Auntie Lekah

Let out the fireworks! It has been ONE month and Auntie is Lekah still with us! Woohoo! Yeah!

Of course we are worried. LK is our 3rd maid for this year. Not only are we inching towards the MOM’s quota of 5 maids a year, maid changing is both frustrating and expensive. I have also promised myself that we will do without a maid if this one still couldn’t make it and the kids will go to Childcare. This, I made very clearly to Popo. Popo’s standards are way too high lah. Truthfully, I think some of the maids left bcos of Popo. They are maids lah, they get a miserable salary. They will not work their ass off for us lah. If they are really that good, they wouldn’t be maids.



I guessed it helps that my brother’s maid is also an Indonesian and they can chat while they are at my brother’s place. After so many maids (LK is our 6th maid), we have also learnt to close one eye. When the need arises, we close both eyes. It doesn’t matter that she may not be very efficient in housework or choose to look after the stroller more than the kids while we are in the shopping mall. So long as the kids don’t hate her, she does the minimum housework and she provides an able pair of hands when we are drowning, we are fine. So relax. Life goes on, a little bit of dust in the house won’t kill; the kids will still grow up anyhow. Not that LK is that bad, just that we have learnt how to let go and not to be anal about certain unimportant things. I can’t say the same for Popo. I just have to constantly remind her that LK is the last maid for now.



I hope LK will stay for at least her 2-year contract. Things will be easier on the caregivers when Lil Isaac starts going for his 2-hour playgroup in the later part of the year and join jiejie next year. Yes, I still look forward to the time that we will be maidless. However, unless the kids go to CC, otherwise it will be when Lil Shauna enters Primary One.

Mummy Lim