Pardon me for the long hiatus...comp was down for a period plus super busy with house shifting. From the time we had to vacate the house to the time our new place was ready, it was a good two months gap. During these two months, we put up at my parents' place and although it's a bit far for our usual activities, we are still thankful that there's no need to search for temporary lodgings and paid big rental for it.

Before I share more about my new place, I thought it's good to jot down the little interesting flashback during these times. My parents stay at Yew Tee while our activities centred around Clementi area. Hence, at times, we rather completed all activities before going back home as it can be quite a hassle with the 20-30mins drive. It dawned on me that we have already enjoyed so much convenience with the previous good location and it reminded me so much of "The city mouse and the country mouse".

Morning times
The whole ching gang will leave my parents' place by 645am. Seth, usually in his dreams, would be carried to the car to continue his beauty sleep during the journey to Gor Gor and Jie Jie's school. By the time we reach the kids' school, it will be around 710-715am. We would then proceed to have our breakfast. During that two months, it was a "challenge" thinking which coffee shop/ hawker to go. When we finally nicely settled down, Seth would then blur-ingly wake up knowing it's breakfast time.

In the past, our standard no-frill breakfast would be coffee and bread. For Seth, he would order from the "kitchen",  his fried egg or half boil egg or Cheese or Peanut Butter bread. During these two months, Seth has upped his morning appetite!  Like the usual Ah Pek in coffee shop, he will order the same items without fail - 2 eggs, 1 char siew bao and 1 glass of hot Milo.

IHe can even tell you which coffee shop in Clementi serves the best char siew bao! During these two months, we rotated between few coffee shops / hawkers in Clementi.  And, my breakie during these two months were very flavourful with Dim Sum, Bee Hoon, carrot cake...

Regulars @ Clementi Library
The kids' school and enrichment are centred around Clementi area. Hence, there were times when we rather spent time at Clementi Library waiting for one kid to finish his/ her class before the troupe goes back to Yew Tee. Monday was by far the most tiring day for us. Seth has enrichment at West Coast at 7pm while Shan ended her dance CCA at 6pm. While waiting for Seth to finish his lesson, Shan will cool herself at the Library doing her HW in her messy and sweaty school outfit. At times, I felt so sorry for her as by the time we reached back my parents' place, it would be well after 9pm. She would have to quickly shower and dry her hair before settled for the night. Thankfully, these episodes did not affect her studies and her CA results.

While Shan is having her ballet class on Sat/ Sun, Sky would also be in the library doing HW and reading as well.

Our bed
Thankfully, bedroom at my parent's place was huge enough to contain 5 of us! With two mattresses on the floor and a queen sized bed plus a couple of luggage, that was "home" for us that two months!

All glory to god, we are now happily settling well in the new place for a month already and house has now transformed to our home already. For the first few days in the new place, Seth was very upset and had withdrawal symptoms for his egg and char siew bao! People are really very adaptable creature. He's now back to Peanut Butter bread or egg for breakie!

side note
While hubby was doing unpacking during the initial days of shifting, he texted me, "Why on earth do you need 20 pairs of different length and patterns of shorts when you can live off one luggage for the past two months?!" LOL. Forgive him, he doesn't know the difference between shorts, berms, cullocks...