So, just like any other year, 2017 also passed by so quickly. My blogging activity throughout the year was not something that I can be proud of. Despite my effort to keep motivating myself, I couldn’t find enough time and energy to spend on writing a post. *sigh*
As my last resort, I will pour my heart and thought into highlighting each month’s theme from my 2017.
January
Being a citizen of this universe means that I also get sucked into spending my January thinking about, watching in delay, and cringing after the inauguration of Donald Trump as POTUS. “Life must go on” was the only thing that made me keep my sanity afterwards.
February
After the depressing January, luckily, what I remember from February are mostly the good ones. The first time we take Zhaf to Seaworld! He was very excited to see any kind of fish and other underwater creatures there. It was a mesmerizing experience to see the pure joy of my baby.
March
Zhaf is up and standing in his own for the first time! Yeay! Alhamdulillah. This marks my march in 2017. My baby is all grown up, because not long after he started to stand, he began to take his first step – also in this month.
April
My parents (both by blood and by law) went to Umrah this month, and they were very happy. For Zhaf, this month we went to Bali with him for the first time. The funniest thing that happened was to figure out that Zhaf was afraid of the beach (maybe the sand, or the sound of the waves). I still want to make him a beach boy, but I got no other chance in 2017. I guess it is time to plan for a trip to the beach in 2018. Yeay!
May
My Zhaf is turning 1. ONEderful journey with him! I love him to the moon and back. We did celebrate his birthday with our close family, but our timing was wrong – the birthday boy was too sleepy to enjoy his party. *lol* I also had a great experience this month: went to Australia for the first time, and fell so hard for Canberra.
June
Ramadhan is coming, and we were so eager to observe it with Zhaf has already been up and about this year. He woke up to join us having Sahoor in the morning, and so happy when we were all gathering to break the fast in the afternoon. I guess he was starting to love this holy month, just for all the gathering (this time).
July
Being part of the family of SabangMerauke was my highlight this month – beside our Eid in my hometown, of course. To be part of something so important, such as SabangMerauke, brings back my spirit to keep going despite all the bad things happening around the world. Hope is all over the world if we choose to embrace it!
August
The thing I remember the most from this month was the night when Zhaf had to get stitches, and it broke my heart to see him in such pain. I couldn’t afford to remove the painful images from my mind. Blood and tears everywhere – my heart was never the same after that tragedy.
September
I was entering the 29th zone of my life, but my highlight was that Zhaf was starting to wean himself from breastfeeding. He refused to be breastfed and started to drink cow milk. I thought that my broken heart in August was the worst; this one is a hundred times disaster in my heart and mind. All is well now, tho.
October – December
Couldn’t separate these 3 months since I was drowned in my work the whole time. Not much is happening outside the office since I spend most of my time (including the night) in my office. *sigh* What a sad way to end a year.
Hmm.. so many Zhaf in my highlight. Please bear with me, guys. I guess 2018 will also be the same. 🙂
Love,
The DarkJasmine.
The DarkJasmine 