Life of a Kat

Can you believe it? January is almost done!!! The year of the Horse is living up to expectations of it being fast and just unbelievably fast.  As I slowly prepare to get back to the workforce, I can't help but just think about how much I am going to miss the days with just me and my baby.  She is also getting heavier day by day and so, I am trying my best to be able to exercise and make sure that I also practice proper posture of bending and lifting her up to avoid muscle pains and stress. Every single detail counts.  With that, I would like to think that I am someone who really takes time to exercise even the bare minimum, instead of being zero every day. I have been doing squats and bends, and planning to add 10 push ups every day.  Grad school is going well. I am also anticipating being labeled incomplete on one of my subjects and so I know that I would have to work on that soon.  I already paid my final invoice for 2025 tax and I know that I have to work on ...

Almost halfway through in the first month of the year.  Our little Hiraya is hitting her 3rd month of making our lives a rollercoaster ride with giggles and just love at every end of the ride.  One day she was a very tiny living thing that can fit into a shoebox, now she is still a tiny human being that had occupied so much of my heart and my daily life.  This new life is overwhelming and really in need of constant attention and care 24/7.  I dreamt of this, but didn't get to see the reality of it until it came.  In all of it, it is an honor to be given a child, to be given a responsibility for another human from birth until who knows when.  Right now, this bundle of joy loves to be cuddled every time, has a radar when mama leaves her side while she is sleeping.  She is also a great crier with sound overpowering the sound of the shower.  She has that smile that melts my heart everytime.  She has that tiny body that I love to embrace.  I ...