I used to do that too when I was studying!!
After graduation, I'd either get up at 7 along with hubby, and stay up, or go back to sleep. If i go back to sleep i sleep til 8-9...wake up...go online for 2 hours... cry about how dirty my house is and complain abt the pile of dishes that need to be done... whine some more. Call my mom and make her upset.
TheN i go out for lunch. grumble to myself the whole way home why i bothered to step out o the house even though i hate being there. Come home, spend antoher 2-3 hours online complaining abt everything i hate atm.
5 PM rolles around, i suddenly get a burst of energy and do the dishes, tidy up the place, and make sure food is ready for hubby by 730 PM.
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Gosh u are so lucky man! 2 years is awesome & very lucky! Is it paid leave? Well I will be home for about 5 months total adding up all my leave, vacation days...etc....also my state offers "leave to Bond with Baby"......
afro sheen, you only get 5 months maternityl leave?! wow. that's almost close to nothing. and you're saying the 5 months includes your vacation and other leave days?
and i'm guessing if you want to take additional days off, they're unpaid?
here in canada you get one year maternity leave, regardless of what company you work for. i say move to canada :D
afro sheen, you only get 5 months maternityl leave?! wow. that's almost close to nothing. and you're saying the 5 months includes your vacation and other leave days?
and i'm guessing if you want to take additional days off, they're unpaid?
here in canada you get one year maternity leave, regardless of what company you work for. i say move to canada :D
That's what I was thinking as I read your post, but who know's if we can both get jobs there. :( Why did we choose Amreeka as a place of residence sniff
My day:
Wake up Get older daughter ready for school Prepare breakfast for her and hubby Pack lunch They go off
I have coffee and check my emails
Make beds
Little one wakes up. Breakfast for her.
Work on lunch for the girls. Pick up kid from bus stop.
Lunch. Prepare dinner.
Revise sabaq. School homework.
Give kids a shower.
Take them for Quran. I teach there as well so I prepare a bit after the kids shower.
(2 days we don't have to go to the masjid, so those are my errand days, like groceries, laundry, major cleaning, etc. etc.)
Return home. Hubby's home by then. Warm up dinner. Dinner time. Ta Da...
Everything is well organized. Usually there's a lot of running around but evenings are free to spend with family so I make all stuff is taken care of by dinnertime.
You forgot to mention the bon bons Niksik :)
Re: Housewives - Daily Routine
I was always a lazy housewife but I can't be a lazy mother....
Re: Housewives - Daily Routine
wow, having read the posts of the ladies who do not work.. do you not get toally bored out of your brains?? I mean, I would love to be a housewife for a while or to work only part time but that's b/c I would like to spend time on developing my hobbies like painting and taking lanuguage classes/volunteer in the community, etc..
my routine currently involves:
getting up, rushing to get dressed,etc then bleary-eyed hubby drops me at the train station,
2 hours later I get to work,
after work and another 2 hour train ride my hubby picks me up from the station, usu around 8pm,
rush to cook dinner or if already have something frozen/leftover from day before, heat it up/set table, etc while hubby watches tv/relaxes in living rm..
after we eat dinner, I clean kitchen (have recently got hubby into routine of washing the dishes)
then make some tea for me and hubby (sometimes my hubby does this) then have a little time to watch a bit of tv/go online briefly
go to sleep around 10.30/11pm
sometimes, I do a bit of cleaning (usually the bathroom) between dinner and sleep.. everything else gets done on the wekend.. thankfully we don't make much mess and put things back/tidy up as soon as we use something so it doesn't build up.. I do laundry on Friday night btw which is tough at the end of the week but means it is one less thing to do on the wkend..
we have talked abt getting a cleaner but right now I feel like I can manage.. plus my nands and bhabis, none of them have cleaners out of pride and they all work and have 2+ kids so would look weak if I got one bcoz we dont' have kids yet..
not sure how I will manage once we have kids IA.. maybe convince hubby to move closer to work!!??
ok i would like to share my routine as well...
around 7-7:30am hubby leaves for office..he doesn't take breakfast in the morning and also there is no hassle about the lunch...
when he leaves ..if i am too sleepy i go back to bed..else just feed my son while he is sleeping and turn on my tv...or check emails etc...
around 10-11 i do my breakfast...if son gets up then give him breakfast first and then i do mine...
back to net
give shower to my son..and he just plays with his toys...
i off to kitchen...clean up the dishes...turn on the washing machine...
i dont make lunch for myself ..just hulkaphulka some snack etc...prepare for dinner...
do some ironing
tides up my room
by 5:30-6pm hubby returns.
tea-time
we go out to some mall...to do some shopping or any grocery...almost daily else just tv
back home by 9-10pm
have dinner
back to bed
bedsheets,quilt covers i send to laundry...
vacuuming/dusting once or twice a week...
washrooms cleaning...on weekends only...as its just we two and our son..
The next 4 months are fully paid, the rest of the leave is partely paid, but if I add gov. children allowence for 2 kids and the maternity leave allowence that I will get from the governmental social insurance, it will somehow come close to my current part time pay. So its not bad, I can do without the extra bucks.
I know I could also have managed to go to work earlier but ppl here talk if you go to work soon, even the gorahs, so I can do without the talks. Anyway my place is very family oriented, they will take me back whenever I come and it will not effect my career, not that I want a great career now, just enough work to keep my mind occupied.
I really admire ur himmat, and IA u will manage, if I was in your location, I would have done the same but here this is the normal routine 95 % of the working females, they dont join work till their kid is 2.
where are you from sadia