Friday Blues

For the first time, today I have to send Adam and Hannah to their nanny house before going to work. Usually Gen will send Adam and Hannah and I will send Nadia off in the morning. However, Gen come back at 2 a.m. in the morning from Kuala Lipis and at 7 a.m. he’s already on his way to Kuala Lumpur.

I don’t want to trouble their nanny by sending them so early in the morning, so I volunteered to send them there for Gen. I will definitely be late for work.

All of them were still sleeping went I put them in the car. Sigh… Adam is so heavy. He’s already 15 kilos, not that I’m complaining but after giving birth to Nadia I only weight 40 kilos. I send Nadia to her nanny in Inderapura (Nadia still sleeping) then I head to Kempadang.

Once I park the car and open the door, Hannah went straight into the Nanny’s house, looking for Kakak Ina and Kakak Izzati. Adam is still sleeping so I have to wake him up.

Me: Adam, bangun, dah sampai dah ni kat umah Mak (nanny)
Adam: (hardly open his eyes and looked at me strangely) nape Mama hantar Adam? (then he looked at nanny’s house, bewildered) eh, Adam tak nak gi umah Mak.
Me: Mana boleh camtu, Mama nak gi kerja ni, petang kang Mama amik Adam.
Adam: (suddenly sobbing then I understood that he actually asks for Gen when he asks why I sent him there instead of Gen)
Me: Babah amik Adam petang kang (upon hearing my words, Adam burst into tears, hug me and cried even louder)

I have to carry him, up the stairs of nanny’s kampong house, and pat him to sleep. When he’s sober, I kissed his forehead and went to work. But truthfully… how can I work with traces of his tears still damp on my tudung?

(Hannah is already playing happily with her sisters, waved goodbye and barely noticed my existence).

Kakak...!

We have been sending Adam, Hannah and Nadia (yes, the new installment to the family is Nadia Nadhirah and she’s already 3 months old) to their nanny’s house every morning. Enough said that I have had enough with my previous maid’s problem and truthfully, I am very paranoid to get a new maid.

For the first few weeks the routine was very exhausting. We all have to wake up early, I have to pack up their bags, meal etc but after a few weeks we all can adapt to this new schedule. Adam and Hannah looked happier and they made have more friends. Their nanny is actually Abby’s ex-nanny all the way in Kempadang. And so far, I have no problem with their nanny.

Nadia went to a different nanny. This is because I don’t trust Adam and Hannah with the baby. They both love Nadia somuch but they tend to squeeze her, poke her eyes, covered her with nappy and I once caught Adam hugging the baby. They can play with the baby in the evening and we have no problem getting along.

Hannah’s nanny has a nine years old daughter named Izzati who treats Hannah like her own sister. They have been playing masak-masak, cikgu-cikgu, doktor-doktor and etc and I think Hannah liked her so much.

Last night I was preparing dinner when Hannah hugged me from behind and called me “Kakak…!” It’s either I’m too small that she mistaken me as Izzati or maybe she have been spending too much time with Izzati instead of with me.