It was one of those weekends when I had an impulse to just load my kids in the car and drive over to my sister’s house – which is 90 minutes away. Well, I did give her a heads-up saying that we will be coming over, hoping that she’ll provide us brunch, cause the food she cooks is always nice. *grin* We had kueytiow soup for brunch, cute bunny chocolate appams and a melon drink.

While the kids played with their cousins, my sister and I gossiped about everything. I spent at least an hour there before we made our way back home afterwards.

In the car, my son suddenly said, “Mommy, do we have crayons at home? I need to bring them for art class tomorrow”. Of course, there were no crayons in the house. He knew that but he was being smart turning an “I need to buy crayons” into an enquiry. I said we’ll get him the crayons at the local shop near our house once we get there. He then continued with another request, “I need to bring a recorder for music class too – tomorrow”.

My eyes rolled upwards.

He had the whole Saturday to tell Mr. Husband about this but he chose to inform this on a Sunday when he was working, to The Mommy. It’s a good thing I have my own income. I do not need to use my husband’s money or ask him for these things. If it was my mom back then, who had no income, she probably had to ask my dad or start opening up her coinbox to look for extra money. We ended up with a stationery mini haul. My son got what he wanted and my daughter has a new set of coloured marker pens. I got new Buncho watercolours as well to replace the dried ones we have at the moment.