A Homemaker’s Diary

Time does fly very fast this year..don’t you think so? It’s already April..sigh!

In terms of what I want to achieve this year, I think only about 10% of it is in the running, the rest I am still struggling with daily life to properly execute them into action..huhu! Even updating this blog becomes such a chore that I keep on putting off the effort.

I wonder where can I get back all the determination and motivation. This must be one of the bad days, right? Hope it will pass soon.

This is a topic which I have no expertise on..being married for almost a decade now but people always give me the remarks, rumah baru pindah ke? korang baru kawin ke? well..the truth is I am a practical person. As much as I love watching LI TV on Astro, watching how the interior designers and stylist do their magic, it just won’t happen in my own home.

I guess it’s like me teaching people to cook rendang by mentioning just the main ingredients without telling the exact measurement (because the truth is memang masak main campak-campak or the mat saleh term is by eyeballing the quantity based on experience)..haha..if you get what I mean..errr, anyhow..this rendang recipe is an old story, maybe later we’ll revisit.

I think the main problem with decorating the house is that I hate cleaning up. You see, all the tiny decoration pieces, those console table and whatnot need a good wipe every now and then. The only thing I have the energy to wipe at the moment is my son’s puke and poop (which he rarely does outside the diaper).

Hubby has a better solution with my problem. He said, yang..when the time comes and we have the massive budget to decorate our house, we just hire the ID, we both definitely are not born with such talent..betul betul betul..bagi chance la kan org lain pon nak cari makan..hahaha!

After a few years of not reading constantly, I found out that I can finish reading a romance/fiction book at a rate of one book every night..yes, I used to stay up and read fiction when I was younger, never thought I could still do it at 33..huhu!

And then it struck me, that most of the romance writers are women. So whenever you read what the hero says in the book, it’s really what a woman wish to hear from the man in her life, not what a real man will say in reality..(err..do you get what I mean?)

One example of what the hero wrote in his letter in Lisa Kleypas’s Again The Magic:

“No miles of level desert, no jagged mountain heights, no sea of endless blue
Neither words nor tears, nor silent fears will keep me from coming back to you.”

How many men in real life could say such thing out loud, not even a poet or song writer says such romantic quotes to their wife, I bet!

Despite that I still love reading fiction and historical romance especially. For me, it’s like taking a little break from the daily routine, to be in another world, to smile and laugh, or in certain storyline to cry along with the characters. Words certainly have great power in touching human soul (mine at least).

The greatest satisfaction in reading romance or fiction is to enjoy the happy ending. No matter how hard the obstacles, they always have a great epilogue. Love is a great motivator in life, don’t you think so?

I was cleaning the dishes at the sink earlier today when I realized that I have not been writing on this blog as often as I should. When I started blogging 8 years ago (wow!! 8 years?) the main intention is to share what I think and fill up the boredom of my daily homemaking life.

Now after 8 years of working at home and being a mom, I sometimes lost the purpose of why I’m having this blog in the first place.

So tonight as I am writing this entry, I decided that from now on I should write more and share my experience of being a WAHM. I’m sure there are many women out there who wish to start doing business at home and take care of their children at the same time. Seriously, it’s not easy.

There will be days that you wonder is this all to life? You will get sick of doing daily house chores (I tell you it never ends..huhu!), while trying to juggle your time, between meeting dateline and crying child (and find time to take your shower), cleaning up the house, doing laundry and cooking, trying to steal time to complete your work and finally fall asleep exhausted every day. But is it worth doing?

You have to be one to find out..hehe!

A friend requested a large piece of decoupage item for her house. I suggested this board I bought last year. The width is approx. 60cm. She also specified the motif to be bright and colorful.

After browsing the bunch of napkins I have, I decided the large floral design will do for this board.

So far she’s happy with the outcome. I am done with the wording part, and now waiting for the paint to dry up. Hopefully I can proceed with the varnishing part tomorrow. I think by next week I can post the board to her.