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 [...]
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Mother’s day
Posted in About Life, adventure, chapters, life learnings, Motherhood, motherhood lessons, Q, socks & blessings on May 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Taking time out
Posted in GOoD things, socks & blessings on April 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For some sense of normalcy, I wish I could go for Good Friday and Easter service. Since I can’t: ALIVE! by Max Lucado ROAD. DARK. STARS. SHADOWS. FOUR. SANDALS. Robes. Quiet. Suspense. Grove. Trees. Alone. Questions. Anguish. “Father!” Sweat. God. Man. God-Man. Prostrate. Blood. “NO!” “Yes.” Angels. Comfort. Footsteps. Torches. Voices. Romans. Surprise. Swords. Kiss. [...]
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 [...]
pregnancy issues: when things around fall apart
Posted in 3rd Trimester, About Life, emo-ments, just me, pregnancy, Pregnancy issues, pregnancy lessons, socks & blessings on February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This girl likes to think that she’s got some capacity for empathy, for feeling for other people and for being able to feel at least some modicum of an emotional impact for the people about her. Death, birth, success, failure… they should all mean something even if one is simply standing at the sidelines watching [...]
footprints in the sand
Posted in GOoD things, muse & musings, music, socks & blessings on February 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Footprints in the sand used to be one of This Girl’s favourite allegorical poems: One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord. Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky.In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand. Sometimes there were two sets of footprints, other times there was [...]
pregnancy week 31: weight concerns
Posted in 3rd Trimester, friends, just me, people she loves, pregnancy, Pregnancy issues, pregnancy weekly, socks & blessings, the boy, tagged fetal growth chart, fetal weigh, maternal weight, pregnancy, pregnancy weight on February 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes this girl finds it hard to believe that the weeks have just flown by and its February already. Where did January go?! With their initiation into the last trimester, this girl now sees her OBGYN more frequently and as a result, they get to see baby more often too. Which is always nice; if [...]
Love like your life depended on it
Posted in GOoD things, life learnings, tagged believe in love, love, Quiet time, verse on January 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Friend of hers constantly finds herself being trapped in these dead end relationships. Friend’s a great girl, well travelled and well lived, lovely, respectful and a bunch of other good stuff. Sure, she comes with her own set of baggage, a relatively colorful past and a roller coaster life; but really, no less than the [...]
chosen
Posted in GOoD things on January 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Its been one of those weeks that was simultaneously exhausting, demanding, exciting and fulfilling. It was also a week that the notion of “self worth” came up a lot in discussions with family and friends. Some arbitrary “discussions,” others more personal. Then, because He always knows, He sends a reminder: I know those I have [...]
baby shopping: Stokke Sleepi Crib
Posted in 2nd Trimester, pregnancy, projects, sock stuff, stuff for baby, the boy, tagged baby purchase, baby stuff, crib, newborn, stokee sleepi crib, stokke, what to buy baby on January 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Standing at the threshold of the last trimester, This girl and The Boy realize that they are considerably behind on their Baby Stuff shopping. Most of their friends due after or about the same time as them have already made sizable headway where baby stuff shopping is concerned: car seats, pram, changing tables…etc… They originally [...]
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 [...]
Pregnancy week 26: Insomnia
Posted in 2nd Trimester, just me, Life in the Town House, life learnings, new things, pregnancy, Pregnancy issues, pregnancy weekly, tagged 2nd trimester, insomnia, pregnancy, pregnancy insomnia on December 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The good news: This Girl is feeling less like a beach whale this week. No, its not that she’s any slimmer (Ha! As though that were possible) but it comes to reckon that she’s learning to carry the extra weight a little better. She’s not put on much elsewhere, like her limbs and such, and [...]
Christmas differences: 2008 vs 2009
Posted in just me, Life in the Town House, tagged 2008 vs 2009, christmas, pregnancy, tiredness on December 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Usually, Christmas is a big deal. When This Girl was younger, Christmas eve was spent caroling- going house to house singing carols, collecting door gifts (which to a child is a big deal) and eating your heart’s out. As This Girl hit her teens, it was still caroling on the eve, with a pitstop at [...]
Pregnancy week 25: beached whale coming through
Posted in 2nd Trimester, pregnancy, pregnancy weekly, sock stuff, stuff for baby, the boy, tagged 2nd trimester, body image pregnancy, pregnancy on December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Maybe its the time in her life, but many of This Girl’s friends find themselves mothers and soon-to-be-mothers. And as she sat for coffee with a three month old mom, invariably they got to the topic of pregnancy and, for some odd reason, the body image issues that comes with the baby bump turf. Comparatively, [...]
Melbourne 2009: Coming home
Posted in just me, travel, tagged 2010, australia, melbourne on November 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ten glorious days of peace! The Company held up great without this girl; big kudos to Brunei Princess who had to step in to deal with clients and projects. The Boy managed to NOT open his lappy which he lugged along like a security blanket and only fielded like three work calls all trip choosing [...]
