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Dressing up twins, and a matching outfit for Mommy

April 16, 2013 – 3:59 pm

I have to admit, dressing up twin girls is one of the things I love about being a Mom. When I was still single, I’ve always wished for a baby girl for one selfish reason—shopping clothes for girls looked so fun! It sure is. Even more when you’re dressing up twin girls.

Dressing Up Twins

I obviously love mixing and matching their clothes, making sure their dresses complement each other’s if not totally the same. Sometimes, all four of us (the twins, my husband, and I) would even go as far as wear matching outfits. The child in me gets jumpy when it’s time to dress them up, like I’m playing with my own life-size set of Barbie and Ken dolls. It drives my husband crazy!

Though I like dressing up, I hardly accessorize these days. Partly because the girls like pulling and drooling on whatever their tiny hands can grab—note to mommies, your outfit needs child-proofing too! But mostly because carrying around an adorable and fashionable baby is like donning your best accessory, no need for more blings. Just make sure you don’t look like a drag, or else be mistaken as your baby’s yaya! :)

These days, whenever I shop for my own clothes, I always have the babies’ outfit in mind too.

Retail Therapy

Here’s today’s cyber-retail therapy in pinks and neutrals.

1. Betmar Carnation Hat | 2. Brown Belly Poncho Top | 3. Lab C. Pink Case for iPhone
4. Panda Robinon Natural Sunnies | 5. Nature Colored Brown Bree | 6. Wabitoy Teddy
7. Rags 2 Riches Chalk Pink Kenmu Clutch | 8. R2R Chalk Pink Hobo Bag 
(All items are from Ava.ph)

You see anything you like? Feel free to shop now at Ava.ph: CLICK HERE!
Ava recently launched their Baby Boutique too. Check it out!

So.. how do you like seeing our twin girls? Donned in the same outfit or complementing ones?

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Life as I Know It Mommyhood Work Life Balance

Currently having a sort-of writer’s block, help me!

April 11, 2013 – 7:41 pm

Good Distractions

The problem is, since these two girls came into my life (and my blog life), I just couldn’t find the drive to blog about any other topic but them. The ideas are there, and my drafts folder is a proof of my trying-hard efforts at blogging non-Dawn&Rain related stuff. It’s finishing the posts and hitting the publish button that’s my major bottleneck.

Over the past two months, I’ve collected these blog titles in my drafts:

  • What Job Interviews Taught Me
  • How God Got My Attention in This One Job Interview
  • Why Work-at-Home Did Not Work for Me
  • Hire a Mother, You Won’t Regret It
  • I’m a Writer, Just Reminding Myself
  • Why I’ll Never Be a Businessman

And then there’s a list of wedding invitations I wanted to include in my design projects:

  • Tin & Hobbes’ Shabby Chic Wedding
  • Ivy & Angel’s Wedding, DIY All The Way
  • JP & Lucille’s Blue and Whimsical Wedding
  • I Witnessed Another Proposal: Jessa & Kokoy
  • Noemi & Neal’s Summer Wedding

I’m restless. I finally landed a job which allows me to create content to my heart’s content, and a wave of panic is suddenly raining on my parade—how am I supposed to do this job if I can’t even finish one post in my own blog?

I know I’ve struggled about declaring that I am a writer, and right now I’m (once again) in the process of getting over my fears and owning this profession. After all, God seems to keep sending me towards this direction, no matter how many times I try to pull away.

So.. I need your help. Yes, you, whoever you are reading this.

I want to know what kind of stuff you want to see/read here at ChasingDreams.Net, aside from more pictures of the twins. (Yes, I know you want more of those, and yes there will be more pictures of them to come.) But if there’s any particular topic or idea you want me to write about, or if one of my posts from the past years somehow made a dent in your life, or if you’re interested in any of the titles I listed above and you want me to continue publishing any of those drafts, let me know what, or which one.

I recently updated my About Page. Feel free to read what this website is really about, aside from being just a personal memory keeping device.

One thing I’ve been coming to terms with and learning more and more of each day is that life is not all about me. And this blog shouldn’t be, too.

For a change, let me write something that interests you.

Let me know, I’ll be waiting. :)

Love, Riz

Feel free to email me at riz[at]chasingdreams.net or leave a comment. God bless!

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Dawn & Rain Mommyhood Portraits

6/52: Laughtrip with Daddy

April 5, 2013 – 10:34 am

6/52: Rain

6/52: Dawn

6/52: Rain

6/52: Dawn

The sound of our babies’ chuckles is probably the most beautiful sound I’d ever hear in a day. And the sight of their smiling faces—ahh, makes my heart burst. Every. Single. Time.

They look at us with so much innocence, reciprocate our silliness with their priceless smiles, and in those fleeting moments of bliss, we know that we’re forever changed.

Amazing how babies know so little yet teach us so much.

6/52, A Year of Dawn & Rain | March 31-April 6
Portraits of my children, once a week, every week in 2013

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Dawn & Rain Mommyhood Portraits

5/52: Just another happy Saturday

March 25, 2013 – 12:24 pm

5/52: Dawn & Rain

552-dawn

5/52: Rain

I feel the need to remind you (whoever you are reading this) that my twins are girls. Haha. Sometimes they look like boys. They just grow so fast, you know? Except their hair, but that’s okay. It only makes them fashionably bald babies.

OAN, you know what I really wish I could have right now? A camera attached to my eyes. D&R are smiling and chuckling a lot these days, but they get distracted whenever we start pointing the camera to their faces. So most of their photographs are like, them curiously staring at the light coming from the camera flash and wondering what’s going on. (Still cute, though!) Sometimes I wish I could record on video every babytalk and every single smile they make!

This would have been a great time for Google glass to go mainstream, what’s taking it soo long? (Not that I can afford the Glass.)

In the meantime, I’m taking ridiculous amounts of photographs, and flooding my blog and Facebook pages with them. I want to be able to remember this time of their life always.

See outtakes here.

5/52, A Year of Dawn & Rain | March 24-30
Portraits of my children, once a week, every week in 2013

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4/52: Sunday best

March 24, 2013 – 1:55 am

4/52: Dawn & Rain

4/52: Dawn

4/52: Rain

Sundays are for going to church and getting your Sunday best on—as little kids, that’s what my sibs and I have grown accustomed to. Of course as we grew older, Sundays became more than just physically dressing up. More importantly, it’s about getting the heart, mind, body and soul ready for what the Lord has to say in this special day of the week.

But as for the dressing up, it’s never too early to start training the twins, eh? :)

It’s like playing with two life-size dolls. Dressing up a baby girl is fun as it is, imagine how much more when you’re dressing up twins—mix-and-matching their dresses so that they would complement each other’s outfits, if not wear exactly the same dress.

These photographs were from last Sunday. Can you tell that their Mommy enjoys dressing them up more than they do? ;)

4/52, A Year of Dawn & Rain | March 17-23
Portraits of my children, once a week, every week in 2013

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