Note

Oh man, how could I even miss this note from Jady.  No wonder she asked me who's my valentine last night.  And I thought I need to be honest and told her that her dad is....  Thank goodness that I saw her frown and asked her why.  Her response was, "Because you are my valentine!"

Lessons learned - sometimes honesty hurt and I could be more creative and said everyone in the family is my valentine.  Be smart mom!

Last Sat., Evan went to compete with the youth from the stake who plays ping pong.  He won the title of Valley Forge Stake ping pong champion and got a $25 Wawa gift!  Way to go, son!

One thing I feel good about this week is that Jeannie is finally getting better with her companion.  She's been on my mind every since I found out she will be having the same companion from the MTC.  Thank Lord that they are getting used to each other now.    

Mom has been discharged from the hospital yesterday and she is feeling great!  The only concern that we have now is the medical scanning today. There is a spot on her lung and the Dr. would like to take a look at it.  The result will be sent to the Dr. for evaluation when mom goes back for the check up in five weeks.  I need to pray really hard this time.

ps. Everyone in the family is finally feeling better!  I am still a little tired may be from the cough. Thanks to the many days of winter storm and that we got additional rest.

Oh mom....

Took Jady to the Dr. on Monday and found out that she has strep, so the Dr. put her on antibiotics right away.  The medication didn't kick in until two days after.  She was able to stay home but her brother wasn't so fortunate.  Evan was too worry about catching up the missing homework so he went to school on Tues despite of his sickness.  Thank goodness, there came the snow again! It's actually a blessing to my family since we so needed the rest because by wed, I was down also with a nasty fever and sore throat.  Then, Johnny became sick!  We didn't really celebrated Valentine's day since I had to play piano for a church wedding and couldn't go out to dinner or lunch because of the snow storm! Yikes!  Got that beautiful flowers from Johnny though. :)

What's been bothering me was mom's situation.  The Dr. suspected that she had bird flu so he put her in the isolated until two days ago, but thankfully it was later diagnosed as pneumonia.  She sounded much better yesterday as I talked to her but her fever came back last night.  And worst of all, she couldn't keep anything down.  How the body fight often depending on the mental power of that person and how nourished the body is; and in mom's case... she is lacking both!  I wish I am in HK to cheer her up. May be I will have the kids send her a video clip tomorrow.  I keep praying for her recovery.  I'd thought about sending church members to the hospital to give her a blessing but dad is already a little annoyed about me telling him what to do and I don't know how he would take my suggestion.  What should I do???  Lord, please bless my mom!!!!

The Week of Feb 3, 2014

It's absolutely an interesting week!  The branch on the tree in the backyard was down and landed on our power line on Tues because of the snow storm.  The whole neighborhood and many members had lost power including our family.  Our power was out since Tues and we didn't get it back until Friday night.  It was all good at first since we had the generator on, but then it quit working after two days with two use!  Man, that generator was brand new when we got it two years ago and we only used it for that two days... Here it goes $700!

In the midst of it... Jady started having sore throat, and then fever on Friday and Sat.  Then, Evan... and me!  We somehow managed to invite other families who didn't have power yet over for dinner one night and made dinner for another family and the missionaries for another.  I would rather be the one to serve than receive the service.

Grateful for My Kids...

Look what I found on my laptop....  A note from Evan teaching me how to hoke up my laptop to the printer.  He was such a life saver this past Sunday as I was rushing to make a copy to bring it to church and wasn't able to get the stupid printer to work.  He was really patient with me.  And I just love him being so thoughtful and sweet to leave me a note for future reference.  Darn it... Can't upload the picture from the iPad.

We've got another 7-8 in of snow today and so the school is closed.  It's been quite a relaxing day with the kids playing outside, cleaning up the snow off the trampoline and part of the roof and the driveway.  Johnny decided to reward them with a treat from Wawx in addition to the money.  We went out as our FHE activity.  As we drove home, Miss Jady kept her telling us her idea of watching the "Bible" story and finish off with the King cake.  Even tried to explain to her that the trip to get a treat is our FHE and Johnny told her we will not have king cake since we got the treat already.  We thought it was pretty simple to understand as she said OK, but then she continued and said, "ok... then we can drink the smoothie and watch the Bible video!"   We laughed our heads off.

And her eyes were wild open tonight as I told her there will be a two hour delay tomorrow morning.  Here is her exciting words, "Yeah, I can get my beauty sleep, and I don't need to set my alarm clock, and I can sleep in!"   Apparently, setting the alarm clock is quite a chore.  :)

Jeannie is doing great on her mission.  She went bowling today and she complains about her arms are sore!  Hahaha....  And I know she secretly love the postcard I made for her!  I love you, sweetheart!

Marriage and Family

2/3/2014

Mom has been sick and I kind of feel bad that I wasn't around to help.  Something has been really bugging me... Dad is having a tough time dealing with mom's criticism.  I can understand why since mom is a perfectionist and nothing is good enough in her mind.  I pray that dad's emotion will not be affected by her.  It's a challenge to live and see someone 24/7 without any argument.  Another issue with mom is that she openly voice her opinion on how wasteful I was to go home establish Evan's HK residency.  I can tell that she was mad on the phone but I need to do what I need to.  It saddens me that my mom can be so not understanding.