Are you familiar with Nickelodeon’s The Avatar? Their UK network showed the whole sceries over the Christmas break & by chance, I got to see most of it with my Nanay. By accident we were channel surfing & Avatar was just starting.

I thought she was a captive audience as I’m a big cartoon/animated/anime-fanatic & she’s more a “Mara-Clara” follower. When the first episode was finished, I thought that was it & I was wondering when I’d actually get to see the next episodes. I went to the kitchen & then Nanay started hollering, “ay eto na yung kasunod bilis!” (come back the continuation’s here).

So it went like that for the whole series was shown one after another. She’d go to the loo & be asking if the next episode’s already starting. In the end she was lamenting we couldn’t record it (i’ve no vcr or dvd recorder) as she wants a copy. Then she suggested I rent the next series from my Amazon subscription (i tried but the show ran for 1 season only).

Nanay never ceases to amaze me. I don’t know if she genuinely liked watching the show or if she was just trying to understand what I like or what I am now.

My son sleeps next to either my husband or me. He has his own room, complete with wardrobes, a bed, sidetable with a Disney character lamp &, of course, his toys & books. But my husband doesn’t want him to sleep alone until he’s 4 y.o. (anyway since my inlaws are here they use my son’s room instead).

Anyway if it’s my shift, then my hubby gets a blanket & the floor, if it’s his night then I get the floor. But more & more, whenever I’m on the bedroom floor, I still wake up at 5-530am. My son climbs down the bed & nudges me or jumps on me or simply lies down next to me. When I’m on the bed with him, he does the same thing anyway. He’ll either wake me up gently or will start lifting/poking at my eyelids. He never does it to his dad. It’s like he doesn’t care where dad is, he wants mum to WAKE UP!

Either my husband is totally oblivious & never notices these events or he’s secretly enjoying his extended sleep time. It bothers me because (a) it’s unfair that I’m always tired & don’t get enough sleep; and (b) because my son isn’t that “attached” to his dad. I keep telling hubby to set aside more playtime with our son & just be all out silly & make him laugh. At least now when hubby reads the bedtime stories he tries to do the “voices”.

I enjoy my son’s devotion & attention. I love the fact that when he hurt himself he asks me to kiss his boo-boo. I love my son to bits & I wish I could stay at home & just look after him. But I can’t. I’m a working mum & I get tired & I need rest & I need time to myself as would any normal person. So when I’m in a foul mood or when I’m sick, I really wish my husband would make that little effort to keep our son’s attention.