Kylie Padilla reflects on running a household

After giving birth to Baby Alas, Kylie Padilla has been concentrating on her home life with fiance Aljur Abrenica and their new bundle of joy.

The Kapuso actress opened up about the reality of being a mother in an Instagram post on Sunday, as she reflected about "what being a housewife means."

 

I am experiencing motherhood at full blast nowadays. Since our house helper decided to get married this year and leave us abruptly without any notice. I thought taking care of an infant was hard enough. But to add cleaning, doing laundry and finding time for your partner is going to drive me to go insane. But I am facing this head on because I feel and know there is something to learn here. It’s a different path but one that sets new levels of understanding and appreciation. I have never felt so overwhelmed in my life. Good thing we were trained for this kind of thing when we were younger. After this I can definitely say, I know what being a housewife means. What the sacrifice is, what it means to have self control and patience when you feel like everything might fall into complete chaos if you lose it. And you can’t because whatever your mood is everyone else’s mood follows. And it’s a difficult reality I have to deal with. Controlling my emotions was always difficult but now you, uhem. I have no choice. Because it’s not just about me anymore, it’s about every member of the family. Your decisions affect the family as a whole. At the end of each and everyday you appreciate people who are willing to help more, you appreciate the people in the past who give their lives in order to take care of you just the same. Motherhood is just an on going array of life lessons. But... the thing is. I miss working and creating and it’s something I cannot leave behind. I don’t think I could leave it forever. I will then, in fact go nuts. But for now, I have to be content with seeing the haggardness and busyness of all this. And accepting the fact that now there is no me. There is a family. Xoxo mommy Kylie. P.S. Ramdam ko na. Nanay na talaga ako.

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Jan 7, 2018 at 4:44am PST

"I am experiencing motherhood at full blast nowadays. Since our house helper decided to get married this year and leave us abruptly without any notice. I thought taking care of an infant was hard enough. But to add cleaning, doing laundry and finding time for your partner is going to drive me to go insane," she wrote.

"But I am facing this head on because I feel and know there is something to learn here. It’s a different path but one that sets new levels of understanding and appreciation. I have never felt so overwhelmed in my life. Good thing we were trained for this kind of thing when we were younger. After this I can definitely say, I know what being a housewife means," she added.

However, Kylie admitted that she has not yet closed her doors on her craft.

"thing is. I miss working and creating and it’s something I cannot leave behind. I don’t think I could leave it forever. I will then, in fact go nuts. But for now, I have to be content with seeing the haggardness and busyness of all this. And accepting the fact that now there is no me. There is a family," she said.

For a parting shot, she added: "P.S. Ramdam ko na. Nanay na talaga ako." —JST, GMA News