It was late summer last year when we lost our first 🤰🏻 — tough journey but made it to today overly being merry for first trimester milestones, hence this “too early” new set of bump photos.
Didn’t know it gets more tough going all out, getting a grip on this year’s biggest blessing. We lost loved ones during the first few weeks, on bed rest for a couple times, and making precautionary measures a habit to avoid another miscarriage. It is still true — life is hard, people are still rude BUT both still lead me to finding deeper gratitude.
Grief, healing and gratitude TO gratitude still, love and light.
Thank you to the people who prayed and still praying with us. Thank you for excessively showing us love, you complete our prenatal vitamins and we love you back! Thank you for your respect and consideration despite our differences and situations. Thank you for allowing me to make own mistakes and understanding my lack of experience, you still love me and express that by telling me what’s best for us in your most gentle manner because I know you’re thinking of the 👶🏻 inside me too.
To my JDidIt friends, thank you for your patience and support while I am on this journey. I will back with more energy, party bags and crafts next year! 🥳
Thank you to Nerissa, you are my best friend. Still one of my best friends! I had to call you out not because you need it but because we need you. As much as I don’t want it to be extra, but I want to say what I have been holding off for years thinking I’d appear more cool than my highschool self — I appreciate you for real. I rarely say it but you’re still my Cristina/Meredith and you’re still the “person I'd call to help me drag the corpse across the living room floor.”
Thank you to my Mama, you have always been my inspiration! Thank you for protecting me during my weakest points, for understanding my limitations and for helping me all throughout. Thank you for taking care of us, for cooking and preparing the food that I like and for simply coming home early this year. Thank you too, Joyce! Thank you for your efforts so you and Mama could come home when we need you. Thank you for your lowkey love hints, your wonder budols, and future budols for the little one ✌🏻 Thank you for being a thoughtful sister.
Thank you to my OB-GYN, Dra. Sua-Lao. You are indeed a wonder! 💕
Thank you to my husband. Oh it would take me days to list all the things you do for me, for us! You have always been loyal to me, to our marriage and now to this pregnancy. I have been a pain in the a** but you did not back down but instead, you stick by me. You have seen me at my best and at my worst, and you could honestly put my strength to test like we promised we do but you put it all on your shoulders! You now do it all and don’t even let me lift a finger. In days when I lose track of managing my perspective, you make sure you stand out as the man I married. I would be the Auggie saying, “You just have to say that because you’re my 𝒉𝒖𝒔𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅” and then you would say “Because I’m your 𝒉𝒖𝒔𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅, it counts the most.” And despite the many lows of this season, you still managed to make me laugh so hard 🌭🌭🌭 We love you!
To my baby on the way, thank you! 🥹 Thank you for being strong and for being our light. We are most thankful to the Lord for giving us the opportunity to be excited while we wait for you! 🌈
Light by Sleeping at Last
“I'll give you everything I have
I'll teach you everything I know
I promise I'll do better
I will always hold you close
But I will learn to let you go
I promise I'll do better
I will soften every edge
I'll hold the world to its best
And I'll do better
With every heartbeat I have left
I will defend your every breath
And I'll do better”
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