Great weekends

The weekend that just passed was, by my standards, a great weekend.

It started with a fantastic week at the Heal Balestier clinic. It was actually busy for a change, which was really nice. By Friday I felt ready to wind down. The weather was cooler too, after a heavy downpour, for a change.

Friday afternoons at 4 Madison has her Mandarin class. So now I drop her off at Serene centre with Warni, then I head off to the Botanic Gardens to wait for her. It was pouring cats and dogs during the 2 hours that she was in class, and I was so lucky to have bagged an outdoor seat that wasn't rain affected. Casa Verde's pizza kitchen was raining! Water was running into the workstation and the poor guys were in there with umbrellas trying frantically to make the last of their takeaway pizzas before they closed it till the rain stopped!

When it was time to go the rain magically stopped, but of course en route to picking Madison up and then subsequently to the Swimming club the traffic was horrendous. What usually would have taken 15 minutes took an hour's worth of driving. Of course it didn't help that there were 3 accidents along the PIE.

The swimming pool was fabulous; the water was warm and there were only 2 other kids in the pool. We had an al fresco dinner by the pool afterward, then home. Madison was exhausted so it took merely 10minutes to put her down and she slept till 8AM! MEANS: I got plenty of sleep.

Over the rest of the weekend Pa and Ma took Madison on Saturday for her music class, haircut then lunch, while Chris and I had time out: lunch, movie then a good dinner at Boon Tong Kee along River Valley Road.

All in.... plenty of sleep and time out: equals reduced stress levels!