I’m a horrible blogger/webmaster. I’m so bad at updating my site(s) — I should fire myself! lol. I haven’t been blogging/updating my sites, because of other distractions. Besides bing a busy mom, I also love to enjoy an activity with my husband. At night, we love to spend our time together playing World of Warcraft. It’s really how I keep my sanity. Being home all day with a baby too much isn’t good for me — I find that by spending a bit of time away from Zoe keeps me calmer. Last night, me and hubby sorta had a ‘date.’ But he doesn’t think it really counts. To me, it kinda did because we finally got a chance to go out alone without our baby. Hubby didn’t really think of it as a date, because we weren’t really alone together. The reason why we went out together was for a Christmas party from hubby’s work. We sat with other people at a table, so to him it’s not really a date… Still, we forgot about being parents for just a few hours and we got to enjoy each other’s company with no interruptions. It was really nice. It felt like we were dating again.

(GAMING) Now I digress… I am now going to talk about World of Warcraft (WoW). Hubby and I recently made Death Knights since installing the new expansion, Wrath of the Lich King (WotLK). Death Knights are so overpowered that I am loving it. Questing seems to go so much faster with a DK. Honestly, I don’t even know how to play this class properly. I still love my warlock, but hubby is really enjoying his DK so I’ve been leveling my death knight more often lately. Anyway, here’s a screenshot of our DK’s.

(LIFE) How’s married life so far? To be honest, I don’t really feel much different. It isn’t a big change compared to becoming a mother and having a baby. I still feel the same. But I know that I do have more responsibilities. I’m no longer just a mother; I am also a wife now. I definitely feel like I have more to do at home. I feel like cleaning the house everyday is mandatory. Because of this thinking, I kinda felt overwhelmed… I have a 9-month old who loves to crawl everywhere. She picks up little things off the floor and eats it. She also loves to play with electronics. She is particularly fond of TV remotes. Yesterday, I woke up at 7 in the morning and first thing I did was the laundry. Then I made breakfast, changed Zoe’s diaper, routine, routine… Afternoon came and I realized that I didn’t even eat yet. So I tried to make myself food. It was impossible! She never let me get any cooking. What would’ve taken 20 minutes took me 4 hours to do. Zoe is growing through separation anxiety. I don’t know how other moms do it. I don’t know how they get things done… I for one have learned how to wash the dishes with one hand as I hold Zoe with the other, because she loves to watch me. I know that I can’t do that while I am cooking…

So by the end of the day, as I watched Zoe drift to sleep while nursing her, I began to think of this little baby that God blessed me with. As I watched her, I realized that I was too busy trying to get things done around the house. I was too busy trying to finish things. I realized that I didn’t even get to really spend my time just to play with her. I got too busy running around. Someday this little baby girl will grow into a beautiful woman… and someday she will leave home…. I should be enjoying every moment that I can while she is still young, while I can still hold her… I forgot the reason why I wanted to do this, why I wanted to be a stay at home mom… I want to see all the firsts, I want to be there as my children are growing up…. Because someday they are all going to grow… Someday they are going to leave us… The one who will stay with me for the rest of my life isn’t going to be my kids, but it’s going to be my husband. I know that I am trying to be a good housewife for Josh and for this family that we are building. I thought that I could do that by getting all the housework done. But it’s difficult. But I can still do my best. I just need to get my priorities straight. Deal with baby first before housework… — and of course it’s all about balance.

Anyway, I gotta go end this post now… but of course I’ll end it with pictures under the cut…

Professional pictures are not available yet, so here’s one that a friend took.

The reason I have our baby pictures is because I am currently working on a slide show presentation that will be shown on our wedding reception. I enjoy video editing so much, but I am stuck at the moment. I can’t seem to come up with the right music to play to set the mood that I want to achieve.

Only 2 more weeks left before my wedding day! It is so close! I still have so much to do.

If I could make these adjustments, then I know I’ll learn to be more organized. *sigh*

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I did what I felt.

Why did God have to design women to be more emotional than men? It has always been a constant battle for me between what I feel and what I know is right and rational.

Some things that I was taught from my pastor-teacher:

Emotional stress causes people to act on impulse.

The emotion of fear, also a sin, causes flight.

The emotion of disgust causes repulsion.

The emotion of anger causes violence.

Instincts are reflex behavior based on emotion rather than on
thought.

gbible.org

Just want to share a few pictures of my beautiful daughter.

Yes, it’s true what the title says. Zoe just got her ears pierced yesterday. My mom, my aunt, and my sister were with us when she got it done. Aww, my poor baby cried so loud! We even got it on video, but I don’t want to upload it up on the Internet for the whole world to see. I don’t want Zoe to hate me when she gets older.

The only method of soothing that stopped her from wailing was breastfeeding! I am telling you, I am so grateful that God designed woman’s breasts to not just nourish your child, but to also soothe them. After nursing her for a couple minutes, she was back to her old cheerful self. She was even smiling!

Check it out!

With my aunt (Zoe’s Grand Aunt)

With my sister (Zoe’s Aunt)

(The Piercing Session)

Mommy trying to soothe her and provide comfort

Whew! Just glad it was all over. She did really well and I am proud of her. Also, she can crawl now…. this little baby just loves to explore since she learned that skill.

Giselle from Enchanted

I am still worried about how my hair will look on my wedding day. I have always pictured it to look like Giselle’s hair from the movie Enchanted. But after the hair trial, I just realized that I am really unhappy about it. I don’t know what how I should go about this. I bought that hair piece just for this wedding. I was talking about this with Josh today and he just told me to not to worry and just use the hair piece since I paid $50 for it. I will be wearing my contacts for the wedding. I think I just need to get used to it? I still have to e-mail the picture from the hair trial to my maid of honor just to get another opinion.

I am thinking of maybe just leaving my hair down and just leaving it straight like it normally is?

Also, we are going to be taking our pictures before the wedding so I am also concerned if my hair piece could stay for that long. I really should be discussing my concerns with my hairdresser, but I just need to organize my thoughts and don’t want to suddenly call/e-mail her when I am in this state. I don’t want to appear like a bridezilla, so I’m just going to relax for a while and work on something else.

Thank God I have this blog to post my concerns and just vent away whenever I want to.

We are learning a lot about each other from doing our pre-marital counselling with Pastor Allan. hehe, it still feels weird addressing him in that way, but I really think I should. He is marrying us after all. It’s just weird to me since we have been friends even before he was pastor.

Now onto wedding stuff!

I am making more invitations, a smaller version of the original. I had to because we are already running out of invites. My mom just keeps adding more people to the guest list.

Our favors. It will be filled with pink M&M’s.

My messy workplace.

The pink rose petals.

And last but not least… my hair trial!

I used a hair piece to make my hair look longer.

I am still a bit concerned if my hair style and dress will go together. I hope they do. I actually had a rather terrible dream about this recently. I dreamt that my hairdresser couldn’t make it on my wedding day so nobody was there to do my hair. So I ended up looking like crap on my wedding day. *sigh* yes, I am so worried about this. I hope I don’t hate how I look.

Okay enough about wedding stuff… I turned 26 on Tuesday, September 16th. I spent most of my day with family, mainly with my future hubby, Josh. Thank you hun! He got me the new Sims 2 expansion pack, Apartment Life, which got me so excited and giddy. In the evening of my birthday, my parents took us out for a dinner at The Keg. I love The Keg!

You can see pictures of that night on my Facebook here.

That’s all for now! Have a great day everyone!