Labour Day
Child, Parenting May 1st, 2008Since today is known as Labour Day. So here I am labouring my fingers away on the keyboard. I noticed I haven’t been writing Articles for a really long time. I guess that icon on the top right of my blog may not be so appropriate now ya? ….till I get back my momentum…. again.
By the way, today is also a day for me to celebrate! I’ve met the dateline for my data entries to be handed in. So my sister calculated my earnings, I can be really lousy when it comes to calculating hours and minutes. Total $843.75 for 112hours 30mins.
Little considering the stress it put me through, the time it took me away from my kids, the hurt I inflicted on them whenever I said “No” to their ever pleading “Mommy, can you play with me now? Mommy can you stop work now and play with me…”
So I am gonna pamper them a little when the money start to come in 1-2 weeks later (I hope), more like a make-it-up-to-them for surviving that 1 month of ‘less-mommy’ days. Of cos’ bills and debts are always first priority but I will, I promise, to set aside….hmmmm….$100 for them. How’s that? Not for toys of cos’, I am never a buy-toys-kind-of Mommy. They have ample contributors to their ever growing pile of toys and they do know that Mommy does not equal to toys. Somehow over the short years they have rooted this fact into their young brains.
Will decide what to do with the S$100 when it gets banked into my account….but I guess, what they really want is time with Me (so thick-skinned), so I am gonna give them that for sure – My time. The cash would be a bonus for them, go some place fun, go eat unhealthy-but-kids-are-crazy-over-with food, whatever, so long as they are happy. No more rushing to meet-the-datelines, no more Glandular Fever, no more Hives……Can you ‘see’ that I am finally smiling?



May 1st, 2008 at 11:59 pm
mommy’s time definately worth more than $100 to them!
no more “no” now, only “yes” from mommy!? : P
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:07 am
I agree Mommy time is so much beter than toys.
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:19 am
I’m glad there’s a smile there! Well deserved, I believe. And yes, mom’s time is worth a countless pile of money! Kids are so smart, they know it too!