2025, January – March.
:I was writing in my good old dotted journal when I realized it’s almost April, my birth month. I honestly don’t know if I’ll also deliver my baby in April but the point is, 3 months already have passed and I couldn’t help but recall what my goals are for this year.
To be honest, I’ve been conservative with my goals for this year because I chose to focus on becoming a mother. I will be giving birth in April (based on my UTZ) and pretty much my entire 2025 will be either about my pregnancy or being a first-time mom. And you and I both know that it’s not an easy job.
As much as I want to accomplish so many things this year, I decided that this year will be my gap year. Aside from a few items on my bucket list, I chose to rest in 2025.
BUUUUUUUUUT… There’s so much you can do on the internet HAHAHA
JANUARY – Created an Instagram account for my hobbies and connected with amazing people.
I MUST SAY! I started my Instagram account in January as my junk journaling account. I started doing junk journaling/scrapbooking again and thought of documenting my journey with my co-junk journalists. Surprisingly, in just 3 months, I have found my people.
But of course, as a woman of many hobbies and self-diagnosed ADHD, I grew tired of junk journaling after 2 months. Gone are my sticker addiction (which brought me a lot of followers!), my daily and weekly spreads, and my calligraphy attempts – I moved on with my life. Luckily, these people I have found on Threads are just like me, people of many hobbies. And so whatever I am doing at the moment, they are there. Dream come true, to be honest.
I have to say – I LOOOOOVE THREADS. And the people in there are just awesome! You can’t be out of place in Threads, everyone’s willing to contribute, connect, and build relationships. I love it. And even I, myself, found really interesting people on my feed, people I don’t know and even follow but the algorithm just magically put their name on my feed. Grateful.
FEBRUARY – It’s all about pregnancy and being pregnant lol.
I entered my third trimester in February and it totally limited the things that I could do because of physical pain. My back would be hurting from lying down, sitting, and standing up. Pretty much anything I do would be uncomfortable at some point or could cause me pain. My prenatal check-ups also became more frequent and so all my weekends were spent on traveling from Bulacan-Manila-Bulacan and/or sleeping.
We were able to squeeze in a little shopping time for the baby, but mostly, we purchased everything else online. Funny because when we were shopping for our hospital needs, hubbs and I were still looking for things to buy when we saw my mom already at the counter, checking out some items she bought herself for her first apo. Aww.
Also, my sister, who is a flight attendant, was kind enough to offer to buy some of baby’s stuff from her travels abroad. We’re so blessed, baby S is so lucky.
My in-laws (hubb’s sister and dad) also gave us money for the baby HAHA but we’re still surprised how stuff for the baby could cost so much even for a tiny item! It’s crazy! I better produce breast milk because the price of a formula milk is SCAAARY.
MARCH – Everyone’s getting ready for baby’s arrival.
We have house dogs and they sleep with us. Here in Bulacan, we have 2 french dogs, Lulu and Bacon. In Manila, I have Luca and Suki who also sleeps with us. Most of the time, I bring Luca here to stay with me in Bulacan. Suki, on the other hand, is my mom’s baby and she gets sepanx whenever she’s away from my mom. HAHA. But sometimes, I bring her here too. Not to mention our other dogs (Here in Bulacan, we have big dogs outside – Ragu, Spotty, Macho, Cooper, Shobe, and her 2 puppies. In Manila, we have Callie, Cola, and Chica – our poodle. And Henry and Sunday – all of them stays inside the house, too). We have a big fur family and we love dogs. So in preparation for baby’s arrival, we had them all vaccinated, just to be safe.
Just recently, my husband was bitten by Cooper, our labrador. NOT COOPER’S FAULT. He’s really a gentle dog, Cooper. What happened was we went home late at night and I was driving. Husband doesn’t let me drive since I entered my third trimester but what we do is, once we reach home, he’ll be the one to open the gate and control the big dogs from going out while I park the car. So that night, I was already parked, closed my side mirrors, and ready to get out of the car when my husband told me to move the car a little bit forward. And so I turned on the engine, didn’t bother to open the side mirror anymore, and moved the car forward. Little did I know that Cooper was there. I didn’t realize what happened at first because my windows were closed, I have no side mirror, didn’t hear my husband shouting at me. Plus, it’s very dark, and Cooper is a black dog. And then I opened the car door and realized Cooper was crying! Nataranta pa ko na imbes iatras ko yung sasakyan, I moved it further forward bago ko inatras, so parang twice ko nasagasaan si Cooper HAHAHA. My husband was somehow assisting/comforting Cooper at that time tapos nakagat na pala siya HAHAHAHAHA. Okay, I shouldn’t be laughing.
I swear, that was the only time I cried during the entirety of my pregnancy!! And what’s funny is I cried because of Cooper, not because of my husband. HAHAHAHAHA. Since we got him in 2023, we weren’t able to have him vaccinated. I was sooo scared that he’ll die or something.
Okay. to my defense, hindi ko iniyakan yung asawa ko because I know what to do with him! I know what he feels and he can tell me what he wants and needs. DIba?? Unlike Cooper…. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Good thing, when we checked his vet records, he’s still covered from his last vaccination. The next day, we saw blood everywhere and so I cried harder. Good thing, wala naman siya open wound or anything. Turned out, nabali yata yung kuko niya which explained all the blood. We had him isolated for a week para di din magtatakbo.
Just look at his face!! What a gentle giant. Huhu, I’m sorry Cooper. He turned out okay, thank God. Pero feeling ko traumatized siya. Whenever he sees me getting in the car, umiiwas siya, I am not kidding. HAHAHAHAAHHAHAHA.
But yeah. That’s what March is all about so far. We also deep cleaned the room (lots of fur, by the way!), assembled the crib, sterilized some of baby’s stuff… the list goes on. But it feels like we have so many things left to do and I don’t have the energy to help my husband.
I have 3 weeks left before my EDD. I am excited – for the baby and for all the remaining plans I have for 2025. Hoping and praying for the best.
Hope and pray with me?
EDITS:
03/19/2025 One of our puppies suddenly died today.. We have zero idea why. Yesterday, he was so healthy and active. Then this morning, when we’re about to leave, he was under the car, not being able to walk. And then in the afternoon, we found him hardly breathing, eyes wide open. I was so sad, I cried so hard.
Kulet, thank you sa pagsama mo sakin tuwing umaga habang nagluluto ako ng lunch mag isa sa bahay. Even if you’re just outside the door (di siya allowed pumasok, he’s one of the big dogs but sadly di na siya lalaki), damang dama ko presence mo sa sobrang kulit mo. Parang nung isang araw, karga ko lang kayo ng kapatid mo kasi inaagawan mo ng pagkain si Bacon.
Isa ako sa mga naniniwala na somehow, nililigtas tayo ng mga pets natin sa harm. So kung niligrtas mo man ako or kami sa kung anuman ang mangyayari – maraming salamat, Kulet.
Run free na, Kulet. I will remember you forever.. I am sure malulungkot ng sobra yung kapatid mo. But don’t worry – kami nang bahala,
Just rest in dog heaven. Mahal ka namin.
03/26/2025 I’ve been staying here in Manila since Thursday and I just found out that we lost his sister as well last Sunday. I kept on checking our CCTV and realized I haven’t seen her for days so I asked my husband where’s the other puppy. Then he told me that his niece brought her to the vet last Sunday because she was sick, and died the same day.
I’m sorry I wasn’t there, bbgirl. Run free with your brother Kulet.
