Scarf Life by Ain

A Day In My Life

A Mother. A Wife. A Daughter. A Sister. A Friend

Different Roles That A Women Play On Daily Basis

As'salamualaikum Everybody!

Alhamdulillah we meet again in the month of Syaaban. Which means we are not far from the month of Ramadan. May all our prayers and good deeds be accepted by the Almighty.

I have been posting a lot of beauty, a little bit of fashion and lifestyle.

Now I want to share with you a little bit more about my life. Being a Mother, a wife, a daughter, a sister and a friend is no easy walk by the beach guys. So let's start.

Something About Me.

I work full-time, Monday to Friday from 8am to 5.30pm. I am currently pursuing my Psychology Degree Part-time at SUSS (Singapore University of Social Science). I am a full-time mother who juggles with finance (pay bills - Fun!), marketing (go market buy fish), administration (any forms that needs to be filled for school etc), teacher (Homework - Duh!) and secretary (helping dad with paying insurance for car, CPF issues, you name it, I do it) of my household. Oh! I forgot, I'm also the hair dresser and personal stylist for my daughter, Emma. I try to fit my hobby into my life to keep me sane and inspired, i.e. Youtube, reading and Blogging. I do almost everything except for washing dirty laundry and wiping the windows, fan and servicing the aircon (that is my husband's job scope). All these without a helper. However I am lucky (Alhamdulillah - Blessed). Really. Syukur Alhamdulillah.

My Day.

My day starts as early as 4.30am. I set my alarm for 4.30am, 4.45am and 5am - in case there are those days that you off the alarm, intending to blink, but you fell back to sleep. Once I'm up, I made coffee for my husband and myself to keep us going. Then I will get Emma's Snack box ready, prepare packed lunch for my hub and myself (usually I prepare extra the night before and refrigerate them so that in the morning I just heat it up and add air-fried Chicken or nuggets/hotdogs)

I wake my girl up, she gets up at 5am. Sometimes I'll help her do her bed (she is 6 going 7 YO), sometimes she does it herself if she is super hyper that morning - that made my job easier. She will shower while I iron my clothes for work and my scarf for the day. I'm very fickle, can never prepared the week or the night before (what I wear, depends on my mood and weather). I hit the shower next. Then solat subuh (dawn prayer). Get ready for work. Checked to ensure that my girl has all her books for the day and didn't missed anything else (which she packed the night before). She have developed her own checklist to also ensure that she didn't forget anything else. She usually tell me stories about happening in school while I'm doing my face for work.

Then its her hair time after my morning prayer (subuh). We leave the house at 6.15am. My husband will send us both to her school, she will reached roughly around 6.45am. And I take the train from there to work, else he will be late for work. I'm fortunate that in time of need and my husband have to leave much earlier than that, and boy, the perks of living near your parents, dad(my superman - he wakes up super early just for us) will drive us to school and me to work.

Once drop my girl off, then he will drop me off the side of the road at my work and my work begins.

When I feel a little bit more motivated, I'll hit the gym for 30 mins, 30mins to get dressed, makeup and get my butt back to my workstation. The work just keep on flooding till I knockoff at 5.30pm.

My Evening.

I either take the train home or my husband will fetch me back from work (if he doesn't have to stay late for work), alternatively I'll grab hitch if I'm super exhausted or have too many bags of groceries to carry (lunch time groceries shopping). Once I'm home, its time to prep for dinner.

Something that I need to think of every single day. We prefer home cooked food for comfort, the feeling of being home and the slightly healthier choice than buying hawker food. The wonder of having a hot meal when you had a long day. I cooked almost on a daily basis as many time as I can. Sometimes I'm lucky that my mother or mother-in-law cooked extra for my family and send over some food.

After Magrib (Dusk prayer), its time for Emma to go for her Iqra class (3 times a week, Monday to Wed). Thursday and Friday she sometimes have tuitions with my neighbours (English, Maths and Malay). This is my chance to have bit of ME time to do whatever I want for an hour. I study, do assignment, write blog, or trying to film a youtube video or simply just get to put my leg up for a while. Or clean the house and the cats's kitty litter.

Once she's back, I'll see if she have homework to do, spelling test to study for and all that fun jazzy stuff. If not, I'll let her rest.

I try to sleep by 10pm, which is most of the time impossible. And everything starts all over again the next day. My weekends are filled with chores, ironing, vacuuming, mopping the house.

To destress, I will do those with music in my ears and dance around the house. When Emma goes for her Sunday swim class with her dad, I usually tag along to have a bit of exercise or stay home and plan for my blog or flay lays for my instagram pictures, assignments or reading the Holy Quran.

It is really tiring and exhausting to cope with all these. But I love keeping myself busy. It keeps me at bay from getting anxiety or depression (which I've been coping with since my 4th miscarriage).

Life is full of challenges and looking at it positively is extremely important. Motivation to keep your life going is important. My motivation comes from my family and my close friends. To be there for them.

That's all I want to share. Tell me about your day. I love reading about it.

If you have wrote a blog post about it, linked it below for me to check it out as well.

Good night!

xoxo

Ain