Precious Time and Mommyhood

7/10/2009,the day when the 1st time
Grace was able to do 'clapping'

One day, I asked my friend who lives in Kentucky, she is a mom to 21 months old little boy:'Do you still exercise..?', she said that she wants to, but everytime she's getting prepare the workout mat on the floor to do 'pilates' then her son would bug her,..ha..ha!, it happend to me too. Time even more precious for her as she tried to devide it between her son, husband, household chores and working at night time.


Mother-daughter moment,
I talk about everything to my kid
in any occasion

 While I'm not working right now, but the time management still a challenging for me. I was aware about the ups and downs of 'mommyhood' way before I give birth to Grace, my daughter, but when the mommyhood finally arrived I was overwhelmed. There're so many things that I have to do!,...I really admire and respect to other moms who have two, three kids even more because for me having one kid is (already) hectic. As you guys know, am not living in Indonesia or other Asian Countries which the culture is totally different, in there we can rely even to a strange neighbor to watch our kids when nobody at home and when we need to take shower or do some errants which we need to do that by ourself without kids or babies arround. In America, the term of mom and housewife, meaning you have to do everything by yourself. Even so, I like to think of 'organized chaos' in a good way!.


precious time with daddy
Conversation in the bathroom

 Being a mom of one toddler who's not in school yet, take care of my husband and our house is very busy, and I love it and especially I like to think that I'm not only a 'mom' but also a 'wife', it's important to keep reminding myself to 'appear' nicely when my husband arround,..well, probably this is the 'Asian Way' that I inherit from my late mom and my grandma, it doesn't mean that I sacrifice, being a slave, doing everything from babysitting, cooking, cleaning, etc plus try to look good in front my spouse,..(I will write about my daily exercise in other blog), but because I'm fortunate enough to have partner who really appreciate me, we share 'daily parenting duty'  and we have each other's backs. Even he ever said that 'my job' at home is way harder than his job, typical office job 9-5, so I'm grateful everyday.
One thing that we like to do especially when we're eating out, we turn off our cell phones, or just leave them at home, that way we'll have quality time with our daughter and we don't sign up internet on the go, because we don't need that. Spending time together is precious time, I also make sure we have a homemade dinner everynight.
However as a mom and a wife I have flaws, the road to successful parenting is imperfect, but what truly make my life in balance is my daughter and my husband. Good Luck for moms, new-moms, and moms to-be out there!!..God Bless.