Holidays. The light of every child's life and the bane of their parents. The boy is finishing up a 3 week school break and to be honest with you, I can't wait for school to start!! It's been more challenging than other days. It's like if they have no structure that school and other activities provide, they go haywire. Default setting becomes argumentative, fault finding and generally, a pain in the butt.
Ahhh.... that's where grandparents come in. Since they love each other's company and the older ones are more prone to spoiling the younger ones, we shall just go with the flow. I brought boy back to Ipoh at the start of his holidays and he's had a ball. Ipoh.. the land where he runs around, cycles around the garden, goes out for food expeditions with the grandmother (they went to Tualang for prawns - I got shown the picture when they returned) and the odd catch up with his old Ipoh friends and cousins.
I did what I could to ferry him to daily swimming lessons and arranged for some Mandarin tuition for him.. but i think the days passed by in a blur of TV, storybooks and running around. Now that we are finally back home in KL.. it's the final countdown to school back on Monday. I'm just allowing ourselves to adapt back to routine next week. TV is still constantly on and the whining is still around sometimes, but we shall just take it easy and regain control of normal life by next week...
fingers crossed.
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