My SAHM daily morning routine

Since Jo went back for her home leave, I've developed a daily morning routine that helps me get work done! It took me a few days to get a hang of things and I took longer than average to do my tasks. I was still trying to get used to housework and cooking.

Here's a snapshot of what I do when Leia goes to school on weekday mornings:

1. Wake up at 7.10am. Need alarm's help hehe.

2. Quickly prepare Leia's and my brekkie. Usually either oatmeal or eggs, which she has grown to love.

3. Get Leia to wake up then change her diaper and into her school uniform.

4. Feed her whilst watching bubble guppies, zack n quack or team umizumi! I actually enjoy this bit lol.

5. Bring her downstairs to wait for her school bus at about 8.05am. We'll take a lil walk to the garden whilst waiting and look for flowers and butterflies =D

6. Go back home and housework begins! Do laundry and whilst waiting, I'll wash whatever remaining dishes in the sink.

7. Hang the laundry! I usually put on some radio or catholic hymns when I'm doing this. Gets me gooing!

8. I usually take a short break before cooking at 9.30am or 10am. I'm pretty slow at preparing food like chopping veggies and all. When I'm preparing meals like rice + soup + steam fish, it's a lot faster compared to cooking pasta, cause I have to monitor the latter. I still do a mix though!

9. Pick Leia up at 11am. She's usually so cute when I pick her up. She's always quiet at first and just smiles at me. We always have some cuddle time in the lift before we go home!

10. Time for shower! I give her a quick bath to get her all clean and fresh.

11. Then it's lunch time! We have lunch together whilst catching up on TV! they're usually playing Blaze on nick junior hehe. 

12. It's nap nap time between 12 to 1230pm. We'll have our sleep time together to reeeee-charge! I always feel like I need it more than Leia lol.

So there it is! My daily routine till noon. Things are a lil different on the weekends or holidays (like now) cause she doesn't go to school. It gets harder cause I have to watch her, entertain her and still cook. It can get quite challenging! 

Our afternoons are usually spent playing her toys, play-doh (her recent favourite), reading and learning. And of course, lots of clean up cause her toys are everywhere, all the time! *clutterdrivesmemad* 

I've also brought her to Punggol waterway point to shop around before! We did it within 1 hour and it was fruitful. We got her a haircut, we got her ice cream playdoh and let her run around in the open grass area. Oh! And she got her favourite strawberry donut =D

To be honest, whilst it's exhausting, it's so much fun spending time with my little one. At least I can look back and feel that I've not wasted my time. 

My cooking adventures!

To be honest, being a SAHM is really tiring! Yet at the same time extremely rewarding. I'm thankful that I've this opportunity to practise my culinary skills! I honestly haven't cooked so much since my exchange days he he.

Cooking's not that difficult. I always say 'anyone can cook. Whether the food is nice or not is another matter'. My food always turns out pretty alright but not that super yummicious! That's something I have to work on!

I've been cooking Leia's breakfasts, lunches and dinners.

For breakfast, I introduced her omelette or scrambled eggs with cheese. She really loves it. 

For her lunch, I'll cook more so that I can just eat whatever she eats. Saves me much preparation and washing up! Since Jo left for home, I've been trying to get Leia used to less mushy food. I stopped blending her pasta dishes. I started cooking her rice (using more veggie stock) instead of porridge. She reeeaalllly needs to learn how to chew her food. I let her feed herself when she feels like it too =D One day I cooked her rice, fried eggs and fish. Mashed the fish and eggs so it's a little easier for her to get used to. Today, she had steamed egg with minced pork + pek chye with her rice too!

For dinner, I started her on rice with soup. My mum has prepared her dinner a couple of times too! Always adding some nutritious fish and veggies into her meals.

There's still so much experimenting to do! Hope I don't become lazy and try out new dishes for both Leia and G!

Beef + mushroom pasta:

  

Japanese pork curry + stir fry pek chye:

Mummy-Leia trip to PS!

So I did it! I single handedly brought Leia out on my own... All the way to PS! *soproud* I was supposed to meet the vj girls to celebrate Y's birthday so I decided to bring her along! G was sick and I wanted him to rest anyway.

Leia was sooo goood on the way there. I pushed her in her stroller to Punggol and she was super excited on the train! She kept talking to herself lol. 20 mins flew by pretty quickly. Things only got a bit tougher when we reached PS when she started to look for a choo choo train -.- kinda went into a mini toddler melt down! 

Thank goodness my friends and I settled for a jap place quickly so I could get her into a high chair. Well, to be honest, the only way I could entertain her whilst catching up with my friends was with... Yes, my iPhone. Or more specially, YouTube. It's times like these that make me appreciate online videos on a different  level. I don't do this very often but I think it's fine to do it once in a while. 

Another thing that kept her entertained? My miso soup! Lol. She loooooveeeed it so much that she kept saying 'soup' like non-stop. 

Glad that I at least managed to talk tiny friends, albeit me getting disrupted a lot. What can I say? You can't have the best of both worlds.

I'm just really happy that I did it! It was tiring as heck but I felt kinda empowered in a way. Like I could do more than what I thought I could. 

Might just bring her to waterway point later!