Have gone back to work for 2 weeks, and surprisingly, I didn't/ haven't had any "withdrawal symptoms" from being SAHM for the past 5 months. Life just went on as before I took my no pay leave. The familiar shoulder aches from leaning over to mark worksheets and planing lessons using the ibook, the accumulated tiredness over the week and the no-time-to-tidy-house habit...

In one of the episodes of the Little Einsteins, Quincy played the violin to help in a mission. Ch noticed how it was done and during lunch that day, she took her chopsticks and pretended to play the violin!I didn't really know what she was doing then, but she mouthed softly "Just like Quincy!". It was then that I realised what she was...

This song was sung in Ch's Gymboree class. It's actually a song from the Barney show (that's what I heard from the teachers in Gymboree), and Ch loves it. Though I don't know how to sing the song, Ch'll always pester me to sing it. I only know the 1st line of the first stanza, but that's enough to satisfy little Ch, and...

Ch is promoted to the Level 5 Gymboree class for toddlers between 22 to 28mo. For her first Level 5 class last Wed, Ch wasn't very willing to participate in the activities as it was mainly pretend play. Heard from the teacher that for these coming 2 weeks , the theme will be on Firefighters. For this lesson, the children were brought around...

I'm so... FRUSTRATED! today! First, it was the 1N1 students... they came in to my homeroom after recess with some still eating and drinking. That's not bad enough. They took 5 mins to settle down and when I asked them for their homework, 7 of them couldn't hand the work in! I gave them this pre-test worksheet about a week ago, and deadline...