count my blessings?

This morning I went for medical checkup after dropping the kids for school. Channery was alright and only cried a little. we picked her up at 4 plus and I then realized that she had been missing her Chinese lessons. Teacher informed me that she has her lessons till 5pm so I should not pull her out too early. If that is the case, I have to find ways to keep my 3 older kids occupied till we picked her up at 5pm. What a long day for me.

As for the checkup, its a two yrly free medical checkup by Prudential called the prusmart lady. Love the idea of having a checkup every 2 yrs. My "machine" is really getting on age and really need to take good care of it. Ended up I had high blood pressure readings and might have to take medication. she told me to cut down weight and exercise and do a blood pressure test again 2 wks later. Well! I was fasting and headache came probably due to low blood sugar. I had high BP whenever I had tension headache. Anyway will check again in 2 wks time.

After checkup, I called up an old friend and she told me she was in bad shape. An old injury now caused her to suffer from numbness and she could not walk properly. Now undergoing physiotherapy. She is really a good friend and still so positive about her condition. Will have to start taking care of myself too.

Fetch kids from school and went for lunch. After that went shopping before sending Charlynn to school to perform her buddy system duties. She was really happy to be of service to the P1. Joe came to join us after his lunch date with his ex-teacher and ex-secondary classmate. Now his classmate is working as a cancer specialist/oncologist in SGH. Does that mean being in a good secondary school means you will have friends likely to make it in life? Well! I have no contacts with my secondary school friends so who knows what they are doing now!

Btw I am most angry with the Australia's shipping company. Joe called them up to check on our shipment and guess what? My items still in sydney and it has been one and a half months since we sent them into the container. Wonder when I will receive my things!!!!

Joe leaving in a few days time and I am not very keen on the idea of dealing with kids on my own.However, Charles been real good today. Joe's friend commented he could find school bored as he is not intellectually challenged. Therefore, maybe there's hope and I should count my blessing that he is in good health rather than feeling frustrated that he is not doing what he had been told.