So, I turned 30 a few days ago. Yep, the big 30. There’s a new digit in front of my age and while it makes little impact as to how I see myself and stuff, it feels a little weird to say I’m thirty. THIRTY. Thirty. W tells me that I should be glad to [...]
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turning 30
Posted in About Life, chapters on August 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
4 months: Where did the little baby go?!
Posted in About Life, chapters, Motherhood, Q on July 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
While there have been moments where time seemed to have simply DRAGGGGEEEDDD itself out, most days pretty much fly by for me. Mainly cos Q keeps be occupied and busy with his antics and since he’s gotten older (as compared to a newborn) he’s awake more and needs to be entertained more. It’s partly my [...]
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- [...]
time to breathe
Posted in About Life, chapters, life learnings, Motherhood, motherhood lessons, Q on June 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I love my son, don’t get me wrong. But when he goes to sleep for the day- which means an extended time of him sleeping and me having time to do ME and US stuff with the husband- I come (semi) alive. Q is far from a difficult child to care for. He never cries [...]
signed our life way
Posted in About Life, chapters on June 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
So, we bought ourselves a house. And in the process we signed our lives away…. Heh.
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, [...]
Lessons on parenting: Words & Actions
Posted in About Life, chapters, life learnings, Motherhood, motherhood lessons, new things, Q on April 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
From before I popped till now, God’s been really good, providing me with lessons, comfort, encouragement in the most obvious and least likely of places. It is often in the form of my quiet time verse of the day (the obvious), an email (less obvious, but still as timely) or in the form of a [...]
Baby Q: Week 3- Turning the first corner
Posted in About Life, chapters, emo-ments, life learnings, life rules, Motherhood, new things, Q on April 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Q is a lovely lovely child to have. He never fusses unnecessarily, when he cries, its always for good reason (diaper dirty, hungry, in pain or desiring som TLC) and for a small lil thing he makes a real effort when its nursing time- makes the soreness and rawness worthwhile. As we entered the third [...]
Baby Q: Week 2- Dealing with the blues
Posted in About Life, chapters, emo-ments, GOoD things, just me, life learnings, new things, Q, socks & blessings on March 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Truth is, I don’t know where the last two weeks have gone to. The hospital stay rolled into coming home; us both thrust into this new world of Babydom called Parenthood. Even as I type this, I am wrecked with exhaustion from the insane schedule all newborns keep and the physical toll of breastfeeding on [...]
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 [...]
old friends, new journey
Posted in chapters, friends, tagged friendship on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This girl had the chance to catch up with an old secondary school classmate over (protracted) coffee the other day. Junie was one of this girl’s closest friends back then and they used to take the bus home together all the time, and of course, all the little, em, pit stops en route. They fell [...]
Pregnancy week 1-13: The first third
Posted in 1st Trimester, 2nd Trimester, chapters, Life in the Town House, pregnancy, pregnancy weekly, the boy, tagged first trimester, pregnancy on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This girl is now in her second trimester where, thankfully, she’s feeling much better these days. The first three months passed in a blur of morning sickness and the accompanying general body malaise- aches, tightness, lethargy… While in the midst of her company’s peak period, she was racked with bouts of sheer exhaustion (the body’s [...]
