Real Housewives Naija: Running a Home when Your Spouse is Far Away

Monday, April 18, 2016

Running a Home when Your Spouse is Far Away

As a wife/mother running a home when your husband/spouse is far away either for an official duty, or working in a different state or living oversees is not easy, it could be overwhelming especially when the children are still little and you have no one to help. The key thing here is never do everything all at once, from experience even if you try you discover it is never complete, there’s always something left to do. Instead brace yourself and make use of planning, it really works. Here’s a peep on my daily and weekly plans.

Daily Plan
Morning devotion
Hygiene for me and my baby
Breakfast
Bonding, lunch, diner
Cleaning the home

Weekly Plan
Mondays-cooking in large quantity
Tuesdays-Dusting/Mopping
Wednesdays-Laundry
Fridays-Bathroom cleaning
Saturdays- Shopping/outings
Sweeping/dish washing is on daily bases


When your husband is around this plan still goes only the meal choice is different, always call 1 hour before his close of work to confirm what he would have for diner, to avoid making diner twice and to make diner fresh and hot. 
On the other hand if you still cannot cope with handling the home alone despite your planning, there is nothing bad using a helping hand. 






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