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31 dec 2022
it's been 2 years since I returned. perhaps the very fact that it took me awhile to return meant that things felt they were in control, and suddenly they haven't been.
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Notes to my baby #3
Hi baby
You are now past 7 months and we just put you down for bed at around 6.10pm. You are now sleep trained, so once you lay you down, you find it in you to go sleep. What bliss that really is! But getting there was a total nightmare - we had to watch you struggle, fight and cry before tiredness overcame you. From that we learned how strong ( Read more... ) -
Notes to my baby #2
Yesterday our day was a little topsy turvey because we had to bring you to the doctor to check out your ear. You were unsettled the entire day, and I held you in my arms the entire afternoon while you napped. And then again we nursed you from 8 to midnight, and I held you from midnight to 3am before I felt you were deep asleep enough to place you ( Read more... ) -
Love in the time of Corona
by Keith
3 May 2020. We're about a month into Singapore's pandemic "circuit-breaker". More importantly, it's ACL's EDD. We'd hoped for a May baby just cause G and I are born in May and thought it'd be cute. It is. The very fact that ACL made it to 1 May was cause for celebration and relief which is hilarious thinking back - even just 2 weeks later ( Read more... ) -
ACL
it's been exactly two weeks since ACL arrived. 2 weeks ago, I was in excruciating pain, at the delivery suite. the general anesthetic doctor would have just given me my epidural, but its effects hadn't kicked in yet.
we checked in to mount Elizabeth novena at about 9.30am, still fairly relaxed. we were supposed to check in at midnight, but decided ( Read more... ) -
fascinating thing called family
it pains me to admit this so openly, having finally passed 30 years without ever addressing this to friends, co-workers, etc, that my own immediate family is nothing but dysfunctional and destructive.
and I think God knew this right from the very start.
from the moment I was born, I had an alternate set of parents to rely on for comfort and love. ( Read more... ) -
baby ACL
oh, I'm also pregnant. 14 weeks. hahahah in. I am nauseous all the time, can't really digest my food properly. vomiting most days.
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Dennis resigned - and I thought to take some time to reflect on the person he was/is as a moment of reflection. nowadays with age, there aren't many moments that drive you to reflect, so I thought to capture it ( Read more... ) -
i'm getting married!!
it's getting real - i am really getting married this saturday.
how far we have come these past 11 years, LiveJournal.
wouldn't know what i would have done without you, coping with my teenager stress and young adult drama.