Our Mother's Day 2008

There was this time long before it was Mother's Day where my eldest son over dinner told me he's going to make me a card for the day. I was already touched, so easy to be contented, hoh? Then, his papa said to him to make one for grandma too. Without any hesitation, he replied "Make it yourself la, she's your mother, not MY mother!" Haha.. that made me and papa's brother to burst into laughter.

Anyway, on this special day of days, we took our maid to have her very own "last breakfast" (for her to choose what she likes to eat, but instead, she prefers to eat what we eat!)

Then, we went to Carrefour, helped her to choose a handphone, and I told her she can walk around by herself and get whatever she wants to bring back kampung. After some period of time, I saw her with a basketload of Tiger Biskuat. My hubby and I were, like, speechless, eyes and mouth wide opened. I told hubby now we know where all those biscuit we bought went in these 2 years time.

We said to her, she's going to be charged for extra luggage, and it's advisable to leave these back where they belong. Disappointedly, she emptied the basket, and bought 2 packs plus another 2 packs of cheese sausages. Sigh... how truly sorry we felt for her.

Meanwhile, my children happily sketched and colored some cards for me at the Enfagrow promotion section and my eldest son, being the most "educated" one so far, wrote on the card "Mom, you are the best!" *grins*

At night, it was a simple dinner to celebrate Mother's Day, for both me and my mom and a farewell dinner for the maid. We went to some not-very-femes restaurant and it was fullhouse. Traffic was equally chaotic at that area, and thus, we switched to plan-B, anywhere nearby. My brother-in-law recommended that place, and we just followed, without any objections as it was way past dinner time.

On Sunday, we took the maid to LCCT to send her off, and poor thing, had to be fined RM65 for excess luggage. Sorry, man, I'm not going to pay that for her, we are not any blardy rich employers, wokay?

And that marks the beginning again for "maid-less" days ahead. Apparently, my hubby seems to be the ONLY one who's missing her a lot. Complain when he has to change our little girl to her swimsuit, complain when he doesn't have anyone to cut fruits for him to munch on, and he's only defending for himself saying he feels heartache only seeing us laboring on the household chores. Men!

As for my children, both my mom and I kept reminding them that there isn't any kakak to clear up their mess, to do this and that for them anymore. This little girl pointed to my mom or me saying, "You are kakak la.." Gosh!

That night, I made spaghetti for dinner and took it to the poolside for them to eat while halfway having fun in the pool. It's kinda feel-good, I should be doing that more often. The kids absolutely loved it and I didn't need to clean up so much after the meal.

Well, so far so good, I am not complaining yet. See when my backache returns, I would be venting it out on my hubby and we might just be getting one back again soon.

And as a small gesture of love, we bought our mom a brand new handphone and she was beaming with delight. Happy Mother's Day to all the cool moms out there too!