I’m on maternity leave. And it’s on days when I aspire to do more than one major thing aside from taking care of my newborn that I find myself mentally and physically on the edge.
2021: Zaiah Ethan
It’s 1:48 a.m., December 23, 2021. I woke up to a burst of worry if our newborn was okay because his last feeding was at 10:00 p.m. It felt like I slept the whole day only having roughly three hours of continuous sleep this round (we started with 30 minutes to 1 hour of sleep…
Embrace Your Pace
Over the past year, I’ve spoken to people sharing similar experiences—dragging themselves through their work, day, or week. When I tell them that I also feel that sometimes (more frequently the past months) and that other people go through that too, it helps them to know that they’re actually “normal.” Yes, even when you know…
Climbing an Intensive Week
What was the highest or lowest point of your week? How did this affect you and what learning can you get out of it? This is my first journal prompt from a list of four to help me get back into writing. Ang hirap pala ng first prompt ko. 😅 Hmm I don’t think I had…
Our Little Fam Shop is now on Shopee!
Hello, fam! We finally got to work on our Shopee store! Do check us out: shopee.ph/ourlittlefamshop Our Little Fam Shop is our little corner in the web where we sell stuff we create, curate, or preloved (preloved will be marked as such outright). To know more about the brands we carry, click here.
Journal Prompts
Hello, world! Finished my coffee and I still don’t know where to start here! I’ve been looking for prompts to help me get started here again, but those I’ve come across with were either too self-centered or too deep in bible study. I was meaning to find something in between so that it’s simple and…
A 15-Week Long Miscarriage
Apparently, it could happen that long. I Googled and most of other moms’ miscarriages lasted around 2-3 weeks. They talked about heavy bleeding, which I didn’t have. And then meds used in the US is different from what we have here in the Philippines. So, I’m writing this hoping whoever needs help stumbles upon this…
2020: A Decade in a Year
2020. This year hit us. Like many of you, we were affected financially, had the busiest times in our respective jobs, needed a lot of sanity checks, had family member get COVID-19, and we also experienced another loss in a 15-week long miscarriage. #whata2020, said a friend. It’s like we experienced a decade’s worth of…
Part 2 of 2: Journey to Moving Forward by Jia Enrile
In part 1, I introduced to you my friend, Jia, who wrote for us here on the blog. I’ve been wanting to feature people who, just like all of us, did not have any kind of preparation for experiencing words so foreign to us—quarantine, lockdown, pandemic—faced challenges in multiple aspects of life, yet somehow, have…
Part 1 of 2: Journey to Moving Forward by Jia Enrile
It’s been a while since I had guest bloggers and so I couldn’t be more giddy to share this platform with this woman who I’ve shared life with from her fresh grad days to these pandemic months! Just like you (and me), she went through a lot this year. Her year started with an out-of-country…