a new routine

this whole working mom situation sure brings new meaning to the word busy.

i wake up at 6, turn the coffee pot on, measure amori's formula into the dispenser, fill her bottles with water, prepare her breakfast, lunch, and snacks, and her extra clothes. by the time i get to pull clothes off my closet, it's already 6:30. i wake up aldo at 6:45, say good morning to amori who is awake by then, put my socks on, gulp down my coffee, then dress amori for the day. we drop her off at the babysitter's at 7:30, then off to work we go.

after 8 hours at work, we (try to) beat the rush hour traffic going home and pick up amori by 6.

before i can even sit down and put my feet up, i have to make dinner, feed amori, bathe her, and do our whole evening rituals. for the past week, that has been the highlight of my days.

so by the time i get to eat, sit down, and breathe, it's 11.

then we do it all over again come 6am.

and to think, when i was still in manila, i thought i was busy because i had 12-hour work days, had to drive thru manila traffic. that sure sounds like a vacation, now that i've got a hundred things to do in 24 hours. LOL.