hahaha that was my line to my mom… if they ever go to any vacation they would find us either dead or about to die because of hunger hehehe because I can’t cook even if my life depended on it. I tried once and my siblings cursed me for doing so, we ate it anyhow but we’re still hungry after.

well I don’t know about “saints” but we do a lot

even though my husband is a good cook himself, he has no patience doing all the preps and cleaning up afterwards so he’d probably take the kids out to McDonalds instead.

LOL Mae, that’s why I encourage my kids to cook even though they leave such a mess.

dexie, i think all men are like that. why they have to use three frying pans when one will do is really beyond me. hahahaha

I am blessed with a husband and children who can cook on their own. Woe to them because ever since they started college, I’ve been a lazy cook but still a great housekeeper.

hear hear

I know I’m not stay-at-home, but some people still think if you stay at home you have more time. On weekends when hubby’s off I really have no rest until late at night when my kid’s asleep & even then work is not totally done. And during those times, hubby is also expecting better meals & desserts! Super big deal that mummy has 2-days “break” to spend with the family.

I’m the reverse, Noemi. I’m a lousy housekeeper.

Stay at home equals more time, Auee, that’s the great illusion. Sabi ng lola ko when I quit working, don’t daw because stay home is more difficult. She was right.

You got it right..stay at home moms are saints. Couldn’t have said it better. That’s a great idea, I think I’ll take a weekend off and leave the kids with him. Actually, broached the topic once and he said he was ok with that but he’d leave the kids with my mom. Hahaha..di nya talaga kaya.

Ako rin, I like. Kahit overnight lang in a hotel. Basta alone. Everyone needs some alone time.

Funny. My husband was saying once, I should leave the kids with him lang. Sabi ko, until the girls know how to cook, hindi muna. Otherwise, they’d be living on noodles, omelet and rice — and rice only because my eldest knows how to cook rice na. Tsaka nakakaloka naman ata…I bet I’d be going home to even more work. He has volunteered more than a couple of times with the dishes, and I ended up doing even more cleaning after. Hindi ko pa din alam how he manages to get the whole kitchen wet. Although, in fairness, he really meant well….it’s just that he’s like a big kid, naglalaro ata habang naghuhugas ng pinggan. Haha!

LOL Mommy M. At least, my hubby is okay with washing the dishes. Talaga lang zero pag cooking. We had an arrangement that he would cook on Sundays, eh, nagluto a few times and then, after that, every Sunday, Spam yung ulam namin. Crispy naman daw, sabi nya. Eh, duh, Spam pa rin yun.

hahaha!

well, yes, i agree, about sahms having more time than the rest.

im not sure about the “saint” though. kasi ang image ko ng saint hindi nagagalit, hindi naiinis, abnormal ang haba ng pasensya …

^ i mean, “i agree that sahms having more than the rest is, as you say, a great illusion.”

^ again, again, … that sahms have more time than the rest - thats a great illusion, gaya ng sabi mo.

kakain na nga ako

Kain na nga, Lady Cess. Halata na gutom ka na hehehehe

My husband wants to cook but he gets frustrated that he can’t cook like he used to when he was a bachelor. When he complains about his lack of cooking know-how, I say: “It would have been unfair if you got all the talents. You are excellent in math and programming, how do you expect to get some more?”

re: being the saint…. I would rather be called that than what my cousin called me: Doña (just because I don’t work outside the home).

Very true..this is why Pinoy here in Saudi have huge belly..our eating habit is not the same without our super partners…i know people including me who eat the same menu over and over..cuz we don’t want to cook..we prefer to go to the nearest food store and chump to anything we feel eating.

KK, re your cousin. She can’t know how much harder it is. LOL Doña ako sa office compared to what I am in the house hahahaha

E Akino, time to learn to cook hehehehe

I’m convinced that there is something genetically different sa planning skills ng babae tsaka lalaki when it comes to cooking. A man will fry up some pork chops and watch over them diligently, but forget to cook the rice and set the table until 2 minutes before dinner time. While a woman will execute all the tasks in decreasing order of the time needed to complete them. Rice takes 20 minutes to cook and pork chops take 15 minutes, so she will do the rice first, then while waiting for everything to get done she will make a salad.

And yes, I’m speaking from experience hehe.

I read something recently… something about the right and left sides of the brain…

I don’t know about all that. My ex wanted to be a stay-at-home mom after the birth of our first child. Sadly, when it came to her cooking and cleaning, somehow all that stopped after she quit work. Suddenly, it was my responsibility. Dishes and laundry, too.

It took a few years, but I found out that once the guy was away, the woman would play.

All stay-at-home-moms cannot be grouped into the same basket, just like all guys cannot be grouped in a lump.

I may be a SAHM but I’m poor when it comes to household chores. I can’t cook and don’t know how to iron clothes. I know how to operate the washing machine. I did the laundry when our maid went on vacation and hung the clothes to dry only to find out that there’s a technique in hanging clothes to avoid getting them too wrinkled. I guess my husband noticed the difference right away. I may not be good at these things but I compensate by taking care of my son full time. I’m his mom, teacher and playmate rolled in one.