FUIMAONO FAMILY

Mon, January 13, 2020 What's life like with 6 kids now? Well....I'm two weeks post partum. I'm tired. The end. Lol jk  To be honest..when I'm tired, it's so easy for me to become grouchy and start feeling down (like who doesn't get like this?). So I wanted to journal a bit because for me it's one of the easiest ways to get my head and heart back to center. So here goes... The current challenges Life with six kids so far has just been a little exhausting lol. Mostly because in addition to a newborn, Metuli has been sick and has been very needy. She has had a hard time sleeping for the past couple of nights. I've been getting up every 2-3 hours to feed baby so of course I'm in the typical newborn tiredness. But having Aljay so tired is a double whammy. This has been the hardest recovery physically. With the 1st C-section I was shocked at how different the healing process is from a vaginal birth, but I didn't take any of my pain meds when I ...

Happy New Year! In our little corner of the world we welcomed the New Year with the arrival of our beautiful baby Salani. Couldn't have asked for a better way to end 2019 and start 2020. Especially since o n the world scale, the New Year started off craaazzy. Only a week into the New year and USA and Iran are on the brink of a War Australia is on fire (has been for months now) Puerto Rico experienced a big earthquake Indonesia is experiences terrible flooding Global warming and climate issues are evident across several parts of the world Measles outbreak in the South Pacific is still taking lives  and I'm pretty sure there is more happening that I'm not aware of. But I can't help but think about everything the Prophet has been warning us about and all that he has admonished us to do.  So for the 2020 year, the theme for our Fuimaono goals will be centered on  CONSISTENCY for us it this means  being on church on time daily family scri...

Allow me to introduce the newest member of the Fuimaono crew Salani Janeen Fa'afetai Fuimaono Born December 31, 2019 @ 6:10pm in the American Fork Hospital American Fork Utah. 6lbs 2oz. 19 in. Birth time 1810 (6:10pm) Gestational Age 37.2 Salani - after her Grandpa Viiga's village in Samoa and because Aljay and Ah Chu planned it out to match with Baby Alofisula's name lol.  Janeen - after my Aunty Janeen who I could always turn to for anything! Since I was in Hawaii, Aunty Janeen has been like a second Mom, best Aunty, and coolest friend! She has the biggest heart and I hope baby picks up on the same traits.  Fa'afetai - because each of our girls has one of their great grandma's names and it felt like a good pattern to follow. Fa'afetai is Aljay's maternal Grandma. I met her once before she passed.  Nickname (s)? Aljay initially called her Baby Lani, but I keep calling her Nini/Nini girl. We'll see what sticks once we ...

It's already 2020 and I know if I keep putting this off, it'll never get done. So here's a quick recap of the quickest December (or so it felt like)! Boy we had a great start to our Christmas season! We got our tree out super early (like before Thanksgiving lol) We started our new Christmas Jar tradition in November We used the daily devotionals from the December Ensign in our evening family devotionals. (Thank you Ensign for making my life so much easier) We had our Ward Christmas party (Dec 13th) aaannnd then we had almost two weeks of the cold/cough. I swear that is the trend every single year! Strong start, get sick, get better and then MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! lol  Dec 16 | Beginning of the Sick Week This was the last week of school before the Christmas break and we decided to keep the kids home since they had started coughing the Friday before. Unfortunately I was coming down with a cold pretty quickly so I had to stay home as well. Aljay took the kids to...

By the time I'm posting this, I've already delivered baby...but I still wanted to post this for my own personal journal.  Week 32 We're in the final stretch and I am thrilled to have made it past 32 weeks. I was feeling anxious because last year I was 32 weeks along when I had to unexpectedly deliver Metuli. That experience was super scary/traumatizing and a bit of me feared that it would happen again. I was also nervous because I decided to change my doctor and go back to the midwives that helped me deliver Saleima. Luckily I was able to meet with them and an OB from the same practice and I walked out of each appointment feeling good about my decision. Aljay felt good about it too. Even though American Fork is a little bit further, it felt like a better decision for us. I also asked Aljay to give me a blessing to help me stay calm, focused, and not so worried. So grateful for the Priesthood and the comfort and peace I can feel when I receive a blessing.  I'm...