A housewife tale.

My leave started this week! Supposedly I wanted to go on a trip oversea, perhaps to an island for a short getaway, before the start of the Masters programme... but I cannot leave little darling girl and Dear Hubby in CatsCity while I went off holidaying with my besties. Which was why I didn't. Besides, I owe it to Dear Hubby, and to Maya Girl, to be the housewife-stay-at-home mum for a week, this whole week. At least for this week. He has been the super dad... taking care of Maya Girl in his practice all these time. I can only imagine how stressful to handle this active demanding girl while working! Thus I think it is only fair for him to have the 'rest' as he hasn't any dayoffs!

So... This is how my life would be if I was to be a housewife.

Morning routine: wake up, make milk, put darling into her bumbo seat, give her baby cookie, put on Pororo DVD, cook bario powder, coffee, breakfast, set her bath, bath and dress darling, shower myself, out to living room again to play Lego, *errands, make milk, darling's nap time, clear her toys and Lego, prepare lunch, wash dishes (used when preparing lunch).

*errands - bank stuff, post office stuff, bill stuff, insurance, etc etc. You can only run maximum of two errands a morning with a toddler around. Maximum. Trust me, even that, that is already pushing the limit to getting a cranky baby who is overtired and wants to have her morning nap stat. Yes, stat.

But first, a picture of my darling! In her bumbo chair every morning, waiting for her biscuits.

Running monotone bank errands can be such a joy if you have this darling with you. People stopping and cooing at her, never fails to make my day. 

Afternoon routine: lunch, wash dishes (used to have lunch), quick shower for darling and I, playtime, getting ready to rock darling for afternoon nap, *chores, clear her toys, *rest, prepare dinner, wash dishes.

*chores - laundry (wash, hang, fold or iron), wash toilets, wash balcony, wash pots and pans, wipe dusts off surfaces (any surfaces) and basically any kind that household chores that I've been dying to tick of my to-do list. Not including vacuuming the house, because I DON'T HAVE THE SILENT KIND OF ELECTROLUX VACUUM, WHICH I SHOULD HAVE, SO THAT I CAN VACUUM WHEN THE BABY IS SLEEPING. So now... I can't vacuum when she is sleeping. Or else, she'll wake up. Which is why I need the vacuum that goes silent when it vacuums. *ahem*

*rest - only when her majesty bestows me a good two full hour of afternoon naps, only when she is not screaming out of her lungs and I can't seem to calm her down to sleep. Bear in mind that rocking takes quite a toll so rest at this point of the day... is VITAL! And should be deem mandatory.

Afternoon nap is a tricky one. She is incapable to sleep on her own, so need to rock and carry her till she sleeps. Oh my arms!

But when she does get enough sleep, she is very delightful to be around! 

Evening routine: Pororo and Legotime, dinner, wash dishes, bath time, brush teeth, make milk, play time, switch off light time, kissing/clapping/eye-nose-mouth-ears time and then it's finally zzz time.

Stacking fun. She simply stack wan....

Before she turns into sleeping beauty every night... :))))

And my day ends at freaking 9pm. Yes, 9 in the evening. Even not working, I still sleep at 9pm!!! And I thought I would have some free time for study matter, because I'm ON LEAVE and NOT working. Guess what! IT IS FREAKING NOT THE CASE!!! Apparently, full time stay-at-home mothers don't have free time. -_- Only that meagre 10 minutes of rest time in the afternoon. Here I thought I would have a lot of free time in hands.

And at the end of the day, my dear darling has pen marks on her leg and tomato pasta stain on her floral top. And marshmallows in her hair. And chocolate milk pool in the living room. -_- So don't you dare ever come home to your stay-at-home wife and say, "well you have all the time at home" then wonder why the hell did she blow up such a big puff of angriness. You are able to come back to a clean house because we cleaned up everything (including the baby) before you reach home so that you don't have to! But anyhow... Dear Hubby always help me wash the dishes in the evening... because I can't risk kasar-ing my hands from all the washings in a day. LOL!

It is not easy, this housewife thingy. It is challenging and you have no time. No time for yourself, no time to spare, no time for your friends. I haven't even got time to snoop my newsfeed for days!!! Seriously. And I have to keep reminding myself to constantly check the emails so that I don't miss a notification from my new uni. Housewifing is boring. No offense. It is hard, demanding and very very trying. But you have to admit it.. it IS kinda boring! I have no adults with me, no adults contact, no adults conversation at home. I have a toddler at home with me, who doesn't respond to my dialog quite correctly, who drools and poops many times. It's a no wonder stay-home mums only talks about their kids and brands of detergents. And bakings. Because that's the only thing happening for them! Each day and everyday. Albeit beautiful, not everybody can do it. Not everybody can do it and able to accept all the under-appreciatation crap. 

*all hail to LeHomemaker*

Mischief on the loose.

Along with the routines mentioned above, there is a lot of food involved. With all the eatings and dishes, I gained 2kg already in the past 3 days. Seriously!!! Wth. I don't know why I had that piece of bread with coffee then a bowl of laksa 2 hours later then hot milo with sugar-coated biscuits, just for breakfast. Practically eaten a whole hippo for breakfast. Seriously, I'm freaking out!!! And while I'm freaking out, I'm turning into a hippopotamus!!! Staying alone (not alone alone, just adult-alone), is just like hibernating during the winter. Not going out, not seeing other adults.. slowly you no longer wear a bra at home and not wearing sunscreen and then you would think it is okay to appear at dinner parties or wedding parties make-up-less. So, be careful...!!! Don't wake up ten, twenty years from now and suddenly you have turned into a wrinkly uneven-skinned fat auntie... with split ends.

Anyways.. Some snapshots of my home-cooked meals... :D

Cheesey creamy carbonara pasta ala Asian... yes i just made the name up :ppp

Nutritious white carrot + red carrot + corn pork soup, cooked for a whole hour!

Healthy stir fry lettuce with oyster sauce.

Steamed fish with nyonya sauce.. Yummzzz...

A mushroom dish with cauliflower!

Potato + ikan bilis + sweet onions in dark soy sauce. A recipe of LeHomemaker!

Mix vege. Great when you run out of idea.

Made some dumplings from Japanese sweet potato + Holland potato + local sweet potato. :D

Fried tomyam mihun with french beans, carrots, crabstick, chicken and onion.

ABC soup (chicken, carrot, white carrot, straw mushroom) with bidin stir-fry garlic.

I have been trying to write and post this for many days now..... From 4-5days ago... Hahaha... From the first day of my leave until today, the final day of my leave... LOL! 

Meet the biggest procrastinator ever --> ME~~~ But I have an excuse for it..... THIS PICTURE BELOW SAYS IT ALL!

This little girl hasn't allow me to get any job done... Whenever I park my butt at the study table, be it for work or blog or study, she would scream to be carried and put on the table and then proceed to destroy my clean pristine table. *sweat* And like Dear Hubby always say... I can never say no to her... That's true..... *sweat*

HAVE A GREAT SATURDAY PEOPLE!!!

THANKS FOR READING MY BLOG!