Last night, my son started napping at 830pm. Not good, because it had all the beginnings of an all-nighter. I wanted to at least wAke him up after half an hour. But I couldn't, because no one would watch over him as I was washing a kitchenfull of plates and plasticware. Plus i had to wash all his bottles. Plus other chores. Both his wowo and wowa are busy with things to do of their own. EJ eventually woke up even before I could finish sterilizing his bottles -- at around 1030pm. I finished at around 11pm with wowo pausing his tasks to watch over him.
My interim solution was to ask mom to watch over him for a couple of hours so I could sleep. I slept at around 1130pm an woke up 01:30am to start my "shift".
EJ eventually slept around 4am.
The thing is, I know I have to wake him up and not let him take a nap so late. But I didn't really have any choice. No one would look after him if he was awake.
Why not hire a yaya? 1.)Can't afford a yaya 2.)Dunno who to trust.
For those asking why we don't have a yaya, it's because my nephew was kidnapped after his lola (my cuzin's mother-in-law) was stabbed to death by their yaya. I'm not saying all yayas are like this, of course not. I envy families who have long-term yayas whom they consider a part of their family. It's just unfortunate we do not have a family yaya. So it's really difficult to tell whom to trust. I just hope someday, when we can afford it, we'll have someone trustworthy to help us out.
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