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There are so many things motherhood snatches away from a woman and I can speak for a lot of moms out there when I say, “I miss my me time the most!” I have to be honest, maybe this is a cry for help, but not the kind that needs intervention or the involvement of authorities LOL. It’s just another rant on a random Sunday when ironically, I have a tiny bit of “me time” to waste. Before deciding…

Never in my wildest dreams have I thought I’d say that, but 2 years after writing about it first 👉🏻 here, I still say and feel the same. 2 years ago, I was living the ultimate dream, working from home and having only myself and my hobbies to support. Fast forward to the present time, with an 8-month old and same partner in tow, things have obviously turned super chaotic, but still, Mondays have…

Hey, it’s finally April! How have you been? I hope life is treating you well. If not, then at least I hope you get something good out of it. Yesterday, we learned about a death in J’s family, not in his immediate nor in his extended family. If I’m being honest, I’d say she’s more than family to J. A day before it happened, J had worked from home and in a brief video call, he had a chance to…

Yesterday, my parents picked us up from the airport as my little one and I will be staying with them until the Holy Week. J will be flying back to Cebu this afternoon to work a couple more weeks before joining my family for our week-long rest from work and Holy Week traditions. On the way home, we were talking about the weirdly less foot traffic in the airport and were amused by the surprisingly…

I’ve been lurking around the reddit sub, buhaydigital once again to see why things have been quiet lately. I must have joined too many subs to even see new posts from this one, but surprisingly, checking out the sub itself didn’t help as there weren’t really any new ones from at least over a year now. Weird. Are freelancers too preoccupied with their respective jobs to rant on this space anymore?…

I’m doing this thing again wherein I wake up early on a Sunday morning so I could have a head start on some of the chores. Not that I’m excited to do so. I just put little A to bed again after changing his diaper and getting him milk drunk. He’s now able to tolerate or should I say, demand for 180 ml of milk every feeding. I had to finally unbox the big boy bottles we’re saving for later, not…

I woke up at half past 1 in the morning and I couldn’t go back to sleep—-a perk of working in the graveyard shift. The funny thing is, it is the weekend and my body clock doesn’t really care about that. I checked our little pumpkin and he’s still comfortably snoozing. He’s been sleep regressing for the nth time and I know that if I do a little backtracking, our CCTV would show his dad doing all…

We’re currently on the last leg of our holiday family escapade and spending our last few days here in Ajuy, J’s province before we travel back to Iloilo city where we’ll stay for the rest of the trip. We just got here before NYE from Manila where we stayed for 3 weeks so we could spend time with our family for Christmas. It was the longest time I’ve been home since I relocated to Cebu in 2017…

Has it been 6 months already? Where does the time go when you want to take things slow? I haven’t had the energy or the TIME (for myself) to write a single entry for an entire half of the year because for starters…….we just welcomed our little, cuddly, overly cute and giggly babyyyy boy!!!! I KNOW WUDDAHECK RIGHT? One moment I was swearing on not having kids and the next, I’m swooning and gushing…

While I continue to learn the art of bookbinding, a million other projects start peppering my mind. One that particularly sparks joy is making a personalized journal. For my father’s, sister’s and cousin’s birthdays this year, I made them all their very own hand-bound, hardbound journals! After making a little prototype from a tutorial online, I made my first hardbound notebook for the boyfie.…

I’ve just finished doing my laundry and my 3rd session of Yoga this week and I’m all sweaty and tired, but in a really, really good way! I’m typing this while still sitting on my mat with my legs all stretched out down to the last fiber. Oh how good it feels to be achy in all the right places! They say, it’s the little things in life that really make you feel good inside, isn’t it? For me, at…

In about a month, I’ll be turning 35 years old. Of course, in my mind, I’m eternally stuck at 30. I guess 30 is my 18 or my 25. It’s the age I stopped growing old and stopped counting. 30 is the first time I traveled solo. 30 made me feel like I’m still in my twenties but with money. 30 is the most confident I had ever been in my life, but at 35, I’m starting to feel like I’m going to regress to…

Before jumping into the remote work revolution bandwagon, I have to admit, I’ve been blinded by the pros of the working from anywhere, having less work boundaries and unlimited possibilities. Yes, both of those may ring true, however, it comes with a lot of cons too which I learned from years of doing research——reading a lot on it, engaging with freelancers and finally being one myself now. On…

I don’t know a lot of people who share the same desperation I have for a slow life except for my boyfriend, a friend I constantly talk to these days and a bunch of online strangers in a Reddit sub I’m subscribed to. My boyfriend lived in a farm. LOL. But setting aside all the memes and controversies now infamously associated with that line, he really did and he has always dreamed of leaving the…

Today marks my 400th hour at work. Nope, I didn’t wait for this day to commemorate a milestone, but since I found out, it seems fit to do so now. I was checking our tracker for something else when I saw that I worked at least 177 hours, but when I checked that was for this month alone. In total, it’s a little over 400 hours. Looking back, I can see the way I’ve used and abused my eyes, ears and…