She was happily playing the Google animals come alive and took a lot of pictures. My favourite is pony.
3rd: Govt announced 3 weeks of circuit breaker. Schools will be closed from 8th. I was both elated and upset. I knew it's gonna be tough since I cannot leave the house to buy anything while hub is at work. But I won't worry about lil C out of my sight. I guided her on her Chinese compo and it's really tough. 😅
Lil C likes to watch 爱没有距离 on Channel 8. I happened to watch a scene while mopping. Jesseca Liu said at 20, woman looks forward to love and romance. At 40, love is not everything. When you meet a younger guy of 20 years old, the girl will just get into his way. Her career already stabilised..Makes me thinking...So I told Clarisse. At 20, mummy also looked forward to love and romance. My bf then did a lot of romantic things for me. At 30, we have so much responsibilities and romance is not our priority. Now at 40, our children are older and we hope to have some romance back but I feel not possible anymore.. almost nil for me. I told her next time mummy will remind her to treasure her 20s to 30s.. 😂
4th: I went to market to get pork and chicken so that I can help mum buy hers next Tues. Not so heavy.. next Tues is my last chance to go to market in the morning. It was super crowded and all pork were sold out. I preordered for next Tues. In the end, I bought all the heavy vegetables.
When I reached home and not long after lunch, I noticed lil C cheeks were flushed. I let her try cheese fish tofu and blue pea blueberry cake and I believe it's the cheese that caused it. She scratched everywhere while doing her TWC online. I gave her zyrtec and tried antihistamine blend and even Myrrh. Looks like hives. Around 8 plus, I let her try half a capsule of sulfurzyme.
5th: Hives seems getting better. I tried GC and lavender EO then suu balm and aloe Vera. I am also sad that Dorra will be closed from tomorrow. Can't go for treatment and I can't drink essence twice a day since I don't have that much supply and I can't go down to collect.
6th: Lil C listened to me and applied aloe vera to her itch. Today is the last day that most shops are opened. While preparing soup ingredients, I realised some are running low. Thankfully Pei and hub managed to get from Hock Hwa and ZTP.
Last day of school with mixed beings again on 7th. Lil C took back alot of worksheets for full HBL. My stress gonna begins.
Lil C adapted very quickly to the new learning. I lost my temper umpteen times. It's frustrating till I lost count. I was always so stretched, so busy to finish the chores and cooking and still have to help lil C. I felt at least for her school, the teachers are literally passing over their duties to parents since they did not have any teaching on zoom. For Math, Mr Firdaus included a guess and check question that is so ambiguous. Furthermore, they were not even taught yet. He had high expectations and thankfully lil C could understand all the models taught through videos. I had to reinstate the concepts and make sure her drawings, workings and answers entered were all correct. It's cumbersome as I had to take pictures of her work and send via email to myself. Thereafter, I had to save the file then upload.
I was thankful that I did not get the worksheets from EI Math.
9th: Asked hub to buy Suu Balm shower gel and slowly her hives were gone. She started having itchy scalp and had to use it as a shampoo too.
HBL was overall quite a nightmare for me and caused me many sleepless nights. It messed up my routine for dinner preparation and cooking and very often I had to rush. The worst part was when she had to do recordings. It was still not as bad for Chinese as she was able to read and recognise the words very well. She was praised by Mdm Lau a few times for reading with feelings and fluently. As for English, I could not believe she had to do the stimulus based conversation practice during this HBL. I really pity them. It was tough when I did not want her to write out and just read. She had to do it the hard way - just talk about the topic. She cried non stop and I was like a lunatic mum.
I was so looking forward to the early school holidays in May and removal of mid year exams preparation after a month of HBL.
Science is the subject I worry most. Less than four months of being exposed to a new subject, lil C had to learn online. So when I learned that MetaQuest had zoom class every Tuesday, I decided to sign lil C up. I sat down with her and get to learn as well, although I had to rush to cook after the lessons.
As for Han zoom, the lessons went well 🙏. I was particularly elated when her online piano lessons went well when I thought it's not possible. For TWC, I tried to interfere when she wrote.compo and also had to scan and email to Ms Yong. Admin work was so much..
Trying my best to let lil C have some sun, I asked her go to the outdoor terrace as much as possible. Tried skipping and running as well.. She also dutifully did all the exercises in her PE SLS everyday..I was surprised she could do plank.
On 15th, amidst a busy evening after cooking, we made muffins and lil C did all from the start and I took a video of her explaining the steps.
Poor hub as he started to work from home and decided to use iron board as a 'desk'.
For this month, I went to bed at 2am and woke up at 8 plus to help lil C log in to SLS on weekdays. My sleeping routine was a big change.
The takeaway for this month - lil C improves her keyboard skills. Stress relief EO blend is my go to every morning. Breakfast and even plucking of vegetables can be done together with her SLS. 😅. I definitely must learn self control. Cravings for.sweet food during stressful time is real! I was estactic when I saw traditional ice cream selling online and bought them.
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