A Few of My Favorite Things #1

(This is really helpful if you want to enjoy your kids more.  Looking for the positive, guess what?, makes you feel more positive!)

Here are some things I noticed/appreciate about my kids:

--Jane so cheerful when she comes home from school

--all of them are so willing and happy to go to church each Sunday

--they all listen and contribute in church, Family Home Evening lessons, and scripture study

--Faith's awesome little voice

--G's early birdness (sometimes it’s annoying, but I can certainly appreciate a person who wants to get up and get going on his day!)

--S cheerfully doing his deep cleaning jobs. He's coming around!

--I know I can count on E to do a thorough cleaning job…so she gets the ones I know guests/visitors will see!

--how much G loves the snow.  He’s been out hours every day…even in 10 degree weather.

--last week, when it was 10 degrees, on the way to swimming I asked Gabe, sarcastically, “I bet getting in a pool sounds lovely right now.”  He looked at me and said “Really, Mom, it does!”

--that Emma wants to sing in choir.  This is good bonding time for us.

--that S picked up something that wasn't his!

--that Faith looks like this

--that Jane was the first to memorize the first line of memorization project: The Living Christ

--that Gabe tried really hard to follow a hard to follow rule this weekend

--that Emma is so patient with Faith

--how much G LOVES his music class.  He’s constantly singing their Christmas stuff.  Love a 10 year old boy who’s not afraid to sing at the top of his lungs!

--I appreciate that F's insistence that everything be on her terms will make make her a force to be reckoned with in this world.

--how friendly and open my kids are.  Look at how relaxed and content Faith is with Santa.  I love that my kids are outgoing and loving to people around them.

Wow!  Even though they aren’t robots who want to follow me around while I run errands and keep the house spotlessly organized, they are pretty great!  Who knew?

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The Unknown Hill.

Alvin organized a small hiking session to the unknown hill, and this is a hill that not much ppl know? and nothing much to see from up there also. but at least we leave some foot prints back there on the summit. :)


Staring Climbing the Unknow Hill...


don't look back... erm... but but... the scenery back there is kinda nice wor...


Alvin found the Political flag up here... hmph...


god of the mountain? nah.. just Alvin up there, the sun kinda bright this morning XD


Half way there.. let take a photo here 1st before we proceed.


climb climb climb~ hike hike hike~. up up up~

obstacles.. torn branches to get over..


ooh.. i saw light! are we almost there?? i believe so..it must be..


hoho! i believe that the Mark of the summit. guys, we're here!! Destination.


Alvin be the first one to climb up for the environment up there..


The group of peoples who here for to conquer the Unknown hill.

Another Groups Photo.


OK.. it's time go back back where we come from.. one way up one way down..slippery..


That's the place where we just climbed just now.


After the hiking.. time for energy recharge. FOOD HUNT! ulu yam Loh Mee.

Kengkit Birthday @ Seremban Smoke Crab

Seremban Smoked Crab. yummy.. we here for someone birthday celebration.


the birthday boy kengkit enjoying the seremban smoke crab with his gf chloe, birthday crab? hehe


Birthday boy keng kit! happy Birthday,


challenge for the birthday boy.. try to blow off the candle from another side of the table.. tough ya?


the famous crabs and some side dishes.


that's group of the celebration. happy birthday keng kit

This is why buying presents is essentially pointless

Seth has been playing with these feathers we found for 42 minutes.







(I've seriously timed it).

He just insisted it "take a picture of JUST these special blue feathers". So here:

Fake memory cards

We often hear people saying that "if it's cheap, it's inferior". Well, that may not apply for some services or products, but when it comes to memory media it is often the case. The fake ones are generally sold online or via unscrupulous retailers at half the price (or sometimes much less) of the real McCoys. So what difference will it make when using a bogus media? For starters, counterfeit

I Simply Remember My Favorite Things and then I Don’t Feel So Bad

I completely believe in personal revelation;  I believe God knows us, is intimately involved in our lives and through His Holy Spirit will guide and direct our lives.  It’s a good thing, too, because I need His help.

Increasingly over the last few weeks, I’ve felt really frustrated with my kids because

a) they are not robots

b) they seem to have slightly different goals than I do about how to treat our stuff, how to use time, etc.

I’ve felt badly about it and have been praying for help.  I pretty much got hit over the head with that Help yesterday because

1) at church the speakers spoke about charity and loving rather than judging and being long-suffering with people who are different than you (see b above).

2) during class time, we’ve started attending the marriage class.  Instead of getting any insight into things I need to change about my marriage, I spent the entire time mutating the excellent teacher’s comments about spouses and marriages into ideas about children and mothering.

3) Ryan taught an excellent lesson for Family Home Evening on how we show Respect.  (Not super respectful when I snap and yell at the human beings in my house, is it?)

4) I listened to a Conversation with Julie Beck and her daughters and it was all about motherhood and priorities and safe havens.

5) I read Julie Beck’s talk on Priorities and Power.

I’m thinking Someone was trying to tell me something.

I got lots of ideas about how to tweak my routine and thoughts, but the main one was to Pay Attention to the Good Things They Do.   So…for the next few weeks I’m going to do one post a week where I list why they are such good children. 

 

We’ll start tomorrow.  Should be easy…they are pretty fabulous.