Had a great Tuesday!

Yesterday was my "stay-at-home day" with Candra.

Brought her to Y & K's place since I decided go on a mini excursion with her...just the 2 of us. We took the MRT and then bus to CCK. When we reached their place, K & her 2 kids were at home...we had Macs for breakfast. Candra was amazing..she took 2 long naps there...in C's baby cot. She was so good yesterday...played, had fun rolling around, then she napped. I had a good time chatting with K :) and playing with her kids. J & W and their little one also came over to have some fun.

After that, I brought Candra to visit my confinement lady somewhere nearby in CCK...oh my, she was so thrilled to see Candra!

We got home at 7pm! haha.. so that was 11 hours away from home for Candra!

After dinner, hubby and I went to get some playmats for Candra and after we got home, we went for our night jog around the estate. Lately, we have been doing some night runs, which really do help us to rest better at night. :p

It was a fun "stay-at-home day" :) haha

New haircut! :)

I went for a haircut...FINALLY! hahaha

I am not that sort who maintains my hair very well..

Anyway, I decided to chop off my long hair.. now it's errrr...pretty short I think.

A brother in church commented that I have returned to my RGS days! haha

So yup...it's pretty short but I like the fact that washing and blowing has become easier. I don't have to tie up by hair because of the heat as well... and more importantly, Yanyan will not pull my hair as much!!! haha! :p

Flipping back? :P

For the past 2 days, when I went into Candra's room to pick her up, she was lying facing up....which meant she probably flipped herself back from prone position :) hehe..maybe that explained why she did not make much noise in the morning. Hope she gets better at it :)

God has been answering my prayers for rest by keeping the little one quiet in the baby cot till 8am in the morning (even though she's been waking up at 4plus am apparently) :) hehe...thank God.

Busy weekend..thank God for the public holiday!

We had a busy weekend because of EO. It hasn't been easy trying to bring Candra along to all our rehearsals. But thank God, Candra enjoys her saturdays and sundays out with us to church... though she sleeps much later and lesser, we know she enjoys being around all the many uncles and aunties every week.

Both hubby and I enjoyed ourselves.. hubby was acting in the musical as one of the leads and I think he did a marvellous job! Of course.. all the other actors and crew members did a fantiastic job too. I played a small role (as hubby's wife) in the musical, played the keyboard and sang. I enjoyed myself tremendously cos it's been a long while since I played the keyboard and sang.

PTL! EO went on so well and ministered to many...F3 bro and sis: WAY TO GO!!!

But...it's been tiring.. hehe...it's really super different now that we have Candra...and hubby and I were just thinking we prob can't do something like that again... haha. Maybe we just need to scale down our involvement a little bit hehe :) I had to run around so much just to make sure Candra's naps and feeding are not affected.. ! Phew! By God's grace, we survived! haha..so this is what it feels like to serve as a family. Well.. though it's been tough, we all enjoyed ourselves.

We are so thankful for the public holiday today..cos we can make up for some lost time with Candra yesterday. Thankfully, my elder sis gladly babysat Candra for more than half a day yesterday. hee :) We are so glad that we can spend some good time together as a family today..bringing Candra up to SK to see her grandparents etc. I am sure all those involved in the EO are so glad for this day of rest! God knows our needs..:)

If the Lord had not been on my side...Psalm 124

Been doing Beth Moore's workbook, "Stepping Up"...today she told us to pen down our own version of Psalm 124. This is mine:

"If the Lord had not been on my side,

I would have allowed those hurts from childhood to haunt me for life.

If God had not been for me,

I would never have learnt to love and accept myself.

If God had not been for me,

I would have been so discouraged by my own negative thoughts and perceptions of myself.

If God had not been on my side,

I would have allowed Satan to bind me with feelings of guilt and unworthiness.

If God had not been on my side,

I would never have known that I am completely accepted - always.

My help is in the name of the Lord,

the Maker of heaven and earth - my Maker."

Do you truly believe that God is FOR YOU and is ON YOUR SIDE? That's something I struggle with every now and then... but still.. I am thankful... for He speaks this truth to me time and again.

Little cutesy! :)

Isn't she adorable?.... :p

The flipping kiddo:)

Yesterday morning, at 4+am..Candra decided to perform some stunts on her little bed...basically, she just kept flipping and crying off and on because she could not flip herself back and sleep... That lasted till about 6am before she decided to be quiet on her own...and then it started at 7am again...

We were wondering, what's wrong with her? She usually sleeps through till 7 or 7 plus.. it got us a little concerned. Was she uncomfortable? Was she hungry? It just so happened that I had a trial yesterday and I needed the sleep badly...but I had to be disrupted by her on and off cries. Thankfully, a sister (whose son also displayed the same behavior on the same morning, such a coincidence huh :) haha) told me that it's just a phase that Candra has to go through. She will behave like that early in the morning when she doesn't know how to flip herself back. That assured me quite a bit. yup, so for as long as she doesn't yet know how to flip herself back, I should expect some of such mornings.

The trial went on well but I did not feel really elated at the mini victory. Why? Cos only God knows whether perfect justice was achieved in that case. The reality in this world is that the outcome of a trial does depend on the competence of the lawyers, the competence of the witnesses etc. Everyone in the court is doing their job and trying their best to present and uphold the truth, but the truth may not always unfold. And all of us in the courtroom, being imperfect human beings will not be able to say with complete confidence that perfect justice was achieved at the end of the trial. Perfect justice is in our Lord.

What then was my role? To do my best as a professional and to do so with intergrity and hope that perfect justice was achieved.

So, it was a victory, but I hope it was also a victory which honoured God.

Anyway...I prayed to God last night and asked Him to cause Candra to sleep well at night cos I really needed to recuperate from the trial. I just asked for one night's of good sleep, without Candra disrupting me with her flipping. Praise the Lord! She only started calling for ppl at 740am in the morning.. which meant that I could sleep till 730am :)

I am just so thankful that I can be home with Candra today and catch some rest :) Thanks be to my loving God!

More about Candra..

Candra loves to flip herself...despite the fact that she can't flip herself back. Once she wakes up, she will start flipping and flipping and flipping.. we got to keep going in and out of the room just to help her flip back. :) haha

She's now starting to grab things..which includes pulling my hair of course and taking down my spectacles at times.

She was quite cranky over the past few days..quite abnormal..hubby thinks she might be teething already. But hmm....she's only 4 months old...is that possible?

Anyway, she seems to be back to normal today. Maybe she was cranky because she was off routine quite terribly over the weekend. :p

Still as adorable as ever :)