Hectic Schedule and No Relaxation....

hey..

Do u cook in evening .. ?? or in morning???

Try making simple dishes. which will be easy to cut n cook.. less time consuming..

keep eleaborative dishes for weekends/holidays

read organizing websites like getorganizednow or getorganizedwizard.. U will get many ideas..

keep servant for cleaning , dish washing , even for cooking .. U may take help only ...

 

Wow.. This is same feeling going in my mind right now.. frustation..what to do..I came here to post or ask or vent.

I have similar issues but difference somewhat.

My daughter is small. i wake up early at 6 and start cooking/packing for her. H wakes up late but helps. Same issue, I can not focus on office and nothing is working out as planned. I reach by 10/10.30 and come home by 5-6 pm but later login at night after she sleeps keep working till 12 -1am because of pending work. Thus can not find to do any gym or go out for walk :-(

This cycle keeps going. I can not sleep early at night, but I wake up at 6 am. For first few days of week, it works but then fatigue keeps piling and then I can not wake up.

Because of all this, I get what not kind of pains in my body and not able to find any time for myself for gym etc.

I assume you are India. If so hire help for all the cooking/cleaning. Leave dishes for maid in the morning. Since MIL is at home, you will not have to see him/her and worry about stealing or 'not coming on time' issues.

After daughter, I have so many utensils so I do not have to wash for next use. Not that it helped a lot since cleaning/storage/small kitchen is problem here.

 

Below are the things I do to organize my daily work. My husband and I work and husband travels a lot nowadays. So, I manage everything at home as well as taking care of our son. My work is busy as well.

• I cut all the veggies during weekends and freeze them
• I make simple meals during weekdays (I cook in the morning though)). Most of our lunches are roti/parata with subji/kootu; Dinner is dosa, idly, soup, pasta, pongal etc.
• I spend 30 mins a day for workout (I wouldn't recommend you to give up on your workout. But see if you can reduce the time spent. May be yoga at home couple of times a week?)
• I clean one part of the house every day (not the whole house)
• Menu planning during weekends and stick the menu in your fridge
• Grocery shopping only once a week. That too with a kid. So, it's a combined activity for us
• Put my little one on schedule as well. He feeds on his own half the food and I feed the rest

If you can hire another maid for cooking help, try that as well. Couple of my friends buy homemade parata/roti. See if you can try that.

 

Stop being a machine !

You aren't sleeping enough and after yoga your mind should calm down, which seems not the case with the work load.

First take time to relax. Tell your DH about this and take time off. We need a down time once every "xxx" days which varies by age and various other parameters.

Frustration is the outcome of frustration, which feeds back to anger eventually breaking yourself up into ill health.

 

One more point

You can hire a maid to just make roti/ chapati and to chop the vegetables by this way you have to just cook the chopped vegetables. Indirectly your are cooking the food but with prior help of maid. At last your husband and mil will be happy and they are eating food cooked by you and not by maid.

I hope this helps you.

 

I feel the same dear,sw itself a hectic .I liked the idea of all our il's especially ambitious think you can try . For washing utensils ,mopping and chopping you can hire a maid. Please have good enough sleep .