Feel like a woman today…

I just sent two men off to work. Doesn’t that sound cool? Lol. My dad and my brother had work today in Dubai, so they dressed up in their formal suits and ties, and I wore a plain black kameez with a plain white salwaar- traditional Indian clothes, you could say black shirt white pants – and so we all looked like we were in some kinda dress code. Colour code actually. So the two men cooked lunch and taught me how to make black masoor dal, and rice, and I washed dishes and learnt from them.

It was the cutest thing ever, to watch two men in formal suits cooking lunch. Making dal and rice turns out is pretty simple to make. Just soak it in water for a while, then put it in a cooker with clean water and salt and garam masala and dhania and whatever else u wanna put in, if anything; let it cook for about half an hour and it’s done. Yay!

Anyway while lunch was cooking, I was in the kitchen doing the dishes. Dad and Bhaiyya were sitting in the drawing room discussing their work. I felt really happy in the kitchen. At home I guess I take mum for granted cos she does the kitchen work, but here I felt like a real woman. Not to say that women only do kitchen work. Before the feminists eat me up. It was just a really cool feeling to be a woman doing kitchen work while two men sat outside and discussed office work. I felt all grown up, I tell you.

When lunch was ready I set the table and helped the guys serve the rice and dal and yogurt and water. It was a very yummy meal. They had to leave after lunch, so I saw them off and cleared the table and put the leftovers in smaller bowls for the fridge, and the used dishes in the sink. I can’t tell you how excited I am about all this okay I really feel grown up lol. I’ve seen mum do all this so many times but I’ve always been the little kid, part of the “being served” end. And today I was totally at the “serving” end. I LOVED it!!

After Dad and Bhaiyya left I had two thoughts.

1- Being alone in the kitchen doing kitchen work by myself made me feel really close to God. I felt like I was doing something useful and talking to God while doing it, it felt GREAT. I could get used to this.

2- I can’t wait to get married. I wanna be a stay-at-home wife/mom. I don’t mind working in fact I want to work but my work hours will have to leave me good time for my housework, best if I’m working at home. I’m excited… there’s so much good stuff about housework!! Vacuuming, doing dishes, learning to cook… Prayer…!

Even this morning I was playing with my toy camel and asking Bhaiyya to play with me with my toys, and asking him to tell me a story (he told me a story about a king and a queen who got bitten by a mosquito and then they got sick and died… lol) and I didn’t wanna be called a woman. I liked being a girl. Always up until now I have only ever wanted to be called a girl, I didn’t wanna be a woman. Right now I really feel like a woman.

(But I don’t wanna grow up too much… this much is fine for now. hehe)