steph
hugsssssssssssss.
michelle
i had such a rough morning and night today, but coming in and reading about your colleagues and your wonderful acronyms for them, that was a million bucks! totally made my day!
SD
oh dear. the helper does sound terrible, esp with the spoon throwing. but how will you cope now? with your mil not well and your hb not back yet?
pb
could USS be crowded coz it's school hols now? i feel it's crowded everywhere! (except church, hahaha)
i heart mr dustee
y'know i complained about last saturday, my mil threw a bag at me (pomfret's bag) and then i cried. and then she was crying in church? this morning, i was trying to get pomfret out of the house, and my mil pulled some kind of nagging cum crying stunt at me again (basically, she's saying, it's my fault pomfret cries at all)
so once again, this morning, i left the house, in the rain, crying. so drama right? crying while ergo-ing my child , in the rain, to the mrt.
and mr dustee, during lunch, came home to collect some things he forgot to take with him to work. and guess what? my mil cornered him! (quite funny actually, on hindsight) and started crying at the front gate (he was wearing his shoes and preparing to drive off liao) and talking about how she feels she needs to talk to me and explain to me about the bag-throwing business.
(actually in my evil little heart i feel she's just trying to portray herself as a victim to my hb by saying things like 'i'm sorry i did that but she forced me to', but i digress)
AND MR DUSTEE SPOKE UP FOR ME! FOR ME! FOR ME! (y'know it's very big news for me coz normally he'll just ignore his mother and walk off, but he actually stopped and told her off)
to summarize, he told her that she has to understand she's just the grandparent. that we're the parents of pomfret, so we have final say. and that just coz she sees me carrying pomfret and pomfret crying, does not mean i'm not a good mother. that i'm doing a lot of good things for pomfret that my mil does not see. and pomfret doesn't cry with my mil coz she knows grandma is good for playing. but with mummy and daddy, it could be shower, or sleep, so she would cry.
and my defiant mil still maintains that she wants to talk to me. so i'm ready to be cornered in the next few days again.
but but but, to hear that mr dustee said all those things about me! oh, it almost *almost* makes this all worthwhile!!!
quick one - if they report directly to you, you have a right to tell them off. Casual does not mean "sloppy". It's still an office. Whatever they wear after work or on weekends is up to them. But at office, must observe certain standards 
