our second home

Right now, I am on the floor in my husband’s bachelor pad. He is not a bachelor anymore (LOL) but the company he works for provided him a place to stay every time he has to work here in Fontana, Oberwaltersdorf. He has to work here three days each week and the remaining two weekdays are spent in his office in Graz. Commuting to this town from Graz (where we live) takes about an hour and a half so when he is working here, he stays the night here. Earlier, he stayed in hotels but this month, they gave him this pad. It’s great. I mean, it’s not a big place but he can call it his. He can leave his personal stuff here (unlike in hotels where he takes everything with him when he checks out). He can personalize this place. He can cook. And he can take us with him here without worrying about us going through the hassles of staying in a hotel.

This week I brought some of our things here. We have to cozy this place up if we want to make it our second home. It’s my first day here and I like it already. It’s small and the furniture are mismatched but the location is just great. It’s inside a country club and the surrounding is really beautiful and well kept. Today little C and I had lunch in the country club’s restaurant where we had a nice view of the lake. My husband said, we also have access to all the amenities here. Great! I could get use to this kind of living—LOL!

early dinner with C

This place is also just an hour away from my in-laws. That means, it is easier for us to visit each other. In fact, they are coming here tomorrow to help clean up this place and after that, C and I will go with them to their place to spend thanksgiving there. Hubby will follow us there.

Anyway, once we are done rearranging and beautifying this pad a bit, I am going to upload some photos so you could also see it. Right now, please be content with this photo of C playing on the floor.

C's little corner in his Papa's pad.

getting rid of pregnancy brain

Remember the thing called “pregnancy brain?” This phenomenon does not disappear right away after delivery. In my case, it kind of stayed. I still forget a lot of things and it’s getting worse. I just don’t forget where I put things. Lately, I am also forgetting the name of things so I just refer to them as “that thing”. I haven’t noticed I’ve been doing that until my husband pointed it out. He said something like: “That thing is called a window.” He said I should name things properly if I want our child to learn those.

So when I say I want to get back into shape right after pregnancy, I just don’t mean physically. I also want to get back into shape mentally, that is why I started doing some simple brain fitness exercises to regain the sharpness of memory I once had. Simple things like using my non-dominant had to eat, to write, and to use the mouse pad and playing my guitar and learning new chords are things I can do to exercise my brain. It can be very frustrating sometimes but I just remind myself that I am doing my metal health a favor by persevering at doing these brain exercises. Also, I started to read again. Reading has always been a way for me to feed my mind so no matter how busy I am, I try to squeeze in reading in my daily activities.

kegel exercises for me

It’s been three months since I gave birth and I should slowly consider joining a kegel exercises class. I should’ve started earlier but I was busy adjusting to being a new mom, taking care of my baby, and receiving friends and relatives who want to come and see the new addition to our family. Joining [...]

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multitasking queen

I am writing this post in between shoving spoonfuls of my lunch in my mouth. I have to be quick otherwise, the day will go on without me being able to update a single blog. We’ve been away for almost a week. We stayed at my in-laws and while being there, I didn’t find the [...]

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my sewing machine

This is the baby sling i made for my baby. I sewed it during my last trimester.

I wanted to blog about this thing since the day I got it but I said, I’ll do it another day. But that day didn’t come until now when I landed on somebody else’s blog about sewing. This is my Toyota electric sewing machine. I got it as a present from my husband…well, I actually [...]

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baby first, vanity later

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Being a new mom, there are just some things I like doing that I put aside to accommodate our child. Some of these things I promised to pick up again—like blogging and web designing—and this is what I am trying to do right now. Other things like painting my nails, putting on make-up, playing guitar, [...]

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