Unfortunately, my Christmas was more tiring than merry.
I started my Christmas shopping 2 weeks before, grabbing whatever that I think suits whoever. The serious buying took place last Friday when I was on half day leave to comb JP. It was hard work jostling with the last-minute shopping crowd. Wrapping was done at whatever spare time that I have, usually after the kids slept. See, hard work. I was tempted to gift the presents in their rawest form, i.e., unwrapped. I had wanted to be environmental friendly since most people tear and throw away the wrappers. Some may recycle, isn’t it more environmental friendly if we do not wrap them to begin with? No, I am not finding excuses for myself. I really do feel that way. However, the wrapped presents look so nice and I have always enjoyed wrapping. Hehe. So here we are, presents all wrapped up except for 3 more to go for the Christmas gathering on 30th.
Daddy Lim and I knocked off at 3pm on Christmas Eve but he was busy and we didn’t leave until 4ish. The kids were home. We brought them to JP for an early dinner. Lil Isaac wasn’t his best self and was whiney and grouchy and difficult. He insisted on wearing a pair of slippers that kept dropping off while he walked. One of them dropped 3 storey in JP and we lost it for good. Strange kid we have. Lol. We then brought the kids for a massive grocery shopping and we were very glad when we were finally home. Phew. Hard work again.
Daddy Lim had to work on Christmas day. We held a mini Christmas celebration in the late afternoon with my family and Nainai was also invited. We didn’t go to the church as mummy wasn’t sure what time the service was. Ok, I was lazy. Anyway, the celebration was something out of the norm and non-routine irritates Popo, who was cooking for the event. So she was “dysfunction” in the morning and a set on invisible routines appeared to help her cope. Staying at home was way too much to bear with both kids leeching on me, Popo busied herself with don’t know what preparations for the afternoon and auntie was of no help at all. As usual, none of the kids wanted her. Nobody wanted her to even touch them and everybody wanted me to play with them, which I wasnt in the mood to. So we escaped to the Kids’ Maze, an indoor theme park at Jurong Safra. With the distractions, the kids gladly let auntie entertained them. Popo happily prepared what she needed at home with peace and I took whatever opportunity I could find to hide one corner.
I did climb the structure with the kids but rested more than climbing. It was a 5-storey obstacle course with plenty of slides. I felt like I was working out for the sinful dinner that I was going to have. The structure is made for kids and some openings are really small. I am really glad that I have a skinny maid. Auntie seemed to enjoy herself and survived really well. At least there was no nagging from Popo. All of us ended up with some injuries. The slides are too long and narrow and some really spiral. As I go down the slide, I could hear the sounds made by static. There was this particular one that left me with a dizzy head after every slide. Hard work. Lol. The kids were glad to leave after a 2 hours play for the Christmas party.
Popo started cooking at 3pm and we started eating non-stop until almost 7pm! S**t, how fat is that? The finger food were just too delicious to resist. The kids played toys and games and run around and fought and threw tantrum until I gave up. It was so tiring and we started opening the presents at 6ish. Kids were happy for a while until they started playing with the new toys and fought again. Aiyo, want to vomit blood!
I was really glad when the celebration ended at 8pm. We showered the kids and kept them in the room while Popo and auntie wiped and mopped and clean. Phew. The only consolation was that the day’s event left the kids tired and tucking them to bed was really easy. Unfortunately, we forgot to make jiejie go to the toilet before bed and she had an accident. Ouch!
How can Christmas be so tiring? What went wrong? Suddenly, the idea of having a quiet candlelight dinner with no kids seems so appealing. Lol.
Mummy Lim
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