Showing posts with label Homemaker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Homemaker. Show all posts

Monday, 8 July 2013

Moving house

They look at me with mocking eyes - all our worldly possessions.  “When is she going to get her act together?” they say. 

It’s been a month since the guests started sitting amidst flotsam and jetsam.  A month since the house has been floating around in a sea filled with monsters that rear their ugly heads every morning; a sea that unleashes storms that shriek and rage; that changes its moods as often as a pregnant woman.

I never imagined that my domain would put up such a fight when we wanted out.  How and when did the stuff and the house get involved? Since when have they become so inseparable? And now, here they are fighting tooth and nail against the divorce that I intend to execute.

Friday, 10 May 2013

Martha or Mary?


Who am I going to be today? Martha or Mary?

It’s something I ask myself almost every day. Today, should I be an efficient homemaker who can whip up a tasty dinner in fifteen minutes; who has a garden like Paradise; who irons the children’s clothes the previous night; who will not tolerate dust, cobwebs and disorder of any kind?

Or

Should I be in touch with the latest in music, technology, news; have well-manicured nails; meet my deadlines, listen and not mentally tick off my to-do list while pretending to?