The smell of breakfast food wafting in the morning air, the scrumptious home-cooked meals by Mom, and the raucous my siblings and I create are some of the things I miss the most now that I am away from my childhood home. Having a family of my own is wonderful but I cannot help but feel nostalgic at times when joyful memories from the past are evoked.
During these times, I turn to my comfort foods. I try to recreate one of my Mom’s home-cooked meals to relive those moments when we would all be sharing a sumptuous meal together. It never is as perfect as Mom’s cooking though. The only comfort food that turns out perfect and has stayed the same throughout the years is Milo. It never fails to bring back memories of my childhood whenever I drink it.
Milo has played a part in my growing years. It warmed my tummy during breakfast and served a perfect match to whatever we were having for breakfast. Be it pancakes, eggs, fried rice, pan de sal, Milo always perfectly complemented our breakfast fare. On warm summer afternoons, we would have ice-cold Milo with our sandwiches or cookies. Even as a young adult, a warm cup of Milo would soothe my troubled heart as my Mom comforted me and assured me that all would be well. Nothing really beats the rich choco-malt taste of Milo in bringing back all the wonderful memories I have of my childhood.
Now that I have a family of my own and am creating memories with my husband and my son, I still turn to the chocolatey goodness of Milo to make our bonding moments more heart warming. When my son grows up, he will also cherish all the wonderful moments we’ve shared over cups of Milo.
How about you, do you have any fond memories with Milo too? I would love to hear it.
Today I turned 28 and Sean is 3 months and 2 weeks old! Oh I just have so much to be thankful for!
Sean is the best birthday gift Jules has given me. I have all I ever wanted (except some sleep maybe and my waistline a decade ago, do you know where I can order that? ) – a loving caring and supportive husband, the home of my dream and a wonderful baby boy and of course not to forget the good friends that have been there with me in my journey to becoming a (hot)momma.
I love being pregnant ( at least from what I have experienced so far) and if it’s gonna be as smooth sailing as my first 4 months then I could say I’d like to stay pregnant forever .
Since I am pregnant, I already started fantasizing of setting up our own playground in our backyard. I am sure if we have a playground it would encourage my kid(s) to be active. I also read somewhere that children exposed to nature instead of city buildings and streets did better when they were tested for attention and concentration. I want my children to be connected with nature, be an explorer, find the hole in a log that they can use as a special hiding place for their special item. I want them to chase butterflies and dragonflies in the afternoon.
When I was little I love playing outside with my cousins and to be honest that was the best childhood memory I have and I want my kids to have that too. I know this will be a great investment because the kids will never get tired of playing outside.
Anyway, back to planning for our playground…some of the things I would like to have in the playground we will be setting up are wooden swings, see saws, climbing frames. I would also like to have a tree house but maybe that should come later when the kids are around 8 or 10 years old. I am already picturing my Marces visiting us at the farm with their whole family. I am sure their kids would love to play at the playground. They would have so much fun they wouldn’t want to leave our place.
Oh it’s so nice to plan and dream about the future…
I will be restricted to bed rest the coming days, as per the advice of my doctor for my procedure. I am okay with it even if it meant time away from my hobby (blogging), as long as it’s for my pregnancy.
I’m really keeping my fingers crossed (I’d cross all of it if it was humanly possible), and I hope that like the others who had positive results turn up in their Home Drug Test Kits for pregnancy, mine will also turn out to be successful at last. So while I’m in this state of doing nothing, I need to relax as much as I can. For the baby.
But even if I won’t be around much, do watch out for the upcoming guestposts.
Hi guys! My embryo transfer procedure is scheduled on Friday at 12:30 and I am advised to take a bedrest for two weeks so I won’t be able to blog much this coming weeks. The first time I had an embryo transfer I did took it easy for two weeks as well and I got pregnant on that first try but sadly the foetus didn’t have a heartbeat at 7 weeks.
We did try for another embryo transfer for the second time and thought I wouldn’t stay in bed for two weeks this time. Other women don’t even know that they are pregnant after a month, so they just live like as always. I didn’t got pregnant that second time so this time I decided to stay on bedrest again for two weeks since I got a good result the first time when I did it this way.
So let’s hope it all works out this time.
I couldn’t leave you here hanging so I asked some of my good friends to be my guest poster for me this coming days or if many more would like to be a guestpost, this might be a regular thing at MommaWannabe. If you want to do guestpost too here at MommaWannabe, do let me know by filling in the contact form.
My Quiz Result: Daffodil is the birth flower for people who are born in March.
The Daffodil symbolizes new beginning, reverence, affection, optimism and sympathy.
If your birth flower is Daffodil: You have a strong sense of art and design. You are a peace-lover and strive to resolve conflicts whenever possible. You are a very caring and loving person. You are kind and compassionate towards the under privileged.
Jade was once a mommawannabe and now is finally a momma. In this blog I shared with you my journey to motherhood and now that I am a momma, you'll read about my adventures as a first time mom. I love meeting new moms and hear about their mom wisdom.
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) – a loving caring and supportive husband, the home of my dream and a wonderful baby boy and of course not to forget the good friends that have been there with me in my journey to becoming a (hot)momma.
