While the mother-ship is gallivanting in Hong Kong with her pals.
She deserves the break. TOTALLY.
So while the mother-ship is away, the sister and I are in charge of the wellbeing of the house and our resident siuyeh. To make things simple, here is our job division. The Chinese call our basic needs 衣食住行 (Clothes/Food/Residence/Transportation).
So, we share the 衣 part - she dumps the clothes into the washing machine and hangs them up to be baked under the not-very-scorching sunlight. I collect them and fold them.
I am completely in charge of 食. Have cooked many dishes, hoping to gain approval with our resident siuyeh, who has shown his pleasure by polishing off every last morsel off almost every dish, conveniently forgetting about his dear subjects who would so desire to have some leftover crumbs. And have washed more dishes than I have ever had in the past year.
住wise, the sister sweeps and mops while I uh, generally make sure everything else is in order before we sleep, before we go out, etc.
For 行, I’ve sworn off driving for at least another week (but then I’d be back in Singapore) cos of a minor (but traumatising enough) accident I got myself into earlier this week. So the sister drives while I uh, do nothing much. Oh, I decide where we are to go.
2 of us sharing what my mom usually does ALONE.
Excuse while I go scratch out "Be a homemaker" from my "Things to do after I have kids" list.
