Happy Mother's Day!

Something to share to all mums out there...and to all dads...thank your wife today.

Why are you crying, a young boy asked his Mom?

"Because I'm a woman," she told him.

"I don't understand," he said.

His Mom just hugged him and said,
"And you never will, but that's O.K.".......

Later the little boy asked his father,
"Why does Mom seem to cry for no reason?".
"All women cry for no reason," was all his Dad could say......

The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why women cry.

Finally he put in a call to God and when God got back to him, he asked
"God, why do women cry so easily?"

GOD answered......

"When I made woman,
I decided she had to be special.
I made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world, yet,
made her arms gentle enough to give comfort... !

I gave her the inner strength to endure childbirth
and the rejection that many times will come
even from her own children.

I gave her a hardness
that allows her to keep going
and take care of her family and friends,
even when everyone else gives up,
through sickness and fatigue without complaining....

I gave her the sensitivity to love her children
under any and all circumstances.
Even when her child has hurt her badly....

She has the very special power to make a child's boo-boo feel better and
to quell a teenager's anxieties and fears....

I gave her strength to care for her husband,
despite faults and I fashioned her from his rib
to protect his heart....

I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never hurts his wife,
but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him
unfalteringly....

For all of this hard work,
I also gave her a tear to shed.
It is hers to use
whenever needed and
it is her only weakness....
When you see her cry,
tell her how much you love her, and all she does for everyone,
and even though she may still cry,
you will have made her heart feel good...She is special!

Each day is a mountain that must be climbed; with courage each step gets easier.

Happy Mother's Day to all mums out there!

So true. It hasn't been easy being a mum...the morning sickness...the sleepless nights of looking after little babies...the post-natal blues...making the decision to be a stay-at-home-mum....to looking for a pre-school...volunteering at school so that they can be in a good school which is near home...till researching for schools in US and now in Shanghai...every step of the way isn't a bed of roses, even then, roses have thorns...there have been many ups and many downs but you know, for mums, one second of joy can wipe out all the years of tears. Mother's Day or not, I will forever take on the role of a mum. Even when Kai and Ann are adults and become parents themselves, there is no denying that I will be their mum and they will always be my little babies.

These are little gifts from my little miracles...


Kai's self-arranged flowers for me. Last year at US, he gave me fresh flowers and we planted them in our garden and they grew very well


Ann's Chinese and English Mother's Day card


Ann's Mother's Day song presentation. I was quite sad that I didn't have my camera with me. The teachers told them that it was a secret
which they had to keep, not supposed to let their mummies know. She kept the secret so well that I didn't realised that she was singing and thus,
did not have the camera with me. The handphone camera did not do a very good job.

Looking back, last year's Mother's Day at Macungie was all so different....and next year, it will most probably be Mother's Day at Shanghai....what is waiting for us? I am not sure but it can only be good things because our good Lord will not withhold good things from His children.