mommy thoughts

Feeling the heartbreak of moms working abroad

March 10, 2013

I woke up screaming and crying at 3 am today, my hands frantically feeling the wide bed for my son. It’s still dark and I wasn’t able to see anything at all. A wave of panic came to me when I can’t feel where Ben was. What if it wasn’t a dream? Apparently, the little [...]

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Why I love being a mom

February 10, 2013

This meme was originally published in 2009 when I only had one child (Pristine). Now, that I am blessed to be a mom again, I feel the need to repost this with a few tweaks. I love how I felt after writing this post. Whenever I take my daughter for the first time to restaurants [...]

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Easy peasy Origami Advent Calendar

December 5, 2012

Yes, I am not done with blabbing about the Advent Calendar project (I made two – one is the Christmas cone Advent Calendar) but I promise this is the last. We have a lot of origami papers at home so I thought I’d make little origami pockets and insert small cards with scriptures from the [...]

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Advent Calendar Project 2012

December 1, 2012

Knowing myself, I can’t believe I did this. Don’t raise your eyebrows, it is nothing grand but such a feat for someone like me. I pat my own back for this. If we are friends and you know me and my clumsy, non-crafty ways, have known me through ooops moments like cutting my own school [...]

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It’s my birthday today

November 22, 2012

Original post below on the morning of my birthday, before I encountered server issues that did not allow me to post at all, and temporarily, wiped off my blog from the internet. My husband got off from work early so we can have dinner out, with the kids (yes, including the baby). I even got [...]

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The momshell phenomena: Can ordinary moms get a break?

October 27, 2012

There’s a new breed of moms strutting around town. Just weeks after giving birth, women dubbed “mom-shells,” a hybrid of moms and bombshells, are flaunting their post-baby bodies with skinny jeans and six-inch heels — an image perpetuated by Hollywood. I’m tired of looking at headlines that read how this so and so celebrity mom lost [...]

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