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).

While you were Sleeping

Hannah has this tendency to pout her lips while sleeping and I have been smothering the creases off her face every time I saw her do it. However, last night Gen caught me while I was diligently smothering creases form Hannah’s face and he said, “Boo buat apa?”

I was so shock that I almost fell off the bed. Luckily I get to hold him and trying to act as normal as ever I said “Ada susu tumpah”. Gen look at me questioningly as I did not hold any tissue or napkin whatsoever. He looked at Hannah’s face closely in the dimmed night light and to my surprise; he actually tries to smother Hannah’s pouting lips using his finger.

I went out of the room smiling. Like wife, like hubby…