Am I a Super Woman?

13 September 2012

I can't count on my fingers the number of times I heard some mom friends say they're very tired. One of them has one child and she has a maid and she can call a relative to drive her anywhere she needs to go. Another has three grown up kids, who doesn't need to get taken care of, a maid, a nanny, tutor for her kids and a full-time driver.

And they're tired?

I feel like a super woman every time I compare what I have to do everyday with what my friends do.

wonder-woman  This is how my day looks like. I wake up around 5:10 am to prepare breakfast and the lunch meal that my son needs to bring to school. School service picks up my son before 6:30am. Then I clean the house, wash the dishes and do some online work. I also research new topics for my blogs and new things to do on my spare time. I also squeeze in some exercise, shower and I then rest for an hour or two before 1pm because I usually sleep at 12-1:30am the previous night. At 1pm, I eat lunch and prepare the laundry that the laundromat will pick up or those that I need to wash in the afternoon. I also prepare the fruits and sandwich for my son's merienda.

I then have to wait for a taxi and go to my son's school at 2:30pm to pick him up. School bus leaves at around 3:30pm-4:30pm to bring us home. I do some blog updates while waiting for the school bus to leave. The school bus drops us off at my son's Chinese tutor and I walked to our house which is three buildings away from his tutors.

Upon arriving home, I cook, do the laundry, do some work and finish other household chores that I wasn't able to do in the morning. When my son calls, I then pick him up and continue the tasks that I left off as soon as we arrive in the house. I help him review his other subjects also.

We then eat dinner and catch up on the interesting things that happened to him in school. Then I wash the dishes, squeeze in some exercise (if it's not too late), I take a bath, we play chess or monopoly, then we pray, talk some more and RJ falls asleep.

My day doesn't end there. I finish off some work, do more research, dry the dishes.

And then I get to sleep, as I've said usually between 12midnight - 1:30am.

So? Am I a super woman compared with some of my mom friends? I'd like to think so!

13 comments:

nuts said...

Yes, you are. Looks like we have the same routine and sleep very late too.. it's a never ending task and we are super moms!

zoan said...

I think you darna. Hahaha every mother is a superwoman in their own way;) but the good thing with us is that we dont surrender, we dont say we are tired. Being a mother is hard and yet we balance our time so well

Les said...

Whew! Now I consider myself a sloth with the tons of work that you have to accomplish within the day :) Supermom ka nga :)

Teresa Martinez said...

The day you just described was so familiar, I actually thought you were describing mine.

sigrid @ lovingly mama said...

You are superwoman alright! My frustration is really that I need so much sleep. Otherwise, I would get dizzy and have a bad mood.

jem alvarado said...

Oh my I feel you... I do not have maids at home. I am a hands-on mom and aside from that I also have a regular online job to attend during weekdays..Now that I will be giving birth early next year for our second baby I need to be even tougher and wear my super mommy costume :))

levy said...

wow! You are really a supermom :) I hope that everyone can do the same thing.

Mommy Pehpot said...

of course you are! :)

I guess its just a matter of handling your time well..

Karen said...

Wow! You are indeed a Superwoman! I cannot do all those chores in a day.

Rossel said...

I can relate to your post as we almost have the same obligations and chores to do everyday and I salute you for managing your time well. Yes, you are a super woman! I won't contest that. :)

musings of a working mom said...

i think we are super woman in all our own rights. it's really hard to be a mother, i guess.

Marie said...

high-five sis! I doubt those saying they are tired and they haven't experienced half of what we do everyday...yes, you are Super woman in every sense of the word!

Maria Teresa said...

Yes, you are a superwoman because you do all of those things without any help from anyone. A superwoman and a supermom!

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