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Domestic Diva

March 14 9:09 pm ,

Swells

I am not.

I mean I cook and bake sparingly, sweep the floor occasionally, arrange the closet (that I have ransacked for something to donate, or wear or throw away) some of the time.  But, I will admit this, I do not know how to clean the bathroom, have never done the laundry (do not even know how to operate our washing machine), and have never prepared my daughter’s school lunch (a horrible realization).  But you see, that’s how efficient my staff at home was.

Okay, I know what you are thinking.  But please hear me out.

My justification (mostly to myself) is that I work.  And when I am home, I take care of/talk to/ play with – the kids (yes, this includes the husband) that I have no time or energy to deal with housework.  And, well, yeah, I had helpers.

That was until some 10 months ago, when my maid of 5 years left me.  (sources said she fell in love, got married, got pregnant, worked somewhere else, went back to her province – there were so many versions and I do not even know the real story.)

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Having Children, More Children

September 17 9:19 pm ,

 

Pitter Patter of Little Feet

Pitter Patter of Little Feet

First comes love, then comes marriage…

You know what comes after.  Children, lots of children.

Like some of my peers, I opted for one.

The One Child sat me up and told me in the most serious tone that she could muster, “I want a sister.”  I sat there, uncomprehending.  She tried again. “Or a brother…”  I thought I detected a note of desperation on that one.

Why?  My voice was incredulous.

“So I have someone to play with.”  Now, that one’s easy. I told her she has her friends, her classmates.  She said, “No, at night, when you are not yet here.  Yoyow bites (she’s our Maltese) and Yaya always has to finish something…”

What do I say to that except that as an only child, she did not want for anything.  We went on fancy vacations, she had shoes when she needed shoes, she went to the best school, did not have to go mano y mano for a toy, or food, or her parents’ affections.

She does not know what she is asking for.

And it also does not help that BabyCenter.com calculator estimated that raising a child would cost some USD$266,698. (to check how much your child would cost you, click here)

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