March 2012
14 posts
My fashionable students
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The past few months, it’s entertaining to see how observant children are. They notice the weirdest of things, from the way your hair is fixed that morning, to the details in shoes, the scarves you wear, and the earrings on your ear. One of my students is a fan of the leopard print and obviously has an affinity for scarves. She always runs to me to feel my scarf and...
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Awaken me, Lord
Image from: musingsandmiscellaniesohmy.blogspot.com
A song from Jesus Culture has the lyrics, “Let our praise be the highway, to fill our place, touch the cities, fill Your people. You awaken me, you awaken me.
Some days it is easy to feel as like a world-weary pilgrim who is just trying to find his way home, like the protagonist in Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s progress. It is easy to...
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Why Jesus? Rediscovering His Truth in an Age of...
Book Review:
Why Jesus? by Ravi Zacharias
Ravi Zacharias tackles popular culture and how it tries to reinvent the gospel message and reminds the readers that a true understanding of Jesus is only possible through the understanding and embracing of the Bible. He is very honest in his analysis of recent efforts to try to add or subtract to the gospel message by popular authors, celebrities and...
So Long...
So Long….
Economist, Time Magazine, Financial times, Bloomberg, National geographic, Classical literature and my mystery novels, NBA. (for now at least).
Hello, YC magazine, Educator books and pamphlets, children’s storybooks, a bunch of books on trees, gardening and natural dye-ing… and some knitting (cheating a little with a hobby book on the side.) and of course the...
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Conversations and Rainy Days
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A recent conversation with a close friend, who’s really almost like a brother to me just moved me beyond words.
We talked about how beautiful His plans are and how moving forward is very exciting!
He asked me, “What do you want to do in this life?”
Here’s my answer: I pray to be a godly and gentle mother, a loving and faithful wife, and a servant to...
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Shadow boxes: Encouraging your child with healthy...
Ever wanted to try a new way of preserving memories of children (students or your own look-alike versions of God’s blessings?), but wonder how you can make them actively involved in the process of helping you make their own mementos?
One good idea is to introduce shadow boxes to them. Craft stores usually carry a decent number of examples that the children can look at. The library around...
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Preschool Castaways?
Picture from Cast Away
We had a training session for work and one question was asked, “What three things will you take if you get marooned in an island?”
It was quite interesting all the answers that came. It was a reminder that there is a bit of a difference between city and rural life, first world and third world life. Most of my team was thinking convenience so they thought of...
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Roots and Wings
You gave me roots to grow in love,
You gave me wings to reach a star
You set me free to be who I am just by being who You are.
- Roots and Wings
When I was around ten or eleven years old, I started volunteering at my church’s library and resource center. We sold books and christian gift items and also had an extensive book and video collection. I stumbled upon the place because my...
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Welcome, Spring.
Posting blogs have been sporadic as of late, I’ve been really busy with schoolwork, work, internship, work seminars and bible study. It’s great (I do love the feeling of being busy).
Just a few updates:
1. I have went back to my knitting. I first picked up my first pair of knitting needles in high school for our home economics classes. Yes, we had a lot of those. I learned how to...
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“I’ll tell you what real love is. It is blind devotion, unquestioning...”
– -Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
A great read, in my humble opinion. Greatly written quote as well.
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One of my favorite poems
If—
By Rudyard Kipling 1865–1936 Rudyard Kipling
(‘Brother Square-Toes’—Rewards and Fairies)
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being...
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Bonding with children: Room decorating
A really fun activity you can do with your cousins, siblings or your own children is to decorate their room with them. This provides you an opportunity to hang out with them, get to know them and also have a very important end goal in mind, sleep. It can be quite challenging at times to get your children to bed and to stay there while they fall asleep!! It can be a hair-pulling moment and if you...