Today was very hectic. I now know what other blogger meant when they wrote that they actually cry bile anak cry non-stop and all. Well it almost happened to me today but Tuk Ki was just in time to save the situation. If Tuk Ki were to come just a second later, he would surely see me crying. hArith was giving me a hard time. He wanted to be carried at all time. And mind you, i’m not allowed to sit. Gosh, carrying him around was just too tiring for me…saketnye blakang!!! Ngam2 hArith in a better mood….athirAh lak nanges. Macam passing baton lar pulak. At that moment mom wasn’t around to help me, and my dad masih jet lag from his London trip, so he needed some sleep. Thus leaving me with the two babies…and the babies chosed this particular day to be cranky.

Petang skit, i decided to bring them to OU…with the backache and all i thought i wanted to avoid carrying the stroller but it was better than staying at home. I got frustrated though at OU. With the Chinese New Year around the corner, they tend to have soooo many items to display, making all the aisle narrow. It was hard for me to pass through with my twin stroller. In fact, all malls have the same problem. Seriously, I really dont understand, even the babies/children departments have narrow aisle. Don’t they expect parents to come with the babies? So are we suppose to leave the stroller somewhere at the open space while we do some shopping? Hell no i’m going to do that with all the kidnapping cases.

Gosh, I’m just too tired. It’s only 8:26pm but i already feel like hitting the bed. Ohh, and something else just happened tonite, it sucks… well lets not get into it. I rather have my sleep. Gud nite people!

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Fuhh… it was great to have pApa around for 3 days. I managed to get my beauty sleep at night. For 3 nights while pApa was around, I need not wake up in the middle of night to feed my babies, pApa did it for both of them. Whenever I felt sleepy, I straight away drop myself on the bed. I need not worry that bottles were not clean and sterilize yet cause it was all well taken care of. Even to bathe them twice a day was done by pApa…top of that whenever the pampers smells stinky, I just need to pass them to pApa and have them back in my arms already smelling good. Yup, all these has been pApa’s chores whenever his home. vEryyy nIceee!

Ohh..it was great 3 days! Well, in fact I treasured my nights sooo much that I actually slept early. Before 10pm I was already asleep. If i’m not mistaken I tuck in yesterday at about 9pm. That reminds me so much back in uni days where I claimed “Tido adalah nikmat dunia pertama”.

Well, now back to reality…pApa just left bout 30 mins ago and will only be back on Thursday. That’s 5 days just me and the babies (of coz my mom is around to help…well that is IF she doesn’t go out 😉 ). So hArith and athirAh, please be at your best of behaviour okay =)

Hmm…I think I wanna go to bed now. Gud nite people. ZzzZzzzZzzZzzzzz……

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syauQi came back from work on Saturday night. I knew I was going to fall sick anytime soon, so I was looking forward to waking up late the next morning…to reenergize myself. Thought of getting pApa to take the early morning shift with the babies so I could extend my sleeping hours…but men I was wrong. He had planned to have his badminton session as early as 8am. So there goes my plan for waking up late. And I thought at least I would have the chance to have my morning nap at around 10:30 or so (was hoping by then pApa will be home)…but men I was wrong AGAIN. He proceeded to Kelana Jaya to buy the infamous Char Kuey Teow F.A.M. which I was told that he wanna tapau…but somehow it turn out to be breakfast with friends….so the supposedly to be breakfast ended rather late. He then had to drop by at his parent’s house to send the tapau kuey teow. By then my head was as heavy as a bowling ball size 9. Lucky thing it was a weekend, I got hAna to mandikan the babies. I could barely lift my head.

By the time syauQi arrived home, which was almost noon, I was just too tired that I couldn’t get myself to sleep. Have you ever experience such situation that you wayyy passed your tired zone till you not able to sleep. Since I failed to sleep, I decided to put aside hArith’s and athirAh’s outgrown baju so we could have more space in the drawers. By the time I finished with the clothes, I was already having a bowling ball size 13 on my head. I managed to force myself to sleep but only for about 10 minutes ir so, I was awaken by syauQi. We had to go to the hospital to do some family social obligation. My sis-in-law gave birth the day before, she was very supportive when I gave birth to my miracles babies, so it was only right for me to reciprocate her kindness.

After returning from the hospital, I straight away drop myself on the bed and finally had the chance to take a nap. It was about 1 1/2 hour nap. I woke up feeling very groggy and drowsy. Not too sure what was the size of bowling ball I was carrying at that time, I could barely lift my head. My brother woke me up, informing me that babies are crying and cranky. pApa somehow felt asleep besides the babies.

After a week without maid, lack of sleep and over used of energy to handle the babies, I now have runny nose and cough, same goes to my babies too. I’m not sure sape menyangkit sape. Maybe if I had reenergized myself that morning I could have prevented this drowsiness + cough + runny nose. Guess it’s a bit too late. pApa left for an early flight this morning, leaving me with the babies for the next. Well work can’t be avoided aight, someone has to work aight. so wish me luck with the babies. I guess it is just a matter of getting used to this newly routine without maid.

So meanwhile, hArith and athirAh no kissy kissy and less huggy huggy, we wouldnt want to worsen each other flu.

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For the past 5 days without maid, i found a solution to make me less tired but the babies more tired…to bring them out. I’m not saying going out is not tiring for me but comparatively it is less tiring. At least they are both in the stroller and I just have to push it around. But of coz, from time to time athirAh will be crying asking to be carried. Previously she didn’t want to sit in her stroller AT ALL, but now showing great improvement.

But there’s a lot to do when getting ready to go out. Mcm nak pindah rumah angkut brg budak2 tu. Here’s the checklist:

• Baby bag which consists of:

1. 3 diapers each
2. one change each
3. hand towel to use during changing of diaper
4. small towel each to use during feeding and burping (and for hArith who loves to play with his saliva)
5. baby wipes
6. changing mat
7. hand sanitizer
8. small plastic bag to dispose their pampers

• 2 bottles of prepared milk for each
• blanket/fleece each
• muslin wrap (a less thicker blanket in case it’s not that cold)
• soft toy each; Abu & Mawar (to keep them occupied while seating in the stroller)
• stroller (im not consistent, which car do i use to go out each time, as a result i have to start transfering the stroller from one car to the other…very tiring!)
• same goes for the car seats, fixing the car seats from one car to the other

Going to the malls, there are more things for the babies to see and scan around, the more they focus on the faster they get tired. Unlike at home, everything are the same things they see everyday. At home, hArith wants people to talk to him NON-STOP. It gets more tiring because he wants us to have various facial expression when we talk to him. Jenuh kena buat muka tekejut lar, muka bekerut, tesengeh…etc.

Despite having a twin stroller that is one side blue colour and the other pink…people passed by us and asked some rather obvious questions. The usual scenario would be like this:

public: twins ker?

me: yeah =)

public: girl ke boy?

me: a girl and a boy?

public: wahhh…lucky you! which one girl and which one boy?

*goshhh…isn’t it abit obvious that a boy sits in a blue colour seat and girl in pink colour seat?

And by the way, a lot couldn’t believe that i’m the mother to the babies…hehehhe. The other day i was unloading the stroller and all other stuffs from the car. A car parked beside us. He and his daughter(about 8 or 9 years) came towards us while my mom and i were placing hArith and athirAh in the stroller. And of cause we had the typical conversation like above but this time there was additional question. He looked at my mom and said: ” mak budak2 ye?” my mom with a big smile replied “eh, saya nenek…ni mak diorang (while pointing to me). And the men kept on and on commenting bout my petite size.

In another case, while doing some clothes shopping for the babies with my mom. The shop owner thought my mom is the mother to the babies and i’m “the auntie who is all over the babies”…hah, die ingat cam ni auntie yg teramat lar suke dgn budak2, tu pasal mak budak2 bawak me along to help jaga the babies.

Anyway, yesterday was the most hectic day ever (so far lar…hope it wouldnt get any worst than that). pApa wasn’t around and Pah was out with my bro to ikea. So i was all left alone to feed, bath and put both to sleep. So bedtime started early for athirAh, i started feeding her Garber sweet potato at 5:15pm, luckily hArith was behaving, playing by himself beside me. About 20 mins later, I bath athirAh and gave her milk in the room. While giving her the milk, i was telling her i can only afford to pat her back for 2 mins this time cause hArith is waiting for his turn to eat. So i said, “dear, you like it or not, you have to sleep within the two minutes I pat you, or else you have to put yourself to sleep.” Wow, good thing, she listened to me. So I continued feeding hArith. And by 7:30pm both were asleep. But gosh…my back was crying in pain. Coz i had too much of bending. I had to bend over to them while feeding them. And again bend when bathing them. And again, to pat their back in their cot I had to bend. I had wayyy tooo much of bending. Unfortunately my regular tukang urat has left for kelantan for a week. Ever since I was introduced to Makmah by dear friend Lana , i’ve been having like 2 to 3 urut session a week. My back needs it badly.

If pApa is around, i will feed one of the babies and he continues to bath and put one to sleep while I start feeding the other one. But for now, without maid, without hubby…they are all mine. pApa will be back tonite, but just for a day and will be away the very next day for 3 days, and be home for 2 days and away again for 4 days….oh mati lar saya…

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Last Friday, my maid (who been working wiz me for the past 4 months) drop the bomb…she wanted to stop. And she gave us 24hours notice. Her reason was, my old maid (which is the maid that belongs to my mom) kept bugging her asking her to do this and that. I didn’t take her words though. In fact I just found out like 3 weeks back that all these while, it was my old maid (kak ani) that did all the ironing for syauQi’s and my clothing. When I asked kak ani, why she did it, she said my maid didn’t have the time to iron, so since she see it piling up, she decided to iron it all…afterall for the past 8 years she been ironing my clothes.

Well, if that’s the case, I think my maid was over paid. I paid her salary just like any other maid, but comparatively to others she hardly had work to do. She only had to clean up my room unlike other maid who had to clean up the entire house, she NEVER cook (kak ani cooks)… she didn’t do the dishes (except my babies bottles), she didn’t need to follow my mom for marketing, well in short…she only needs to take care of my babies. Period. And it is not as though i’m working and she has to take care of the babies all by herself. I’m the one (or syauQi) who bath the babies and feed (solid food) the babies. She would help me give either one of the babies milk if my babies happen to demand for milk at the same time. Most of the time, I’m with my babies unless i want to bath or do my prayers. And only ocasionally I go out and leave the two babies behind (BUT kak ani would help her to take care one of the babies). When syauQi is around, the babies will be with us most of the time, where she ended up having her frequent morning, afternoon AND evening naps. On top of that, my babies sleep at 7pm, leaving her nothing to do after 7pm. Her eyes would be glued to the TV. (thus I told kak ani to let my laundry pile up, she had no excuse of not having the time to iron coz she can do it at nite).

And it seems that since she had to iron my laundry, she started complaining about the work loads. Isn’t it only fair for her to do my laundry instead of kak ani? Today, when she left the house, I asked kak ani wheater my maid complained anything to her? Believe or not…she actually complained that she had to take care of two babies. So all these while she had in mind that, she handle one baby and I should handle one. No doubt there are times, after she put one of the babies to sleep, I’ll pass her whoever that was awake so I could do my stuffs. Oh, apparently she told kak ani “saya sudah tidokan sorang, kasi lagi sorang pulak kat saya”….fuuuhhh byk shantek die, die ingat i bayar die gaji tuk jaga sorang je ke. Abis tu maid2 lain, kalau rumah tu ade 5 anak, bukan ke maid tu mmg kena jaga sume 5 anak, plus mengemas, membasuh dan memasak? Isn’t that the standard job scope of a maid? Oh sungguh ngada2 lar tat maid. I doubt it she can get any easier job at any other houses. Well, good luck to her!

So for now, I have two babies to handle 24/7. Of coz my mom would help me, but she still has lots of errands to do. Thus I can’t expect her to be home with me all the time. Lets just hope hubby won’t have any looong tripss..i think maximum of 4 days is the most i can handle…hehehe. The prob is that hArith doesn’t want to take any nap during the day. He expect attention all the time. The most he’ll take15 mins nap. Just enough time for me to take my bath and solat.

Actually I have a lot to update about hArith and athirAh, will need to find the time to do so. Among them are:

• On hArith’s nap time
• On storytime
• On athirAh and car seats & stroller
• On athirAh being choosy with foods
• On playtime

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