SAHM

Being a SAHM, I could be very busy some days. There were few days (take note that I have started as a homemaker just few days ago...since 1 July) that I didn't even have the time to switch on my laptop and the TV for the whole day and the newspaper was untouched! Hubby and I are the type of person who must read the newspaper (Sin Chew) everyday. For public holidays without newspaper (I guess about 8 days in a year), we just felt uneasy. I am a fan of Sin Chew since I was in secondary school. Gosh..that was more than 20 years ago. I used to read newspaper every morning (my hubby still), but after having 3 kids, just imagine, I could not even sit at sofa and read my newspaper quietly without being disturb by any one of the girls. They will need me to read with them or play with them (especially the youngest). So in most of the days, my hubby is the one enjoying by reading his newspaper quietly for about an hour and the mommy has to entertain her 3 girls.

As for TV, we are not the TV type person...meaning we can live without TV. There were days where the TV was not switched on at all, despite we subscribe to Astro. Anyway, we only subscribe to the family package mainly for AXN, Asian Food Channel and AEC (news especially).

As for internet, well, we hate the days that we could not connect via streamyx. Can't search for information we need, can't read from web and can't do any online transactions. Without the internet, I guess the life as a SAHM may be a bit bored (for me lah, at the moment. Don't know about others).

Since I become SAHM, I cook twice a day. Not 2 full meals. I normally cook something light for the kids before they go to school (i.e. pancake served with honey, dry or soup noodles with some greens and meats). Sometime I pack chicken and cha siu (aka barbecue pork) rice and I add on some other food for them. At night, I cook full meal. 2 to 4 dishes, depends on the serving size. We eat out once in a while. All I want to say is that so far my main responsibility is to cook healthy food for my hubby and kids. When I was working, we used to eat out almost every night (lunch time with colleagues while my kids had their lunch at parents-in-law house). My MIL didn't cook meal for them which may due to the short gap of about 2 hours between breakfast and lunch. They normally had bread for lunch before going to school.

Apart from cooking, of course there are many other duties as a SAHM. I have yet to spend more time to read with the kids (other than their daily school homework and revision). I have also yet to allocate time to do exercise and let the girls have some fun time at a park nearby on daily basis. These are in my to-do list. Well, I will complete all the items in my to-do list, one by one. Target: end of this month.