The Importance of a Male Figure

Dad has just gotten discharged from the hospital. Home sweet home... These few days without dad around were pretty chaotic. haha... Yesterday I only remembered to wash the second load of clothes at 230 am... Mom did not remind me. Dad will go nuts if he realise that. I came to understand that we are too reliant on dad. He wakes us up in the morning, does the laundry, washes the dishes, buys papers, sweeps the floor. Practically everything. He has so many responsibilities back at home. This explains why he always feels tensed and uptight. On the other hand, mom does not seem to care much... and she's more relaxed. I think this is what is termed as gender crossover and it is evident in my family esp when both of them are in the stages of andropause and menopause. We always tell him not to get worried and uptight about the clothes.... but to no avail. He stays at home when it's going to rain so that he can immediately keep the clothes in. He has this obsession with clothes. We once nagged him about it and he got really upset and flared up. for me, i think it's okay even if the clothes are drenched... we haf so many sets of clothes so it doesnt really matter. Mom views it the same way as I do. During these few days, I sort of assumed the "fatherly" figure at home...and taking over his responsibilities haha... being jolted up awake suddenly to look at the clock, afraid that my sis will not wake up for work.... It's really kind of stressful. Somehow I can understand the stress that he has to go through daily... his whole day is fully packed with events... waking his daughters up, buying papers, hanging clothes out to dry, washing the cups and dishes, sweeping the floor. Only at around 9 pm can he get a breather. No wonder he is always tired. Tried to tell him to do things slowly at his own pace, but he just wouldn listen.... I guess that's just him. His priorities. I have told my sisters that we should learn to wake up ourselves so that dad can sleep in n not get so tensed..... It's time that we learn to b more responsible....n grow up...

I am happy today... lots of happy things happened :) Exhilarated.