tina fey makes me laugh AND cry

My mother did this for me once. (sniff)

A Mother's Prayer for Its Child by Tina Fey


First, Lord: No tattoos. May neither Chinese symbol for truth nor Winnie-the-Pooh holding the FSU logo stain her tender haunches.


May she be Beautiful but not Damaged, for it’s the Damage that draws the creepy soccer coach’s eye, not the Beauty.


When the Crystal Meth is offered,
May she remember the parents who cut her grapes in half
And stick with Beer.

Guide her, protect her
When crossing the street, stepping onto boats, swimming in the ocean, swimming in pools, walking near pools, standing on the nearby subway platform, crossing 86th Street, stepping off of boats, using mall restrooms, getting on and off escalators, driving on country roads while arguing, leaning on large windows, walking in parking lots, riding Ferris wheels, roller-coasters, log flumes, or anything called “Hell Drop,” “Tower of Torture,” or “The Death Spiral Rock N’ Zero G Roll featuring Aerosmith,” and standing on any kind of balcony ever, anywhere, at any age.


Lead her away from Acting but not all the way to Finance.
Something where she can make her own hours but still feel intellectually fulfilled and get outside sometimes
And not have to wear high heels.
What would that be, Lord? Architecture? Midwifery? Golf course design? I’m asking You because if I knew, I’d be doing it, Youdammit.


May she play the Drums to the fiery rhythm of her Own Heart with the sinewy strength of her Own Arms, so she need Not Lie With Drummers.


Grant her a Rough Patch from twelve to seventeen.


Let her draw horses and be interested in Barbies for much too long,
For Childhood is short -- a Tiger Flower blooming
Magenta for one day --
And Adulthood is long and Dry-Humping in Cars will wait.


O Lord, break the Internet forever,
That she may be spared the misspelled invective of her peers
And the online marketing campaign for Rape Hostel V: Girls Just Wanna Get Stabbed.


And when she one day turns on me and calls me a Bitch in front of Hollister,
Give me the strength, Lord, to yank her directly into a cab in front of her friends,
For I will not have that Shit. I will not have it.


And should she choose to be a Mother one day, be my eyes, Lord,
That I may see her, lying on a blanket on the floor at 4:50 a.m., all-at-once exhausted, bored, and in love with the little creature whose poop is leaking up its back.
“My mother did this for me once,” she will realize as she cleans feces off her baby’s neck.
“My mother did this for me.” And the delayed gratitude will wash over her as it does each generation and she will make a Mental note to call me. And she will forget.


But I’ll know, because I peeped it with Your God eyes.


Amen.

dream nursery

this is soooo pretty.



can you guess whose twins' nursery this is? check it out here.

baked mac

after getting me an oven, i promised k i'd prepare something special every weekend (ngayong lang ginanahan ulit after getting the oven haha!). he said 'we should have bought it a long time ago!" :)

last weekend, i worked on a baked macaroni recipe i found in connie veneracion's blog (which i visit everyday).

it was very good. :)





this holy week, we are not going anywhere so i am also stocking up on some recipes to try and will share them soon.

a tagaytay escape

we finally drove up to tagaytay to give baby kr some fresh air.

of course, we can't resist leslie's bulalo.



i've been craving for vietnamese food lately (i eat the same cha gio with fresh noodles twice a week at the cafeteria!) so off we went to bawai's for dinner.









i also gave in to their iced vietnamese coffee (bawal daw coffee for preggy but this was the only one i had in almost 5 months! sorry, baby!) at pati yung kay k ay iniinom ko while he was not looking haha!



dessert was an apple crumble at cafe breton.





the next day, breakfast was at the mijo hotel and lunch at buon giorno.








i don't know how many pounds i have gained since our last ob check up but am sure i did gain some haha! bawal kaya magdiet ang buntis, at laging gutom.

here is me + baby kr at 4.5 months. i was having a mochiko red bean mochi with ice cream. yum! :)

a getaway weekend

k invited me and baby kr to a much-needed break from the city life.



happy weekend! :)

@ 19 weeks

honestly, i am not sure how far along i am. i'm just basing it on what our OB tells us heehee and based on our last check up, baby kr should be 19 weeks old now. :)




from baby center:

You're halfway there! The top of your uterus now reaches your belly button and will grow about a centimeter per week. The fetus measures around 6 inches/ 15 centimeters long from crown to rump and weighs about 9 ounces/ 240 grams.

She has started to swallow amniotic fluid, and her kidneys continue to make urine. Hair on the scalp is sprouting.

Sensory development reaches its peak this week. The nerve cells serving each of the senses - taste, smell, hearing, seeing, and touch - are now developing in their specialized areas of the brain. Nerve cell production slows down as existing nerve cells grow larger and make more complex connections. If you're carrying a baby girl, she already has roughly six million eggs in her ovaries. By the time she's born, she'll have about one million.

You may have felt the kicking and somersaulting of your growing baby. At times, you might find that she is so mobile that you can't sleep. The next ten weeks or so will be your baby's busiest and most active time, until the womb gets too crowded.

we hope to know the baby's gender by next week. stay tuned! :)

baking 101

we now have an oven. yey! :) been wanting to have one ever since but there was not space in the condo; and we have to get rid of the stove top burner. too much hassle for me hehe but when our help BURNED the stove top burner one day, k suggested he gets me an oven instead. i was giddy with excitement while we (i) were (was) choosing which unit to get. eventually, we (i) settled on an elba free standing gas oven.

and last weekend, i was able to make a great batch of choco chip cookies (recipe here), a moist banana cake (no photo), and baked fish with thyme and roasted potatoes on the side.








i love it! :)