Life as a Housewife

It's been 9 months 2 weeks and 3 days since I have become a housewife. It's a lifestyle that I never thought I would go through before. So far, I love it. Well, it's because I still do not have any kid.

If you ever wonder, what it's like. Here is my life as a housewife so far.

Everyday, you choose the time you want to wake up. It's a privilege. I wasn't even able to do that during college time. For me, I clean up the house once a week because it's just the two of us and the house is not dirty enough to be cleaned everyday. Sometimes, I would clean again 3 - 4 days after I clean at the beginning of the week. However, that's only because the house was really messy or I was doing my crafts which normally messed up some area of the house. Cleaning day will include my laundry day. So it's all in one day and that's the day that I get dirty and I refuse to go out of the house :P

Eating lunch is a bit messed up. There is no definite schedule. I ate when I felt hungry or like now, I tried to stick to the noon lunch so my nerve can heal faster. Even though I am not sure how effective that would be. Anyhow, sometime during the weekday, I will hang out with some other moms to have lunch and tea. It's more for their kids to play together and for the moms to socialize. At the beginning of the year before Summer, it was fun because we would go to a certain destination every week. Right now, it's been different. We do not have any specific day anymore, we will just hang out when we feel we want to.

I took a Chinese painting class to reduce my boredom :P It is a fun class. During the class, we will watch the teacher paints and listen to his guidance. We will paint our own at home. So I do have my homework. At the beginning, it was not demanding however, once the painting progress, it took a bit of my time to finish my homework. Normally, it took me one whole afternoon and sometime night to finish up. So one day was gone again.

During the weekdays, I cooked at home. So around 6.30 - 7 pm, I would prepare the vegetables or the meat for cooking. Normally my husband would get home around 7.15 - 7.30 pm. That's when I start the fire. During Winter and Spring, I loved to look for recipes online and just cooked. You would never guess how much time you need to get to a good recipe online, buy the ingredients, prepare the ingredients, and finally cook the dish until you try it. I used to spend one day to search for a week worth of recipes. I also used to baked more. Right now, the weather is really not helping. It is still hot for me to bake often. So I guess I will start baking again once the weather starts to cool down. Therefore, in a month or so, wait for more blogs on my homemade cooking :)

I also teach my friends' children English. They are just 3 - 4 years old. Their moms just want them to have English exposure. The moms just don't want their children to be afraid of English in the future. Right now, I am only teaching 1 hour a week for them. I have been teaching them for almost half a year. One of the moms said she could see the different level of interest in English in her children. Her daughter does not have class with me because she is attending a Kindergarten. She said normally when she showed both of her children some children English songs on youtube, her daughter would not be as interested as her son whom had class with me. It was a very interesting observation on her part. I was interested too because that meant all the effort I put in preparing the class were not wasted. I was having fun preparing the materials for them too. For me, it was like preparing materials for my own future children as well.

Then weekends, my husband and I will explore Taiwan. It can be restaurants, tourist attraction places, malls, movies, etc. We will be roaming outside the house. So if you are interested in joining us, let me know.