Baby Steps

So... this isn't an easy feat.

A hundred miles away from home, my hubby cooked dinuguan with his friends.

Back here, I just came back with my mother to pick up my wedding gown, which was almost three months delayed at the dry cleaners, and accompanied her to the supermarket, which is the closest I have gotten to being domesticated.  

Just going through every grocery lane with her, I realized that the "field"of domesticity is just so vast.  One minute we're in the laundry detergents section, after 10 minutes I'm putting raw chicken strips in a plastic bag.  I am amazed at moms and housewives.  Especially my own mother.  Its so hard thinking of what my husband would want to eat in a day and there will be just two of us.  Imagine Mama's situation where there are 7 of us, each with different needs and tastes.  Our drinks for example: My sister wants those aloe drink thingies while I prefer Fit N Right.  Our youngest brother wants Gatorade.  Or food.  Sis is now into a no-meat diet, I dislike fish and want more chicken and veggies, but our boys are still growing and they always love meat in their meals. Not only is our budget for groceries seriously big, but its intriguing how much thought our mother always has to put in a regular day at the supermarket.  

But that is still the easy part.  Kind of the dutiful daughter, I have been tagging along with Mama at the supermarket for years.  This is a chore  that I don't think I'll have much of a problem with.  Grocery is counted as shopping right?  What's taxing are the chores that involve the grocery items.  Doing the laundry, cooking, ironing.  Good luck with me on that one.  There are just too many things that I have to learn, and I don't think I can ace them all within three months.   


I know my husband's gonna be better than me with these things at the start, since he has been taking care of himself  since he went abroad.  But I'm gonna have to catch up soon and at least not be embarrassing when I finally move out of my homebase.  


So, I'm taking baby steps for the first three months.  Just so I can have a firm grasp of all things housewife-y. I don't want to scare myself off with the whole kitchen, laundry duty.  The supermarket chore is a good start.  I have also arranged cooking lessons with our "Mama Ets," our family's go-to person when it comes to cooking.  Laundry would have to be scheduled soon to, as well as ironing.  I don't have to be good at it at once, but I know I have to learn, and I have to learn soon.


So that's it for today.  I don't want to be too preoccuppied with blogging because I need to be working in the kitchen tonight.  My two specialties - cream dory and mashed potato, and salad (I know, I'm at THAT level palang!).  If they're a win or a fail, I'll blog about it soon too. Wish me luck though ;)


To the kitchen!:)