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.

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.

Life is great!

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…

To the sexy an beautiful Liz ! I wish you a happy happy birthday. I wish you all the best. I am glad I met you through Pehpot.

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.

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.

We were looking at several cars, something like Toyota Camry would be a bit too small for the 12 kids I plan on having . We need a big car like a van or a hummer . We first looked a Toyota Hi Ace but then I remembered that I saw something similarly big in Ford, the E-150 which I really really like. I told him to check it out and too.

I am happy he liked it because that’s what I already chosen in my mind as it kinda looked a bit like the Hummer. I am sure this car wiill be with us for a very long time as hubby is a pretty good driver. In the 7 years that we are married, not once did we ever had to bring his car to an auto repair shop.

After my rant the other day, I decided it’s time to really put some effort and get my happy mode back. Andrea said in her comment, try to focus on other things you love. I thought about it and now I am doing those things I love like cooking, baking, and looking at photographs I have taken and I think it is helping.  I love what she said too:

Always remember that there is more to you and more to your life than just being a mom.

Thank you for reminding me Andrea. I guess I sort of got obsessed in getting pregnant and stopped enjoying and appreciating other things I have in my life.

I am now busying myself with the preparations of our upcoming relocation. We will be moving for good to the Philippines. I am already excited. There would be a lot to do in this move but I don’t mind.

I try to fight this dreaded state to the best of my ability, believe me. I try to think of things to do and plan stuff but sometimes the day pass by and I haven’t really accomplished anything. Sometimes my husband would ask me to do something and I will say yes but end up forgetting about it which will lead to some arguments.

Some of the things that I suspect to cause me to be in this mode was the first ever pregnancy that didn’t push through and then, just this January a failed embryo transfer, it was difficult for me. I tried to recover from the grief as soon as I can, I try live my life as normal as I can.

I  do stuff to keep my mind from dwelling on my lost so I went ahead with the holiday we have already planned and then went on a few more afterwards. I try my best to be in a happy mode despite the negative thoughts that come once in awhile. My hubby is a great support as always. Whenever he sees I am not my normal self, he cheers me up. He’s the reason why I keep going.

What I want right now is to be back with my happy self, I know it’s up to me to pick myself up but why am I having such a hard time. Any advice you can give?