Yaya Woes: Disrespectful, Ungrateful

I'm supposed to blog about my birthday today but couldn't because I'm in such a high negative emotional state.

Anyone with a yaya or a maid will understand the "woes" that come with their service. I have a fair share of these woes, but I don't usually air them out here on my blog because I want to keep it positive and God-glorifying.

Also, I'm generally a forgiving perso. I don't like to hold grudges. Offense now, forget later. That's what I do to avoid stress and to try to please God. But this time, it's different. The things and values that I so uphold are compromised.

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Before I rant and before you judge me as a really strict and inflexible employer, let me give you some background.

First, Yuri's yaya is not a "full-time" yaya. I'm the one who feeds Yuri all three meals. I'm the one who bathes him. I'm the one who makes him go potty and wash him after. Sometimes it's also me who washes his soiled undies. I'm also the one who gets him to take a nap in the afternoon and cleans him up at night.

His yaya only takes care of him from around 8:30am - 11:45am and 3pm - 5:30pm. You read it right. She's completely free from lunchtime to 3pm. And when Yuri has to go potty during her "shift," I take over.

Second, even if her absences are frequent, there never was a "bawas" in her sweldo. Heck, I don't even subtract from her salary what I lose in mine due to the absences.

I hope you see that she has a lighter workload than most yayas. I treat her sooo well. I couldn't understand why she doesn't reciprocate.

James and the Cockroach

Sometimes, I feel that God would reiterate a certain lesson to me because I would the same verse many times in a day. For example, one day, my verse of the day was Job 1:21. Through the day, I was able to read it three more times in three different articles. Talk about a Living Word!

Another experience happened earlier last week. My verse of the day was James 1:19. It goes like this:

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I guess I was still too sleepy when I read the verse because, while I prayed for God's grace to help me with it (people who know me personally know how quick-tempered I am), and I was able to remain anger-free most of the day (despite not having a yaya around), my human faults caught up with me at bedtime.

I was sooo tired in the evening that I was excited for me and Yuri to finally climb upstairs for bedtime. Just as I opened the bedroom door, I turned on the light. That was very unusual because I never turn on the light as we already have a little automatic LED lamp.

And that's when I saw it.

There was an ugly black cockroach by the window!