watch over the other bags of stuffs(good thing it hadn't rain).

The minute I learnt about the golf game, I had told hubby to come back the soonest possible and I assume that he'd come back right after the game But, he did not... Good thing I've not planned for a family dinner(as we've briefly mentioned last Fri) but still, it's a big disappointment to Renee especially when she's been waiting in great excitement to surprise her Papa with the birthday card she's drawn so carefully and the cake she's bought with her own money.

We've been trying to contact Papa from 6:30pm but couldn't and when I finally got through his line at past 7pm, he had to call us back as he hadn't heard the mobile ringing. He said that he won't be able to make it back til about 9pm - he was half way through his dinner with the golfing khakis then. Renee was sooo disappointed and I was, with obvious cause, really upset. When I sent him a long message regarding this, he replied that he's already on the way and should be back in 20 mins' time, BUT, it's too late...In order for Renee to fall asleep faster(and have even longer hours of sleep) after being brushed up by 8pm, we're trying out the 'no more afternoon nap' routine today, and being tired, she had already knocked out when I went to check on her and I told him so... What's more frustrating was that he even answered "how was I to know?", "next time don't plan anything for my birthday" when I commented how unthoughtful he had been! and then he kept quiet when I said he's un-appreciating...

Haiz, no choice, though Renee's not keen in 'celebrating' for him tomorrow - she said that it's no longer his birthday then, awww... I guess, for her sake, I'd still have to let her have the pleasure of surprising her Papa tomorrow morning before she goes to school.