My MudraGon side came out again!

Date: October 14, 2021

Hello everyone! I failed to published an article yesterday again. It's my third missed article for the month of October.

At the start of the current month, I have listed down some goals for the month of October which I will be trying to achieve. One of those goals is to publish 1 article per day, which means at the end of the month, I should have published a total of 31 articles.

But as of today, I missed 3 days already. First is last October 5th because we have celebrated our stay-out helper's birthday. Second miss is last October 9th where wee have to attend my nephew's first birthday and dedication. My husband is one of the Godfather hence his presence is needed to witness my nephew's dedication. And third miss is yesterday (October 13, 2021).

My Morning Routine as a Work From Home mom of three

As part of my usual routine, I woke up before 6:00AM in the morning. As soon as I woke up, I will fix myself and then login and start checking my mails and our ticket queue. That normally takes more or less 30 minutes. After catching up with my emails, I will go downstairs and prepare our breakfast. I will cook our rice first and then while waiting for it to be cooked, I will prepare viand.

Yesterday, I prepared scrambled eggs and fried "maling" (chicken luncheon meat). For those who are not familiar on what Maling is, here is a grabbed picture of it from the google.

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At around 7:00AM, I went to my kids room and woke them up then go back downstairs to prepare their food in the table. After that, I went back to my desk to continue my work.

After an hour, I checked my kids if they are done eating already. I went downstair and heated water to mix with a pale of water from the faucet. It's too cold hence I need to mix it with hot water so that my kids won't chill and enjoy their bath.

So I asked my daughter (7 years old, Grade two) to just take two more spoon of rice and prepare to take a bath, then I faced my work again.

After 30 minutes, I went downstairs again to check how my daughter is doing because I also need to fix her hair to make her look presentable during her online class (starts at 09:00AM). To my surprise, my daughter is just sitting in the sofa and did not even bother to take a bath.

So I asked her "Bakit hindi kapa naliligo?" (Why are you not taking a bath yet?)

she responded "Wala po kasi akong damit". (I don't have clothes ready yet)

I actually didn't let my kids to become too dependent to us because when I have to report to the office, they need to take care of themselves like taking a bath, preparing their clothes, etc. So my husband thought them on how to take care of themselves.

I told my daughter then:

"hindi maglalakad mag isa yung damit mo papalapit sayo.

Kumuha ka dun sa damitan mo!. Magmadali ka nang maligo dahil malapit na mag nine".

In English:

"Your clothes won't walk towards you.

Go and get them from your closet!. Double time because it's almost 09:00AM"

She then went upstairs to get her clothes but you will not see any sense of urgency the way she walks and the way she moves.

So I repeated again "It's almost 9:00AM, your class is about to start yet you're still moving so slow".

I went back to my work desk again.

MudraGon mode ON!

After 15 minutes, I checked on my daughter and she didn't even shampooed her hair yet! I went mad and upset because despite how many times I told her to double time, she's not doing it and seems she really wanted me to get mad.

I picked up my slipper and spanked her not once but twice! I got really mad at her. I then told her:

"I prepared breakfast early for you so that you can eat before your class, yet you ate so slow and now that your time is almost up, you are still moving so slow..

Don't you want to attend your class?! Don't you want to attend school anymore?!

Then she answered: No mom, I want to go to school.

So I responded: If you want to attend school then move fast!. double time!. It's almost 09:00 AM!

Then I shampooed her hair to make it fast. After she wear her clothes, I combed her hair as well. It ended up with just simply combing her hair. I am not able to put some ribbons or pony tail because it's already 09:05 AM.

After that incident, I went back to work.

Had a lot of work related stuffs that I need to do that I didn't even noticed the time. My husband knocked at my door past 14:00 in the afternoon already and asked me if I had taken my lunch yet. So I said nope, not yet. I still have some stuff to do.

So my loving husband went downstairs and when he's back, he handed me a plate of food and a tumbler filled with water.

In case you're curious on what does MudraGon means, it was a combined word "Mudra" and "Dragon". Mudra is another tagalog term for "Mom".

So if you'll going to translate it literally, Mudra + Dragon means Mother Dragon.

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I use that terminology whenever I get super mad with my kids and my other side came out. I suddenly transforms from being calm mom to being a mad mom. Kids most of the time are really hard headed isn't it?

By the way, I have created the below MEME for you.