Hello to all my fellow hivers. Yesterday, when I came across the Aseanhive challenge about balancing work and life, I immediately hooked to share my own experience. I’m proud of my ability to manage all my tasks while also pursuing my hobbies. Despite my busy schedule and various obligations, I still make time for myself. Even my in-laws are amazed at how I manage everything on my own with five children, without a maid or my parents nearby, just my husband and me.
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Anyway, at 7 am my husband sends my 10-year-old daughter to school and I go to the gym, 16 years she’s in afternoon class so she will be sleeping with two siblings 3y/old and 2y/old so I have a chance to go to the gym for at least 1 hour, then I will come home at 8:15 am have my fruit juice then I give them a breakfast bath them and me to have my bath. Then 10 am I have to prepare my online order of meat and send it to customers, at 11:30 am I have to prepare our lunch while loading our dirty clothes on the washing machine, my 16 years old daughter also helps me a little bit in the house like sweeping the floor and mop, simple cleaning only we doing daily just sweep and mop morning and night then every Saturday is the real cleaning.
My 16-year-old daughter will pick up her sister, the 10-year-old, she finishes at 1 pm we will have our lunch when she comes and my 16-year-old will go to school, anyway my two daughters’ school just right opposite of where are we staying that’s the easy part. After lunch, I will clean up the dishes. My 10-year-old will also help sweep the floor and wipe the table. Then I cleaned the two small kids, especially my boy, who had just had his leg operation, so I had to be fast, or my 2-year-old would get stuck. After they are clean they will watch TV or read books, and I have a chance to write my article for 1 hour then 3 pm I need to put them for a power nap, while they are sleeping I will continue my article because this time, around 4:30 pm they will wake up and my 16y/old daughter and my husband will be home he will cook for dinner because my husband like to cook when his at home and 6 pm-10 pm I have online class my student from China usually. I don’t have dinner due to the fact that it is hard to digest the food, and I wake up in the morning with a bloated tummy. After my online class, I like to relax and sometimes sit on the balcony with one glass of beer, which is all good for the rock and roll day.
Anytime when I have a bit of a chance to have a quick break for myself I won't waste a single second doing some simple thing for myself however I can reward myself, because I am thinking I don’t know what will happen tomorrow and the next day, today is today it will never have a chance to bring back what we have today, there is a saying we only live once which is wrong saying. The truth is we live so many times we die once, we live so many hours, days, and years so we live so many times and we die once, we have all the opportunity in our hands to live so we must live and always dream big, and my favorite saying is another day another dollar, that’s make me work hard and smart even I’ am inside in the house. Time and day shouldn’t be wasted. Time management is my goal in life because time passes by like a blink of an eye before you realize it's already gone.
