But hey, this is my page anyway..:D
Yesterday gotta be the most stressed and probably most touchy day I've ever had. Since we lost our maid just 3 days a go, it's been like a "chaotic situation" in my house.
While my kids had just got home from school, my mother who has to do her routine hemodialisys went to hospital with my dad and the driver. For information, my dad usually only accompanies and does a little this and that while the maid prepares the dress change and some other things.
But yesterday, since there's only my dad in the house, he did everything. From changing the dress, put on the diaper, did some make up to my mom and those some other things that supposed to be done by woman.
I thought one of my sisters came and did those things, because my dad didn't say anything like he was in trouble. So when I found out that no one came, not until it's time to went off (my sister in law finally came), it really broke my heart.
Not to mention what happened to my kids afterward.
My kids came home just at the time when my mother went off to hospital. They were told to go and stay in my sister's or my brother's house, with their cousins. So, they went there. I and my mother and my dad thought they were saved. Until I found that there's something wrong when I dialled my nephew's numbers, no one picked it up.
I was panicked at the office. But I tried to stay calm. I kept on calling my dad, and unanswered too for unknown reasons.
Until an hour later my dad sms me and told me that the kids were already in the house (not my sister's or my brother's house).
What??? But there's no one at home! Who's supposed to watch them???
I called my kids and it was the eldest who picked up the phone. Without any sound of scarry or anger or whatever, he slightly said that he and his sister already tried to go to one of my siblings houses, but no one at home also. So that's why the phones were unanswered, I thought. I told my son and his sister (who was sleeping when I called) to stay in the house and lock the door until someone (a family off course) come.
It was already 2 pm, and I was worried about their lunch, although I had prepared some chicken nuggets on the table before I went to office in the morning.
I asked how did they get into the house? No one told them where the key was hidden. But apparently my daughter knows where my dad used to hide the key, and it was she who opened the door, after they had been wandering around between my sister's and my brother's houses. My son told me that there were no less than 10 times they'd been knocking at their aunty's and uncle's doors! (Hyperbolic, off course)
So, you could never imagine how I felt yesterday knowing that your 7 and 9 years old kids-who used to be arguing all the time when they're together-stay home alone, with no food, only some nuggets on the table. I had told my sisters about this actually, to watch my kids and feed them lunch while my mom and dad in the hospital. My sister, who (probably) had told their children too about watching over their cousins because she had something to do outside, and my cousins, who (probably), had been completely forget about it. :D
And what really touched me was when I called in the evening (around 5 pm) and my daughter picked up the phone, she said that it was raining, and she and her brother had to pick up clothes in the rain, although some were missed because they couldn't reach the height. She even apologized to me..oh My!
I was very touched, not to mention when she said that she had put off the TV and plugged off the antenna cable due to the thunders. Then she also said that she was starving, the nuggets are eaten already and they're running out of snacks.
I know that lots lots of kids out there are more tougher than my kids, but knowing that my kids could take care of themselves without supervision, it made me really proud, despite of the stress I had in the office and on the way home.
So I guess it never a waste to keep on telling our kids about things to do at home, like no switch on gas stove, don't watch TV when it rains hard, lock the door and don't talk to strangers,put on the lights when evening comes, and last but not least, to pick up the clothes when it rains...hahahaha...
Oh...I'm so in love with my kids...and really have no idea why I write this in English, with an abominable grammar =)))
