grandma's helper went back to indonesia for a month. i think she was supposed to quit after 6 years of service, but rumor has it my mom had some word$ with her and she's staying on for another 3 years. i imagine its tough for her to be away from her family for so long, but i can also see how living in a better climate, a more developed country, earning a stronger currency and pretty much having free reign to do anything she wants after covering her job scope. she's all alone in a huge apt with grandma. gets to fly around asia when grandma needs it. and has stints of fatigue when the influx of family comes in, but that's life. but with eric in the house, with my aunt visiting, it gives wati a little freedom from the kitchen, and some freedom to step out the house. and with a month away...grandma panicked about who was to care for her...
the family has its own issues. and there was obvious big tension and prodigal children trying to pass off responsibilities to one another. my cousin, a year older than i, 自身難保，is not the one u need to fall back on with his style of stress control...but that's what it resorted to. the immediate children bypassed their duties and left the grandkids to take over. that's a topic to vent about another day. and so i obediently took the reigns for the first week that i would be around. cooking, cleaning, shopping, hospital visits, church visits, temple visits, octogenarian hygiene caring...all completely out of my league on top of which there was extra chores for chinese new year. with whiskey flowing continually all week, i got through it, prepping extra food for my cousin for the following week.
we got through it. we made the best of it. we got brownie points out of it. after all...this is a family where everything is for 秀。
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