Saturdays

our saturdays changed beginning today. hubby started work at a new place, and this place requires him to work saturdays. i think working saturdays is useless and is taking a step behind. you not only waste half of the day (and if you come back tired and would need a nap, then it would be a waste of a full day), but you also go to work doing almost nothing. i used to work saturdays about 10 years ago. we would go in, have a long breakfast, read emails, reply emails, surf a bit, start getting down to doing work, look at the watch...ah, another 30 minutes to closing time and we start packing up. work? nobody does anything on saturdays.

for me, handling 2 boys alone is not bad. handling 2 toddlers and a baby, now that's something i'm worried about. so far, the boys have been easy, especially at this age. today i managed to do everything rather quickly.

6:50am - hubby and i wake up, subuh, hubby showers and get ready for work
7:00am - i go down, boil the water for asyraf's flask, put clothes into the washing machine, open the curtains, switch off the lights
7:15am - prepare the boys clothes for the day
7:20am - as i'm walking around, the boys would get up
7:25am - brush amir's teeth, give him something to eat (biscuits or bread), give asyraf his bottle
7:30am - hubby leave the house, we watch from the balcony
7:40am - put asyraf in his playpen, bathe amir, start asyraf's water
8:00am - put on amir's dvd, bathe asyraf (very short bath cos i cant squat down for a long time)
8:10am - let the boys play while i make the beds
8:20am - put out the laundry, my turn to eat

there...i could do everything within 1 hour and a bit more. but with 2 toddlers and a baby, i'm sure it wont be as easy as this. i dont have any backup plan for the moment. get my sister to take amir? nah...saturdays are her busy day. plus then we would need to go and pick him up. if we wait for her to send him home, that would be after dinner and i dont want to miss any more time with amir than necessary.

i just wish hubby would get another job, one that doesnt require him to work saturdays. we need a lot of family time, especially when the boys are young, and we need our rest, especially when we rush to and from work 5 days a week.

now to give asyraf his breakfast, another bottle and to put him in the playpen for his morning nap...