On Wednesday, hubby got home and asked me out to lunch before we go pick Renee up together and he 'broke the news' to me. He had in fact mentioned this a few days ago but I didn't pay him much attention. The news was - he wanted to switch Renee to the morning session, as it would better facilitate ferrying her to and from school with the car and leave him abit more time to do his work.
To be honest, it's not that I mind making the switch 'cos in fact, I was the one whom had initiated this many times since more than a year ago! It's just the way he decided on it that annoyed me.
I had earlier felt that this might be good as we could prepare her for the early waking hours in her coming primary school days but the only thing that had kinda deterred me from taking a definite action to it was that we might enrol her to a partial single session primary school(although that's another issue which we'll need to seriously address later) and also, Kinderland's morning session starts really early - 8am to 11am.
However, with Renee unwilling to take the trains to school(she's lazy to take the walk), she has to be persuaded to the switch. Actually, I had brought this issue up again most recently, last November and even during December, to hubby but he had confirmed the later session! It was fine with me too, 'cos after the CC switch, I knew that it would be nice for her to return to the same class where all her 'old' friends are and it had proved so for the past 2 weeks. Needless to say, she was sad when I told her about the switch and as usual, I've been left with the job to eliminate her unwillingness... To do that, I tried the same theory that I've told her before(when I had wanted to make the switch for her this yr - oh, it really came true huh?!), which is that her favourite classmate, Nicole, from her pre-nursery class had already made the switch last year and she could join her in that class. She didn't quite buy the idea which is natural since she's lost touch with her for a good full year(she didn't even buy it when I've asked her early last year...), however, the biscuits offered as their breakfast meal on some days did appeal to her, :).
The school, however, had been pretty accomodating and as they don't usually take in students to the maximum capacity(as per MCYS' guideline), they're able to allow the switch rather easily. They had wanted us to give them a month's notice to facilitate their administration but as it has only been 2 weeks and only 1 music lesson so far(probably due to their music course being out-sourced, that's why), so they told us yesterday that they could allow us the switch from next week - This has been my request, though I know it'd be abit too rush to make the change, plus we'd be having some of her aunts/uncles/cousins over for her mini birthday celebration on Sunday, but I feel it might be better to change over earlier, least she gets even more attached to her 'old' friends...
I've told Renee that she could 'celebrate' birthday with her new classmates, she didn't like it but when she's finally 'accepted' the idea, she asked if she could still see her 'old' friends on that day, awww, I'll try and see what I can do about this though I doubt it's possible...
This morning, I told hubby to confirm our decision to the administrator and though I've apologised a few times to her earlier for the trouble, I still can't help feeling very 'paiseh'...
Hubby suggested switching her back to the later session when we've got another car but I said NO. If there's no real need for that, I guess I'd rather do the fetching and sending myself if that's the case since I'd already have to wake up early no matter how, to prepare breakfast and get her ready(and I'm no early riser ok!)... Anyway, all I hope now is that Renee will find new wonderful friends to bond with, from the new class and PLEASE, No More changes til primary 1. It's enough, for her and for me...
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