My Quarantine Story: A Day in the life of a Stay at Home Mom
Quarantine? Welcome to my every day…
My baby is 18 months by now (1 and a half years) but honestly i have been a stay at home mom since i got pregnant, i live with the baby's daddy in his home town that is over 500km and 8hours of road travel from my home town i move here cause of him and i don’t actually know anyone here, ok i do know some people but they are his friends and neighbors and well i to be honest i don’t make friends easily, I’m the introvert kind of person so, by the time i got pregnant my doctor told me i couldn’t do as much travel back and forth from my home town to here cause well it was not good for the baby, also the morning sickness wasn’t only during the mornings and well let’s just say my pregnancy took all the energy away from me to even want to get out of bed.
My boyfriend works in oil drills and by the time i was pregnant he even had shifts that lasted 7 days, so he worked 7 days in the field and had 7 days of rest at home, now picture this me all alone without any energy and will to live (I’m being a bit dramatic here but it felt like that some days) for 7 days straight, i didn’t get out of bed at all some days. really the pregnancy hormones are a bitch!
By the time the baby was born, thank goodness my energy came back, but this time now i had a little guy to take care all day, like did you know Babies are time and life suckers? lol specially since he was breastfed only, I got my energy back but I didn’t had time to actually use it, all I ever did for the first 6 months of his life was breastfeed him. All the time, all day, every day.
Now we have move on from mostly staying in bed or sitting while breastfeeding to running around trying to stop the little guy from doing something he shouldn’t be doing. And this is just my day to day, I wake up with the kid sometimes really early sometimes we get to sleep in, we have breakfast and I try to do some work like emailing clients or just updating the price list of the products I sell, this is something easy to do and should only take me 1 hour at most but do I manage to do it in a hour? NO! why? Well I have a 1-year old running around the house trying to climb stuff, trying to hug the cat to death, trying to even jump the fences his dad put so he couldn’t get to the kitchen or tv lol.
Sometimes I manage to do the work while he is watching a cartoon that he loves sometimes I just manage to do one thing and leave the rest for later cause is really hard to type with a baby asking you to carry him so he can have some boob time.
By noon I do lunch while he is being crazy in the living room, we eat, and then finally I can have like 2 hours top of alone time cause he is taking his afternoon nap, during this 2 hours you would think I can be productive but omg do you know where all the dishes in the sink come from? I don’t know they magically reproduce themselves, so I do the dishes, I dust some stuff off and get to finish the job I was doing earlier, after 2 hours have pass the little devil wakes up fully recharge to break havoc again, by this time his dad has get himself home from work and we spend the afternoon in the backyard letting the little man run around, I make dinner and then the fun part of the day starts…
Try and put to sleep the monster that I created in my belly
Yeah this is fun! He sleeps with us cause well is easier to me so I don’t actually have to get up during the night to breastfeed, we try and go to the bedroom by 9pm sometimes a little earlies but just to watch tv in bed, I know for sure that he will not be sleeping until is past 10pm if I’m lucky, cause some nights he has been jumping up and down from the bed and running around our bedroom playing like crazy until 12am.
just one of those nights where he plays to put his feet in my face.
And my day ends with me scrolling thought Instagram until I fall sleep, wish I don’t know how it happens that I am so tire yet still manage to not fall sleep right after the baby does and get to spend like an hour on Instagram.
That is my day to day.
So, what is Quarantine like for me?
EXACTLY THE SAME! Except for obviously the fact that my bf wont go to work unless is something really urgent (in 3 weeks he has gone only 2 times and just for a few hours at most) you would think well you have your baby daddy with you all day that means you get more help with the kid, and well…. LMAO I don’t know about that, yes, he does help but! He is a handful too!
The kid got it from his dad, he is doing some gardening his little quarantine project and while he does that he can have the kid around cause well did I mention kid likes to do and touch things he shouldn’t? so yeah while his dad works with machetes and gardening scissors we don’t like him being around stuff that could do him harm.
Also, OMG how is it that, that man manages to get more clothes dirty than while at work? I swear the laundry is bigger now, also it means I have to cook for more people and do even more dishes, FUN!
The other thing that has affected this quarantine is the fact that we finally had come to find a little park a playground near the house for the kid to enjoy every other day, he loves to go out even if is just to walk around the streets so I used to take him to this park in the afternoons and now well he no longer gets to leave the house at all.
Is good we live in a house with a huge backyard and his dad made him even a “pool” and little sand playground and all, cause otherwise I don’t know how we could survive being with this kid full of energy all day inside the house.
his dad made all this for him
Covid And Precautions Taken by Us
I live in Venezuela and even tho our government is not like the most reliable source of information they say that in our town no one has been found to be infected, since the government declare the quarantine we have been taking all precautions, we don’t go out at all unless is to buy food or my bf when he has had to go to work, when we do go out to do the obviously needed grocery shopping we tend to go just one of us, the face mask is mandatory to wear if you want to get inside a store to do the shopping and we have hand sanitizer to carry with us while on the streets, once we get home we wash our hands and take all clothes and put them where the sun can hit them.
Usually is my bf the one that goes out but every single time I do a shopping list for him he manages to either forget one thing or buy the thing that was not on the list and doesn’t buy the thing that was, so if is little the stuff we are going to get he goes but if I want to get things right I go.
I spend my days worrying about my dad who leaves in a town nearby by cause of social distance he cant come and he is all alone there with his business close cause is not consider a necessity (a liquor store) so he doesn’t has much to do but to worry about money all day and that makes me worry about him even more.
My job hasn’t had much sells either so that is something that has me worry as well cause if I don’t sell anything I don’t have money to buy food, my bf gets his pay (he works for our national oil company) but that is 5$ a month and well yeah that is not much to actually buy everything we need.
Hopefully we come out of this soon I worry mostly about my job and the money more than actually being able to go out, cause as you read before is not like I do it very often anyways…
Please stay safe and do the responsible thing and practice social distance and quarantine lets flatten the curb!
This post was inspire by @theycallmedan Quarantinelife Initiative I know is old but before I get to do the whencoronaends Initiative I wanted to do this one
As always, thank you very much for reading me and
I hope to read your comments!
Picture Credit: All images are of my property unless said otherwise and the emojis are made with Bitmoji.com!
I’m currently an active curator for @minnowsupport #palnet, #creativecoin and #foodie, and even though I focus on post in Spanish (cause duh!) if you know of any good post that deserves to be curated or any good author that I need to be on the lookout for 🔎📌 (doesn’t matter the language) let me know in the comments!
Actualmente soy curadora activa para @minnowsupport #palnet, #creativecoin y #foodie, e incluso aunque me centre en publicaciones en español (¡porque obvio!) ¡Si conoces alguna publicación buena que merezca ser curada o cualquier buen autor del que deba estar pendiente 🔎📌 en cualquier idioma, házmelo saber en los comentarios!
Proud Member and Supporter of The Minnow Support Project, If You Are Not Yet on The Community What Are You Waiting For?? CLICK below!!!
banner created by @justcallmemyth
You have an amazing family going there, Victoria.
Excellent writing too. Love how much work you've put into formatting this post.
They are amazing that is true!! 💜💜💜
It took a lot of time to make this post but im still not happy with how the formatting turn out 🤦🏻♀️ i was just too tired to continue fixing the pictures to make it look even better 😝 thank you so much for reading it!!
You're welcome, Victoria