Somebody asked me recently in an e-mail what I do when the Daughters are in school, is it hard to get time to pass? No, I have a very tight schedule. All the times I complained before that I didn’t have enough time although we had domestic help: I take it back, all of it! I realize that I did have quite a lot of time then and spending several hours at the beach club does not qualify as ”being really busy”. I had often scheduled a couple of hours a day for the beach club where I lay on my sunbed, complaining to my friend how busy I was with the girls and their homework, grocery shopping and cooking, I hardly had time to go check out all the sales and designer outlets. I’m now over my ears with household work and chores and the word ”busy” has gotten a whole new meaning to me.
This is what I do: the alarm rings at 7.15, I get up, do lunchboxes for the girls, set the table for breakfast, dress myself, wake the girls, make sure they eat, make sure they put on their uniforms and get ready for school, I walk the girls to school, walk home, clear the kitchen, clean the house with dusting, vacuuming and mopping, tend to the laundry, iron, drive to the grocery store, if I have time I sit and work (yes, I do work a little) before I go to pick up the daughters in school, walk home, give them a snack like crepes or something that I baked during the day, help with homework, prepare dinner, clean the kitchen after dinner, make sure the daughters shower and get ready for the night before I kiss them good night and fall asleep next to youngest daughter only to wake up a couple of hours later and go to my own bed and sleep until 7.15 when the alarm rings and a new day begins. And so proceed my days ad infinitum.
Sure my days are filled with boring domestic work, leaving me with very little leisure time but there is a silver lining: we are living in Australia. So we’re living the dream anyway, a better dream in my opinion.
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