To say that Q is an active boy is an understatement. Each day is a battle to entertain him such that when night comes, its not a battle to burn off the unspent energy so that he’d sleep. Yes, people tell me that he takes after me in the energy hyper-bunny department. And yes, I [...]
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Q: the energizer bunny
Posted in About Life, adventure, Q on September 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
crazy busy: moving non stop
Posted in About Life, adventure, Life in the Town House, Motherhood, motherhood lessons on August 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
W and I decided when we were pregnant with Q that we’d learn to take things easy; pace ourselves and not take on more than we can manage. We decided that we needed to carve out hard landscapes- days, portions of days and time slots of rest that were carved in stone. Needless to say, [...]
getting crafty
Posted in About Life, adventure, chapters on June 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
So, I’ve decided to start myself an online craft store. I am so excited.
Three months, Father’s day and everything in between
Posted in About Life, adventure, chapters, life learnings, life rules, Motherhood, motherhood lessons, people she loves, Q, the boy on June 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The last month passed in a blur. Truly. At 6.5kg and 65cm tall, Q has now learnt to sit on his own in his bumbo seat, has discovered his fingers which are more often than not being sucked on by him, has learnt to grab stuff and has discovered his voice. We can have conversations- [...]
Mother’s day
Posted in About Life, adventure, chapters, life learnings, Motherhood, motherhood lessons, Q, socks & blessings on May 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
So, this would be my first mother’s day. My family never bought into the hype of Mother’s Day. Mom would “expect” flowers on her birthday (carnations, thank you very much) and on her anniversary ( we always had to order on dad’s behalf cos he tended to forget). But she’d never really fancy flowers on [...]
Baby Q: The first month
Posted in About Life, adventure, chapters, emo-ments, Life in the Town House, life learnings, Motherhood, motherhood lessons, muse & musings, new things, Q on April 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The first four weeks passed in a blur, if I was going to be truly honest with myself. Days were broken up into feeding blocks: nursing for about an hour, interact with the baby then put the baby to sleep, eat and shower to feel human, catch a fifteen minute breather (if possible) then wash, [...]
Baby Q: Its a boy!
Posted in About Life, adventure, chapters, emo-ments, GOoD things, just me, life learnings, new things, pregnancy, Q, socks & blessings, tagged baby, birth story, parenthood, pregnancy on March 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
At their last OBGYN visit they learnt that they could be due ANYTIME despite being only a lil over 36 weeks. They blitz as much as they could- meetings, assignments, made work and personal arrangements for this-that-the other and basically maxed out the days. Most days, they would crash out a lil over midnight, each [...]
The year 2009: Looking back and counting blessings
Posted in About Life, adventure, chapters, family, friends, Life in the Town House, people she loves, pregnancy, socks & blessings, the boy, tagged 2009, facebook, life according to facebook, status for the year, year in review on December 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The year has ended and Facebook offered a quaint little application that allowed you to collate your status updates for the past year. Which is exactly what This Girl did. Its a relatively accurate overview of the year that This Girl had. She got married. Became part of a new family. Family gained a new [...]
christian the lion
Posted in adventure, friends, life learnings, tagged christian the lion, friends, friendship, oprah on August 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bonds are a funny thing- it transcends time, space all of the other good stuff. Kinda like how when we find a new old friend on facebook- its a mildly surreal feeling, in particular when said person is from a life past. This girl saw this on TV the other day, the story of Christian [...]
sometimes its a little easier
Posted in adventure, chapters, emo-ments, GOoD things, Life in the Town House, the boy on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A friend recovering from cancer led this girl to re-read this charge in 1 Peter 3:1-7 on wives and husbands: 1Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, 2when [...]
on a countdown
Posted in adventure on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This girl is on a two week (thereabout) Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince countdown! Yay! She cannot wait!
things you learn about life from babies
Posted in adventure, friends, GOoD things, life learnings, new things, tagged friends, kids, life learnings on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One supposes that this girl is at the age where her friends are mostly getting engaged, married or having kids. The engagements and weddings are mainly happy, frantic affairs; busy and anxious but rarely overly dramatic. Where kids are concerned, it has been nothing short of heart stopping, breath taking and dramatic; and she’s had [...]
hell hath no fury, Pt II
Posted in adventure, causes, funnies on May 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This girl and The Boy spent the day at home battling insipid contractors and entertained themselves at the myriad reports following the AWARE EGM that they attended. And here are a few moments and reports that stood out: 1. The “Shut up and Sit down” moment (Video here) Near the start of the meeting as [...]
hell truly hath no fury
Posted in adventure, causes, friends, just me, life learnings, life rules, new things, politics, projects, the boy, tagged aware saga, causes on May 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This girl (and The Boy) spent last Saturday attending the extraordinary AWARE meeting with some two thousand other women and men. As most from the island nation will know, the saga has been brewing for over a month (you can read about it here) and things finally came to a head in a requisitioned EGM [...]
work schedule
Posted in adventure, just me, new things, projects, the sock shop on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This girl has resolved that she’d do her best to be more tech savvy this year. She’s got herself a new ipod touch, a new lappy (ok, last year’s buy) and the new mac Mobile Me which gives her a virtual desktop anywhere she goes. She’s got online calendars which help her stop double booking [...]
