The past two days, I was on child care leave. For the uninitiated, child care leave is a type of leave granted to parents in Singapore with young children up to the age of 7. You are entitled to 6 days per year. So I was using it all up before the end of the year.
It has been a while since I spent most of the morning at home with Izzie alone. It’s an interesting experience. I wake up, send my wife off to work, and then wait for Izzie to wake up. Then it’s just activity after activity. You have to feed her, bathe her, and wash her clothes. Then I spend some quality time playing with her. And then after some time, she would get bored and sleepy, and hence become cranky. Then I would have to try to put her to sleep by carrying her and trying to calm her down. She finally falls asleep. And when she wakes up, the cycle kinda starts all over again.
Any regrets spending the past two days at home? Definitely not. It’s priceless. Time well spent. I would love to do it again some time.