Shamelessly stolen from Shaz although I dare say my day is not going to be as exciting and busy as hers:
I woke up at 4:30 this morning as 2 year old woke up demanding a feed. He climbed into bed and promptly fell into a violent sleep, thrashing and kicking. Husband got ready for the gym while I tried in vain to get more shut-eye. Realising this was impossible, got into the kitchen and melted a slab of chocolate for my breakfast to ice a chocolate cake I had made yesterday, washed the dishes and made rotis.
Oh my gosh, shaz – I am making rotis! And they are actually turning out properly – they are ROUND and attempting to rise a bit so it’s all good. Best of all, they’re edible. Once they were halfway done, 2 year old peeked into the kitchen, all smiles. I quickly made his favourite meal of all time (2 minute noodles alhamdulillah.) He ate all by himself. 4 year old then woke up – in a surprisingly good mood. He ate kand and roti (hot roti smothered in ghee and sprinkled with sugar). 7 year old was up last (which is very unlike him). He too ate roti for breakfast.
Husband returned from gym and we started our tag team shower/breakfast routine. Since the boys are only allowed 4 minute showers, while eating our breakfast husband and I take turns in organising them in the shower, out again and changing clothes.
Put a load of washing in machine.
Washed more dishes and ironed husband shirt, made beds and tidied up lounge. When husband and 7 year old left, finished off the remaining dishes and swept kitchen. Made morning tea for boys and organised my gym stuff.
Organised swimming stuff for this afternoon.
Went to gym.
Bumped into a friend and chatted for a while.
Home.
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did you really get all that stuff done? omg.
it’s tuesday, so i’m going to ask you a question.
HOW ARE YOU SO PRODUCTIVE?
It’s only because I woke up so early! The days where I sleep in till 6 are just mad and nothing gets done.
You are truly great if you make rotis every morning for your children. I only do it once or twice a week.
Here’s the friend you bumped into checking out your blog again after a very long time! My blog has suffered quite a bit too. But I thought you’d love to hear this gem from my 5yrold. 10yr old remarked he can’t believe Howard is not PM anymore. 7yrold remarked she liked JH (big snort from me), then 5yrold said, “What about George Bush? Did anyone vote for George Bush?”
mummyjaan – I don’t do it every morning – just the ones where I wake up so darn early. I need to make them regularly because I’m so bad at it – at least now they’re edible. I don’t know where I was going wrong before – they were so crisp and crunchy or too rubbery. I had no idea making the perfect roti was such a fine art.
Fadzilah – Your children are MashaAllah so clever! I don’t think anyone voted for George Bush, did they?
When you say “morning tea”, do you mean “tea” or is this some sort of slangy term that I’ve never quite figured out correctly?
Mostly I am looking for confirmation that I am not the only mother in the world who gives her children “shai leeb” (hot tea and milk) for breakfast…