No, I'm not asking an intimate question here, so don't get too excited over this post :) Actually, it's a very boring post ahead.
It's been a long day. In fact, it's been a very long weekend for me. Hubby is overseas on work and this is the first time I'm left with baby alone. Over the weekdays, it wasn't too bad because I only had to manage him when I got home from work and in the nights when he woke up for feeds.
Then came the weekend...we normally go out and baby is quite a breeze to handle when we're out. Well, almost all the time except when he gets sleepy and goes crancky on us. But since I'm alone, I didn't want to go out despite mom being there to help me out if I really wanted to go out.
Since baby can't differentiate between a workday and a weekend, he doesn't give me the time to sleep in on weekends. I still gotta get up when he does, which can be anytime from six to eight. Anyway, I've been up early and I quickly get through the morning doing laundry with mom's help to look in on him.
Then the day gets by quite busily for me, from feeding to washing to playing and carrying, trying to make him go to sleep, watching over him as he tries to crawl but falls. I don't get to stop to relax even as he takes a nap because that's the time I get to finish up whatever else I need to do. It also doesn't help that he doesn't nap long.
Now after 2 straight days of mothering and all the related work that comes with it, I finally settle down on a Sunday night after baby has gone to bed. It's CSI night and I sit down in front of the TV to begin the CSI marathon. But wait, I suddenly remembered I had earlier spotted two pots that badly needed scrubbing. I look at the clock and decided to miss one episode of CSI. So I went to scrub and scrub and scrub. It feels really good to see the pot sparkling clean! The one hour of CSI that I gave up was well worth it!
Now I sit in front of the TV again and catch the second CSI for the night, with a cup of steaming hot green tea. I feel so satisfied thinking of the sparkling pots. Then suddenly, it hit me. Have I caught on the Monica Disease (as in the sitcom Friends)? I'm not usually obssessed with cleaning, just the usual mood to spring clean every now and then. But with that dire need to scrub those pots tonight, it really felt like a Monica moment.
But since I had so much pleasure in doing so, I guess I won't mind even if it's a disease that hits me every now and again. At the end of the day, it's all about doing something in your life that makes you satisfied and happy. It can be the most mundane and useless task or thing to the rest of the world but if it makes you happy, why not?
I'll go to bed tonight knowing that I've had a full weekend. Though it was a lot of work and quite tiring, I had a lot of fun with baby...and scrubbing! :)
It's been a long day. In fact, it's been a very long weekend for me. Hubby is overseas on work and this is the first time I'm left with baby alone. Over the weekdays, it wasn't too bad because I only had to manage him when I got home from work and in the nights when he woke up for feeds.
Then came the weekend...we normally go out and baby is quite a breeze to handle when we're out. Well, almost all the time except when he gets sleepy and goes crancky on us. But since I'm alone, I didn't want to go out despite mom being there to help me out if I really wanted to go out.
Since baby can't differentiate between a workday and a weekend, he doesn't give me the time to sleep in on weekends. I still gotta get up when he does, which can be anytime from six to eight. Anyway, I've been up early and I quickly get through the morning doing laundry with mom's help to look in on him.
Then the day gets by quite busily for me, from feeding to washing to playing and carrying, trying to make him go to sleep, watching over him as he tries to crawl but falls. I don't get to stop to relax even as he takes a nap because that's the time I get to finish up whatever else I need to do. It also doesn't help that he doesn't nap long.
Now after 2 straight days of mothering and all the related work that comes with it, I finally settle down on a Sunday night after baby has gone to bed. It's CSI night and I sit down in front of the TV to begin the CSI marathon. But wait, I suddenly remembered I had earlier spotted two pots that badly needed scrubbing. I look at the clock and decided to miss one episode of CSI. So I went to scrub and scrub and scrub. It feels really good to see the pot sparkling clean! The one hour of CSI that I gave up was well worth it!
Now I sit in front of the TV again and catch the second CSI for the night, with a cup of steaming hot green tea. I feel so satisfied thinking of the sparkling pots. Then suddenly, it hit me. Have I caught on the Monica Disease (as in the sitcom Friends)? I'm not usually obssessed with cleaning, just the usual mood to spring clean every now and then. But with that dire need to scrub those pots tonight, it really felt like a Monica moment.
But since I had so much pleasure in doing so, I guess I won't mind even if it's a disease that hits me every now and again. At the end of the day, it's all about doing something in your life that makes you satisfied and happy. It can be the most mundane and useless task or thing to the rest of the world but if it makes you happy, why not?
I'll go to bed tonight knowing that I've had a full weekend. Though it was a lot of work and quite tiring, I had a lot of fun with baby...and scrubbing! :)
4 comments:
I guess.. we all go thru' that phase eh.. :)
The 1st few years of a baby's life is the busiest for the parents. Nevertheless, enjoy these times as very soon, they will be grown up & you realise you miss their growing up years. :)
all i need is me wife and me kids + food. . . . . .take care lil sis
mamabok, yeah i guess it's an unavoidable phase. but a nice one to have. i will look back years from now and smile to myself what little pleasures it has given me.
dancing queen, maybe all that work is supposed to help with losing pregnancy weight? :D haha. i've taken heed of your advise to enjoy these times, and i will!
foodcrazee, you must be handling more than me qith 2 kids in tow! :) but i can tell that you're a very happy dad even with all the work involved :)
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