My Day These Days.

I have been meaning to post but I have been pretty caught up with daily stuff. I always have thoughts and have been wanting to write posts about them, but when I get to the PC, I draw blanks. For the life of me, I can't remember what exactly that I want to post. There are some non-baby related ones, but I just forgot all about them! Too tired. Most of my days start like this...

Get woken up by the baby. Yes, usually, she will be up before me, at about 8am, sometimes earlier. She gets her diaper changed and we get her out of her PJs. The husband will have a coffee and then be doing some exercise on the rowing machine and she will exercise alongside him, jumping in her Jumperoo. I will make the bed, hop in the shower for a quick one. Then I will clean the floor or some other house chores. She doesn't last very long when she just wakes up, so after cleaning the floor, she will be looking sleepy already. I will nurse her and she will nap for about 2 hours, sometimes more, depending on how well she slept the night before.

I will then have my breakfast, read the papers and go about doing more chores and plan dinner if it is a cooking day. This happens when she is really good and naps for like 2 hours. If not, aiyoh, after breakfast wake up already.

Then when she wakes up, we will chill for a while, play a little and then her bath time. She loves her baths! She will then be ready to nap again. I take my naps with her at this time. Cannot tahan if I do not nap!

Sometimes we take walks around the neighbourhood. She loves looking at buses. Children just love big moving vehicles don't they? I remember being fascinated by the huge cranes, steamrollers, and especially cement mixers! They are such colourful things and the exciting part is when they start pouring out the cement onto the roads. I had a morbid thought when I was a child, I kept imagining what would happen when someone gets cement poured on them, would they die? Would they just turn into statues? I will have images of those statues in my head!

After walks, she will be in a mood for another nap. So another feed and then a short nap. I will then be in the kitchen preparing dinner. If she isn't napping, she will be in the kitchen, sitting in her rocker with me. This is the time when I hope The Husband comes back soon and take her off my hands for I can cook, have some music on and treat it as my Me time. We will have dinner, while she nap or she will be at the table with us. I will then wash up, have another quick shower and she will have another round of milk.

If it isn't a cooking day or eating at our parents' day, we will be out for dinners. Usually, she will have milk in the car. Hahahaha! Coming back home after 10pm. (Yikes, I know I know! Very late for a baby! But she isn't cranky or anything! I don't feel so bad now because I found our that our friends put their kids to bed late too!). When she gets back home, we give her another quick bath to settle her into sleepy time. We will hang out and chill for a little while more then she will have her last feed and then she will sleep!

PHEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Long day right? By the time we get our own time, be it just having coffee, milo, browse magazines, surf net, watch TV or pack the diaper bag already dunno what time. (See the time I blog you know already!) Sometimes, or rather, a lot of times, I will still do some chores, hoping that the next day will be easier.

Something has gotta give. That something has got to be the chores. I can have a part time helper or go easier on the chores. The part time helper I am not too comfortable with. I hate having a different one all the time, because I have to tell them what to do and how to do the chores every single bleeding time. Maybe once in a while to clean the windows, wash the toilet will be sufficient. Try as I may, it is hard for me to ignore the chores and live in a messy home. Especially now that she is sitting, the floors will have to be very clean. So what do I choose to give? My sleep. I sleep late, because I want to have it all (other than more sleep that is). I still want to have some time on my own and still have the apartment in order. It is silly I know, me not resting enough, I will not be able to give her my best. But, I got to say, I am coping better than before. Sleeping more now. I had problems falling asleep some weeks back and it is pretty frustrating. I would lie in bed for hours, sometimes falling asleep at about 5am or later. Some bad days, I will see the break of dawn and it is most upsetting because I wold feel so stressed about not being able to sleep! Sigh~ Lucky now I can sleep more. So now I sleep around 3am. I wonder if mothers are programmed to survive on not as much sleep as fathers or people with no kids.