It’s both Hari Raya Puasa and Children’s Day today and thus a public holiday in Singapore.

Catherine has been wanting to visit a salon to do up her hair, but her wish has not been materialised due to her hectic schedules in taking care of Darius. So today is a good day for her to finally be ‘free’ of Darius while I look after him.

After giving Darius a morning bath, Catherine left for Causeway Point and I was all alone with Darius in the house. This wasn’t the first time I have been alone with him, so I wasn’t really nervous. All I know was that since I was then the sole caregiver, I had to be even be more committed and careful to ensure considerable attention was given to him.

Fortunately, he wasn’t cranky that day so I just needed to play with him a bit, change his diapers and gave him a feed. Time flew by pretty quickly and before I knew it, Catherine had SMSed me that her hairdo was about to complete, and I could start preparing to go over.

Before she left the house, I’ve told her that Darius and I would go over to Causeway Point to meet up with her. I thought it was a good opportunity for us to take a walk at the shopping mall as a family together and I’m sure Catherine would prefer this arrangement too.

Not expecting that I would need to be going over so soon, I had to quickly get Darius’ stuffs prepared for the outing. By the time I was done, another 10 to 15 minutes have passed. I then started dialling for a cab and had to wait for another 10 minutes before my booking was accepted. Looked like the taxis were pretty busy on this holiday.

I then carried Darius and the diaper bag slinged on the left arm, while my right arm carried the folded up stroller. Despite having both arms filled, I still had to stumble with the house keys to lock the doors etc.

Upon reaching the void deck, I waited patiently while passers-by looked at me with a strange look, probably wondering what’s a guy doing with the baby and all the stuffs alone.

All alone with Darius...

When the cab finally arrived, the driver was helpful as he helped placed the stroller in the car boot. I then sat in the rear seat after I informed him of my destination. I’ve always been seeing Catherine carrying Darius in the cab, so this was the first time I’m taking up that role.

On our way to mummy

There were several drop-off points in the Causeway Point area, and I had specifically told the driver to drop me at that particular taxi stand which was more isolated than the others so I won’t be attracting too much attention.

Upon reaching the destination, the helpful driver took out the stroller and helped assembled it. I thanked him and after pushing the stroller to a safe and quiet location, I shoved the bag beneath the stroller before placing Darius on it. I then mounted the newly bought hoop (aka ‘Activity Center’)(see Out & About Activity Centre for Darius) on it so that he would have something to attract his attention.

Phew! Done...

With all these things done, I met up with Catherine and we had a great time together, so the efforts were worth it! ^^

Through this experience, I then got to know how difficult it was for a single parent to bring a baby out. I probably wouldn’t have been able to make it without the driver’s assistance.

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