A single mom gets up early in the morning; that is, if she
ever had any sleep at all. A single mom
doesn’t have help in nursing her baby whose eating and sleeping hours are far
from normal. In my case, I have two
kids. I nurse a baby and need to prepare
my eldest for school. I prepare her breakfast, bathe her, get her dressed and
ready for school.
When she’s been picked-up by her school bus, I need to hurry
with housework – clean the house, take out the garbage and finish the
laundry. While doing all these stuff, I
am praying and hoping that my baby will not wake up and allow me to finish these
duties. If I am lucky, he wakes up when
I am done and I then feed him and clean him up.
Time flies and I’ve forgotten to eat my breakfast.
No problem, lunch is soon approaching. I quickly prepared a sandwich for lunch and
grabbed quick bites in between checking and answering my emails. Today I am lucky
because my son slept longer than usual and I was able to do some work online to
keep cash coming for the next week. How
I wish I could work longer to pay off my debts and leave enough money for our
basic needs of food, shelter and my kid’s school. Anyway, today is still a good day as I was
able to work undisturbed for four hours.
By three in the afternoon, I heard the sweet yell of my
little girl who is back from school, "Mom, I'm home, I'm hungry". I
prepared a quick snack, talked to her about school and helped her with her home
work. She is such a darling as she
looked after his baby brother as I prepared our dinner.
After dinner, I bathe my kids and tucked them to bed. Once sound asleep, I washed the dishes and took
a quick shower. By now it is almost ten
in the evening. Sleepy and exhausted, I
forced myself to keep my focus as I need to catch up with my online work to keep
cash coming in.
I think I've been working for two hours when my baby cried
for milk. So I had to take a break from
work to attend to the hungry pangs of my baby.
This day, I am unusually lucky because my baby slept again after gulping
a bottle of milk. There were nights when
he is active and I had to play with him before he decides to go back to
sleep. There were also nights when he
just keeps on crying without reason (probably, he is feeling my tensions?).
Tonight he woke up only once and I was able to keep my mind
working for another four hours. I had to
make use of this opportunity because I don’t get lucky every day. It’s now four
in the morning. I think it’s time to
energize. I hope I could just shut off my mind and sleep to give my body its
much needed rest. I need to be up by six
in the morning for another challenging day.
I hope my day tomorrow will be as lucky as it was today.
Honestly, there is not a day that I am not exhausted. Sometimes apart from physical exhaustion, I feel
sad and lonely. But overall, I love my life.
I love my day because I love my kids.
How about you, what is your typical day?
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