Happiness Journal 20/6/24

Took both children all the way to Changi Airport T3 so that they could play to their heart’s content at the giant inflatable Miffy bouncy castle.

Except that I didn’t anticipate the height requirement. So, my younger daughter was denied entry.

Given her go-getter temperament, I braced myself for her non-stop shrieking that betrayed her formidable lung power. To my enormous relief, she just stood there outside the entrance, never demanding, just waiting contentedly for her elder brother. How lucky I was!

Serendipitously, I had been given a bubble bottle from the ramen restaurant where we had our lunch. Gotta love those child-friendly Japanese restaurants for their value-added gesture of providing a toy in their kid’s meals. I passed the bottle to the daughter, to her utter delight. What could have turned out to be a sibling equality crisis was thus de-escalated into a non-event.