After three months here, Cissy's parents went back home to Shanghai last week. During their stay they have taken over running the household, doing all the cooking, dish-washing, shopping, laundry, cleaning and also helped to keep Kai happy during the day (and especially from six to ten in the morning so that we could get some extra hours of sleep). As a result, while Cissy was still reasonably busy, the first two months of my paternity leave have been almost a holiday.

From this week on, the daily chores fall back to us, and after another month my leave is up and I have to return to work, so Cissy will have to cope by herself from Monday to Friday.