Being "just" a mom

It's been about a month since I've "officially" embraced my new job as stay-at-home-mom, and just like any new job, I am adapting, changing habits, making adjustments, doing the best I can to get an A+ status with the boss -- which in this case, is also Me.  

I've also had some well-meaning loved ones question my decision to be "just a mom" ... throwing all career plans, talents, potential and what-have-yous up in the air to change diapers, do the laundry, and tend to a crying infant.

I, of course, just

Muffin Treats for Mrs Muffinman

(let me say in advance that the following blog entry is in no way sponsored in any kind hehe!)

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Lately the Muffin Baby's been taking in a lot more milk than I can pump while breastfeeding in between, and it seems he'd wake up hungrier than ever... it's been like a tag-team marathon all week, I'm beyond exhausted!  O_o

I got frustrated especially since just the other week our pedia told us Muffin Baby's been gaining weight excellently, and that meant my milk supply was good.  I started to wonder if there were any safe medicines or something that I could take to help me with my milk supply to keep up with MB's growing demands. 

Like an answered prayer, just the other day I read about these "lactation treats" via Eliza in "Mommy Treats: More Than Just Milk and Cookies".  She talked about lactation cookies and muffins (!) baked by Paula Loot of Mommy Treats.

photo by mommytreats.multiply.com

Well well!  Of course I couldn't resist and

In love...

It's almost 3am and all I can think of is this...

Thank you Lord for giving me the wonderful feeling of falling in love all over again.

I am in love with my son, and even more in love with my Muffin Man seeing him become Daddy :)

Here's to an awesome year ahead :)

De-cluttering...

Been trying to get The Muffin Man’s old room-turned guestroom-turned junk “bodega” organized and cleared out and make it officially the new “nursery”. At the same time trying to get through all my stuff taken home from the office …papers galore, old projects, gifts, stacks and stacks of CDs and miscellaneous sentimental junk… PLUS still at a loss on trimming down my pre-Mrs. Muffinman belongings … college stuff, things packed for “future scrapbooking”, and even more sentimental junk…

HELP!!!

Then I came across this entry over at Small Notebook… I’m now encouraged to not give up…I CAN DO THIS! haha. One motivation the author had was to pretend they were moving overseas and could only take a few things. One example:

“Kept: A letter from my great-grandma telling me how different Germany is now that they have airplanes and ice.

Tossed: A stack of graduation and wedding cards.”

Hmm. Let’s see if this will work with me. =P

Building a smarter to-do list

If you’re anything like me… you have “to-do” lists scribbled randomly in your calendar, planner, email, and post-its scattered around the house, car, office desk etc…  and very few are actually crossed out =\  it makes me feel so busy yet unproductive at the  same time…wah!  here’s a blog entry that i read on making smarter (and more doable!) to-do lists, what they’re really about and what (not) to do in a to-do list.  makes sense?  =p