I guess I couldn’t let Mother’s Day go without making a post about it. For me, this is really one of the most special days of the year. Motherhood…is one of life’s most precious experiences anyone could have. Before I became a mom myself, my gratitude and appreciation towards my mom was a little superficial but this really changed a lot when I gave birth to Chinks.

I like this figurine.. Hmm, paging Hi-ace (too bad he seldom reads my blog..)

What’s motherhood? Sacrifice, never ending days taking care of a little one (and even not so little ones), sleepless nights, worrying..Yes, there are a lot of things so tiring about being a mother. In fact, to be honest, sometimes I groan and complain that I don’t even have time now to cut my toe nails, but if you ask me again if I would like to be a mother all over again, or if it is totally worth it, I’d say YES!

This quote just sums up my feelings about motherhood right now…

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love.  ~Mildred B. Vermont

It’s weird but its true. I could be dead tired and pissed, but just seeing my daughter running off from her school bus and screaming, ‘Mommy, I’m home. You know I missed you!!”, well its more than enough to ease my fatigue. Just her simple ‘Thank you Mimomms” is enough to make those tiresome things worthwhile.

And one of the greatest gift motherhood gave me was my appreciation towards my own mom. I now ‘get it’ why she sticks to us and why she never gives us and even up to now worries about us even if were too ‘pasaway‘. I couldn’t ask for a better mom, and to her, ‘Thank you. Happy Mother’s Day and we love you so much.”

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On my diet, I’m a slacker!!! I weighed myself yesterday and arggghhh I gained another kilo when just last month I lost two. I hate it when I’m like this. For the past two weeks I abandoned my exercise routine coz I had been awfully busy. That’s the big problem with me, once I start working I forget all else even eating lunch or dinner.

Not exactly a bad thing missing some calorie laden snacks but missing meals is a no-no for me. I get migraines and gets hyper acidity is well on its way. I either have to do exercise before I start working if now I always forget. Hi-ace suggests maybe I should follow diets for quick weight loss but this is a little hard to do. I cook the food in the house and that means preparing food for myself and another set of food for them.

Hayy, should really be following a much better routine for everything. I’ll get on to that.

A reminder to self..

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.

So though my road to fitness is dotted with tempting snacks, lack of time, restaurant trips, laziness, I should not give up and try again hehe..

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Yesterday, Hi-ace dragged me around to do some shopping. I dunno what got into him, I even thought somebody possessed him and I needed to call an exorcist. But I’m not complaining hehe. First stop was Russian Market for some food shopping. Dropped by souvenir stores also and bought some silk scarves for my ‘fashionista’ cousins.

Next stop was Boeung Keng Kang Market. It was supposed to be just a window shopping thing but we ended up buying a second hand Esquire shoe for him, several belts for me. We had some of his pants shortened and sewn for only 1000 Riels each. Browsed some second hand curtains and bed sheets but I didn’t find one I fancied, and I ended up buying some door mats.

Afternoon, he still wasn’t satisfied and dragged me to Japan Thrift Shop in St. 47. This is one of our favorite bargain hunting shops and it really yields great finds if you take time to sort through their stuff. He found another shoe there but was really frustrated coz it was too small for him. So it was me who bought something, a brown dress for $.50 and a red Soco bag (unused with the original department store price tag still there!) for only $1. I also saw a pale blue Nine West clutch bag though I didn’t buy it coz though it was still in very good condition, and really cute, I’m not really into small bags. And since Chinks was with us, she hoarded a lot of small toys from the shop. One for herself, and one for each playmate she has. She is turning out to be one crazed shopper.

Anyway, it was a really really good day..