I went back to work last week after about 6.5 months of staying home with Anya. She’s usually still asleep when I leave for work. Adrian does a great job of getting her ready to go to her grandma’s while getting himself ready for work. Sometimes she fusses and cries on the way down to Clementi but most of the time she’s ok with her lion and caterpillar keeping her company in the back seat. I miss her so much when I’m at work. :( I think about the way she cries when she’s hungry, the way her mouth opens wide in a big toothless smile when I lift her up in the air, the way she laughs, the way she plays with my hair when I’m feeding her, the way she smells… SIGH…

Every morning, she wakes up and cries at about 5.30. We’ll bring her to our bed from her cot and she’ll go back to sleep between us. I’m not sure if this is a big no-no that will lead to the forming of a bad habit or anything like that but I don’t really care because I relish that one hour or so that I have her warm chubby body curled up beside me. I love dozing off and then opening my eyes to see her sweet little face deep in sleep. I love having her close to me. :)

Slightly more than a month ago, I decided to take on the thankless task of organising a gathering for my ex-JC classmates. I still don’t know what possessed me to do it. Pregnancy must have fried my brain. There were 17 of us in 2AH, Class of ’98 in ACJC. Currently, 5 are living/ working/ studying overseas. I shall cut a very long and painful story short. After sending out MULTIPLE emails and SMSes, I managed to get 6 of the 12 people in S’pore to meet up!

The other 6:
1. CY is supposely in S’pore but completely MIA and uncontactable
2. SC declared that he would be out of the country (even before being told the dates we were considering)
3. JL has to attend classes every Sat
4. SK said she couldn’t make it
5. CL said he would come but couldn’t at the last minute
6. DF was initially enthusiastic because she wanted us to meet her kid. Then she said she couldn’t come because she had an appointment in the evening and didn’t want to stress her kid out by bringing her out in the afternoon as well. Then she changed her mind and said she would drop by after all. Then on the day itself, she emailed and said something urgent had cropped up.

Anyway. I enjoyed spending time with the 5 of my ex-classmates who made the effort to meet up. But I’m certainly not organising the next gathering because it would KILL me!!

Paul & Anya

I love their tiny furniture!

Nap time

The 6 of us + Anya & Zoey

from left: Anya & I, Fiona, Paul, Margaret, Willa & Zoey, Hsu Jing