Today, I went to visit some serviced offices with baby in tow. How unprofessional! Yes, I know, but I wasn’t left with a choice. The world is just going to have to live with it and who knows, with globalisation, we’d soon be seeing offices with creches on the same floor. Oh, how I wish! *dream on*

We were at our first office at 9am thereabouts, the Rolls Royce of serviced offices at a new swanky office building in town and it was very impressive. There is a reason you pay top dollar for this. I used to be a part of their senior management and I didn’t come cheap but worth every penny, according to the clients. *I say, as I blow my own horn – TOOT!!!*

Little did the staff know. To them, I was just this harassed Mom stroke business woman wannabe with this cute baby wanting to check out their floor. So we did the tour and all was good. The only problem with that building’s location was that there wasn’t a shopping mall below which would have been really convenient not only for our staff but for me and the baby. Run out of diapers? Run downstairs….Need a toy? Run downstairs…..Need a baby bribe? Run downstairs…….you get the picture.

Our next location was closer to home but not necessarily where the expats might want to be and besides, the traffic jams in and out are horrendous. Nevertheless, I did my duty to visit them, just in case. At our third stop, baby started getting restless and suddenly started SCREAMING!!!! OH. MY. GOD.

We were just passing through a business lounge where there were about half a dozen foreigners having a discussion and I picked her up immediately and left towards the conference room and slam shut the door. She continued screaming for a good 5 minutes but I couldn’t understand what it was that she wanted (TALK, BABY….TALK!!!). I think she was just tired and wanted whatever it was she wanted. I tried calming her down to no avail and felt pretty sorry for the manager who was showing me around. And then I screamed back. Well, that didn’t work. After hitting my face countless times screaming, I lost it and hit her arm back real hard, and as soon as I did that, I felt sick inside.

What was I to do? Situations like that stress me out and I start getting an asthma attack! I just know that this decision to go back to work isn’t going to be an easy ride. And I was being totally unfair to T2 since she had to be lugged all around town to visit serviced offices without having her proper meals and eating junk food (Cheerios, Baby Bites, Raisin Bread) on the go. So after our third office visit, I called it a day and went looking for new shoes instead.

Now before you start making judgements, I went looking for RUNNING shoes!!! I had gone over the weekend to test out the Brooks shoes and today tried out the New Balance shoes. My first ever run is coming up, you know! I am just going to die. I know it. Someone, please get the ambulance ready. I am serious.

After shoe hunting, we had some lunch and dessert, then headed home. The poor baby, she passed out the second the car was on the road still within the parking lot. And when we got home, I carried her gently out only to have to carry her gently in again within THIRTY MINUTES, to go pick up the big sister from school; all this while praying SO DAMN HARD that she would not wake up for if she had, she would have turned into a raging baby Medusa with the snake head. I was lucky. She slept all the way till we got to school despite all that movement, but me? I felt on edge thinking, wondering, sitting on the edge of fear, with premonitions of myself screaming, throwing every object in sight and tearing out every organ within my body till that stress was released.

Well, at least they had beef pasta for dinner…….

Now, to shoo them off to bed.

 

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