Showing posts with label JJ and GG. Show all posts
Showing posts with label JJ and GG. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Christmas: our blessings

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We're still very much in the Christmas mode.  The children have gone back to KL but their love, for each other and for us, hovers like an aura of positive vibrations. 

Today, they celebrate one month of wedded life.  In some way, with the addition of GG, our family has grown.  Like a missing piece to a puzzle in our lives, she fits so well!

Our joy is to watch them live life and to see them experience all that this world has to give.

Our blessing has doubled.  JJ and GG fill our hearts, our thoughts and our daily lives in a way that they will never understand until they have one of their own.  Only then will they catch a glimpse of how much we love them.



Saturday, December 26, 2015

Christmas: The day after

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Well, we survived Christmas day with all the merry-making, eating and drinking spree.  Today is to recharge the energy levels, before the evening comes, for another round of fun.

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 Just relax, take a deep breath before making new memories. 

By the way, Stephen will never fail to remind us that it's his day because some countries celebrate the feast of St Stephen on 26 December.  Okay, we get it.  Let's go eat your favourite local food!!!




Thursday, December 24, 2015

Pre-Christmas, Christmas eve and more


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It's been a great and glorious journey. Another wedding anniversary tucked under our wings for posterity.

When we chose Christmas eve to get married, I always knew that it would be a wonderful time because of all the love and magic floating in the air.  Even after so many years, it's not changed at all.

This year is especially memorable because we witnessed our son getting married at the Registry of Marriages last month. This excitement will remain in us until we watch him walk down the aisle, towards his beautiful bride, next November for the traditional and religious ceremony.  

We couldn't have asked for a better anniversary gift than this feeling of being naturally high (no drugs needed).  

Meanwhile I've shared this song before but it still holds true.

Happy anniversary, Baby Grosse! 


Monday, December 21, 2015

Love is in the air

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I still remember the first Christmas I celebrated with Stephen. I also still remember the first married Christmas together. It's the day after we tied the knot.  I'm sentimental like that. 

This Christmas, the children will celebrate their first married Christmas together.  I hope they will rediscover the beauty and magic of love that they have found in each other.  I pray that the true spirit of Christmas touches them in a very special way.

We're so excited that they will be here.  We've so many plans to live, love and laugh.  That's my mantra these days.  Life is sweet!

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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Countdown to Christmas Begins

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It's such an exciting time of the year. While it may be ten full days to Christmas, we're counting down to when the children will be here and that is on the 22nd night!!!  So it's about seven days before they set off from Kuala Lumpur for Singapore.  I believe they will drive down so we will have the car here during that time.  Oh, to be chauffeur-driven again....  

What's Christmas without children like???  I don't know.  Whether they are with us or not, Christmas is always fun when they are a part of our lives. 

It's just double the happiness if they are here.


Tuesday, December 08, 2015

The Christmas curtain story



The house never looks complete until I put up these curtains!  

They belonged to my MIL.  Our good friend, Diana S, gave her those curtains and I fell in love with the colours as soon as I laid eyes on them.  

Ever since I moved to Singapore, I have put up those curtains and they add a glow to the house. It takes so little to make me smile and these curtains always add to my happiness.

Each square represents something meaningful.  This is my fourth year in Singapore since moving here and I have a feeling it's going to be a fantastic one. The children will be joining us. They're newlyweds but choose to spend their first married Christmas with us.  We cannot but feel so blessed.

By the time this goes online, I hope I'm done with all the decorating and then I'm going to start baking.  *cross fingers*

And the countdown begins . . .


Monday, December 07, 2015

My cup runneth over

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Jared tied the knot at the ROM on Monday, 30 November 2015 after five years of courtship.  Their church wedding will be in 2016. Yay!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Young love is so wonderful.  

It's a week since and we're still deliriously happy that everything went so well. The simple ceremony, lovely lunch and dinner/drinks session all made for a totally memorable day. 

While it was quite exciting to finally hear the words, "you are now husband and wife", the defining "moment" for me was during the lunch when I suddenly looked around and felt overwhelmed by all the good people there who love this young couple so unconditionally.  It's a beautiful thing to be surrounded by so much positive energy.

My MIL congratulated me twice.  I can understand her joy. Jared is her first grandson!  I have been immensely blessed to have her as my MIL.  She has been a great role model with her love, encouragement and support for everything I've done.  

Katherine Hepburn nailed it by saying that it's not about what you are expecting to get.  It's always about what you are expecting to give.  May Jared and Gwen hold this message in their hearts and be blessed always by all the love that surrounds them.

My cup runneth over.... 
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Saturday, October 25, 2014

Memories


I'm sure the memories we, baby boomers (1946 to 1964), have of our childhood are so different from the millenials.  The millenials are made up of those belonging to Generation X (1965 to 1979) and to Generation Y (1980 to 1994). The years vary slightly with different studies but millenials are, generally speaking, the children of baby boomers.  Our son and his fiance are Generation Y babies! 

Stephen probably has many memories of dirt roads because he lived in a "kampung". The rain was his toy and the nearby cemetery was his playground.  He said there was a cow farm nearby and that was a favourite place to pass his time.  

On my side, I remember browsing through rubber estates and running around bare-footed. I can reminisce about chasing butterflies, catching tadpoles and playing outside until the sun went down. 

Yet memories aren't always made from some old dirt road!  Sometimes they are made in a concrete jungle while cycling, between midnight to three am, around Singapore's famous Orchard Road when all is quiet.  

Not me, of course!  

Stephen and the kids (when Jared and GG were here for a holiday) went out a few nights to cycle while I manned the fort (translate that to staying at home). 

They explored Singapore by night and this remains the highlight of their cycling adventure, at least, until the next episode when they plan to cruise along the East Coast!

Here's a video of that ride earlier this year, courtesy of GG. What a steady hand she has!!!  


This almost made me wish I was with them.  Maybe next time.  

Stephen bought us matching tee-shirts in an effort to entice me.  I think we all look great!