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When my employer and I met the for the first time, that was after we both agreed to meet so that we can talk and get to know each other a little, she had mentioned about planning as part of a caregiver / nanny job.

Although I know already that house cleaning and some household chores are part of the job, I was unsure about planning. I know I am going to follow order, but planning? Of course I know it is house matters, so I have to leave that to the couple I am going to be employed with.

After three days of trial, she decided to get me full time and be a “part of the family”. During the working hours, she has to ask me about grocery lists and some stuff that we need for the house necessities.

Stuff for cooking obviously, is one of them. That, now I know is planning. Planning a grocery list and planning what to cook at least for a week. That also made me worries because we have a different kind of cuisine. We Filipinos, can eat their food, but them to eat ours? I doubt it.

However, they amazed me when they like my sea food fried rice, pancit (fried noodles to them), sotanghon (noodle soup) – and I tell you, they share the news to their friends that I can cook a delicious sotanghon. I even cooked chicken tocino, menudo, mechado – which they called beef stew, chopsuey and different kinds of shanghai rolls. I don’t know if they love those but at least they eat it. Or they don’t have a choice?

Needless to say, I get to learn some of their dishes too, and I am glad that my employer also told me that I can learn some recipes too (she has a lot of recipes in the kitchen), and even search some recipes from the Internet for me.

Planning for supper which is Canada’s big meal for the day is definitely a task for me. Since I am not really a good cook, I need a recipe book for a help. But I am not a recipe book reader; I’d rather leaf through my fiction/non-fiction books than a digest full of cooking elements. Yet, I can browse through the net for recipes.

I am glad that there’s a lot of blogs that caters into this topic and I am so happy that I saw the DayRecipe to which they update their blog daily with their favourite recipes that I can try cooking.

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This is another weekly meme and I can’t ignore Ivan’s invitation, she’s one blogger that always remember my blog even I don’t visit hers regularly. Aside from that, I find She says, He says interesting to make.

According to Ivan:

The idea is that any of these: a question, fill in the blank, multiple choices, photo or a writing prompt will be posted here. Express your thoughts in your blog and feel free to leave a link to your blog with your answers when you’re done. Anyone can hop in and join the fun every Tuesday! =)

Today’s activity is a question.

What is your regular day like?

I am a Live-In Caregiver, and I find my day as stay at home wife and a mother usually does; only I am employed to do that. And only I submit to the wife and most importantly, the the youngest daughter. I am glad that both my employers don’t treat me differently though.

I start my day in the kitchen, second to the washrooms; I believe the kitchen should be always clean. Every time the kids mess up, I see the needs to tidy up the place again. I do the laundry and cooking also. I clean the whole house if the kids are in school, and I play and watch TV with the youngest, whenever she’s at home, that’s cool eh? If I don’t play and watch TV or movies with her, I’m in total trouble. I don’t want that to happen.

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