Having Fun in Seaside

Grace's cute toes covered by sands

We had the great chance of recently visiting Seaside, Oregon on September 19th until 22nd. It was the first time for Grace, our daughter to see and touch the Pacific Ocean and actually the main purpose of this trip was for our little gal to see the ocean. Eventhough we live near The Commencement Bay in Tacoma where the peninsula surrounded by the water from Pacific Ocean, but the beaches such as Owen Beach and Titlow Beach and the waterfront are not sandy beach and of course a 'bay' is different than 'big ocean'.
As usual like many road trips we had before since we have Grace, preparation is very important when you bring a toddler, her clothes, milk,juice,snack on the go, pilow neck, some animal stuffs, favorite lovey doll, diapers, potty chair...etc. I have to admitt, I'm such a terrible packer (I forgot to bring comb and brush when we went to Mexico),  I wrote 2 page note every details that I need to bring, even I made note what we wear since day one, that way, I can be a bit relax, just follow the note. Having Grace in our life really change me. I really try to be more organized, yet simple.

Passport Picture

When we went to Canada in September, 2009, we need passport for our daughter, so, her daddy took some picture of her. I thought I would prepare nice dress for her to put on, but when I took a break and had cat nap on lazy Sunday sometimes in May (Grace was 8 months old), her daddy put her in dining chair, with my white bath towel as a background and Grace wore her play dress (well, actually it's not dress but cute romper)...turned out it was cute picture of her in her very 1st passport, a little girl doesn't need, eyeshadow, lipstick or other beauty stuff when she need passport shot, a fun daddy who make her smile and laugh is enough..

Precious Time and Mommyhood

7/10/2009,the day when the 1st time
Grace was able to do 'clapping'

One day, I asked my friend who lives in Kentucky, she is a mom to 21 months old little boy:'Do you still exercise..?', she said that she wants to, but everytime she's getting prepare the workout mat on the floor to do 'pilates' then her son would bug her,..ha..ha!, it happend to me too. Time even more precious for her as she tried to devide it between her son, husband, household chores and working at night time.


Mother-daughter moment,
I talk about everything to my kid
in any occasion

 While I'm not working right now, but the time management still a challenging for me. I was aware about the ups and downs of 'mommyhood' way before I give birth to Grace, my daughter, but when the mommyhood finally arrived I was overwhelmed. There're so many things that I have to do!,...I really admire and respect to other moms who have two, three kids even more because for me having one kid is (already) hectic. As you guys know, am not living in Indonesia or other Asian Countries which the culture is totally different, in there we can rely even to a strange neighbor to watch our kids when nobody at home and when we need to take shower or do some errants which we need to do that by ourself without kids or babies arround. In America, the term of mom and housewife, meaning you have to do everything by yourself. Even so, I like to think of 'organized chaos' in a good way!.