Camping In the House

I wanted to stay late in the office last nite to finish off an opinion to a client when I remembered I had earlier in the morning promised to help Syakirah with her homework. My Beloved Wife was complaining that my first daughter has been playing all day since the school holidays started and has refused to do her homeworks. Yeah, even kindergarten kids have homeworks - lots of them for that matter.

I laid a bait for my daughter to complete her homeworks - if she could finish her homeworks, we would sleep in the tent that night. And walla!!. It worked. When I reached home for dinner, Syakirah was beaming with pride and showed me the homeworks that she had completed.

"Malam ni tidur khemah, boleh?"
"Okay".
"Sapa lagi nak tido khemah?"
"Abang nak....".
"Angah pun nak."
"Okay, malam ni semua tido khemah".

My kids have been asking me to buy a tent since early this year. I was glad when my sister came over last Saturday and brought a four men dome tent that her kids only used once long time ago. So I had put up a four men dome tent in front of the house for the kids to play with their cousins until evening and decided to shift the tent into the living room.

So all four of us slept in the tent last nite. Well at least for a while.

Soon after his two sisters have fallen asleep, my son was still wide awake. He had taken a long nap during the day so there's no point of forcing him to sleep.

Went upstairs to watch some TV and just listened to my son talking about what he did for whole day until he dozed off on my lap. Later Syafiqah came up when she realised that I was not sleeping beside her in the tent. Told her to sleep in front of the TV and I would carry her back to the tent. Both of us dozed off in front of the TV 'till morning.