The Diary Game [10/07/2024] A Workday at Home and Taking Care of the Kids

Steem greetings all the way from the motherland-Cameroon to all friends on the Steemit platform. It is always a pleasure to share with you all my daily routines. As a mother, a wife and a working-class woman, it is not often easy on my side but I thank God for the grace that has been sustaining me till now.

That said, it was a work-from-home day for me as we had organised a training online with guest speakers from Rwanda on “Reconciliation and peacebuilding within our communities”. This was meant to widen the understanding of the concepts and also give insights into fostering unity in our daily lives within our host communities.

The training targetted mostly youth leaders who will then further disseminate the information to their peers and communities of origin. The training was to begin in the afternoon hours but I had already prepared my presentation and everything was set the previous night. I had an early morning walk to a roadside market to buy some items to cook before the training time.

^{**I forgot to put on my lenses and faced difficulties with my eyes 🤓.}

While walking on the road, I saw a group of town cleaners seated and waiting for their boss to arrive and placed them on duty in their respective streets to clean. One of the women of age was with a bag of vegetables trying to fix to probably cook after work. I imagine the stress women are going through just to put food on their tables and cater for their kids. And to think that some men will still have the gods to return home and question them about what they were doing the the whole day that food is not yet ready 😓.

Returning back home after I bought egussi, meat, smoked fish and canda, okonghobong, and ogbono to cook my soup for lunch, I immediately bathed the kids and prepared breakfast for them. Then I prepared all the ingredients and cooked the soup. After cooking, I took my shower and switched to my laptop to curate using the SC04 account, at the same time attending the training online.

It was my turn to present my ideas as an expert in the field and I did just that immediately after the training, I logged out from Google Meet and continued with curation. When I was done with the curation, my kids were hungry and I quickly boiled water and made gardi to be eaten with the ogbono soup.

^{Ogbono soup and garri.}

My kids have been craving ice cream but the weather is too cold here as compared to Limbe I bought them ice cream on a daily basis because the temperatures in Limbe are hot. More so, they don't like to sweet ice cream and I was sceptical about the one sold around my house. Talking of which my neighbour had promised them ice cream long ago and surprised them with the ice cream. They had made me angry and I disciplined them. Seeing the ice cream, they were not excited. I later on asked them to eat the ice cream but they could not finish it as they complained it was too sweet.

^{Ice Cream from my Neighour to the Kids.}

In the evening hour, while working on my laptop in my room, my kids came knocking to apologise after making me angry. I now shut down my laptop and we had a little play time while waiting for the Europa 2024 semi-finals between England and Netherlands.

The time for the game finally came and we were all glued to the screen following the match. I was not really supporting any team but my husband was supporting England because of his Arsenal players in the name of Rice and Saka.

^{The end of the game.}

During the second half of the game, I logged in to Steemit and continued curation with the SC04 account. Immediately after the game was over, I had to round off curation and call it a day. I was so exhausted managing the house chores, work and the kids and I salute all the women out there trying to work and cater for their homes because it is not an easy task. May God continue to give them strength and grace to continue with what they do best and are questioned about not doing anything.