So I’m back to working at home. I am so thankful to have
been given this privilege by my new company to be working at home because I get
to spend more time with my daughter and I get to watch her closely and bond
more with her. But working at home as a single mother isn’t all that fun as it
can get a bit exhausting too because I have a very demanding boss who I love so
much and her name is Danica.
So here’s how my life goes day in and day out.
I don’t want to start with the first thing I do in the
morning because my day doesn’t start out that way. Let’s just start at around
noon because that’s when my day starts right now (but this will change starting
next week when my daughter starts going to school but for now let’s begin
around noon). Noontime I wake up and start my day with a cup of coffee. I
usually don’t eat yet around this time but slowly preparing for my lunch. I
start my day really slow and you’ll understand at the end of this blog why. I
prep myself to start working and around 2PM usually I’m already doing some work.
As much as I want to focus on work, I can’t. Why? Because my little 3 year old,
and sometimes with her cousins, would barge in my room and make a mess or would
beg me to move so they could use the laptop. It can drive me crazy sometimes
but what can a mother do, right? So basically the whole day I do my work less
than I wish I could and more with getting myself insane dealing with a very
active little girl. It pays though whenever she’d come to hug me and kiss me
and tell me I’m the best mom in the world.
At night I usually get to work for longer hours and I love
working at night because it’s more peaceful. I try to tuck my daughter to bed
as early as possible but usually she’d fall asleep around 10 or during
unfortunate evenings, around 11 or 12! If she is really exhausted then she’d
fall asleep easy but when she isn’t then I need to do a lot of convincing and
we spend a long time with storytelling before she’d doze off. By the time she’s
asleep I’m also feeling a bit tired but I still need to work. I usually work
until around 3am and I’d quickly try to get some sleep by then. Oh just to add,
sometimes when I work at night I would still go and check up on her whenever
she’s moving during her sleep because she would sometimes get nightmares. I’d
rush to her so she’d stay asleep. Waking her up would be a disaster because she’d
stay awake until dawn! Usually around
5am she’d wake up and ask me for milk. Sometimes when she sees there’s sunlight
she’d force herself to wake up and demand that I’d wake up too because she was
told that night time is for sleeping and day time is for waking up so I should
wake up. Considering I just fell asleep and groggy, that is just impossible so
I still have to convince her some more that I need to sleep. Sometimes she’d
keep on talking to me after I take off her diaper until she can already go out
and be with her yaya. I try to go back to sleep again feeling really groggy.
Around 7am or 8am usually she’d come barging in the room trying to wake me up
for some petty reasons like she’d talk to me about Peppa Pig or Pink Panther or
would tell me her cousin fought with her again. It goes on and on and on until
around noontime I get to wake up and I feel like I could just sleep the whole
day but I can’t otherwise I’d be tagged as a lazy person.
That’s my basic regular routine… Add to that the other
things I need to do to keep myself sane so I still squeeze in some time to go
out and hang out which is one of the great perks of working at home. And
although I’m glad to have this job, I also have a job as a writer and got a new
task up as well so I am basically working for this company I’m with but also
doing some freelance jobs on the side. On top of that, starting June 4 I would
have to help prepare for her school which starts 10AM and would help her with her
assignments!
Sheesh! And they think being a stay at home mom is the most
convenient and laziest job around.
