Ayoi’s

Well actually D-Day plus One is yesterday. D-Day = the day that when we need to do all the things by ourselves as the maid decided to leave. As I am the one who volunteered to stay at home and take care all the kids while wifey fulfilling her appointments. I have to admit it’s quite awkward for me at first but as the day progressed, I’m getting used to all the house chores even though the house usually filled with shouting from me, the twins and of cause their usual victim, Iman.

So what did I do actually? First I have to get the twins to take their bath. Thankfully they do love playing with water and especially when I turn on the shower. The only problem is to make them leave the bathroom and the only trick that I have is to turn off the lite and they will scramble to get out of the bathroom (usually they will have some small fight with each other on who should get out first. This is where the shouting match will starts between them and me)

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr....

Then of cause I have to feed them. The usual diet is their milk and scramble eggs (most of the time they will eat one or two spoonful and then play with the rest of the eggs in their bowl). While they are playing with their food, I will start to do some laundry, wash the dishes and yeah some cooking as well. As for yesterday, wifey already prepared breakfast and lunch for us (she know that I’m quite helpless when cooking for the kids).

These chores will last to the lunch hour where for the twins, they had some vegetable soup (yes. They only want the soup – the watery part and not the soup content). They will only have one or two spoonful of rice in that soup but they can take up to two bowl of soup. After lunch, I took them to my room and let them watching their favourite channel and in short period of time, both of them dozed off. Within that time, I managed to complete and submit my monthly report to the Project Manager. Terer eh?

After they woke up, the chaos resumed (HAHA). So as usual besides the customary smiling-after-wake-up, they will request for their daily dosage of milk. In the mean time, while waiting for my eldest daughter return from school around 6 pm, another laundry activities, settling the outstanding dishes at the kitchen sink and yeah, sweeping the floow, taking out the thrash and other chores.

Once Nisha reached home, we then started our house cleaning operation before wifey came home (and start nagging about the house condition). Me, Nisha, Iman and the twins, yeah the twins also somehow surprised me with their co-operative behavior in cleaning up the house (even thought they started to hit Iman with the broom afterward)

Then while waiting for wifey, we had our dinner, Oh yeah.. I cook for dinner and thankfully there’s no complaint from the kids especially from Nisha.. The last chore for the day was when I have to become the plumber in order to remove the interruption to the water flow from the kitchen sink. Ahh I became an electrician last few days when we had lighting problem with the master bedroom’s bathroom and our daughter’s room’s bathroom.

Even though it is tiring but I’ve learned a lot especially about my kids. I know their favourite TV show, the exact time for their meals, what are the signals or their behavior when they are really hungry or when they just want to play with the foods, how to really make them listen to you (OK shouting doesn’t help but somehow it does increase the odds ) and somehow someway I do feel that I’m closer to my children than before.

Maybe there’s a silver lining in the dark clouds anyway…

p/s: Why i didn’t mention about Iman? Because she’s in semi auto pilot already. She knows what she should that at what time. She helps me a lot actually especially in interpreting what the twins actually wanted hahaha..

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