I miss being a SAHM

"I quit last year. I cannot handle being able to spend time with my son like, what, only half hour a day?"

Well, at least she and her husband have the resources, and enough savings to afford her quitting her job. She has travelled all over the world. She has pretty much went through all kind of "been there done that" experiences.

It's not like I want to quit my job or anything, but I admit that I do envy stay-at-home/working-at-home mothers.

Having spent the last 1 year and a half 24/7 with Humaidi and Huzaifah, I wish I can spend more hours with my kids now. I leave for work in the morning before they are awake. By the time I return home, usually they have already been fed and bathed, leaving me to just spend time watching "Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends" or "Pocoyo" or whatever else that suits Huzaifah's fancy. Mak has scolded me a few times for letting Huzaifah becoming 'obssessed' with Thomas. He insists on watching Thomas everyday, even hummed Thomas's opening song in his dream, and if he gets his way, he would be wearing Thomas t-shirt everyday...

As for Humaidi - he is a "seniman jalanan" of sort. He loves singing - or tries singing- nursery rhymes. And now he has learned to chant some simple zikr like "Ya Latif", "Lailahaillallah" and sing the nasyid "Allah hu Akbar, Allah hu Akbar, Allah, Allah hu Akbar" (with loud emphasis on the last "..barrr" part). He hasn't speak any proper word except for "nak syusyu", but he's good at singing. I think apart from inheriting his Tok Ayah's hair, he has also inherited the "bakat terpendam" of my brother, Adik. Humaidi's Pak Ang (we tried asking Huzaifah to call his uncle Ayah Lang or Paman, and he ended up calling my brother Pak Ang) used to be lead vocal in several nasyid competitions (and won) during his student days. (Adik once asked me if it is alright for him to join the showbiz as a mainstream nasyid singer - I answered him by raising my eyebrow, naayyyy...)

Anyway, I guess another thing that I miss about Japan is I miss being a SAHM...

The "seniman jalanan" in the family