Last night I babysat overnight. Jack picked me up on his way when he drove the kids home from Chloe's house (I think the kids' friend or cousin or something). They went straight to bed cos it was past bedtime, so it wasn't that bad. No need for entertainment or looking after or drawing! Selina and Jack were going to be playing mahjong so they arranged for me to sleep in Teri's room, which had a bunk bed.

I just watched TV for a while and decided to go sleep at about 1. But just when I was drifting off to sleep at about 3, Teri cried. Cos she was having a nosebleed. Didn't take long to stop it, but she just refused to calm down and kept crying for daddy and mummy. Even faking that they were on the way home didn't work. At first she stopped crying but insisted on staying downstairs on the sofa to wait for them to come back. At last I got her settled comfortably lying on the sofa with cushions etc, then Nicholas came downstairs cos he was woken up by her crying. And refused to go back to sleep upstairs. I was still trying to get Teri to fall asleep on the sofa (thinking that I'd carry her upstairs later), but Nicholas spoiled it when he said, 'I thought daddy said they're playing mahjong and will be coming back very late?' So Teri started crying again, and dozens of 'They're driving back' didn't help... she started howling, 'I want NOW!!!' So I called Jack and he said he'd be back, which made Nicholas a guai boy again, he went back to his room to sleep.

While waiting for Jack to come home Teri was nodding off but she'd wake up at every small noise. I guess at 4 she's still a bit insecure, like Nicholas doesn't care cos he knows that his parents are just out having fun, or they are working (on normal days). But Teri will be a bit unsure and almost every time I'm there, she'll be asking for mummy by bedtime. When Jack came home she started crying all over again and spotting that Selina wasn't with Jack, she kept asking for mummy, to which Jack just responded, 'She's on her way.' He got her to sleep in his room in the end. Selina said she called at six in the morning when they finished playing mahjong, but nobody answered. Haha we were all sleeping. They are strong huh... busy with preparations during the days or weeks leading up to christmas and on christmas itself they still have the stamina to play mahjong till six! Take my hats off them man.

Later when I woke up at about 8, Nicholas got up shortly after and we went downstairs to watch TV and Selina called again. Haha so funny... they went shopping, cos it's sales time! Wah... superwomen liao. The kids and I had breakfast while Jack went to fetch Selina, and later they insisted on driving me back.

Actually it was not as tiring as usual, since they had to go straight to bed. Which means I practically didn't have to do anything at all. Just watch TV, do whatever I want, and sleep. Except that I didn't get much sleep. Somehow in my own room I can laze in bed forever but in other places I will automatically be awake. Sleeping on the top bunk was great, brought back memories of those days as a kid in the bungalow-type chalets near East Coast with my cousins. Everyone wanted the top bunk and we always had to take it in turns. Those were the days when both the eldest uncle or my dad's companies had chalets which employees could apply for, and if you were lucky you could get one. Now we're all so busy doing our own things, even with fortnightly dinners at my grandma's, sometimes we just can't make it. Actually I must admit that sometimes it gets really tiresome, especially when it used to be weekly dinners. Too much of a thing is not always good. Heh what am I complaining about, I'm now still quite a long time away from one of those dinners... and missing the steamboats already. And other food. But ok, STOP!!! Don't want to get those food cravings started again. Sighs but it's never too long, before I know it, I'd be flying back home again...