Daycare

With my kiddos - During TS Family Day at Cosmo's World Indoor Theme Park, Berjaya Times Square

Personally I wouldn’t want to ever put my children in daycare, but apparently now, no choice I absolutely have to. I know this day will come sooner or later. It has been 2 years our maid has been working with us and she'll be returning back to Indon on Sunday. All arrangements have been made, I already found a daycare centre for the kiddos, Aniq is now fully trained to have his milk using the sippy cup (instead of spoon fed from cup which I don’t think that the caretaker will have all the patient to feed him that way) and transportation for Irdina to transit to the daycare from her kindy has been arranged as well.

Actually, the 2 kiddos do not have any idea that the 'Kakak' is going back soon and they'll be sent to a daycare. I'll bet they'll just freak out if we tell them since they are quite close with her and that worries me. I'm quite worried also how all these 'kakak going back' thing, the new daycare surroundings and all other new routines will effect the kids’ emotion especially during the transition period. I know it'll be tough for the kiddos and us for the first 2-3 weeks. I just afraid that everything will be too much for them to handle. On the other hand, I kind of worry also on what I might be discovered when 'the maid' is no longer here. Through experience, a lot of now 'the not so good' things usually will be discovered and revealed once they are no longer here. Eg: Barang hilang. terpecah and all other nasty2 behavior. That Scares Me. Sigh!!

Despite all, I was not quite sure if I can handle all the home chores all by myself after years of sooo used of having maid. There are tones of work to be done in our house besides caring for the kids. There is the laundry, the sweeping and mopping, the 4 toilets to be cleaned, the dishes, the ironing (luckily dear hubby no longer need to wear office attire to work), the cooking, the windows and cabinets, the bed sheets and the list can go on. And of course, my time spent on the computer would have to be cut down even further after this. Blogging?? Hmm..lagilah tak sempat kot. Oh, dear, will I be able to handle all these? I’m sooooo used of having a maid :( but to hire a new one, it'll cost us at least RM5K (the cheapest so far) and there's no guarantee that the maid will be as good as you expected (even though most of time I used to lower my expectations). Not to forget to start all the hassle all over again, the teaching, the 'sakit hati', the suspicious feeling when leaving the kids with her for the first few weeks, everything is too traumatic for me. I guess we just have to give it a try first and if all this arrangement does not go smoothly, we can always go back to the 'MAID' option again. Wish me luck guys ;)