Baby Meditation

What to cook today for breakfast?

What’s on my to-do list?

Need to plan the weekend!

Guests for dinner tomorrow; need to shop the groceries!

Need to book my gas refill!

Got to attend to the huge pile of laundry!

Cob-webs calling!

A good 4 bananas will get spoiled if I don’t make banana shake till evening!

Have to withdraw cash to pay salaries to the maids!

The overstuffed wardrobe needs to be tidied or else my clothes will abandon me!

Electricity bill and phone bills lined up! 

So many things on my mind! So many things on a stay-at-home Mom’s mind!

What do I do?

Post-Baby Body Changes I Hate, Yet Love!

The best and the most pleasant compliment that I often get since I became a mother is,

“You haven’t changed at all! You look all the same!”.

My response? I smile and die a little more inside. Yes! I really DIE every time I hear this, because instead of making me happy I feel like I’ve just been hit in the face yet again.

These compliments, these reactions of friends and relatives only remind me that although I haven’t changed at all on the outside, I’m totally a different person on the inside; and by inside I mean not just mentally but more physically.

Here’s what my post-baby body got me and here’s what you too should get prepared for in case you’re expecting a baby or have just become a mother: