The children's health

Joe was at home on Wednesday. We brought Channery to a clinic to have her eyesight tested. It was a free service and we do no have to pay. The outcome of the checkup was that Channery is shortsighted and she had lazy eyes. She will need to wear the glasses. My other 3 kids have long and short sightedness as well as astigmatism but Channery has little problem with that. Wonder how they had the eyes problems. I only wore spectacles in my teens and my brother even has perfect eyesight. Chances maybe both parents and Joe's parents. Will have to spend big money on their glasses. Charles and Chantz are very careless with their spectacles and likely to have another pair made by end of this year. There is a machine eye relax in Singapore. Maybe to buy that and asked them to se through the machine everyday. When they are older, we will asked them to put on contact lens and have lasik when their degrees stablises.

Besides their eyesight, I am struggling with their eating habits. They like to eat unhealthy food and that is not good news. In fact I was so mad with the boys of throwing away their sandwiches yesterday that I told them they have to prepare their own food. This morning they prepared salad and I ordered them to take the baked pizza along. They refused and only agreed after I told them it was prepared by their dad. I find the children are ganging up to go against me. They can do that and I really won't be affected. They can try to outsmart me but too bad, it's not going to work. Joe can still be their doting father but I just won't give in. I know I can be really stubborn and childish sometime but the kids are not going to win to have an upper hand. Let them prepare their lunch for a few more days and they will know. Wonder if they will be punished for throwing away food as there are so many people around the world without food. I hate to see them wasting food. :{

This Sunday we will be driving to Canberra. Joe said it was only 3 hrs drive and it was easy. He booked a motel and we will leave on Sunday morning. Saturday the kids have Chinese class so we can't leave on Saturday.

I have fears of driving long distance. In fact, jsut now a thought just flashed through my mind. If I were to die or hurt here in Sydney, Joe has no problem taking care of things but what if it is the other way round? I have no money as everything is provided by Joe. Told not to bring money over so I am really quite penniless. Only $200 emergency money which I told Joe to give me. The fact that I have no friends to turn to if anything happen can be scary. Maybe if anything happen, I just buy tickets with credit card and go back Singapore??? My siblings are not contacting us. Seems like everyone is busy with their own family. Who can I go to I wonder if things go wrong?

The Australian has a choice to buy insurance for their funeral. It's about a few dollars a week with no medical check etc. Everything is done via phone. The relatives can take care of the funeral expenses if anything goes wrong. In Singapore, we do not have such insurance and we depended on the Bai2 Jin1 given by friends and relatives as well as our own savings.

Very sad to be in this situation of feeling helpless. God bless.