Working Parents - How much quality time do you get weekdays?

[winth]

insider:

pursue my hobby (studying about fortune telling...)

really? I'm into 面相. I have learnt to look at certain features of the face from one of my friends and found it useful when I need to discern someone's characters from another. And have just found a 面相 book to learn the basics and get a more complete picture of a person. My aim is to be able to look at a face using 混流法.

Any book that you have read and you found it's good? Maybe can PM me...

[winth]

insider:

You are having that negative feeling of “slog until old already for what” maybe coz you haven’t loved yourself enough. LOVE YOURSELF!

true lar... think now is already one of the best parts of my life liao... financially stable, got good children, still relatively young and healthy, and got a very family-oriented husband who feels that i'm a very good wife and mother. there's really nothing more that i can ask for liao.

must stop and smell the roses more often...

[mintcc]

[quote]5.30 am – wake up to pre-prepare dinner [/quote]
:udawoman: wow 5:30am...and you sleep at 12? If I wake up at 5:30 I will want to go back to ZZzzz by 7:30...
[quote]My 6 year old is growing up too fast as well and I can feel that he sometimes no longer needs me or be too sticky to him. [/quote]yes kids grow up so fast... so sometimes when my boy is sticky...just need to keep in mind that he will no be sticky any more in a few years time...

[EatNonStop]

Interesting topic :

[quote]5.30 am – wake up to pre-prepare dinner

Like Mincy, I am still Zzzzzzz

I am lucky enough to have a MIL to help look after my boy (21mths old) in the weekday nites so my sleep was not being disturbed from 12pm-7am

7am - 7.45am. in between this timing, I still manage to steal 5-10mins bonding time with my boy while my elder gal (4.5 yrs) is still snoring in her sleep.
7.45am - off to work

6.30pm -7pm. Back Home.

7pm-8pm . \"Drag\" my kid for showers and patiently feeding them dinner.

8.15pm - 9.00pm. Once my gal observed I am done with my dinner, she will pester me for drawing session. While the gal draws and colors her favorite princess characters occassioally with mummy as the queen :lol: my boy adds in the \"mess\" by scribbling around on a pc of paper.

9pm-9.30pm. Maths / English (picking up learning tips from Tamarind's and Bud's / Silly things / Fun activities with the kids)

9.30pm -9.45pm. Settle boy to sleep

9.45pm-10.30pm. Read books or play monopoly games or chitchat with gal

11.30pm....Zzzzzzzz

So I guess I have 3 hrs (inclusive shower / feeding time) with my kids.[/quote]

[ngchris]

Here's my quality time schedule with my K2


Weekends - we almost do everything together ie bkfast, grocery shopping, cleaning, meeting family/friends etc

Weekdays - i treasure those short walk/drive to & fro CC (5 mins/day), play - mostly Q&A time (15 mins/day) but my favourite activity is to snuggle with him in the bed before sleeptime and chat (15-30 mins)
:love:

[mintcc]

ngchris:

my favourite activity is to snuggle with him in the bed before sleeptime and chat (15-30 mins)

:love:

Heee.. it is one of my favourite times too :love: but then sometimes I just fell asleep with him....

EatNonStop:

7.45am - off to work

That's early...sometimes 7:45am I am still working on waking DS up...

[Addoil]

Me 2! for the whole day, my favorutes hours is the bed time, we sing together, play, chat and tickling them when they are naughty, this is the hours that I am most appreciate & memorable, and only during this short peirods that make me feel that my life is happiness just because of having them... :love:

[EatNonStop]

Hi mummies


How about Weekends? How do u spend time with the kids?

[Poonie]

After enrichment classes in the morning they will spend time on the following:


Lunch
Go to the library to pick up new books
Reading
Polish their own school shoes and mop the floor
Cycling (they have recently mastered cycling on 2-wheel bike so they are crazy about cycling now)
Badminton (also one of their latest pursuits)
Swimming or visit grands
Dinner
Grocery shopping on alternate week
Before bedtime - do abit of assessment

[mintcc]

Sat -

Wake up> go park/blow bubbles/watch DVD.
>Go Swimming > Eat Lunch > Nap > Go enrichment class> Dinner> Grocery Shopping.

Sun-
go park/blow bubbles/watch DVD>go grandparents house for lunch alternate weeks / Go lunch > Go park/ playground/ shopping/ somewhere new > Dinner > Home