Time. It zoomed by.

What? It's 2018!

My newborns are talking, climbing, running, making jokes etc. now. They'll be turning two in two months. Seriously, I so did not see this coming so soon. They've been joyful souls bringing smiles and laughter wherever they go. What wonderful children they are and me, I'm extremely blessed to be their mother who gets to spend all the time in the world with them. We've done so many things together and we've also just laze around together laughing and playing and talking. I could go on and on and on about them but in short, they're real bloomers - hitting milestones way beyond their timing (at their own pace) and making proud parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts out of us all. We also have an addition to the family - my brother's got a son so I'm also an aunt to a very beautiful nephew. My bro-in-law got hitched as well so I've also gained a new sister. Life's been awesome and we cannot thank God enough.

Of course there's the unsaid too but to those, we pray about it and leave it to faith. For one thing that having Em & M in my life has taught me is that God has great plans for us all and His plan is not to hurt us - I learnt that from heartbreaks to heartbreaks to heartbreaks and suddenly the sun just started shining and everything just sparkled with happiness and joy.

There's just so much I want to tell the world. So much goodness to share in hopes it brings joy to others too. But now, I've got to get back to work - oh yes, I work. As the Boss Lady at Giggles & Drool. It's been going well but there's a need for me to inject my dandy hands into the things I sell so loads of work and lots of excitement. I foresee less sleep and Netflix for me but that's all good! 'cause I've definitely slept so much more as a mother than before I was one - ironic isn't it? As I've said, great kids and blessed me.

God bless, Good night.

Hello babies!

Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in our hearts
- Winnie the Pooh -

What was meant to be a simple pre-surgery check up and ultrasound to check if the babies are cephalic turned into an emergency c-sect. It was just two days shy of the planned c-sect.

15 March 2016, 4pm was the arrival of Emma and at 4.01pm, Mila. Weighing 2.6kg and 2.4kg respectively, they were a marvelous sight.

I expected to see wrinkly babies at the operation theatre but they were well formed chubby little bundles of joy.

Tomorrow they'll be one month old and I'll blog more when I can.

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Persistence in Prayer & Preparing to Receive our Blessings

Something happens when we pray,

Take our place and therein stay,

Wrestle on till break of day;

Ever let us pray.

-Anon-

My devotional content this morning made me want to give myself a huge hug and a great pat on my back. The reading on bold persistence in praying for God to reverse what medically cannot got me through a very dark period of difficulty and healed not just my heart, my mind but also put me at peace and full trust that God heals.

In about three weeks, we'll be welcoming our baby twin princesses! Every check up has been a joy and a breeze and I'm truly grateful for the team of medical practitioners at KKH who have been with us every step from the countless visits to the A&E in the beginning of the pregnancy, to sharing in the joy with us and coo-ing to our babies to ask them to co-operate with them during sonographs etc. as the twins are really cutely active.

I will miss feeling them playing and dancing in my belly when they're out but I know that they'll bring everyone so much joy and happiness and I'm thankful for the months that I could selfishly have them exclusively to myself.

I continue to pray and ask God for their health and to make them whole - to be with them and guide them in their everyday lives and use them to do his work. Also for Paul and I to be good role models and parents to them. It's so exciting just thinking about having them in my arms and spending time with them. We're already so in love with these two sweeties and can't wait to share the beauty of the world and adventures with them I just pray that they know that they're greatly blessed and loved and learn to be thankful and humble.

The date's been set... 17 March 2016!

Thanks but no thanks...

From sleeping to eating to weaning, everyone had an opinion.... so obviously, everyone had an opinion about names when we shared them (which is fine by me since we only told immediate family & close friends) but there are people that are really insistant to know and thinking we don't have any would tell us to name our babies after who and who and not give names of who and who because they think that person's acting sucks... *smacks forehead*

Beside names, the other shit opinions are on what I should spend my money on, what choice i should make in delivering my babies, if i should take epidural (most of the time ppl tell me not to even though they did or will take it but because they think i have high pain tolerance so its better for the babies if i can put up with the pain which they would have done too but they just cannot take the pain -_-), if i should hire help, if my husband and i are going to go to war with each other and what kind of an idiot he would be, where our babies should sleep, what prams we should get, if we're ever going to sleep and yes, talks about my boobs and feeding choices...

These choices are kind of personal and I would think that the choices we make are exclusively ours, as it is with the experiences we will have and share with our babies. I would very much like that these will exclusively be our memories to be made. I don't want to sound ungrateful but yea, we really do appreciate and love listening to stories of your experiences and moments with your lil' one, the parenting styles you adopt to bring up your darling and the cute little things that they do to make your day and I'm sure you want us to experience them too but we're hoping to bring up ours as individuals with their own personalities and quirks and not a copy of another child.

There's something...

Actually, there's two... Paul and I are expecting twins!

Their  Estimated Delivery Date (EDD)'s 1st April 2016.

I'm in my 26th week of my pregnancy and we're all doing very very well. My family and I are continuously abundantly blessed and I constantly give thanks to our Maker for his loving goodness. It is also Christmas Eve today and tomorrow is a significant day where we celebrate the birth of Christ and thank God for sending his beloved son Jesus to save us all of our sins.

More in my next post.

Blessed Christmas to all!

I'm excited to be ME again

When I get to the office, take a seat at my workspace and wait for my laptop to start up, I'll be greeted by a reminder to "Follow your passion and write a new chapter in a great creative adventure." I never did. Things around me got too familiar along the way and somehow the passion in me died. When I tried igniting it, I realised I'm no longer inspired.

Today, I'm embarking on an exciting new journey and for once in a long long long long long long long time, I finally feel like myself again. I'm saying goodbye to a life where I felt like a zombie trapped in a bubble. I'm me again and I can't wait to be able to create, be filled with ideas, share them beautifully, be inspired and inspire. 

Ah... what an exciting time it's going to be! 

After a long hiatus...

It's 20 Aug 2015. 

Since I last blogged, there's been countless experiences that bobbed and popped. More good than bad or rather the optimist in me never really could remember the bad - so let's leave it as there's more good than bad. Prayers been answered in mysterious ways - sometimes in weird ways, but the blessings been overflowing. 

Paul and I pretty much got the swing of enjoying our home and keeping it clean and homely. I never liked ironing clothes simply cause it takes up so much time but can't really blame the chore when we pile it up for about three to four weeks sometimes. However, it becomes therapeutic when I've got a show to watch while ironing. Still would very much like clothes that irons itself... 

We're gearing up for a new journey now. Will write about it... soonish.