Being a Housekid

I have taken leave these 2 days. And during these days, I have transformed into a "Housewife", replacing my sickly mother. The worse, my brother have also fell ill, and he still insisted to go for school... Now, it is my duty to take care both of them.

The first day, I washed the clothes, using my mum's traditional handwash method. She always like to let the clothes to hang dry from the water-dripping state instead of squeezing them as it will create folded marks on them and ironing will take more effort. However, my grandma came at the instant when I was about to hang the clothes. Her way of doing things: Carelessly and half-heartedly. The moment she came, she said she wanted to help out and... There she goes, squeezing the clothes and nearly made mum fainted...

Grandma dropped by just to deliver our lunch. Oily fried fish, salty braised pork and fried onion egg soaked in oil... and made my mum and me drank several glasses of water after our meal... Next, I swept and mopped the floor while my mum can have her rest. She will get up every now and then watching the clothes, and make sure they are well soaked in the sunlight. This is what made me worry, but luckily dark clouds came yesterday and today, and so she can forget about making the clothes go sun tanning and can just lie and rest.

When she feels better, she will get up and help me with the meal preparation, because she knows that I do things as slow as a snail especially in the kitchen. But I can't help it since I'm not skilled in handling knives, so I must be extra careful. I can always remember the time when I cut my index finger with the knife and blood kept dripping down. I was still in secondary school at that time if I remember correctly. Haha.

Then, washing the plates was my last mission that night, which I considered the simplest task since I did it most of the times. The only difference is that I had to clean up everybody's instead of mine only.

Today, I went to the market alone in the morning to buy my breakfast and vegetables for today's dinner. After I came back, I had some free time for myself since my mum only sweeps and mops the floor on odd days. Then, I washed some clothes at the same time when I was bathing. When I have done, my mum had already heated up the leftovers from yesterday dinner and that became our lunch of the day.

After that, mum wanted me to prepare the vegetables for tonight's dinner and that is when my neck stiffened and got a terrible headache. But I can't stop myself from tilting my head downwards when doing housework. In fact, whatever I'm doing, my head will look downwards and that is when my neck got strained, and headache will soon develops as you strained it for too long. That is my problem, and my mum's too. Still, I cannot let that headache brought me down. When I finally prepared the vegetables, I can rest for a while and my mum can do the stir-frying since she insisted to do it.

That is all I can do to take care of her these 2 days, and tomorrow I have to work, but luckily is just a half-day. I hope my mum can rest and not do anything tomorrow before I come back.