**I began to write this post a week when I was still a full time homemaker, before I got hired from my new job. But I finished this a week after I started my new work. Therefore, to avoid confusion, I maintain the persona of a housewife as I continue and finish this entry.**
My baby now turned 8 months, and this stage is really different from her early months. When she was 1-3 months old, she barely keeps awake and therefore I could do other household chores that needs to be done. When she was 4-6 months old, our sleeping nights were quiet (unlike when she was 1-3 months old wherein she would always wake up at night because she was hungry). She had learned to sleep throughout the night. But when she turned 7 months old, she started to wake up again in the night, not because she's hungry, but because she wanted company. She also now has longer time being awake...which means she always look forward to play with me...and because of it, I couldn't do other chores (and even finish this blog!). Being a mom really is a new lifestyle for me!
My new lifestyle of being a full-time mom of an 8 month old baby girl (with no helpers around):
1. Having only a 5 minute brunch meal break. But if I want it longer, I eat my meal while my baby is sleeping at 11:00 am, which would take an hour, if I'm lucky.
2. But having my meal breaks while she's sleeping would mean moving my bath time at her afternoon nap, which is around 4:00pm. This nap time of hers usually takes only 30 minutes. So I would just splash my whole body with the liquid bath soap, put some shampoo on my hair, and rinse myself as fast as I can. Scrubbing is reserved for weekends, wherein my husband could babysit for our baby longer while I do my things. Sometimes if I'm unlucky (means my baby would just sleep for a few minutes), I would have my bath time at night before I go to sleep.
