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Part-time to Weekend Housewife

My mum is getting better and better.

For the 1st 2 weeks since she's home, i took half day or at times, full day off & look after her needs, still shuttling back office for meetings. I have learned so much the past 3 weeks how to care for someone & the skills of being a housewife. Definitely fully understand why mothers are GREAT! beyond great. Despite the training I received from my mum for the past 15 years, i was still worn out with the continuous cleaning, cooking, marketing & juggling working at the same time. Slowly, i got used to routines.

Morning 7am - wake up & prepare breakfast for family(toast bread, oatmeal, left-over porridge or some other odd stuff found in fridge). Wash & dry clothes. Then time to prepare ingredients & cook lunch. What's for lunch - soup-based stuff, pork & carrot porridge, soup noodles, soup kway teow, soup macaroni, plain porridge with simple vegetables. i followed my mum's diet, healthy...

Dinner is more troublesome, have to cook for entire family, have to learn to gauge quantity of food, learn to pre-taste dish to know how much amount of salt to add, control fire (when to turn big, when to turn small), what ingredients to add first to cook longer, when to add last so not to over-cook.

And the cleaning up, i realise i was a clean freak cos i scrubbed & wiped every corner tt may be affected by the oil & grease. i learned how to cut fruits include skins & remove seeds of apples, big/small pears, plums, honeydew, papaya, watermelon, starfruit.

Sometimes have to rush to work after prep brkfst & come back at home at 2-3pm. my mum then will cook some simple & minimum effort lunch cooking.

we engaged a part-time house help who comes in twice a week to clean the house, it's such a relief to have someone doing the stuff i hate..clean toilets, vacuum & mop floor, clean windows among others.....

After 3 weeks,i'm back at work full-time, occasionally going back early to cook dinner. i'm still learning to get better at cooking, at least i'm more proficient of chopping garlic & onions. last week was my grandpa's birthday, my mum wanted to cook tumeric chicken, so i helped to chop up a basketful of garlic, small & big onions, ginger & tumeric. my back was aching cos i took more than 30mins to chop up everything.....my hands stink big time & could still smell the concoction of ginger & garlic when i sleep at night.

posted by Ling @ 8:29 pm