Hubby and I had thought for a while before applying for a maid. Firstly, my MIL doesn’t like strangers staying under the same roof with us, but since she’s getting old and can’t take care of 3 young children and doing the house chores, she finally gave the green light for us to get a maid. We applied only after Justin’s born, and it took almost 4 months for us the get a maid.

At first, she’s really hardworking. I was very scare of her harming my baby, so I treat her as well as possible. My FIL even gave her a radio and TV which are placed in her room. MIL or hubby will buy newspapers for her weekly, and I taught her basic Chinese to communicate with Xin Yi and Wei Wei who can’t speak Malay.

Everything was ok until we started bring her out during our family trips to Genting and KL. Then, she became very lazy, even my mum and SIL’s mother who came to visit also bueh tahan looking at my maid, they started to complain that we should dicipline her. Why? She wakes up later than all of us, and eats almost every 2 hours, helps herself freely to the fridge, watch “Tai Cheong Kum” on channel 8 on weekdays, ignoring my MIL’s instruction, and go in to her room almost after dinner to watch TV again. My house was a mess just after she came for 2 months. MIL was very unhappy but didn’t scold her because she’s afraid that my maid would secretly hurt Justin.

I took the courage to confront her and commented on her behaviour and laziness. I actually threaten to send her the the agency and replacing her if she still acts like that. Luckily she listened to me, and corrected her bahaviour. I was so worried when she acts like nothing happenned the next day after I briefed her. I rushed back home as early as possible to help MIL with Justin, whom my MIL has been taken care of all day because she’s also worried like me. But touch wood, nothing bad happens.
She’s doing fine, but occasionally still “snake around”. I just tutup mata sebelah, as long as my MIL is satisfied with the cleanliness and all the other children are doing fine.

Then, yesterday she did something that made me got so mad. I took Justin to see his regular paed at specialist hospital. Since there’re so many sick people queuing at the dispensary, I asked my maid to carry Justin and waited inside the doc’s clinic which is cooler with air-conditioning. After paying for the medicine, I went back to the clinic to get them. Then I found out that she actually left Justin with the nurses for a while when she went to the toilet. I was so mad, and asked her why she didn’t come to me and let me carry Justin, and she knows where I was. She just smiled and said sorry. I was very mad and started lecturing her about the possibility of baby abduction. She just smiled, which flames me even more.

I should be blamed for letting this incident happenned too as I trusted her so much, I think she can take a good care of Justin, that’s why I asked them to wait at the clinic. But I was wrong, if anything bad happenned to Justin, I couldn’t forgive myself. I hope she took what I lectured seriously.

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