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The hands of a wife and a mother

My mom looks 10 years younger if you just look at her in a glance. She moves fast all the time when she's in the kitchen. She likes to do things impulsively and wants it to be done asap. Well, I have the "do it asap" thing in my gene thread for sure. For example, suddenly I have this feeling that I need a haircut. I can't contain myself to go to the barber the next day. I really want it to be done by that night eventhough the fact was that I decided to get a haircut at 12 midnight. The next day I woke up?? "Oh..I think my haircut still looks nice". Whenever we have a plan to travel be it going to my uncle's house, visiting my brother or having a picnic, Mom would start getting busy. Like " has the laundry done?!! ", " what are we gonna prepare for tomorrow?? Are we going to cook or what? ", " Fold all the clothes, what are you waiting for?!! ", " abang, let's go to the market to buy the instant ketupat and some ch...