Holidays and Heydeys | 2011

With Jakjak now going to pre-school, it seems that family days have become more of a planned day rather than a spontaneous one. Only a year ago, all the holidays that I had to worry about was mine. Recently, school holidays have become more and more part of the plan (most of the time, it is the plan) and our days have to be scheduled around that. It's easy to say to just steal a day or two from our daily life, but reality is not always that kind, nor that giving. So it becomes a mixture of decisions on which days give in and which do not.

Funny though, just last year we were thinking about how much time we could have to ourselves once Jakjak starts schooling. As it turns out, it's not really that much. In fact, without the free spontaneousness of those free days, it has become a chore. But all is not lost. Of course there are opportunities that we grab in order to keep things as less strenuous as we can. In fact, our daily mis-adventures have not changed much, if it has changed at all.


I believe that one of the most important things that a parent can (and should) give their child at this stage in both their lives, is time. Not just quality time, but the quantity of time as well. We have to admit it, in today's fast paced life, the old adage "quality time is more important than quantity of time" no longer applies. You cannot give quality time if you did not have the quantity of time in the first place. So this is, again, about balance. Life and time do not turn back. It is up to us to make the most of them.