A Woman's Weekly

The new house that is.

Cool Daddy is wanting to go check on the progress of the renovations almost everyday!

Today, wet works on the house is finally complete. The contractor is now just touching up on minor parts of the house like paint and metal work. We’ve had the wireman come and fix all the lightings and electrical points. Now with lights and new paint, the house looks so different from when we first laid our hands on it. Then the color scheme was dark and it had but one small yellow light bulb in the kitchen!

The next stage is for the built-in cabinets to come in. The carpenter will be coming in the next few days to start work on it.

In the meantime, we will start cleaning the house up and moving our stuff in, in that order. We’ve tendered our notice to our current landlord, so officially, sometime during the Deepavali holiday in November, we would already be staying there.

As such, the next few weeks looks to be busy but the whole family is excited about it. Miss D keeps reminding her dad to bring her ‘ferarri’ over from uncle Bob’s house to our new home. Mom has been priming the girls up about having to sleep in their own room once we move there, and big sister is game, but little sister is still not so sure about it. Cool Daddy is constantly thinking about how better to improve our living conditions there, and I’m constantly thinking about decorating ideas.

It is after all, finally, our very own home!

Wait for the invites to our House Blessing friends!

That’s the title of the song Miss D sang at her day care Open Day on Saturday, Oct 2nd, at Maksak Hall Likas. What a crazy two weeks we’ve had!

Cool Dad was busy throughout the two weeks facilitating for the Ancient Path Seminars. Despite the fact that he was physically stretched by the activities of the week – at work, at home and at church – he was blessed. For Cool Daddy, Craig Hill’s teachings were as new as it was when we first attended it. Now that he helped facilitate, it was a blessing to see how many more can be touched and healed so that they too can be a blessing to others around them. Work is not less busy for him but he’s looking forward to moving to the office’s new premise by month end. He gets a bigger room there!

Was a happy day for Miss D on Saturday, preparing to go to Maksak Hall. She had talked about it to mommy and daddy all week! Throughout the morning she was on her best behaviour. Not that I’m bragging, she really did such a good job in all her performances! The parent-child activity was funny tho. Mom and her were in the same team. The activity called for child to pick up balloons and run to mom for mom to blow, and run back to her position and pick another balloon up. Miss D and I had a good start until Miss D refused to pick up any other balloon that wasn’t either red or blue in color! Needless to say, Miss D and I didn’t win the competition but had a lot of fun doing it together.. that is, until someone finally gave her a balloon that was the color of her choice!

Our sweet Miss Mel just tagged along the whole time. Poor girl kept running after me cos I was busy taking photos of big sister Miss D out in the front. Miss Mel is beginning to sing more these days, and she got some moves when she hears music playing. We are thinking of enrolling her for ballet when she’s old enough. She’s also awesome at prayers, and starts her own mealtime prayer if nobody has started on it yet at the table. Then she’ll call on everyone to say ‘amen’! Whenever big sister cries or throws a tantrum, she’ll be singing ‘Jesus loves me this I know..” as loud as possible!

As for Mua, the office threw me a surprise birthday on friday, October 1st, which was nice. Truthfully, I hadn’t thought much about my birthday this year because it was right smack in the middle of church seminars and Dan’s Open Day performance. Then to make it even more special, the Worship Team called me on stage after church on sunday and sang me a birthday song! That was a really nice surprise. They gave me an Elle document bag for a gift. I absolutely love it! Then I had another surprise when we went to Christine’s birthday party. Because Christine and I shared the same birthday, they had a cake in my honor too! And I love your gift Belinda, Shen, Gabriel, Daniel and Christine! Thank you!

As a family, we are looking forward to two things. Our new house and our new baby.

The house is looking good now that renovations is underway. Looking forward to seeing how it looks like when all is completed! Likewise, baby three is growing well, and we can’t wait to see whether he or she will be more like Miss D or Miss Mel, or Mom or Dad!