Home alone with Adri...

I'm dead beat.

My help left for home and the next is due to arrive in a few weeks' time. So for the time being, it’s DIY. Haven't been home alone with Adri for a whole day since Feb and boy, it's really exhausting.

Adri’s crying a lot lesser as compared to in Feb (that’s a huge bonus!) but she still demands a lot of attention and whines when she can’t find me. She’s still sleeping very little in the day and spends hours crawling around and that explains why fatigue set in to Mummy, Mummy had to watch her.

Adri only napped twice throughout the day, each of half an hour! While she napped, I was buzzing around the house doing the seemingly endless chores at the fastest possible speed – laundry, dishes, vacuuming, mopping etc…Needless to say, it was quite impossible to finish em’ all within half an hour so there were moments where I actually had Adri like a little joey; I had her in a sarong and cleared the chores while carrying her, taking great care to avoid splashing water on her while doing the dishes, avoid hitting her with the mop etc. There were times where I actually felt as if I was personifying a peasant, a farmer’s wife who had to carry her babe while she worked! =p

Sounds so pathetic right? But I refused to engage part-time help. To have a help is a bonus but I just don’t believe I can’t manage when I don’t have one. Was doing fine before baby came. That said, I absolutely don’t like it when I fail to manage myself/my life well. Eh, don’t get me wrong, I’m not one who’s controlling. Self-management is an essential skill. Teachers out there, that’s one domain of SEL… =p

Okie, got to get back to work now. I have an exam paper due when school reopens and I haven’t had time the whole day to work at it. Gone are the days where I could just work on a paper for ten hours a day without much disturbance and clear the paper within two or three days! Well, part and parcel of parenting! =)

P.S. Actually came online to upload a video that i took of Adri today but the uploading seems to be taking ages....guess the file is way too huge.
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