Holiday weekend!

I really cannot believe how quickly time passes.. I always want to update the blog but somehow time simply slips away and another week has passed..

Anyway... this weekend just passed was a mini-holiday for Chris and I. After Tokyo we decided that we should try and see if Madison could be looked after for a longer period of time by people other than us. So that MAYBE we could take a short break somewhere and do "adult" things --like eat out calmly, stay out really late, have alcohol etc...

Not too bad, actually.... we dropped Madison off after Chinese class on Saturday morning at about 1130, and didn't really leave any instructions. I mean, if you want other people to care for her then I figured they should enjoy it their way rather than have me dictate the weekend for them. After all, a weekend of no rules wouldn't hurt her.

It was, in summary, a weekend without schedule. Let's see... after Chinese class, instead of lunch she ended up going for a walk to Novena Medical Suites to check out the new medical suites, then promptly falling asleep while there.. Meaning no proper afternoon nap. Then the grandparents took her out after dinner to Mount Faber for a walk and to see the night lights, but after which she fell asleep! At 8 pm ! When they got back she woke and of course refused to sleep till 10!

Madison slept in the grandparents' room, in the little cove that used to be my bedroom ( now converted into a wardrobe/study). Apparently she woke every 3 hours calling out for them, so I imagine the poor grandparents got very little sleep! ( kinda like in Tokyo, I guess!) The next morning she was up at 5am!

But thanks to my parents for taking on this duty, Chris and I had a great weekend, so much so that I was sad it was coming to an end. We had lunch out, dinner out and then breakfast out! We finally caught our first movie ( after 19 months!!), never mind that it was at 4Pm and we were left with only the front 2 rows, and the movie was Julie & Julia. It was great to be able to do that, then continue out shopping and Chris got his new mobile phone, the Garmin Asus. Then when we got home we watched another movie, this time the Transformers on DVD.

Of course we did miss our little girl and we did try hard not to spend our time talking about her or buying stuff for her ( kind of a habit now ). And I think it's good for Madison to have her break once in awhile, do stuff that Chris and I wouldn't do ( not interested or too much effort ), and not have to follow her routine. She was really grouchy and grumpy though, when we finally went to the Novena house to see her. Probably because she hadn't slept well and was tired. But the two of us, having had our break were in better spirits to deal with it.

But I think there will probably not be any long holidays away from her for the time being...