While reading colon cleanser reviews, our help asked for permission to go out tomorrow evening. I agreed because, first, I understand that she’s young and single. It is just natural for her to want to hang around with boys.

Second, while other helpers take an entire day off, our help just takes off around after dinner and gets back at hmmm, let’s just say, she’s around when we wake up the next morning. Yes, she’s like any other girl in her early 20s, she likes to party late.

Still, I can’t help but remind her to be safe.

I remember my mom, when I was younger, frantically running from their room looking for her diamonds. That was the same day our househelp was set to go home to the provinces. They searched her bags but found nothing. So the househelp was cleared. Just when she was in our gate to leave, my mother suddenly thought to check her skirt (yes, the one that the househelp was wearing). Good thing she did as they found the diamonds sewn into her skirt! Tsk tsk.

The following blog will be in Tagalog just to express my thoughts more freely.

Background:
maid1 – the best maid ever who went home to get married; couldn’t go back work for us because she’s now 3 months preggy
maid2 – yaya2′s stepmother who went home because her husband misses her so much
maid3 – maid2′s sister; yaya2′s aunt
yaya1 – maid1′s and yaya2′s friend who left for a “better” job but is now coming back because the job turned out to be not “better” at all
yaya2 – maid1′s cousin; ang bida sa istorya natin ngayon

Disclaimer: they were hired two at a time, ok? Not all at the same time.

Alam ko para akong sirang plaka kakasabi na ayoko na sa yayang ito. Pero hindi ko mapigilan sarili ko i-blog kasi naiinis ako sa ginawa nya. Mga dalawang linggo na ang nakakaraan, nagpaalam sya uuwi sya ng May 31 pero babalik uli ng June 15. Gusto daw nya makapiling mga anak nya sa kaarawan nito.

Naisip ko pagkakataon ko na para masisante sya kaya sabi ko kailangan ko ng yaya agad. Mabuti din na gusto na nung dating yaya (yaya1) bumalik sa amin.

Kahit ba inis na inis ako kay yaya2, naawa pa din ako. May 2 syang anak na maliit sa probinsya. Kaya sabi ko wag na nyang bayaran yung pinamasahe nya kahit pa wala pa syang 1 taon namamasukan sa min (yun kasi ang usapan namin). Sinwelduhan ko sya ng tinrabaho nya ng May 19-31.

Binigyan ko din sya ng schoolbag para sa panganay nyang anak na lalaki. Mag aaral na kasi. Binigay ko na din sa kanya mga kinalakihang damit ni Mikee para naman sa bunsong anak na babae.

Eto na ang kwento. Nagtext sa kin si maid1 tinatanong kung nasan na si yaya2. Gusto nyang singilin sa cellphone na binili ni yaya2 from maid1 na ndi pa nababayaran. Sabi ko wala na sa amin si yaya2, umuwi na nung linggo pa.

Nagulat ako nung sabi ni maid1 na hindi naman umuwi si yaya2 dun sa probinsya nila. Ako naman eh tinanong ko na si maid3 na namamasukan pa din sa min ngayon kung anong nangyari. Wala din syang ideya. HInatid naman daw nya sa sakayan ng bus.

Tinawagan ako ni maid2 nung gabing yun, nagtatanong tungkol sa kanyang anak (stepdaughter). Mukang nakarating na sa kanya ang balitang umalis sa amin. Sabi ko wala sa amin si Inday. Kinausap nya ang kapatid nya, maid3.

Clueless ako. Naisip ko bahala na sya sa buhay nya.

Kaninang umaga, tumawag si maid2 kay maid3 sinabing nakahanap na daw si yaya2 ng bagong trabaho. Tumaas ang kilay ko. Aba! Ayaw nya sa amin? Ang sarap ng buhay nya! Eh halos ako ang nag aalaga sa anak ko!

Nalaman ko din na tuwing inuutusan namin si yaya2 eh naiinis sya. Ah ganun? HINDI SYA DAPAT MAMASUKAN KUNG AYAW NYANG MAUTUSAN!!!

Hindi din naman natiis ni yaya2 at tinawagan din nya si maid3. Ang kwento daw eh sumama sa bf nya, at hindi totoong may trabaho na sya. (Wait, ibang bf ha, as in hindi yung tatay ng mga anak nya. Imagine, pinagpalit ang kaarawan ng anak nya sa new bf nya!) Nakatira sila ngayon sa isang kwarto kasama ang 3 pang lalaki. Lima sila sa kwarto na walang TV. Electric fan lang. So good luck naman sa boredom.

Naiinip daw sya sa gabi, panggabi kasi yung bf nya. So lumalabas sya sa gabi. Ang pagkain daw nya eh tinapay. Sosyal di ba? bread instead of rice.

Hmm, eh pano pag sinumpong sya ng epilepsy sa kalye? Sumusumpong pa naman yun pag gutom sya or puyat.

Maawa ka ba sa isang taong ayaw magpatulong, at galit sa mga taong gustong tumulong sa kanya? I don’t think so. Isa lang masasabi ko BUTI NGA!

Two days from now, the nanny will be going back to the province. I’ve talked to the previous nanny. She’d be able to go back only on June 10th. So I’d be nanny-less for 9 days.

I’ll be honest. If only things didn’t start disappearing around the house, and if she didn’t answer back to each of hubby’s instructions, and if she had no epileptic attacks, I would consider her. If only she cared about her work and everything else around her. I think her frequent use of her mobile on speaker mode around me and inside the car, I could take. I can even take that whenever I look for her, I find her staring at nothing, doing nothing, instead of doing her chores. She’s so lazy.

She was lonely when she knew that we have arranged for the previous nanny to go back work for us again. She seemed to be working absentmindedly. I always told her to be mindful when Mikee starts playing around the computer area and to make sure she won’t bump into the table where the Linksys router is. She had always been careful about that except yesterday. I knew it bothered her that she won’t have any more work.

But then, I told her she need not worry because a friend of my mother-in-law was looking for household help, and we can refer her. She seemed to be happy again.

Still, I thank God that we can finally get rid of her.

I think it’s time to let go of the nanny. I’m sure you’d agree with me after reading this post.

The help (who btw is the nanny’s stepmom) is going home. Apparently, she misses her son and husband too much and could no longer stay away any longer. Plus, it seemed to us that she and the nanny are always having squabbles.

So I started considering to let go of the nanny too. This is to ensure that the nanny will indeed go back to the province and not run off with some guy.

Why am I so eager to let her go?

1. As I have blogged before, there are small things that started missing around the house like some sports gifts or hair tools like my Goody brush and Bench comb. I am quite sure she’s the one who took the comb ‘coz I know where I last left it. Imagine I just bought the comb 3 days earlier (it’s cheap but heck, I hate it when someone gets my things).

2. She talks on her mobile all the time, even at time of work. She enjoys it when Mikee asks to be on the swing, so she could go talk on her mobile while taking care of Mikee. This I don’t mind. What I mind, when hubby and I are talking inside the car and she puts her mobile on SPEAKER MODE!!!
Goodness, we couldn’t hear each other. In irritation, hubby told her to turn off the speaker. She answered back telling us she can’t hear unless it’s on speaker mode. Where’s the respect?!?!

3. She talks to boys all the time. One time we were out. A male visitor came and looked for her. The help/stepmom told him the nanny was out. (We were also told that earlier, the nanny was talking over the landline phone to this same guy.) He then asked when the nanny will go back to the BANK! OMG! There are two shocking factors here. One, the male visitor is a gas boy at the nearest Shell station. Meaning she gives away our number to strangers. Two, bank? Did I hear bank? I oftentimes ask her to deposit money to the bank for our car’s monthly amortization. Goodness!

4. Last but definitely not the least, when we were in Bohol. I was told by the help that the nanny had an attack. We were informed that she was epileptic since she was younger. Epilepsy attacks are triggered by skipping meals and sleeping late. She does both. She skips meals for reason that I don’t know, maybe she’s on a diet. She sleeps late talking to boys, this I was told by the help. Ugh!

I consulted a neurologist of her situation and I was strongly advised to let her go. One, she could be our liability if something happens to her in our house. Two, our daughter is no longer safe in her care. Period.

Today I caught Mikee’s yaya lying.

I was away for 2 days and when I came back, Mikee kept saying the word “dede” for milk, water or juice. So I told the yaya not to use that word because Mikee knows the words milk, water and juice. She denied it saying she has never used that word.

Eh san naman manggagaling yun? Sya lang naman ang bago? Mikee’s more than two years old and she has never used that word before. Hay!!!

Nobody BABY-TALKS with Mikee, so I KNOW she is the only who would teach her that word. (She has two kids of her own in the province. It could be her practice.)

Hubby told me this yaya kept complaining and answering back when he instructs her to do something. Just last night, I told her to bring 6 chairs upstairs for our friends. Sumagot ba naman, “eh basa mga yun eh!” So sumagot ako, “sige, iakyat mo ako ang magtutuyo.”

Duh?!?!

She also told me that hubby’s lola could drive her to go back to the province. I asked her why. She told me “sinusungitan ako eh.” I told her to just brush it off since the lady is old.

And today, after I told her not to use the word “dede” she made a face. Sarap sulobsubin eh! Nakakakulo ng dugo! Lintek!

Eh ano pa ba. Deadma na lang ako para PEACE ON EARTH!

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Oh, and I forgot to blog about this. One time, I asked her to buy something from the store infront of our house. She gave me back my change. Then she said, “teka may piso ako sa bulsa baka napasama jan.” Then we started counting the change. It was the exact amount. I told her “sige, kunin mo na piso mo. ok lang.” Then sumagot sya, “ok lang, napulot ko lang naman yan sa baba eh.” WHAT?! Napulot sa baba? So ganun yun? Pag may napulot sa bahay na pera ibubulsa?

Gosh. Since the maid is leaving next January for good, she started teaching the yaya on how to deposit money in the bank. Di ko ata kayang ipagkatiwala sa kanya malaking halaga. Ako na lang.