I had thought that once both kids are at school for six hours a day, I would have a lot of time on my hands. Not true. I still feel like I'm very busy. and the week passes in a whoosh.
A few days of the week, I live like a 'tai tai'. I help out with reading at XX's Prep class once a week, go to the gym, do an hour of exercise, shower and then meet up with some friends for lunch. We hang out until it's time to pick up the kids. Then I either come home or hang out some more on days when XX has Tae Kwon Do. When I don't do that, I take the chance to do some shopping and marketing. Then I make myself some lunch and enjoy some quiet time in front of the TV ususally. Today is a rare day where I decided I won't go out and I won't meet friends, even though someone did asked me to meet for coffee. I became a maid of the household today. Preparing jiaozi for the master and young masters and cleaning up the oven grills. Well, maybe a bit of blogging as well....
The other thing is I thought that I would have the chance to sleep more once the kids are in school. Also not true. I am usually the first to wake up in the morning, many times automatically and before the alarm clock rings. Even on days where Hubby takes them to school, I will still get up to make lunches and get them breakfast. Maybe now XX is also going to school and I want to make sure their lunches has some variety and are what I want them to eat. A little control freak. And I don't go back to bed after that. The problem is also I can't seem to sleep a lot these days. About 6 - 7 hours and I would find myself waking up easily. So on days when I go to bed early, like 10pm, I find myself waking up 4.30am, which is really frustrating.
This is a sign of aging apparently. When you're older, you don't sleep as much. And that's the ironical part. When we were younger, we loved to sleep so much but can't seem to get enough. Often we have to force ourselves out of bed for school, work, whatever activities. Finally when we get older, we have all the time in the world to sleep, we can't sleep. So not fair...
Anyway, this is life. And I think mine is still good and I give thanks for that. I love my family. I live in a nice house, in a safe country. I have a good circle of friends to keep me sane and many interesting hobbies to keep me occupied. Most importantly, we still have health and the chance to look forward to another beautiful day tomorrow.
