I wish for a day like this

I read Ito Kohmi's article.
So, I thought about my ideal day.

Wake up between 5:30 and 6:00 AM.
My husband should be fast asleep, so I slip out of the bedroom so as not to wake him.
Since the Corobo has finished cleaning, the first floor is spotless. The second floor is set to start after I wake up.

I stop the dishwasher that finished washing in the middle of the night and put away the dry dishes.
I go for a morning walk or check the garden, maybe harvest some vegetables from our home garden.
When I get back home, I brew coffee or tea. Which one I choose depends on my mood that day.
A barista machine is nice, but grinding beans and doing a pour-over is also great.

I open note on my smartphone or iPad and check posts from people I follow.
It's a lucky day if I can write my own article here.

When my husband wakes up, we have breakfast.
In our house, breakfast is basically bread-based.
Salad, sausage, eggs, yogurt, fruit, and coffee.
This has been our menu ever since we got married. I'll probably stick with this until the end.

For salad, I use whatever is cheap in season. In summer, lettuce; in winter, steamed shredded cabbage, or salads made with Chinese cabbage or daikon radish.

It's convenient to make 'sugomori' cabbage, where you drop an egg onto shredded cabbage and steam them together in a frying pan.
Since I have high cholesterol, I try not to eat eggs every day, so I add cheese or salad chicken instead.

There are various fruits in season, too. We get them as gifts or buy them at farm stands. Shinshu is rich in fruit, and I'm happy for that.

We basically buy bread at the supermarket, but sometimes baking it in the bread machine makes for a happy morning. There are also times when we buy some nice bread.

It would be nice to go out for a morning breakfast set somewhere once in a while.

After eating, I do the dishes.
I pre-rinse the dishes that can go in the dishwasher and put them in. I wash the hand-wash items with a sponge, wipe them dry, and put them in the cupboard.
When my husband wakes up, he goes to hang out the laundry that he started when he got up.

We say 'thank you' to each other, and then we each have some free time for a while.
My husband either sits in front of the computer and turns it on, or flops onto the sofa to watch YouTube on his iPad.
The TV is off.
I open note on my smartphone again to write today's post.

For lunch, I might eat or not, depending on how hungry I am. If I'm in the mood to cook, I might make something.
It's a chance to eat junk food like instant ramen or cup noodles.
If anything, I'd be happy if my husband learned to cook and took charge of lunch. Making three meals a day is tough and busy, isn't it?
Shall we go to McDonald's?

In the afternoon, I do some gardening, practice letter writing, or read.
If it's rose care season, gardening is the only choice.
As I declared some time ago, if my husband learns how to care for the roses and we split the work, it should be easier.
Taking care of the home garden is also an option.

If I'm not doing gardening, we go for a walk together in the evening.

When we get back, my husband takes a bath (the tub is already cleaned by the time the laundry is done).
I make dinner, and we eat.
The main dish is a rotation of pork, chicken, and fish.
We have a hearty miso soup full of vegetables and two or three small side dishes. Basically, no white rice.

I clean up just like after breakfast, wipe down the kitchen with sesquicarbonate water, and disinfect the dishcloths and hand towels used throughout the day with boiling water and oxygen bleach.

After taking a bath and drying my hair, I drink tea while writing in my five-year diary and checking note.

Between 9:30 and 10:00 PM, it's time to say goodnight.

My husband will retire and be home in a few years, so I wrote about my ideal day around that time, mixing my current situation with my hopes.

My ideal is to spend time together while still being free to do what we each want to do.
We will share the housework. Or rather, my husband already does a lot of things, and I am almost only in charge of the kitchen, so it is an unfair situation.

Waking up between 5:30 and 6:00 is truly my ideal.
It is an ideal precisely because I am more of a night owl and find it hard to wake up.
When I wake up early in the morning, the day feels long and I feel a sense of ease.

Perhaps my greatest ideal is to live a healthy day with a peaceful mind by going to bed early and waking up early.

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