Kaito is growing so quickly! He’s now running errands for us and being sent about now! Lol. Yesterday his father said, in obvious joy: “Kaito is doing so much now! I’m about to ask him to go turn on the gen, or buy eggs from the mallam! #9JA

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Me looking at another mum at Kaito’s school:

Me: “Wow, her waist is so small! She lost all her baby weight.”

CJ: So did you.

Me: No, *points to tummy*, my stomach is still bigger.

CJ: There is no weight on your body that is from pregnancy my friend. You just eat much more than you did before you were pregnant.

Me: *Looks askance & sighs* This is true.

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Everything we have achieved, we achieved by pressing in. Not giving in.

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CJ: What do you want to drink?

Me: Anything that will not cost us money tonight.

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Since Kaito came into our lives, I have seen you bloom into everything I thought you would be the first time I saw you defending the stammering guy in that book club meeting two years ago. So thankful you get to live your dream of being a dad. So thankful I get to do this with you. How lucky Kaito and I are to have you.

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If I kill my wedding planner in a nice, non-violent way, can I still use the provocation defense?

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Me: You should have booked the sea view not the garden view for me! It’s double the price

CJ: Should I change it?

Me: Yes please!

Also me: Why did you change it? I can’t justify that spend without feeling guilty but if you spent it, I would feel less guilty. So I didn’t mean for you to listen to me and change it.

CJ:. ______________

The way my lunacy is set up, y’all…

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“May he be flawed; so flawed, there are nights you would consider leaving because of his high pitched snores and when you tiptoe outside with your Chanel bag in hand, you would, in your steps, remember that we do not love because of all roundedness, we love for the absence of it. We love because there are vital parts missing, fissures that only love can fill.”

Caleb Okereke

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Submission has gotten such a bad rep when it is actually one of the strongest things a person can do.

Because it’s hard as hell

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I think we fell in love IN our surprise at stumbling upon each other. I mean, I couldnt understand how no one else seemed to have realised that underneath the extrovert was a kind and compassionate man. He seemed surprised to find that no one knew that under the Hermione hat was a special girl.

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Things to remember when you’re planning a wedding:

Everything. Ugh.

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I have burnt the bridges behind me.

There is no exit.

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*Thinks to Self * Following my comprehensive Power Point presentation on wedding plans with an OCD-inspired Excel sheet of tasks, for the wedding planner, is overkill no?  Maybe just the colour-coding. Think she’s already sent her hit-men to kill me?

When you’re anal and your fiance is a micromanager…

Ways to Kill Your Wedding Planner #435

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Love of my life

Exception to the rule

Chunk of my joy

My all time favourite.

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The blessing of the Lord makes rich and adds no sorrow to it #NoCounterfeit

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Giving you his best even when you’re at your worst.

A love modeled after God.

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God does not sleep on that which concerns His own.

Ever.

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“Where my money at?!”

Wycleff

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“May he look at you tenderly, but not the kind of tenderness that masks flaws, not the kind that closes her eyes to things, because some day those eyes will certainly open, but the kind that acknowledges and loves nonetheless.”

Caleb Okereke

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Not everyone asking deserves answers

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You’re weird.

Me too.

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My heart, so precious, I won’t trade for a hundred thousand souls, yet your one smile takes it for free.

Rumi

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“Well, look who I ran into,” crowed Coincidence.

“Please,” flirted Faith, “this was was meant to be.”

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The struggle to keep a secret when you’re an open book.

Note to self: Say No to THE Dress.

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I must be the luckiest girl in the world.

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His dad said to me, “You study before every important test in life. Why wouldn’t you study before you embark on a marriage?”

On reading everything I find

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“…One of the best pieces of marriage advice that I have received is give each other the benefit of the doubt. For example: He simply forgot/ has other things on his mind vs. He doesn’t care. A way of rephrasing the benefit of the doubt is simply believe the best of each other. Most of the time we’re not consciously being thoughtless, we’re simply not aware”

So incredibly true. I learnt this from C; he gives me a chance over & over. And her:

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Magegz: I have thought about it…and I’ve decided that it’s best for my mum and I to just wear white at my wedding.

For peace to reign.

(LMAO!)

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Such a love that when it came

it blackened the rest of what I thought love to be.

I was burned

became ash. My ashes

were scattered and disappeared

but when they found your scent

my ashes came back

and formed into thousands of shapes again

Rumi

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What’s the difference between a ring and Fairy Dust?

Everything.

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And here forever after begins… #ChiLyn

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