Two Months In Brief

The blog lives! Haha. So what if the posting frequency is once in two months. It's still a blog :)

Over the past two months there have been numerous occasions when I have thought - Oh this is something I should write on my blog - but then I just got lazy when it actually came down to doing it. I have also contemplated just deleting the blog, but it's good that I didn't because suddenly today I feel like pouring it all out.

So instead of all these different posts I would have had IF I had blogged when I should have, I will just try to combine everything in this one post.

1. Being a Housewife

I don't know where my days go. Each day I am incredibly busy with no spare moment but still at the end of the day, I feel like what did I do, I didn't accomplish anything and that day is gone from my life. Kids go to daycare from 9 am to 4 pm. Mornings from 6 to 9 go in getting them ready, feeding them, preparing their dabbas and bottles. After dropping them off, I head to the gym 3 days a week for about an hour. Rest of the day till 4 pm is gone in job search, cooking, laundry, cleaning, ironing and other household activities. Once the kids are home I can't do anything - they don't let go of me. So we continue the cycle of play, feed, change until N comes home when I bathe the kids and he puts them off to sleep. By then it's 8.30 and we eat, watch TV or a movie and sleep. This has gone on for more than a month now. And with no job in sight, I am getting a little frustrated and feeling a bit worthless. I need to earn money to feel useful and feel like I am contributing to the household and no amount of housework is going to make up for it. That's just the way I am and I am not judging anyone else. And yes. Having been a housewife now, I feel like stay-at-home wives/moms have it way harder than the working ones.

2. Octo Mom

Over the past month or so, the mother of octuplets has been getting a lot of attention. Bad attention. And I just want to say - Give her a break. So what if she has 14 babies now. That's not a crime. Plus she has set a record for being the first woman to have 8 oldest surviving babies. That's a big deal. So forget for a moment that she had fertility treatments, or that she doesn't have enough money to support those kids. Just congratulate her and think that she has achieved something. And about not having enough money and living off of food stamps - okay so big deal! Suffice to say she is not the only American we know living beyond his/her means. There is enough on the news about "people who borrowed more than they should" so I don't need to elaborate on that. We have shows like Extreme Home Makeover where they build mansions for families who have adopted 10 kids without having the means to support them. Aren't those parents more at fault? Why is everyone after this mom? And if she gets a book deal or gets millions out of all this - so be it. She had EIGHT babies and she deserves it. For God's sake, even Blagojevich has a book deal - so why shouldn't she?

3. Job Search

Hmm.. nothing much to write here. There seem to be a lot of "perfect" jobs out there but hardly any responses. Just keeping my fingers crossed on the one slim lead I have so far. And oh yeah, there are a lot of sucky career sites that make you enter all your information, upload your resume etc and then just repoint you to Dice or Monster for the actual application. Wish I could just wipe off those sites.

4. Kids

Kids are growing up. They will be 1 year old by end of April, and I need to start planning their first birthday party. Nothing elaborate, a simple home-frontyard party would do. But it's just too much fun to plan and I am excited :) Which reminds me - we once attended this lavish first birthday bash, complete with a dance floor and disco lights, and a projector/screen showcasing the kid's first year. At that time I wasn't pregnant yet, but I had decided - this is exactly how my kids' birthdays will NOT be.

5. Exercise

My target was to go down to my pre-pregnancy weight of 140 by Dec 31st, that didn't happen so I extended the deadline to end of April - you know, kids' first birthday. I don't think that is going to happen either :) And I am not sad - because - although these last 10 pounds are tough to lose, I have already lost 55 which is a lot! (Yes - you did the math, I was a humungous 205 at the end of my pregnancy and loving every ounce of it :)) Also, I have now regained all of my previous flexibility, ab strength, core muscle strength, etc. that I feel good and healthy. Not like 3 months post-delivery when I couldn't do a single crunch.

On that happy note, I shall end this post.