Wifely Steps

Tweet Candy pastillas roses from the little boy, green and white flowers from the big boy. I feel the love! There’s a lot of hype about how commercialized Valentine’s is. Well, the hype can be true. Yes, it’s true you can (and should) show love 365 days a year. I don’t mind that thinking. But [...]

Tweet Some of the most fun moments in life are those that you spend in quiet company with the ones you love. Saturday morning. My husband watching a kung fu flick. My toddler vroom-vrooming his car on the coffee table. Me sitting back on the couch keeping an eye on the baby and enjoying the [...]

Tweet I need my happy song! Christmas songs usually cheer me up but I’m so stressed they’re not even working. Yikes! You know what is keeping me sane? This song from Glee! Thank you Sam and Quinn! Their version of “Lucky” is just so cute. It makes me smile even if I’m just singing in [...]

Tweet I stumbled upon this entry in one of Casa Xocolat’s journals. They have a bunch of journals in their cafe that anyone can doodle in. Maybe the writer’s in love with his best friend. Maybe he’s in love with his best friend’s girlfriend. I love the simplicity of the entry. It’s succinct but meaningful, [...]

Tweet Three truths for this now thirty-three-year-old: 1. Mommy value is greater than market value. 2. Do what you love and blessings follow. 3. Never compromise your integrity. There’s nothing like turning a year older to do some self-reflecting. I’ve always known those three things are important, but they’ve never been more true till this [...]

Tweet “This door is always open / No one has the guts to shut us out / But if we have to go now / I guess there’s always hope that / Some place will be serving after hours…” My day begins at 9 pm. Well, I get up at 6 am on most days [...]

Tweet My cousin tagged me on Facebook, but I want to blog it too!  Could you leave your answers in the comments section? I want to know 25 random things about you too! This ended up to be a pretty good self-reflection. I  did the tag during my lunch hour, and now, well, I want [...]

Tweet “The end of summer is to me like New Year’s Eve. I sense an end to something carefree and uninhibited, sandy and warm, cold and melting, barefoot and tanned…” Here is a beautiful excerpt from Erma Bombeck’s book, “At Wit’s End.” It is an insightful look at childhood, at growing up, at parenting, at [...]

Tweet As part of our 7th wedding anniversary, and in a way, this blog’s 7th anniversary as well, I’ve invited some of my friends to write about their own wifely steps. This is the seventh in a series of guest posts. Let’s check out Deepa’s wifely steps. I’ll let you in on a secret. The [...]

Tweet As part of our 7th wedding anniversary, and in a way, this blog’s 7th anniversary as well, I’ve invited some of my friends to write about their own wifely steps. This is the sixth in a series of guest posts. Let’s check out Candice’s wifely steps. We don’t celebrate our anniversaries. We’ve been married [...]