20th July 2010
I remembered recording my daily routine before didi was born. Now, my life is back to certain routine again, new routine and comfortable. Partly because mum is staying with us and she is sleeping with lil missy. So we are not so “busy”
So, morning I will go to work as usual, night, I take care of didi’s night feed, night poo, night cry. Missy is now sleeping through the night, diaper free. So it’s considered effortless to sleep with her at night. Mum doesn’t need to get up to make milk. She too can sleep through. I’m really thankful that missy is able to wean off her milk and diaper free at the right time. So that mum is not tired as she helps to look after didi in the day when LGG & I go to work. Maid intervenes by helping mum with didi. She will play with him, help to heat up my EBM, help to carry didi if required, and help to clean up didi’s mess like after pooing. Washing of milk bottles, sterilizing milk bottles twice a day. When missy is at home, she will help to unpack her school stuff, repack with clean ones, prepare her dinner, and sometimes help to feed her if I need to bath early.
So far, the maid is helping a lot. But, still she has this and that doing wrongly or not my standard. But, I’m fine with her so far. Thankful again, things are going this way now, which ease up a lot of my energy and I can have time to play with my kids. Even with maid, I very much a hands-on mum, who insisted to bath missy, feed her, read to her , talk to her, discipline her as well. I find it weird to have maid to be in class with my child, cos there are maids in missy’s shichida’s class, their parents will leave the child with the maid in the class. How can parents ask the maid to take over this role? One mummy some more said wants her maid to learn how to flash cards for her girl. Shake head.
While in office, I usually will call home to check on things once or twice a day as mum dislikes too many calls which will interrupt didi’s nap. In the office, I will pump milk twice, once in the morning about 11am, once in the afternoon about 3pm. 4 intervals in between. So my work has to be planned around this time. I make sure my meetings are either 2pm or if clash, I have to adjust my milk express timing. So, basically im quite busy lor.. But these days I cant blog in office, so I can have more time doing these. Just nice la.
After work, usually I can leave at 430pm (boss is super undersrtanding, he asks me to go home at this time, if everything is in good hand.) of course, knowing that I can go early, I usually finish all my work before this time. Hee. Then I will go home directly carrying my on the go fridge containing my milk for didi’s meal. Hee
Usually I will reach home around 5pm, then I will eat something, mum usually will ask maid to boil some tonic soup for me. Really thankful to her, with these tonic soup, I can go further and not collapse. *appreciate it a lot mum* After that , I will go downstairs to pick up lil missy, around 530pm , except Tuesday where she has Kindermusic class, I will then pick her up at 620pm.
When missy is home, we will be busy, as we cannot leave didi on his play gym on the floor, as we worried lil missy will step on him or stumble on him. So, we have to clear the floor/gym/mat. Carry didi , unlikely didi will be sleeping now, as lil missy will be making so much noises… playing her piano, singing, or whatever action will wake her didi up.
I will then get missy to drink freshly grind apple juice. Or green bean soup * depends on whether we cook something, else, it’s always fresh apple juice*, then let her watch her Leap frog or we listen to her Kindermusic CD or linking memory CD. I will usually bath her around 630pm, then wipe clean didi (we only bath him once in the morning now). Then, around 7pm, I will feed lil missy her dinner, usually rice. Then, we watch tv while feeding her. I will then eat my dinner so with mum. LGG usually eat later as he comes home later at abt 730pm.
At 8 or 8plus, usually, we will get her to go to her room, to read story book to her by LGG. Or we will play with didi, see him turn and talk to him. He will answer us back loudly haa.
About 830 to 845pm, we will switch off light, get missy to sleep, then I will bring didi to my room, where his cot is and get him to sleep, sometimes he need to suck a bit of milk. After that, I have my time to read a bit of magazine or book. Recently I started the book about chef Gordon Remsay. I’m very interested in his life haa.. how he become such a successful chef. So much hard work ! That’s how I spend my typical weekday.
As for weekend, we have a different schedule. Mum will go to sis place on weekend (not now, as sis still in argentina). So we will sleep together in mum’s room. Missy with LGG, me with didi on bed. Usually didi will get back around 7am, either cos pooing or refuse to sleep again after morning feed. So, we will go to living room, play a bit. Missy will get up by then, catch her sesame street by 8am. Sometimes we will do our marketing and get home before 1030am, as I need to bath missy , feed her lunch before making her to take her early nap by 12noon. Cos her class starts at 2:30pm, we need to leave home by 1:30pm. Then in laws takes over didi. Sometimes we will go over to in laws house, sometimes we stay at our home. Didi now recognize people and place, he will cry a lot when he sees his grandpa or go to his grandparent’s place *shake head*
If in laws bring didi to their place (just 2 streets away), we will go to their house after class and have dinner there. Missy likes to go to her grandparents’ home.
Sunday is the best day of the week, as we can laze at home. No activities usually, missy will play her toys.. painting or watch her dvd. Didi will play with us. Sometimes we go to wet market to buy fish and missy get to see and feel the atmosphere in the wet market.
That’s my days after second baby came along. My life still very busy around my kids. I rarely have time to paint my nails (only did it during maternity leave) or even shave. Haa.. babies quick grow up then I can have more ME time.
