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I seriously considered keeping the kids home when school reopens. And giving it a few days just to let it settle and see what happens. Ours is a big brood in 4 different schools. All it takes is one and we all fall ill like dominoes.
Actually I’m not worried about us catching the flu. It’s the lehcheh-ness of what happens if you do find yourself in the thick of it. So everyone is going to school tomorrow. Anyway they’re all excited to start.
Despite our best efforts, Megan caught the snifflies from when she went back to school to help out their auditions for Talent Academy the past few days. So she’s gonna have to stay home tomorrow even though she’s been waiting like buaya to go back.
We have a very strict protocol in our house whenever anyone is sick. I hope you take this on in your household too. H1N1 is inevitably gonna hit hard and we can only try our darnest to act responsibly and contain the spread.
My rules for my family members when they fall sick:
1. No shaking or touching hands with anyone. No touching other people’s stuff.
2. Cover up when you cough or sneeze. If you find your hands busy, use the crook of your arm. Or keep it in. I don’t care how but just do it.
3. No sharing of belongings especially phone and computer mouse. I learnt how effective this is in spreading germs. The last time we had an iPhone grand playoff among our friends, both Joe & I were sniffly with sick kids at home. The day after the party, several friends mentioned that they were feeling a bit fluey. Boy what a guilt trip!
4. Wash hands with soap whenever you can and when you come home. Leave whatever you picked up outside, outside. We also have hand sanitizers at the door for guests.
5. Stick to your own towel for everything - showers and wiping hands and face. Keep it out of reach so everyone else doesn’t use it too. Or use paper towel and throw away.
6. Use tissues for drippy noses as opposed to fingers, back of hand or sleeves. Flush away your used tissues. Or dispose of them properly. Don’t let anyone else handle them.
7. The rest of us have to diligently wash hands after handling “sniffly’s” stuff.
Tough love man, lemme tell you. But you just have to with a big family like ours. Fortunately our kids aren’t too touchy-feely so they don’t miss that too much.
These rules kept me relatively healthy the last bout of flu my whole family went through. They all took turns to get week-long fevers, starting with Megan. The last to get sick was Lauren. And with all the cuddling she needed from me, I finally succumbed. Let’s see how we all can hold off getting sick this time.
She does that quite a bit. I will see her being carried by my Dad, and when I ask her about it, like why are you being carried? She’ll say, “But I never ask him to what. I just raise my hands and say, urgh-urgh then he carry me by heself. But I never ask what…”
Jordan had a cool dream last night. The gist of it:
It was some kind of Gameshow. My buzzer had cactus around the button. And I was blindfolded.
The answers were really OBVIOUS, but I couldn’t answer cos I kept getting poked.
Lauren also shared a nightmare she had a few nights ago:
There was a water lift, right? And there was an octopus. And everytime I wanna press the button it will like catch me.
I think there was more to it. Let me ask her again.
If you’re going to Suntec this weekend, please check out Kidz Academy for fun activities for the kids and workshops for the parents.
No, I’m in no way related to the event itself. But please support my friend Petrina Kow (Joe’s ex-morningshow partner) who is there to promote her books - Taoshu “Learn Chinese” books specially for 4-7 year olds. It’s a set of 6 beautifully illustrated bilingual books, designed to help kids (and parents) enjoy learning Chinese.
The Singapore-created “Tao Shu” animated series is listed as one of the “Greatest Products of 2007″ (Home video and DVD category) by the prestigious US based iParenting Awards.
“The company is excited that Tao Shu is the only Singaporean animation series to have made it into the same award-winners’ list, alongside top notch work from the producers of Sesame Street and Mickey Mouse. This is certainly a milestone for the local media industry.”
I’m bringing my 3 of my kids tomorrow morning, so if you see us, please say hi
Ninja Kitty came to live with us because I saw that amizadai was looking to rehome a small, skinny, sweet & affectionate kitty that they found starving. I thought we’d start by fostering it for a week to see how our family would react.
I was worried. Megan had severe allergies the last time she visited the SPCA. Even before she left the place, there was a rash forming around her eyes, and sneezing. When she got home, her face was covered in big red blotches. Joe too, will sneeze around pets. Since then we were very careful around animals. Which was a pity cos we all love them very much.
Then I saw this link. She’s sweet and affectionate. How not to think about her and think hard if we were ready for a pet? So we gave it a week. It’s been almost 3 months.
The kids LOVE her. Everyday, whenever anyone comes home from school, they wash up, and visit her. She’s like royalty. The allergies have not flared up at all, and so she’s allowed in more places in the house.
She’s fiesty, and naughty. She bites, which I hate, but I think she’s learning not to push her luck.
But oh is she cute. She will patiently be carried all over the house by my enthusiastic 4 year old, and will look for the lap of my oldest to climb on. Joe has talked about her several times on his podcast at morningjam.com. She suffers from Dogism. She will come when called and keep to heel when we walk around the house. She’s such a loud motorboat.
We’ve decided that her birthday is Valentine’s Day.
We’ve named her Yuki, which means ’snow’ in Japanese. Funny right??
He’s not in pain.
He’s actually walking around fine, we’ve pasted a rubber mat on the sole of his cast so that it’s not slippery.
He puts his cast into Joe’s size 12 sandal when he goes out so that he doesn’t get it dirty when he comes back home.
He’s been to Mama’s house and back. Church and back. Someone’s birthday party and back.
But he has 14 days MC, and so is taking advantage of it tomorrow.
He sees the Dr for a review on Friday.
Thanks for your kind thoughts everyone! Please pray that this fracture won’t affect his walking in the future.
