That would be the marathon of life – duh, can you see me training for any marathon other than…? Last week, I really felt as if I was training for one. It wasn’t just the physical beating that I got from driving the few hundred routine kilometers that I clock weekly and the lifting of my 8 kilo toddler for she decided to play cripple that week, nor the back-breaking task of tidying up the home floor which is a continuous series of bending down to pick up a variety of stuff only to find them strewn somewhere else minutes later, and the fact that I still puuuuuuuuuuuushed myself to do my ME time run as often as I could and still managed to attend events (3 to be exact), meet people (I was out meeting people like 7 times, shit! That’s an average of 1 per day! No wonder I’m exhausted!), run errands (groceries, post-office, dry-cleaning, bank etc), make almost every extra-curriculur kiddy class (swimming THRICE, piano, soccer); but mentally, I am so drained as well. Every last drop of juice has been squeezed out. I was faced with some major decisions. Should I? Shouldn’t I? Should I? Shouldn’t I? Hey, I was always THE decision maker. When did I lose it?!

On top of that, my 96 year old grandmother has been in hospital for the last 2 weeks. She is a cancer survivor and one hell of a steel Mama who brought up FIVE boys. I visited her today and she was very sharp, knowing exactly who I was and able to spell her name and answer questions that the nurses asked. But bless her, her body is failing. Her organs are deteriorating and she has some wounds from accidentally knocking things that I hope will heal but……..she is only skin and bones right now. She cannot move. She has drips that keep alternating between bloated hands and passes bloody stools, if she has any stools at all. She is on a restricted fluid diet as her kidneys are not draining fluids as fast as they should. Her tummy is hard and bloated. She is so bored staying at hospital and having to eat tons of meds daily. I feel so sad for her. I think she herself thinks she’s ready. So tomorrow, I shall visit her again. Just to bring some smiles onto her face as T2 certainly did that today.

T1 is super busy with school work. My GOD! The poor girl, it seems to me like she’s running her own school marathon as well! What is wrong with the blinking education system that our children have lost time to play! She’s not even seven!!! I abhor it. I abhor all this kiasu-ism that the school drives into the kids and the chain reaction of mothers who run the guinea pig wheel of ensuring their kids all SCORE. Poor kids…..poor kids……but she’s not complaining and actually says that she likes school! Tell her to ponteng? No chance. She wants to see her friends!

T1, she is fine and coping well but I still wish she had more time to play. Thus weekends are solely for us to spend quality family time doing the fun stuff. We dedicate our entire weekend to her. Last weekend, we went to the KLCC Aquaria and T2 LOVED it!!! She was so excited, she kept pointing to all the “ISH!!! ISH!!!” and then we had a glorious swim, all four of us where I played some shark game with T1 and boy, oh boy, running in water is more difficult than I can remember! Weekends are also spent catching up with Nana, Tok-Tok and Uncle Ben for at least an evening and a meal. Or two. Or three. And lots of dessert. Mom, stop it!

We all passed out into deep slumber that Sunday evening from the very, VERY full weekend.

It’s already April and we have another full week. I’m telling you, time is FLYING but hopefully within all this busy-ness and camaraderie of relationships and activities, we’ll have a chronological encyclopedia of FANTASTIC memories to bring to our graves. Oh, how morbid.

Live Life, People!!! LIVE LIFE!!!

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