Wifely Steps

A typical morning would be this: Wake up to feed the baby. Go back to sleep. Wake up to pesky alarm. Hit snooze. Hit snooze. Hit snooze. Wake up in a panic. Take a quick shower. Feed the baby. Zoom to work. Have unhealthy breakfast from fastfood. It’s tiring. Yeah sure I get an extra [...]

Got the Monday blues again? We can’t have that. I hope at least one of these messages cheers you up! Let me know which one made you smile the most. Is it: a.) Thou Shalt Not Use Poetry (via) b.) It Is In All of Us (via) c.) Be a Good One (via) d.) Hugs [...]

“Mukha ka nang Toni ulit (You look like Toni again),” a friend of mine told me two months after I gave birth. I asked myself if I really did look that terrible easing into Mommyhood. Ouch. Then again, he was right. I didn’t really look like myself. Heck, I didn’t feel like myself. I was [...]

Bibingka is one of my favorite Filipino treats, but I don’t eat it everyday. It’s usually prepared in a size good enough for at least two people to eat. Since H isn’t big on bibingka, I hardly get to eat it. True, I could bring the uneaten part home and nuke it when I crave [...]

Different kinds of chocolate bring me different kinds of happy. A Kitkat bar gives me a relaxed kind of happy; Baby Ruth bar an indulgent kind of happy; M&Ms a playful kind of happy… and Meiji Strawberry Chocolate? A giddy kind of happy. Thanks to my sister for surprising me one evening with a box [...]

What? You’re feeling crappy? We can’t have that! No, no, no. Yes I know it’s the Monday blues, but we can’t go starting our week now all growling, can we? It’ll set the pace for the week! Would you like to growl till Friday? I didn’t think so. Here’s a quick picker-upper for you. At [...]