Tips For Working Mama

I'm sure there are many working mamas out there struggling to be balance at jobs and life as wife and mama...and I'm telling u...These mamas are the best life jugglers…

I would like to share some 'Do You Know' tips for a working mama who also cooks dishes for their family...Especially a first time mom...

1-Do you know that you can use the Kitchen scissors to clean up fish and chicken and cut vegetables instead of using knife?

2. Do you know that u can stock up all the frozen fish, chicken and seafood up to 2 weeks of using…This can save tons of your precious time!

3. Do you know that dividing your stock of frozen fish or chicken using zip lock plastic bag (or any kind of proper plastic bag) by day can save your time and save up space in your freezer? For example… if you will cook everyday in one week… there will be 7 zip lock plastic bag in the freezer

4. Do you know that if you could take sometimes (weekends maybe…) to prepare all your cooking ingredients you can do much faster cooking in the weekdays... For example; take sometimes to skinned onions and garlic enough for one or two weeks use, blend it and keep it in the fridge… easy to use anytime you want to... see…

5. Do you know that if you plan in advance your cooking menu for at least a week (maybe 2 weeks)... You can just go to the market and keep all the ingredients needed in the freezer...this is practical for mothers who always have to go to the grocery store to buy their cooking ingredients because they cannot decide what to cook earlier on.

Well mamas, I hope this few tips can help you in any way, I just want to share it and I hope WE all can share something here... :)

Have you ever been apart from your baby??

Have you? surely this question's referring to the 'being away for more than any mothers' acceptable limit'.

I've been through this phase for more than a month now..Thank God Technology created 3G where we can talk via video call.

Whenever I told people I've sent my Najiha to my mother (which is oversea..hehe..Sabah Bah) i can see the 'jaws down' expression..and they like 'Why? how can you deal with the baby away blues??" Trust me..i can never deal with it..it's killing me! but i have to for my Najihahs' sake :(

OK, the story is..me and my husband are being transferred from our office at HQ-Bangi to one of the Branch at Kemaman, Terengganu.. Since there's so many things to do..never exclude the days of packing things..ibu,ayah,najihah..mostly najihahs' things.

And in the mean time, I have to go for 5 days outstation at Bintulu..huhu.. and Ayah have to go to Kemaman to find a house for us to rent.

We've also found out that Najiha is allergic to germ aka 'hama' from all those birds and livestock her caretaker breed at the back of her house.(i will story more on that later on)..poor my baby..

You must be asking why can't my MIL take care of her..well, I cannot do that because she's got some health problem and by all means..sending my daughter to Sabah was the best decision we could make..and I really don't have that many options. Besides, my parents can spend time with najiha since we rarely 'balik Kampung'.

Now, we are at kemaman, settling down and looking forward to take najihah back to where she should belong.

I remember the first time I have to be away from my Najihah..She's just 8 months at that time..it was hard that i 3G ayah every 1 hour to check out my Najihah (waaaa... :( )