800 Convinced Tonton to work from home in order to take care of mounting crisis. Call pumber. Tonton is so irate that he threatened the receptionist to send somebody here today, or he'll take his business else where.
830 I bathe baby Bobo for the first time in 3 days while Tonton fix up the kids with breakfast and the school run.
930 Plumbers arrived. We show them the pipe maps. I watched them unblocked 30 meters of pipes filled with tree roots while Tonton carries baby all around the house. Cola decided to watch the plumbers do the work too, and plodded around the house spreading the gross matter on his slippers.
1030 I drove baby Bobo to the pediatrician for his 6-week-old check up, while Tonton stays at home to steam clean the entire basement.
1130 Seeing how quiet and well behaved Cola is, I bought him a large M&M cookie from the cafe. He carried it carefully all the way back to the car, but refused to share half of it with me. Cola insisted, "I don't want to share. I want the cookie. Mami go home and eat some cereals!" Just as he was shaking the cookie out from the paper bag, it rolled all the way out of the car into the street gutter. Serves him right for not sharing!
1200 Drove to Bunnings hardware store for a new mop, and other essential household items. Cola kept repeating, "Can we go home now? Can we go home now?" Tonton cooks fried rice at home while waiting for me to get home.
1330 I have 2 bowls of Tonton's yummy fried rice while Tonton go to request the neighbour to clean up the mess that they have created in the morning from hosing their roof top. In addition, the quote to permanently fix our root-infested pipes amounts to $15,000. How do we bring this up with the neighbour?
1530 Another school run to pick up EggEgg. I run the bath so that I could have some quiet minutes for myself, but EggEgg reported after 5 minutes that he has accidentally unplugged the bath and there is no water left in the bath. I have to drag the 2 kids into the shower instead. Total quiet time for me = 5 minutes.
1730 Everyone bathed and settled. Tonton and I have finally find the time to reach for that much appreciated bottle of red wine. I wondered aloud, "Imagine if we own a even bigger house, say, one of those fancy 2000 meter sq residences?" Tonton's immediate reply was, "Heaven forbid! We'll be constantly servicing the house instead of the house serving us."
2000 The entire house is quiet. None of us can stay awake anymore.
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