Alas! Within 24 hours after sending my mum off to airport, we are tackling yet another day of living with 3 kids under 4 years old, while fighting some form of crisis at home.
400am. Baby Bobo wakes up at his usual time, snorting like a hippo after drinking too much milk from the all night all-you-can-eat feast. As I turned on the lights to change his buldging nappy, Cola decided to wake up and bang on my bedroom door too, demanding to be let in. The quickest solution to an imminent meltdown: I took out a small mattress and laid it next to my bed, and let Cola sleep next to Bobo & I. Peace returns.
750 I woke up to find Tonton jumping up and down next to my bed. "What are you doing?" "I'm doing the Riverdance! Your new alarm clock ringtone has been ringing for the past 5 minutes, but you weren't stirring. So I'm dancing to the tune to see if that helps wakes you up." I realised I've been deaf to the alarm all the while.
800 Stop playing and change into your school clothes!
Put on your jacket, it's cold out there!
Eat up, stop chatting!
Put on your shoes, no it's too cold for sandals!
Here's your lunch box, remember to bring it!
Finish up your milk! Hurry up, we're late!
Morning becomes even more frantic as I tried to remote control everything by voice. With the baby carried in front of me, using the oven and stove requires more dexterity.
835 Just as we are trying to get into the car, EggEgg has decided that he need to do a last-minute poo poo.
915 Traffic jam all the way to pre-school, as usual. Shopping at the mall. Carried baby for 3 hours while stocking up socks, underwear, and groceries.
1300 Back home. Carried 8 liters of milk, 2 loaves of bread, 5 night's dinner ingredients and a week worth of snacks from the car up to the kitchen in super record time while baby screams breathlessly in the car.
1330 Heat up and eat leftover stir-fried noodles with one hand while breast-feeding baby with the other hand. Luckily Cola is still asleep in the car.
1400 Do a load of laundry. Cola wakes up, demands food. Just as we are about to leave home to pick up EggEgg from school, Cola has done a stinky poo in his nappy. Too late, no time to change, hurry up get into the car!
1500 Just as I walked past the laundry, I discovered that the basement is flooded with water! Frantically trying to mop up the mess before being too late for the pick up. No time to investigate the cause of the leak.
1600 EggEgg and Cola are happily having their afternoon tea while watching yet another rerun of "The fantastic Mr Fox". I tried to wash the dishes while baby sleeps in the car. Little do I realised that the basement is flooded for the second time. I suspect our sewage pipes are probably blocked up somewhere.
1630 Mopping up the basement again. Cursing the mop and the sponge for not soaking up enough stinky water.
1700 Gave the two kids a quick shower. The basement is flooded for the third time! I have enough of this!!
1830 Tonton comes home to find me completely exhausted. He volunteered to mop up the basement and investigate the cause of the problem after dinner (which is yummy spag-bog for Mondays).
1900 Holy shit! Tonton managed to dig out clumps of toilet paper, black masses and unthinkable stuff from our drainage hole. The entire house smells of shit. He drove off to a friends house for a shower while I went to bed feeling completely filthy.
2000 Put the kids to bed and threatened Cola not to come and disturb me tonight. I couldn't sleep in spite of exhaustion. Turn on the computer and research for the next 3 hours to realise that 80% of all sewer blockages in Australia are caused by tree roots growing into the pipes. Must get plumber tomorrow.
2300 Drifted off to sleep, dreaming about shit, blocked pipes, and mopping all night long.
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