Saturday, December 3, 2011

time to blog again....

I havent come on my blog in forevvver!!! I feel as though I was living life in the fast lane for a while there, and wasnt interested in thinking about what was going on enough to write about it. I prefer to recollect upon things, and draw conculsions. rather than trying to write about everything day by day when im too lazy to sit at the computer for an hour and create an interesting read.
So since ive last been here, I've been and gone to California, and had my second baby boy Aidan, life has been quite perfect. Ive learnt so much about myself from the experiences over the past two years its truly incredible, when you become a mother, you have to learn new skills fast, you think faster, you want to be ontop of everything you werent before, because you want to be a proper grownup for that little one. At least I feel that way. I have been doing self-work for 2 years now, facing all my flaws one by one, and i know i will continue to be humbled by my children/life for years to come, I will continue to feel inadequate to raise them until I see them finally fully grown, well turned out, and away from my smotherly paws.
I know Ive finally realized you cannot be a perfect parent, no matter how much you want to be because well perfection doesn't exist and we dont stop maturing and life doesnt stop changing just becasue you had a baby. So now im more self forgiving, I let go of things more easily, and if I do something to mess up I ask myself why and try to address the issue. I also decided today during husbands busy final season to have a lazy day Saturday everyweek, its a day when anything flys, dishes can pile up, Dylan can beg for a walk outside in the freezing weather, and little nagging things to do list can hide away in a draw for all i care, ill watch 3 movies back to back, pig out on goodies, and take time to laugh and have some friggin fun :P
I enjoy the rest of my week if I have a break, I like being a SAHM, and I love the little perks that go with it.
I can see now how I fought being happy up until this point, I had a bad habit of spending too much time thinking about whats wrong instead of whats right, for instance I would be tired and as a result grumpy and instantly I would think it was because of someone or something I felt this way. Now if Im ever grumpy I wont allow myself to linger, Ill tell myself your tired it will pass, or sometimes, especially with the aftermath of a baby my hormones hit me like bejesus!, and I need to really be hiding under a rock somewhere but instead Ill think just my hormones not because of my life. Everybody has hardship Ive realized, but if you deal with it the right way it wont affect you as much and you'll come out transformed to a higher level instead of being scarred or defeated by it, and I truly believe we are are own worst enemies, not society, or are family or our friends, its all what we think about all the outer aspects that matters.

And ive realized hormones is truly an issue for me, and as a result its one of my own personal favorite research projects. Sometimes when i let down my breastmilk I feel dreadful for about two-5minutes, I noticed this for a couple of weeks, and when i checked online there was a name for this complex D-MER some hormone reaction causing a chemical reaction which causes some devilish wave of anxiety in my brain... pretty much. So I no longer feel like the moment im in is really that dreadful I just think it will pass on and Ill be fine. Fortunately this hasn't affected me this past week, for what reason i have no idea lol (perhaps less stress?)

I think becoming more rational has helped me leaps and bounds, but on the flip side im now heavily into my angel card readings I check my angel tarot cards everytime im worried or concerned about anything pretty much. I also read my cards at the start of each and every week, obssesive much? me thinks so, but it helps me out tremendously, a very positive little quirk in my life so why not?

And lastly and most importantly to me, My life is a lot better and enriched now that Fei is in my heart, and not far from me. I finally let him in lol, I think I have learnt some marriage skills on my own(i mean together lol), and I think ive accepted a lot of that is how we each have different roles to play in our family. I wont go into the ins and outs, but to sum up most of what I do is for Fei and for the dreams we share, before it may mostly have been for Dylan hehe!. I hadnt realized what true love was until I reached a stage of honesty, honesty with myself that its being married isnt the be all and end all of life, its moves on and changes constantly and you can work together with your partner or fight them on every little issue. Now I am working on consistency and creating a warmer, happy, fun to be in environment for us to be in Im excited about sharing a life together that will have ups and downs, but we will always be together which is all that matters.
Now christmas time is coming and theres a bizillion things on my to do list but Ill just do whats fun and can fit in in the right kind of way, I will fight the stress virus of Christmas out there, try my hardest not to get caught up in the madnesssss!
and ill try not to swallow every Christmas cookie in sight ;), unless its Saturday xx

Monday, March 14, 2011

Funny Dylan

Here are some recent funny pics and videos of Dylan being a little rascal :)


A Special Day





Me and Fei got married on 3/11/11. It was a very special day, we had two good friends with us as our witnesses Sarah and Pei-Lin. Dylan played with Shao Shao bo during the ceremony and fought with her over her cookies :)
When the day was over we felt really happy we were finally a proper item! I feel as though it has strengthened our relationship, we will be happy together forever :)

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Today

Today me and Dylan went to the library, I had to teach Dylan the meaning off the word quiet and SHHHHH! but it didnt work for Mr Dylan he is not a quiet boy! But we got some nice books, and bumped into our good frineds Maki and Yuiha, then we went home and napped for 2 and a 1/2 hours after lunch heehee, nice day!!!
Didnt go outside because the snow frightened me away, it looked soo cold, and instead we went to the mall playarea for a while, Dylans getting better at playing with the other kids and stays away from me a little while longer every time. His attachment phase after weaning is slowly diminishing, he till clings to my leg most of the day, but everyday gets a little easier for us both :)
Tomorrow, im gonna brave the cold and take Dylan out for an afternoon at the park hopefully it wouldnt make us ill lol, but it shouldnt if we wrap u warm and avoid too much wind or wetness. Also hoping to find meself a book, I need something to keep my brain working, and keep me busy because Fei has a lot of study going on this next few weeks that are left of Law school, poor Fei.
Been Thinking a lot about heading to Tucson for Christmas, we all cant wait and I think that by then ill be dying to see the sunlight, because once real winter starts in Michigan the sun hides behind the clouds for what seems an eternity...
gotta put up pics of the Christmas tree and some others from the week, but ill do that later because are internet has slowed down temporarily. Should be back up and running soon though.

no more news to report, goodnight :)

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Simplifying my life

So not much of post been on here lately. Well I have been busy but, i haven't had the inclination to do my blog in a while, even though I enjoy it. I started up a picasa so I still upload pics. I guess I started getting busier and busier with endless tasks that you start to assign yourself when you are trying to fill up days with a toddler. Recently though I feel the inspiration to change, change my life quite a bit I guess. I think I would like to simplify things down to only whats important. This might seem like a personal post, but really I don't think that what is important to me is something i need to hide from the world I think I really have to embrace it.
First off my family is very important to me. If I could picture my life anyway, I cant picture it away from family I think Fei and Dylan coming first is more important to me now than I had realized. Simply I would like to care of them, like cook (healthy food), give them attention, and I guess part of taking care of them is taking care of me, so I would like to make our lifestyle healthier, and more fun. I think exercise should be on our agendas everyday, for Fei with school its more likely to be a weekly thing.
I guess I would like to limit TV and internet more too, its hard though especially now that my phone is connected to the int 24/7 and all i have to is grab it from my pocket. Tv is bad too, I know if I turn it off Dylan uses his imagination to and I interact more with Dylan or just get something more productive done.
Simplifying doesn't have to be all hard or boring though, I think if your doing whats most important to you you'll feel a lot happier, for example, my health is important to me, so isn't putting exercise first going to make me happier at the end of the day? I think I would like to incorporate a hobby like taking Dylan out everyday with his new toy truck and just watching nature, collecting rocks or whatever. I would even like to take him out all winter If I can brave it, I think the fresh air will kep us both from getting sick.
Everything needs simplified, for a while now Ive been trying to hard to be a better cook, instead of just using the ingredients I did the weekly shop for id run out 3,5 times a week for new stuff to prepare some new fancy recipe, and feel tired and fed up as a result. Now ill shop for whats easy, and healthy an just go once or maybe twice a week.
This is just a run off of what Ive been thinking about for the past week, what life's all about thinking, and today I really enjoyed my life because i put my family first, and all the things that were important ahead of things which are not like: housework, trying to make it to things that don't fit Dylan schedule, trying to impress other people, spending money on wasteful stuff , worrying about what i look like, etc...
I think its a day too day thing I must focus on until I get the hang of it, because everyday is different, and I couldn't simplify them all in the same way, but at least now that I know what is most important to me I can choose things that fit that and go from there.
I think it would help everyone if they did what really matters to them because life's too short to do other pointless stuff, like trying to be perfect because there is no such thing.

I hope you can find and do whats most important for you :)

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Aunty Xiangs Masterpiece!!

I wish I knew how to enlarge this picture because its so amazing. It was a photo we took of Dylan when we poked him in the face with some grass. Xiang turned it into a drawing, shes becoming a pro artist very quickly! ENJOY the masterpiece. I hope Xiang will continue drawing much more.

Friday, September 17, 2010