Today we played hookey from S' school and it was so much fun. It was ostensibly to give S some rest, but it was more of a break for me.
S has skiing every Saturday for 5 weekends leading up to the ski break (Feb 11th-15th) and it is a day long affair. We have to leave her with the instructors at 9:45 am, they ski from 10-12, then have a lunch break from 12-1 and then again ski from 1-3. The ski slope is an hour's drive from our place so we end up leaving home around 8:30 and getting back only around 4:30. Added to that is the minus temperature at the ski slope and it becomes a very long day for S, after a full week at school. School itself is from 8:30-3:15 (i personally think that's too long for 41/2 year olds but others don't seem to think so) and being an overambitious mother S has extra curricular activities on half the days after school!
So I thought i would give her a break in the middle of the week. It helped that it was snowing heavily this morning, A did not have school and the hubby was out of town so all of us woke up only at 8:30 in the morning. Yummy, i really miss waking up late! After a leisurely breakfast (what a relief not to have to hurry up S, feed A while simultaneously packing S's bag, drinking my coffee, wearing my lenses etc) the girls did painting, finger painting and playdough while i managed to get my exercise. After that we had some friends over for lunch- they had kids A's age and S had a ball running around with them. I used the snowing heavily card to skip S ice skating class also (to be fair i would not have taken S for ice skating after school if it was snowing, very difficult to skate in the outdoor rink then; but stepping out of the warm house at 3:15 pm after a heavy lunch seemed even more difficult) so we had a nice long nap in the afternoon also.
It was board games in the evening, some english work for S and skyping with Ajji and then its dinner time. Now of course is 8:30 in the night and both kids look far from sleep. Usually at this time S is half asleep! Look like its a long night ahead for me, but I don't mind, its fun playing truant!
At work I had always longed to take a day off and just relax at home doing the things i wanted to do. But before the kids were born i was too much of a workaholic to do that (i used to feel guilty taking my full entitlement of leave) and after the kids were born i used to save up my casual leave for their sick days. Have you ever played truant, and just relaxed at home?
S has skiing every Saturday for 5 weekends leading up to the ski break (Feb 11th-15th) and it is a day long affair. We have to leave her with the instructors at 9:45 am, they ski from 10-12, then have a lunch break from 12-1 and then again ski from 1-3. The ski slope is an hour's drive from our place so we end up leaving home around 8:30 and getting back only around 4:30. Added to that is the minus temperature at the ski slope and it becomes a very long day for S, after a full week at school. School itself is from 8:30-3:15 (i personally think that's too long for 41/2 year olds but others don't seem to think so) and being an overambitious mother S has extra curricular activities on half the days after school!
So I thought i would give her a break in the middle of the week. It helped that it was snowing heavily this morning, A did not have school and the hubby was out of town so all of us woke up only at 8:30 in the morning. Yummy, i really miss waking up late! After a leisurely breakfast (what a relief not to have to hurry up S, feed A while simultaneously packing S's bag, drinking my coffee, wearing my lenses etc) the girls did painting, finger painting and playdough while i managed to get my exercise. After that we had some friends over for lunch- they had kids A's age and S had a ball running around with them. I used the snowing heavily card to skip S ice skating class also (to be fair i would not have taken S for ice skating after school if it was snowing, very difficult to skate in the outdoor rink then; but stepping out of the warm house at 3:15 pm after a heavy lunch seemed even more difficult) so we had a nice long nap in the afternoon also.
It was board games in the evening, some english work for S and skyping with Ajji and then its dinner time. Now of course is 8:30 in the night and both kids look far from sleep. Usually at this time S is half asleep! Look like its a long night ahead for me, but I don't mind, its fun playing truant!
At work I had always longed to take a day off and just relax at home doing the things i wanted to do. But before the kids were born i was too much of a workaholic to do that (i used to feel guilty taking my full entitlement of leave) and after the kids were born i used to save up my casual leave for their sick days. Have you ever played truant, and just relaxed at home?
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That sounds like a lovely day. Am sure the kids loved the surprise break
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