multitasking queen

I am writing this post in between shoving spoonfuls of my lunch in my mouth. I have to be quick otherwise, the day will go on without me being able to update a single blog.

We’ve been away for almost a week. We stayed at my in-laws and while being there, I didn’t find the time to blog. Now that we are home, I have to face the bunch of housework waiting for me. You see, when we left the house, we forgot to empty our fruit basket. As a result, our kitchen became a breeding ground of fruit flies. This is a mystery to me. I mean, I understand how the fruits got rotten. The weather has been very hot last week and the fruits were not able to stand the heat. But all our windows and doors have been closed the whole time. How did the fruit flies get in?

I was so disgusted that I decided not just to kill every single fruit fly but to clean the whole kitchen as well. It has been screaming for some cleaning anyway so that’s what I did during my baby’s first round of sleep. My baby is now on to his second round of sleep so here I am, eating and blogging at the same time. And oh, the laundry and the dish washing machine are running in the background. So that’s like shooting four birds with one bullet.

Today, I still like to accomplish the following housework: clean the toilet bowls, vacuum clean the living room including the sofa, vacuum clean the three rooms upstairs, iron some of our clothes, and do some organization because things are scattered everywhere.

That’s a bit over optimistic considering that I have a baby to take care of, but I really would like to do as much as I can today. Because this week, I also would like to do the following: clean the windows’ glass, clean the bathroom, and do a bit of organization in the basement because that place looks like a bomb just detonated in it. I HAVE TO get things done. REALLY.

heart’s day

Happy Heart’s Day everyone!

no special occasion but i got these tulips from my husband last week.

My husband bought these lovely tulips for me last week. There was no special occasion. He’s a sweet guy and he’s especially sweet to me this time because I am carrying his future offspring. But even before, he does not need an occasion to bring home flowers or some sweets. For this and everything he is, I am very lucky to have him.

Today is Valentine’s Day but I am not expecting anything. I think, I am overly pampered already, and so, it is just utterly unnecessary to pamper me even more today just because it’s Valentine’s Day.

So I will treat today as a regular Monday. There are house chores to do like ironing, vacuum cleaning, dusting, doing a small grocery, and some other things. I’ll try to do as much as I can because I want that when my husband comes home from work, everything’s clean and that our home is where he can have comfort in after a long tiring day at work. It’s my small way of reciprocating how nice and sweet he is to me.

a monday in the life of a stay-at-home wife

It’s Monday. Normally, it’s what I call my Lazy Day but since I had a lot of lazy days last week, I have to forget about making today a Lazy Day.

I had tons of laundry waiting to be ironed and that’s what I attended to this morning. I am actually not completely done with it yet but I am glad to see that I was able to finish half of it. I also vacuumed cleaned the whole place because I can already see strands of my long black hair lying just about everywhere.  Vacuum cleaning is something that is becoming more and more difficult for me to do, not because I’m becoming a pig but because when you’re pregnant, such things simply turn to huge challenges. My gosh! I thought my knees would collapse as I was vacuum cleaning the stairs!

I am really so glad I get to stay at home this time. I am so glad there is nothing in the world that is obliging me to work (day job). Yes, there are house chores and yes, some of them are difficult for me to do now, but I can take a break when I need it. I could also refuse and postpone house chores without thinking that somebody will fire me. LOL!

After ironing, and vacuum cleaning, I had taken a break and cooked myself lunch—fired fish and rice. Yum! Then, I loaded the washing machine and while it is running, I laid my yoga mat in the balcony, took some pillows, and my computer.

Being able to stay at home while I’m pregnant is a luxury. Like right now for example, I am sitting in our balcony while enjoying the sunshine and the warm weather, which is, by the way, so odd considering that it is winter now. We should be experiencing a deep winter this month (like every February) here in Austria but it feels like mid-spring already. I am not complaining about the weird weather… I am actually enjoying it and going back to my point… I would definitely NOT be able to enjoy such days like today if I have to go and work.

After I publish this entry, I will take a nap right here.

thoughts of a stay at home wife

I am going to write a quick post here while waiting for the laundry to finish its time in the washing machine. I’ve been contemplating a lot today about my decision to be a stay at home wife. I am thinking of ways to make this time productive and beneficial to me and to my family. Sometimes, I can’t help but feel negative towards it and when I do, I wallow about how I am not earning enough from my writing jobs.

It’s true. I get sad when I don’t get the online writing jobs I applied for specially when I know well enough that I am competent to do the job. Sometimes, I wonder if there are other ways to earn from home other than providing web contents to clients. And such times, I think I could venture into something else like having my online store but I have no idea about what to sell. Maybe I am too ambitious.

But come to think of it, a lot of people are really successful with this and if I would have the talent and the know-how, I would also get into it. But I don’t so that’s it. Maybe I could also do it if I have all the money. I’ll just have to outsource the job to freelancers and they’ll do the necessary development, marketing, etc for me. Then I also have to do a payroll outsourcing. I have to outsource bookkeeping jobs to people who can do it because although I have background on that, I am not very confident that I can do some serious accounting.

Oh well, I would have to think about it again once I have the money to use as a capital.