Multitasking

When a friend asked me how I manage to do all the stuff I am doing right now, besides taking care of my family. The 1st answer to that question is: 1st thing first. And the 2nd answer is: multitasking.

I always put all the family things first, like cooking for the kids, or bring the boy to school when my husband on a business trip (which is often), take the boy to the play ground and things like that. On the second row is the house. Cleaning the house, ironing, taking care of the garden, although I am still a beginner and just burnt my flowers by giving too much vitamin:-(. (Poor flowers, I was so upset). And the next row is my hobby, my jewelry and my business, my web, and also some stuff I do for friends, like giving some extra time on maintaining dunia ibu mailing list by being one of the moderators, but lately I specialise myself on editing their buletin. And of course reading and replying emails according to their necesities.

But sometimes they are not come in a row. Sometimes they all mixed up together. There were plenty of time that I have to do more than one job at the same time. For example, there was a time, when I needed to finish my jewelry project and need to use the scanner, and at the same time, I had my obligation to my dunia-ibu friends, to do the buletin, and still I had to clean the house. SO, what I did is I put the scanner on, started scanning. While the scanner was working, I started cleaning the house, and everytime the scanner finish scanning, I came back to the scanner , and started another session, and went back to clean the house, like what I do now. The buletin came after finishing either one of them. That's what I called multitasking.

Other example. A friend asked me to make her bracelets or necklaces. And want it to be done by weekend. I usually doing my jewelry things on weekend night, but on such condition, I could stay awake till morning just to finish my friend's jewelry after I brought the kids to sleep. And of course everytime they awake, I must go back to bed, and bring them back to sleep.

But I understand, not everyone will aggree with what I've done and how I did it. Some might think that I'm 'kerajinan'. too much energy. too much playing around or whatever they might say. Some may take their own conclusion and delivering some big gossip, just because they dont know, and they dont want to know and they just need to spend their time talking bad things about others in order to make themself feel better. Some might think, why should I do this jewelry things, doesnt live with these 2 little kids giving me much job to do, day and night?. The anwer is yes, there's alot to do for the kids, for the family. But I still have something to do for myself. I want people know me not only because I am the wife of someone, or mother of these kids. For some reason, I need more than that. I need to be one whole 'person'. I love my family. I love doing things with them, for them. But still, I want people recognise me for my works, for my self, for the things I've done. Although, I haven't done anything great, not in the world average view, but this kind of 'multitasking' thing, does make me feel great. I can have my family and myself in one packet. What else can one hope?

Life is beautiful. It's you, who make it bright.

Have a nice day,