Adios Ros!

Jere,
This is your Tita Ros that took care of you from the time you were 1 month old till I guess 16 months?
This is one of the pictures taken when she's reading the G! Magazine from our Church of Christ the King and you just like to flip whatever she is reading. Cheeky you.
Once her documents is done and cleared, she'll be off to get married and take care of her 11 year old daughter.

We wish her happiness and all the best.

We pray that we will get a new Tita that will love you just as much, if not even more :) Lord, guide us and send us your angel :)

Love, Mummy

HEALING

*okie if you like to skip the story and go straight to the mass details, please scroll down*

"I NEED HEALING!I NEED HEALING MASS!"
shouts the helper even after all the saga she presented me.

At the carpark this morning as she was carrying Jerry to send us off, the usual morning ritual, she said,
"I NEED HEALING!I NEED HEALING MASS!"
I could sense she is very disturbed by the whole matter of going back and all but she chose it even after I told her to think carefully about the whole thing.

Had a talk with her last night and she did not realise what are the consequences of the premature termination of contract on her side. She thought it was as easy as
"I wanna go home" and she gets her air ticket and gets flown right back.
so what's the consequences:

1. Serve one month or till I find a replacement, whichever is sooner.
2. Bear her own costs of air ticket
3. Bear the costs of the documentation of the next new helper for employer since she's only 8 mths into contract. This is to protect the employer and deter these helpers from "happy happy break contract" attitude.

When I told her all of the above, she kinda freaked out and told me,
"M'am, why don't you do me a favour and send me back as home leave? Pity me."
It's kinda sad, she asks me to pity her and who will pity me? If I send her back on homeleave means I cannot apply for another helper until I confirmed after her homeleave that she did not return. Then it will take me another 2-3 weeks to get a new helper. this means more than a month of no help.

After she told me all these, all the more I felt she should pay herself all the consequences.
Six months ago, she told me she needed to go back for her daughter's graduation and settle her husband's affair. Gave us a date to stick by coz it's the daughter's graduation and we gave in.
Six months later, she says "I need to go back and get married" and again gives us a date.
That aside, inconvenience, yes so much inconvenience is caused (just too bad for employer, well, in this case, that's our family)

Okie, am I being a little too unforgiving? Sometimes, I think I am too nice and being taken for a ride but sometimes I think I am a little too unforgiving. I can't deny the frustration, the disappointment and anger in me. Yes, I need the healing too.

So you see, besides the people that need the physical healing, that is Jeremiah in this case, all of us need some kind of healing. Something heavy that we throw upon ourselves.

and actually, holding the child Jeremiah himself indeed is very healing :)

Healing mass at
20th October 2007
3rd Sat Mass with Healing Service
Church of St Michael
Rosary session 6.45pm
Praise & Worship 7.30pm
Mass with healing session 8.00pm

See u there! God bless!

The search for a new helper begins....

Lord be with us as we search for someone to help take care of our family and home while Tim and I work. Lead us to the right help who loves you Lord and see Nathaniel and Jeremiah as blessings from you Lord and love them too.

Lord, I know you have someone out there who is also looking for us
Someone who loves you Lord
Someone with a BIG HEART!

Lord, I know when you close one door, you will open another for us for you have plans for us. Plans to prosper not to destroy.

Even with all the budgets, long-term plannng and cautious steps, things may not happen the way we like them to be but Lord, you can set it aright and we trust that you will set them all aright

Thank you Lord for the faith you've increased in us day by day. Thank you for putting Jeremiah into my life for I know it is through Jeremiah that my faith increased leaps and bounds. Thank you Lord for making us instruments of Your love.

Today, I am at peace for I know by staying close to you Lord, nothing is impossible.

So Lord, with you beside us, we'll never give up for we can do all things through God who strenghthens me (Phil 4:13)

Helper sacked us?

My mind is in a whirl.

The helper dropped the bomb last night.
She gave us the sack.
Says she needs to be out of here by November.
Just took her salary on Sunday and 3 days later says she wanna go home.
And so I thought she loved and cared for Jere a lot....
But she just told us, she wanna go home last night to get married. She found a swiss boyfriend and it's her opportunity.
6 months ago, just in April, she told me she had to go home to settle her stuff as her husband is having an affair and I let her go.
Thought it was settled.
6 months later, now she tells me she found a new boyfriend and wanna get married.
What's with these people?
I hardly slept a wink.
Worried. Yes I am.
Where do I go from here?

If any of you reading got a good solution for us, please drop us a note.

Lord, I surrender this to you for I know you have plans for us. Plans to prosper not to destroy. Lord, please take over me.

Mummy, When will Jerry grow up?

pop quiz by Nat this morning as we were sending him to school

Nat: Mummy, When will Jerry grow up?
Me: What you mean grow up?
Nat: Stand, walk and run with me.
Me: Jerry is a special baby. By right, baby this age should be able to stand and walk already. But Jerry is born with a defect
Nat: What is a defect?
Me: Defect means something was not quite right about him. His spine which is the bone behind here (pointing to my spine) was outside when he was born. That was why we had to send him for operation. So his hips down is affected and this makes him have not as much strength to stand or walk. Only God can help. So you gotta pray really hard for this to happen.

Nat listening intently all the while then butted in to say....

Nat: Pray really hard?
Me: Yeah. Pray really hard.

There was a long silence.
My heart was in pieces. On one hand,I felt sad that Jerry could not get on his feet and walk yet. On the other hand, I also felt really sad for Nat who had always wanted a younger sibling to play with him. To run with him. To kick a ball with him. To play catching with him.

Won't you all just pray as hard together with Nat for his little brother to stand up, walk, run and play with him?

Yes, Jerry WILL walk.
not just walk.
Jerry will run, hop, skip and jump. Most of all, Jerry will dance for the Lord and be a testimony of His wonderful love for us.

Jerry is a miracle kid and will carry on to be!

Now, even the kid knows there's nothing my God cannot do!