It's now Day3 (Arrive Thurs, 1Fri, 2Sat). I am needing a release and have decided to let it all out here. Be prepared for some "roller coaster" material.
Okay, is it tough? Yes and No! Yes, we are up and down the lifts at least twice a day because we have to do a bit of running around. The girls have been unsettled at night and Letitia's cough is taking a lot out of her (it's exhausting to even see her cough). No, because the place we are now for the next month is pretty swish and comfy. It is VERY comfortable to say the least. We have 3 bedrooms (1Main with 2sink-1bath-1shower-marbled ensuite), a kids room with 2 singles and another room with a single bed and a shower/toilet attached, yes marbled! It has all the makings of a 5 star apartment. The pics on the walls are nice, their's antiques on the occasionals and the kitchen is FULLY equipted. The weirdest thing is: they only supply toilet paper! No tea or coffee, no tissues! We still get the towels changed and house cleaned during the week so, this is a great relief. In spite of that, this place is looking like a "gourmet" mess. The girls have their things everywhere....
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Alex will be off to work tomorrow. My aim is to phone schools to find a school for Letitia. This in itself is a terrifying task and I really do not know where to start.
Letitia has been our trooper throughout this entire ordeal! She deserves a medal for all the self control she applies on the hour-to-hour basis. She's feeling a lot of emotions but we have not been able to deal with them. Her coughing does not help at all and she's been wanting to get back into some sort of routine in our day. She thrives with routine and structure and at the moment, there's none of that. Her attitude to Singapore is not too positive at the moment and she is not enjoying tha miles of walking, bus-ing, taxi-ing and the heat! Her hair seems extra frizzy nowadays and I can't seem to keep it straight! Letitia also has to put up with Mathena letting her stress out on her.
Mathena is our biggest stress at the moment. (Simone, how I need you on my speed dial at the moment!) We've noticed over the past 2 months (with all the drama and stress of moving), we 've seriously neglected her in the discipline bit. She's been in the constant companion of my mom (Ah Mah Geck Hiang) and we've let her got away with near-disaster things/events! If anything, she is a Goliath-size terrific preschooler in our face! We officially have a "publicly-being-frowned-at-tantrumming-preschooler"!!!!! I am stress as to how to deal with her. I know that I have to rebuild their lives here as well as their routine at home. I want to, my blood pressure is escalating, my stress level is pretty up there. I REALLY do not know what to do when in public when she kicks, screams, yells, cries, spits and even scratches!
To give you an indication of our morning, we left church(a very sophisticated, middle class Anglican church in the heart of Singapore city), with Mathena in her stroller, spitting, face covered in tears, yelling and screaming at the top of her lungs, while we try to orientate ourselves to find transport back to our apartment. To our pleasant surprise, our free shuttle bus (a GOD thing!) came just in front of us and we 'carried' Mathena (still screaming) onto the bus (by now it was spitting rain) just in time before a heavy downpour. The other passengers of the bus stared at us in horror and many even shifted to seats further away from us! We had a kind girlie/trendy gentleman frowning and shaking his head at us the whole time. With some distraction (Dorothy Dinasour might be in the trees!), she calmed down, sobbing and talking as if "nothing had happened"!! ....and that's just by 11-11.30am.
The girls are still waking at 5.30am and by 11am, they are dead tired and VERY grumpy! Can someone please wave the magic wand to wind the clock back for them? It will help things a little bit! So there.....isn't it fun and games moving overseas? There are plenty of issues for you guys to hold us in your thoughts and prayers. AND yes, I have been asked if I needed HELP (the servant kind)??? Ha!!! The answer is yes, but only from the LORD!
Next week's programme:
Spend more opportunity with the Tambyahs (using hotel facilities), squeeze phone enquiries in between while giving girls set routine at home, ring more schools and line up interviews, see how Alex goes with regards to work, call real estate people re:renting, may have to visit schools, my dad arrives Friday,...
I miss all the Wollongong friends and family (church), sob! I have to be strong! Sob! You guys know who you are! Letitia misses you too!
4 comments:
Oh the poor darling Mathena- it's hard to remember that their poor little minds aren't developed enough to even begin to process the big things that are happening and big feelings they're having- it's not really about the chuppa chup. IMO those feelings really do need to come out, and sometimes the best thing you can do is just be there to hold her and support her through it, and bugger 'the public'. Yes kids need consistency from their parents, but empathy also has it's place.
And YOU darling Sarah are a wonder woman and don't you forget it in the drippy Singapore heat. You've got plenty of people over here praying for you, and God is the same in your townhouse in Wonoona amongst the boxes or your glitzy Singaporean apartment!
Oh forgot- Woohoo about the shoes!
Oh Sarah!
Poor Mathena :(
She will settle down in time, so hang in there :)
Lots of consistency at home, lots of books and one on one time... Lots of extra cuddles from me... ;)
I hope that today is a better day,
love Simone
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