Hi there! This is my virgin post!
I’m a SAHM to 20month old twin girls. I also do part time work online designing stuffs and also maintaining this site as well. Right now you might be thinking, ‘ what?! She has time to do work AND take care of twin toddlers?! She must be insane!!’ I would say you are partially right, it is pretty insane to think about it, but doing some part time job at my own pace can actually be quite therapeutic ( if you exclude some nonsense customers, but more on that another time). I often like to sit back in the middle of the night with a cup of hot chocolate and admire my work, indulge in shameless mental praising and giving myself invisible high fives and pats on the back for doing a marvelous job.
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Being a SAHM is hard work. Really. If you are not a mother, you won’t understand until you’re already one and its too late. And if you are a SAHM to twins (like me) then i wish you all the best. There are times I wish I could stuff both my twins back into my womb to get some peace! At least 60% of their awake time is spent chasing each other, fighting, screaming, crying, wailing. There is always something to fight over, be it a toy, a useless piece of tissue paper or even during breastfeeding! I have most things in pairs including my boobs, but they will just have this irrational desire for just one of it and so the war begins. And inevitably one of them is gonna be the winner and the other a loser, thus ensuring my household be filled with laughters and tears (at the same time). And it’s driving me crazy.
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Being stuck at home and with nothing much to look forward to, I decided I needed a hobby, to give myself some satisfaction achieving something. Don’t get me wrong, it is very rewarding to look at your child and see them happy and well fed and grown! Especially when you take a look at the pictures of them when they were just a small baby and thinking how fast they grow, it always bring some nostalgic tears to my eyes. (Awwwwww) But there’s a HUGE difference between the type of satisfaction from a hobby and that of child rearing- your own target and pace. With child rearing it is them leading you. You are constantly chasing them or making things happened because your child NEEDS it. It is almost like you’re meeting some sort of deadline “oh it’s almost six better get dinner done!” “Oh it’s nearing his third vaccination better get him to take some vitamins”. With a hobby you’re the boss, you decide when you want things done. You decide if you’re going to finish that puzzle withi24 hours or 3 years.It’s about you and your personal target. You are fully( well, mostly) in control, and taking r time to indulge in “me-time”.
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So if you don’t have a hobby yet, I strongly urge you to do yourself a favor; get a hobby. It could be anything; like reading, craft making, baking, writing, scrap booking or even just chilling out after your child goes to bed! Finding time to yourself is important for your sanity.
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What’s your favorite hobby? Care to share I’d love to hear it!
