Moving to new blog- 4Mfamily forever 2012

I hope it won't be too late to move to a new blog for 2012... please visit my new blog, and you will see what happen in 4M family 2012.

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more snapshots in feb /March 2011

March 11- first day of pre-school

Micah started pre-school on March 11 Monday, he was so excited and asked me where we will go in the morning, and I told him he will start going to school! He cannot distinglish what the difference among Magma childminding, Sunday school at church, preschool at small blessing or other play group. To kids, the most importance is to let them play play play...

When he entered into the classroom of Small Blessing, his teacher Debbie came to him and said " good morning Micah, how are you today ?".he was a bit shy and didn't want to respond.. ( it wasn't his character, I know!)  He just pretended to be shy . Ms Debbie then brought him to a table and let him play with lego, and then said bye to me immediately.

It was a very good start and I hope he can learn more from there. I am very glad that I could have some private time for myself, and I plan to go jogging !  Time to do some exercise!

some snapshots feb to March 2012

    it is so funny that now both Moses and Micah compete each other in order to get as many as credits from me if they can achieve those targets every day. If they can get over 20 "ticks" a week, they can get $ 0.25 so that they can save those dollars.

                        snow day .. but it was too good that we didn't have much snow this winter 2012 .

Chinese New Year 2012(Jan 27)

Since we have moved to Moncton, we no longer celebrated any official Chinese New Year; There is a dinner celebration by the small Chinese community but we didn't join.
Besides Chinese, this new year ( so-called Lunar New Year) is also for Korean, Vietnamese. Magma is a Multi-cultural association so that it also has small celebration for the kids to enjoy.

On the first day of Chinese new year, our family has our own " new year foods", honestly, I never thought that I would cook those traditional meals, if I were in Hong Kong, I would have visited mom, and other relatives during the new year holiday, in which I just sat down and enjoyed the foods. But for the kids, I think it is no harm to let them have the feel of traditional festival.

my birthday Jan 18, 2012

Yesterday it was my Birthday, the morning my best friend Sarah called me and invited me to her house, Sujin came as well, and I was so spoiled by them , received wonderful presents and had snack time with them.

I feel so blessed that I could make a lot of good friends in Moncton, people here are so nice, when we developed our friendship, I truly feel the warmness and loves from them especially you don't have relatives here. Whenever you ask for help, they will give their hands without any hesitation. After being a mom, I feel that for my every single birthday, it is actually not big day to myself. Instead, the wishes and thankfulness should be for my parents, sometimes I am regret that I no longer see my dad as he has been passed away for 6 years, but we did have wonderful time together, though he was a very traditional Chinese father, no hug no kiss, even some arguments between us.

Yesterday I called mom and said thanks to her, whenever the birthday of your child, it might bring you back a lot of good memories. same does her , and me.  I appreciate my parents who brought me into the world, and brought me up to be a mom of two, and a wife of a man. Stepping into the stage of the life as is , I could experience what the up and down  of a life but I am so thankful that I have God, my parents, my hubby, my boys and my siblings,

Last night, we went to a Korean restaurant for supper , which was excellent, foods and service were perfect.  I suddenly remember we didn't take any photo on my birthday, no birthday cake as I don't want to have.  But a lot of loves and hugs from my " three " boys!!

Mommy, can you please not kiss me outside of our house?

I can't exactly remember when Moses asked me " Mommy, can you please not kiss me outside of our house? I feel so embarrassed . It was because I kissed and hugged him after he came out from the school. It was so funny. I guess it was about the time when he was just promoted to grade 3. Then I asked him why , and I told him because I loved him so much and I couldn't wait kissing him after school. He said I could do that inside our HOUSE, but not outside.

One time, I teased him when we were walking on the way back home after school, when I reached near his friend's house, I kissed his face without his alert.  " Oh, Mommy!! why did you do that ? did I tell you before ? you can only kiss me when you are inside our house..", I laughed immediately, I can't stop laughing .

Not only kissing, but also holding his hands near the school area is NOT ALLOWED.
But when he is at house, he always loves to sit on my lap or hug me at the times.

snow day

It is Jan 9 now , but so far for this winter, we only had 3 snow days but they were just few cm , not heavy. To me, it's terrific, I dislike walking in the snow from home to Bessborough, it seems that I have to drag Moses on the way to home as he walked too slowly!! However, it says from today newspaper that there are some downsides of no-slow days. Because there will be no protection for the plants , no snow covering them which will cause them to be unprotected, I don't know how it will damage the plants .

I notice that sometimes human really wants to change the climate, change the environment in order to meet their own needs.. are they selfish? I am selfish too.
sometimes I complain about the rains but on the other hand, people are expecting the rain to moisture their plant and farm.  Everything has to be natural ..

People now loves to change the natural environment but actually they are harming the earth. When thinking about this, I should immediately praise our Holy God, for His creation. When people are blaming why there are a lot of disasters in the world, earthquake, floods, or some will blame why God allow this and allow that, why don't they think the root cause and the consequences . The root cause is the SINS and it always loves to control us, keep us away from our Creator .

Thanks Jesus that HE came to the world as a human and died for us in order to save us ,Unlike the other false Gods, He rose from the dead and proved that He is the God, and He is free of dead, free of  sins. He  left the Bible so that we know what was the start and what will be the end of the world.  Thanks God again.

my study

I forgot to mention about my Insurance course when I talked about the things I have done in 2011. I started the first course of CIP ( Chartered Insurance Professional ) in Sept 2011, which was C11 the Principles and Practice of Insurance. I attended the examination on Dec 5, which the result will be released in few days.... Jan 14.

It is totally different than what I studied and worked before. The insurance industry in Canada is totally different than the one in Hong Kong. Everyone needs insurance here, if they have houses , apartments, automobiles.. and I found that it is a very interesting industry, in which it is very relative to the life of everyone.

I think I might try searching a job after I finished two or three courses, and will see what happen in the next. However, the most challenge is not this course, it should be the road test.. oh, my parking skill...

Karate kid and dad

When Nate's mom( mom of Moses's classmate) told me that Nate had to rush for Karate at Y with his dad after attending Moses's birthday party, I realized that dad/mom and their kids can learn Karate at the same time. I let Moses and Man sign up immediately , one of the reasons is that I wanted Moses to do some exercises since we didn't sign up the skating class for him this winter. Man feels the schedule would be too tight for Moses.
Another reason I want them to play Karate together is because they can build up good relationship, trust with each other. After they got the yellow belt on Nov 23, I found that I have made a right decision. Man and Moses always practiced together and they do have fun too.  
Also, it is so funny when they practiced at home, Micah will follow and he might think he knows how to play too!