Sleep is what I need to do like...NOW.

It's Friday finally! I'm so sleep deprived that for the first time in donkey years, I had a sound nap yesterday's afternoon. I so wanted to sleep on but made myself to get up to wake the kids up. If they sleep longer than 3-4 hours, they would be wide awake even by 11. All of them are so tired that they have no problem plonking down on the bed and going to slumber right after that snoozing away for their afternoon naps.

Time seems not enough even when they are not going for any tuitions, except for Mandarin, which I'm too gungho to teach. By the time they are home and showered and lunched and napped, I let them watch cartoons for awhile and it's time to do some work. With the effort and determination I've put in during the hols to get them used to home tuitions, I am still determined not to let it slip away. Thus, they will be at the table doing homework, home tuitions, tergendala awhile for dinner time and back to the table until bedtime. I can't even find the time to watch tv, read some books or login at nights now! It was so busy and hectic days.

When I'm sleep deprived, naturally I would be slightly easily agitated too. One day, the boys were home after school and they were running around like wild animals after lunch. I was washing the dishes and felt really up to my head with those noise around. So I told them to stay at the laundry area right outside the kitchen and locked them in there. Boy! I'm so mean and pintai. Hope they won't grow up pintai too.

However, they seemed like it was fun and were brainstorming and coming up with funny ideas how to escape from the "gallows" and I didn't know to smile or to be angry. By then, I was feeling slightly sorry for them, but was too worked up to just open the door. Korkor was right, they weren't fighting or hurting anyone, but just playing with each other, albeit slightly wild and noisy. Man! I had to think fast of an excuse why I was punishing them indeed. Parenting is so challenging!

Oh, and did I mention I had dinner with Datuk Tony on Monday evening? We asked someone over to babysit the kids and had a nice evening out with 2 other couples and 1 diamond bachelor, entertaining the colleague from B'desh whom we went to Genting together the other day. The table was too crowded for all of us, so Datuk Tony sat at another table though. ;P