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When people first get to know us, and see how we already have a kid, one of the first questions they’d generally ask is, ‘And so do you have a maid to help you?’ And when we say no, they’d then sometimes ask, ‘Are your parents here with you?’ To which we again say … hmmm, no.

I’m not too surprised when people ask us such questions because it is quite common to have a maid in Singapore (though not as common as having one or more maids in Indonesia!), especially when you already have a kid.

Personally, I don’t really like the idea of having a maid living with us anyway. I just feel there’ll be less privacy for our family. I don’t mind having a part-time maid though who comes and helps us out with the housework for a few hours every week or so. In fact now we do have one coming every 2 weeks for 3 hours. She does ALL the ironing too! Yay!

Someone once told me that people usually don’t hire maids because they don’t have enough money to pay for one. If they had the money, they would’ve hired one.

But then after I think about it, for our case, it’s not about the money. I mean, I could’ve gone back to my fulltime job, have more money, and therefore hire a fulltime maid to help and look after Anya and at the same time, clean up the house, cook, etc. But neh, how can I let anyone take on my privilege of looking after Anya? AND, it’s much better to have our home just to ourselves anyway *wink wink*

Oh, and also, to those who think that they can never survive without a maid after they have kids … I’d like to say, ‘You CAN survive!’ Look, I’ve done it so far and lots of my other friends have done it too.

Yes, it’s not easy but it’s not as bad as you think too.