yosemite

c'est magnifique.

my first rodeo*

dusty. kinda smelly. noisssssy.

but what a fierce poetry in the horsemanship! i understand a bit of the wild west allure now, i think.

*clovis rodeo 2024

confessions of a domestic un-goddess

helping Ji and J2 with the housework because baby A.

• my core hurts from vacuuming
• as does my neck
• the limits of my culinary abilities loom
• i ❤️ swiffer and dyson 
• and insta pot. mustn't forget that

i spy with my little eye...

a hummmmmingbird!

this is the first time i see one in real life. it is perfection in miniature and a magical sight. a bit like seeing a newborn in the flesh for the first time and marveling at the hair and eyes and nose and fingers and toes.

gratitude

when you married me, HOM asks me rhetorically, did you think you would have a grandchild in the future?

when i married you i did not even think ahead to having children, i tell him honestly. i was lost in the newness of our love and the stresses of setting up home together. 

look at us now. J1 J2 plus Y Ji and now baby A with an assortment of dogs and cats strewn over continents. and yet when i look, i tell HOM, i see the young man i married. my heart skips pitty-pat pitty-pat.

2 cats

there is the holiday dog.

and to my pleasant befuddlement and wonder, these are the holiday cats!

dinner date in tanjong pagar

a dinky booth

at the izakaya

low voices

snippets of other conversations

great food

washed down with sake

HOM and me

at the end of a long day

it doesn't get much better