What Mums Dread Most

Apologies to all my ardent blog readers for the delay in updating my blog as the laptop has been experiencing some rather strange problems lately... this is a blog entry which was meant to be updated last Friday but wasn't due to 'technical difficulties'...gee, isn't technology supposed to make our lives simpler?

On Friday, Nic came back with this look that spelt disaster. The minute she stepped off the school bus, there was this crestfallen tone. "Mummy, teacher just gave us a spelling list" her voiced trailed off to a mere whisper as she made this statement. I tried to perk up her moods by telling her that she's a natural speller and so it shouldn't be that tough. Oh boy, was I in for a suprise! On closer inspection of the spelling list, I found to my horror that the given weekly spelling list consisted of 10 words.

10 words? Not 5 or 6 just like in the kindergarten? A quick check via SMS with a girl friend confirmed my fears. "And it's a yearly thing" she quipped. Gee... 10 words each week huh? Plus Han Yu Pin Yin spelling as well. A good thing Nic doesn't attend any additional tuition class or there'll be more spelling on top of what she's expected to handle in school.

That translates into a clockwork routine for Mummy. Saturday afternoons and Sundays are block booked for Music theory homework, Monday and Tuesday evenings for English spelling and Wednesday and Thursday evenings for Chinese spelling. So is there any time left for childhood exploits like board games, card games, watching Sesame Street/Hi-5/Strawberry Shortcakes/My Little Pony or just chilling out? Barely....poor kid and poor Mummy