Taking care of a toddler and a newborn baby simultaneously is a nerve-wreaking experience to say the least. I’m even developing insomnia because of anxiety attacks I’m facing. Anxiety because I wanted to be alert at every sound Ezra makes. Every time I close my eyes, my brain goes into panic mode. I could feel my brain screaming, “Ezra’s gonna scream at any moment! Don’t sleep, don’t sleep!” All this is not helping my already sleep-deprived body.

Times such as these are what made me wish I was a working mother instead of stay at home mom. Being out of control is one of the things I fear the most for as long as I can remember. Being a mother means accepting that things are often, if not mostly, out of our control. Especially when our children gets sick. It’s heart-wrenching. Even if you install an air purifier to obtain fresh air by ecoquest international and prevent allergies, there are bound to be other things that they’ll fall sick over. And I can’t handle that reality, most of the time.

But I do my best. I sacrifice. That’s what mothers are suppose to do isn’t it?

I hope the one to two hours of downtime wasn’t noticeable. I’ve been meaning to move this site to another hosting provider for quite some time since my current paid hosting is expiring. Luckily, I found a company that offers FREE web hosting for WordPress. There is no catch, and you get 350 MB of disk space and 100 GB bandwidth. They also have cPanel control panel which is amazing and easy to use website builder. Moreover, there is no any kind of advertising on your pages.

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While perusing the RSS feeds in my WordPress dashboard, I came across this cool free tool which I think scrapbooking mamas will thoroughly enjoy; just look at one of the creations I made just by using Scrapblog:

Scrapblog is an online tool that allows you to create a media-rich scrapbook out of many preset designs or start from scratch, and then share it out to anyone you like. My favourite thing about Scrapblog is its ability to export your scrapbooks into JPEG format — this allows me to use the scrapbooks I made into background images for my desktop. Go ahead, try it for yourself.

Note: I meant to update this post for a while, but I’ve been having problems accessing this site for a couple of days. I apologize if all you see initially was one big blob of image or nothing at all.

For some reason, I have forgotten the existence of another baby blog I made for Eric, until I logged into my Blogger account recently and saw some posts that I didn’t even realize I made. The amazing thing was, there were 32 posts in total, dating back to 2002! I never knew I had posted so much in the baby blog before.

I’ll be working on moving all its content one by one into this one. It’s so much easy to consolidate everything rather than have everything strewn around. The only thing I’ll be keeping in the blog would be the blog template, just so that I can see a history of how The Blog of Rugrats grew to what it is now.

I’ve been trying for months to get my blog listed in The Mom Blogs to no avail. When I first submitted this site, they sent me a response saying that they can’t find the the required back link to their blog and wanted me to re-submit, but the strange thing was that the link they wanted was in clear view in the sidebar. I waited until a month or so before I re-submitted. This time, I kept getting stuck on their link checking section (where I was suppose to input my URL to verify that it hasn’t existed in their directory) and got an error saying that “the link is not available or cannot be accessed”.

I’m not gonna be bothered with listing in the Mom Blogs and have removed the back link. I’m sure there are better general and niche blog directories out there that are worth my time.