grandpa baptized!

oh wow. another surprise.

my grandpa was baptized yesterday in the hospital. he will turn 90 this july. we just visited him the saturday before last. i want to write more... but no time at the moment. so leaving this note here first... ^_^

oh wow!

surrounded by beauty

beautiful sunset sky just from the front porch

These two days, the sunset turned the sky a glorious orange-pink color. Oh well, I'm not capable enough to describe the beauty (nor the camera is good enough to capture the real coolness of the sky). Just writing it here to remind myself that we are indeed surrounded by beauty. :)

planting green beans

we just planted green beans (or more correctly, mung beans) yesterday. they have been sprouting significantly today. :)this started because jove was fascinated with boowa and kwala planting green beans. check it out here. the instructions to plant green beans from boowa and kwala can be found here.

then this morning, i found this interesing site: ecoliteracy, which has this activity of making mini greenhouse from a recycled cd case.

exciting project for mother and son. :)

eight years

this date eight years ago, hubby asked me to be his girlfriend. :)

it has been a meaningful journey. and i thank God for the first day we start this journey together.

baptized!

we were late when we entered the church that wednesday night. five minutes past seven. the four of us, my husband, and the two kids. the mass has already started, the first reading was being read.

i could see papa and mama sitting in one of the front pews together with their catechism classmates, wearing white tops and black bottoms.

andi and i hovered around the back of the church with the restless kids.

then when the baptism started, there was a blackout! the lights went off with a loud sound (coming from the sound system that went off). so the baptism was done with candle lights in darkness. no microphone, sound system, nor any musical instrument. the choir just sang with their own voices. i thought that was how the first christians were baptized, and that was beautiful.

i remembered my prayers when i was younger and was pretty awed that God remembered my prayers even after i forgotten it. when my parents started going to catechism class, i was pretty surprised but still a bit skeptical. the realization hit full blast in the dark during the baptism. and i felt so grateful and loved and happy. :)

the lights went on after the baptism. so the anointing of the chrism oil was done in the light.

thank you, Lord.

one of those weeks...

some weeks, you just can't do any other thing than being with your kids and the people around you.

i am currently working on a personal exciting project and i take every available time to do it. i used to sneak up on my kids, forced poor husband to take care of the kids (while i ran off to the computer), and being grumpy whenever i could not have the time to do it... then husband and i had a talk. and what he said to me made a lot of sense.

this week, i had very little time to do the project. there was always something coming up. but instead of being grumpy, i am accepting the fact that all these flurry of activities actually show how rich my life is. and i am thankful for that.

we went to bogor last sunday, visiting engkong & emak's grave with my in-laws. tiring but a lot of fun. then my parents got baptized on wednesday night (deserve a full blog post on its own later). our dear old friend from singapore, donny, came visiting us today. and we had to wake up at about three or three thirty a.m. soon for our flight to semarang at six a.m. to visit grandpa.

i still have a little disappointment in not having enough time to do the project (that's why i'm writing this post, i think), but i count my blessings and i am truly thankful for this blessed week.