Domestic Diva Wannabe

We were planning to send our 2.5 year old boy to  pre school. But after attending his first trial class and seeing how kids were being handled in the pre school, we changed our minds. No, we really don’t have any complains about the school nor the teachers but, seeing the reality of what our boy will go through everyday for 7 hours, we felt that he’s not ready for it. Or maybe it’s us who’s not ready.

We actually just need him to be occupied and taken cared of for 3 hours every day while I home school my daughter. So, now we are opting to look for a baby sitter for him in the afternoons. The baby sitter will have an easy job since he takes a nap every afternoon, so she has to do is put him to sleep and by the time he wakes up, it’ll just be another hour of taking care. He only needs two hours of sleep in the afternoon and anything more than that would be sleepless nights for us and for him. We’ve really had major struggle of putting him to sleep lately that for a second I was wishing sleeping pills for kids just so he could sleep. That was just a thought out of frustration and tiredness and I wasn’t really serious on it.

Anyways, I just hope everything will work out fine. I was really excited that he could go for pre school but seeing the real situation made us look for other options.

I thought I was ready for it – entertaining guests and taking care of kids, but that afternoon turned out to be a ‘disaster’ .

You see, I invited friends to come over to our house one afternoon. I asked them to come at 3PM since I thought that my li’l boy would already be taking his afternoon nap at that time. So, I was already imagining a peaceful afternoon with friends just spending time and having chit chat over tea.

But the li’l one didn’t sleep. I guess he already knew that I was expecting some people to come and he also got excited. So, when my friends arrived he was still up and excitedly welcomed them in the house.

And then, when we were spending time talking, my kids on the other hand were busy running up and down the stairs. I couldn’t concentrate. So, I put on a movie in the computer with the hope of them watching and sitting still but only my daughter sat still. My son on the other hand, was going out side, running up and down and touching all the stuff that he was not supposed to touch. I would be sitting and listening to my friend and every 2 minutes or so, I would have to excuse myself leave them for awhile  to reprimand my son, or to bring him down the stairs or bring him back inside the house. And whew! That was too stressful. I couldn’t spend time with my friends properly and I also couldn’t correct my son completely. He is also quite clever since he must have known that I’m busy with friends so he took every opportunity to be ‘free!’.

My friend even commented that with my kids so energetic, I could easily lose weight. But sad to say I didn’t. I think I could have if I took some diet supplements like the  hydroxycut reviews that I read about. But anyways, my son was more energetic that time knowing that he could go beyond the boundaries with me not fully focusing my attention on him

So, in conclusion, I guess I would only invite friends over when Hubby is in the house. Or maybe next time I can just go out with friends and have a girl’s day out. I seldom have the opportunity for all these and it’ll be good if it becomes a regular thing.

Since Hubby is usually at work the whole day, he doesn’t come home for lunch anymore. So, basically I just cook some simple lunch for kids. And I take lunches as an opportunity for me to eat something simple and healthy too. After declaring ‘war’ on white rice and white bread, I’ve discovered a very simple yet tasty lunch for me.

It’s just 2 slices of toasted whole grain bread, 1 scrambled egg cooked in extra virgin olive oil, a lot of lettuce and cheese. Oh, I just love it, especially when the cheese melts from the hot toast! I could just eat this healthy sandwich for lunch all my life! LOL! But I really have to be careful with the cheese, I’m still searching for low fat cheese but I couldn’t find it in the hypermarkets.

I have to continue to search of healthy meals that suits my taste buds. I’m really more serious with my fitness effort now and I think I’m done searching for diet pills that work. Making a healthy lifestyle is indeed a bit more challenging, but it’s okay I can go slow and easy since I’m building new habits that will last a lifetime. Woaah! Is this me talking??