Tuesday Morning (10:00 a.m.)
I heard a melodious faint voice of Enrique, felt beautiful in my carefully done hair, high heels and black satin evening gown. It felt as if Enrique was somewhere near me and singing. Though his voice started getting little louder and louder and louder. Enrique yelled “For the love of God! Woman pick-up your phone please”. I moved my eyelids and saw a name flashing on my phone…Damn it! I slept again while putting my baby to sleep.
I woke up, found my laptop and my fingers started working as fast as they can. My one eye was on the baby and one on the laptop, mind running on the work and heart was praying that my baby should sleep for a just couple of hours more.
10:30 a.m.
My baby’s eyelids were moving and I knew what was next. She woke up smiled and started kicking which was a sign that she wants to sit up and play. I picked her up and started our daily routine of massage, feed, bath time, play time etc.
12:30 p.m.
She was exhausted after running (on a walker) and chewing everything she can put her hands on. I put her to sleep again and started working on my assignment. Knocking on the door pushed me to an edge that I almost cursed. Then followed a parade of people: Electronics repair guy, Car cleaning guy etc.
1:30 p.m.
After the parade was over it was time to head towards the kitchen. I prepared lunch and made sure to make something different for baby (She is a picky eater). While cooking I kept an eye on her too as she is not a sound sleeper and also because I love her smile when she opens her eyes and sees me right next to her.
2:30 p.m.
I was done with my daily lunch routine and so was my princess with her sleep. She was happily clinging on to me and enjoying my conversation with mom over the phone. I admit when she looks at me with those beautiful eyes and smile like her dad, my whole world stops. I can never express that feeling in words.
3:30 p.m.
My little one was busy with her toys (Empty bottles, my purse, and her own fingers). She loves playing with everything which can not be considered as a toy. It is a red alert whenever she is quiet for more than 2 or 3 minutes. I was working on my assignment while keeping an eye on her. She recently started blabbing papa, baba…her dad is on cloud nine since he won a bet that she will say papa first. Sigh!!
5:00 p.m.
I put her to sleep again which took almost 45 min today. I think babies can sense the urgency in our behavior and then conspire against it. She usually sleeps in 15 minutes if she is tired, after playing for an hour or so. I had to finish my assignment by tonight and she was behaving as if she ate an entire pack of energy bar. Finally, I did manage to put her to sleep past couple of scratches from her nails and biting.
7:00 p.m.
My little one was happily playing with her dad. Sometimes I feel cheated, every day when her dad comes back from the office she starts squealing and jumping by just looking at him. As if she is trying to say “I am hell bored with mom, please save me, dad”. Anyways, I prepared our dinner utilizing the time as she was busy with her dad. We had dinner.
10:00 p.m.
Post our dinner, I massaged her, fed her and changed her clothing. She slept with no tantrums. Voila!!!
I Completed my assignment and clicked on sent at 1:30 a.m. Enjoyed my little “me time” by reading a book of my favorite author till 2:00 or 2:30. Looked at my peacefully sleeping little bundle of joy and kissed her on the forehead. Set my alarm for next day which read”5 hours 5 minutes (Alarm set)”
I am a combination of “Working Mom” and “Stay at home Mom”. I belong to a tribe of Moms who are called “Freelancer”.
We are quite habitual of listening to the following:
Q: “How lucky! You get to spend more time with the baby and no deadline to follow”
A: Well I am sorry to break your bubble but we do get deadlines followed by consequences as well. Although, I agree we do get to see almost all first of our babies and that’s just too precious to be compared with anything in the world.
Q: “Is it a real job, I mean you get paid right?”
A: No, it is a fictional job and I am a Wizard. Why would they pay me, it’s not as if they HIRED me to get their work done.
Q: “You are blessed as you don’t work on fixed shifts or weekdays”
A: Yup for once you are almost correct we don’t have fixed shifts, however, not only we work on weekdays but weekends too.
Stay tuned for more 🙂
I can totally relate too you working from home… I can’t count the times I’ve heard “Is it a REAL job?”
That’s a lot for one day! You are super mom!
I relate to each and every point as I also work from home quite often.
Can totally relate! I get to hear such comments too, but now I totally ignore them. Our day is too occupied to think of any other nonsense
You are a superwoman.. those were the words coming on and on while I read the post
So realte with this – being a WAHM myself, we get the worst of both worlds – the working mum and the SAHM. LOL.
Thanks for this post. It was as if you wrote my routine out there, but the exception was my baby doesn’t sleep for more than 45 mins and I need to prioritise my to do list accordingly 😛
Loved this post!!! reminded me of the days when my toddler was an infant…though these sort of things still continue till date…
HAhahhaha!! Thank you god for making such crazy tribe who can morally support each others??
This is actually the reality. But my baby doesn’t sleep so many times a day. ?
I completely relate with your blog dear. I always say working in office is done relaxing when compared to life as a mom while at home. Loved it ?
Ha …. ha …. ha ….. such a hilarious yet true post. Really enjoyed reading it and could well relate with you. Keep writing.
Oh I tell you it’s a task!! Can so relate
I totally relate. But my version would include 2 school visits and endless snack time munchies …games and snuggles and boo-boos !!
I loved this. This sounds totally like my day. Except my baby is now almost a toddler and im lucky if he decides to indulge in a nap.
This is so relateable…I feel like I am reading my own story here! :’D
I feel you mama. I am a stay at home mom and I know life gets crazier at times.
I really enjoyed reading the article.
Thankyou
This is so much same to amm mom’s life. can relate to this very well.
This felt like I was reading about my life. I totally get what you are saying – People think we should have all the free time in the world since we work from home. But honestly, I was less exhausted and less busy when I went to an office everyday. I can totally resonate with this. 🙂
Totally understand your life. I am full time working mom but some days I take work from home and then I get no time to work at home 🙂 I complete my work after my son sleeps which makes me wake up till very late
That is quite a lot for a day! I used to crib a lot when my daughter was an infant but now I miss those days
Can totally relate to the craziness as i am a work from home mom with a 2 year toddler..Being organised is such an important task for SAHM
My goodness we are not alone in this craziness!! Mine are 3 and 5 and I miss nap time!!! Not that they actually ever slept when I needed them to! #thatslifeactually
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Hehehe no, you are definitely not alone. Thank you for reading it 😀
I can totally relate to this. I have three kids, three dogs, a husband that is rarely home thanks to the Army and a blog!
Thank you, Devon 🙂
I loved reading this, and resonate with it so much! It is so difficult working at home and being a SAHM with a little one! Basically two full-time jobs! I am just getting into freelance, so I will be interested in reading your future posts!
Thank you so much, Nicolle 🙂