Being a mom, former beauty queen Lara Quigaman resorts to multitasking while looking after her three children with actor Marco Alcaraz.
Quigaman shared an amusing story about preparing to drink her coffee only to be halted by attending to her kids’ needs, as per her Instagram post yesterday, Jan. 12.
“Let me tell you a story before I forget about it,” the 2005 Miss International winner began.
“This morning, I switched on the kettle and while I waited, I picked up toys, shoes, cleaned up little and as I went back to the kitchen, I saw the kettle and I remembered I was supposed to make myself a cup of cofeee.”
Quigaman went back to making her coffee, but then her third child, Moses, cried. She and Alcaraz welcomed baby Moses last September.
“I fed him, changed him and put him back to sleep. Then I collected Tobias’ used bottles and brought them back to the sink to wash them,” she recalled.
Then, she saw her cup and kettle again.
“I had forgotten again. So I switched the kettle on again and this time I waited for the water to boil, poured it in my cup and sat down to enjoy it,” she narrated.
And just when she was about to have a sip, her toddler Tobias called.
“So I set my coffee aside and attended to Tobias, washed him and changed him.”
As her eldest child Noah and Tobias played together, Quigaman went through what else had to be done.
“I thought of about a thousand things that needed to be done and I also remembered my cup of coffee that is now lukewarm and can’t drink anymore,” she said.
“The point of my story is…I can’t even remember,” she mused.
“I just thought, I don’t ever want to forget that I forgot to drink my coffee several times today and just to remind myself that I love my kids but it’s also okay to want a few moments for myself.”
“Relate much,” commented one Instagram mom @lalotcharm22. “I’m a mum of two, 3 & 4 years old now. A hot coffee is always [waving] for me to drink.”
“We [heart] you Super Mom!” wrote Quigaman’s husband. NVG
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