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I’m really proud of Chloe because she stuck to Karate even in the summer – and even though she was quite disappointed that she didn’t get her orange stripes during spring. Her sinseh told me today that she will be getting her orange stripe before the end of summer and she seems to be truly enjoying her karate classes every week. My karate kid haven’t used any of her karate moves on the kids that bother her yet – hahahha!
This year’s summer – we are trying to enjoy it to the max with Chloe, I think because of the death of Grammie that had taken us all by surprised and also really woke me up – that spending time with Chloe is a lot more important than anything. I don’t want to die with regrets that I didn’t do much with Chloe and that she grows up not knowing what it would have been like to do this and that with me as a mom. So I’m trying my darnedest to do what is right by her. Sure we do send her to summer camp still but that’s because we want to make sure she is out in the sun a little bit and be able to interact with other kids and that her social skill will continue to improve and that she learns to share and other common courtesy stuff. But this year, we’ve done a lot more with her than we usually did before and I hope that we will continue to do more with her before the summer ends.
She had also been to game arcade when we were on holiday and we’ve taken trip out of town twice already – so hopefully before the summer ends we will go up to the city again for a few days to do whatever she wants. I don’t want to just make money and forget about giving Chloe the childhood she deserves. Making money is important but Chloe is way more important than money.
Chloe is growing up so fast, she is taller this year and put on quite a bit of weight – and eating a lot more, unfortunately, she is still very picky with her food. Lately, she had been playing a lot with the neighbor’s kid and they get a long really well. I’m very happy actually and the kid is really a good kid too. She loved having her friend for supper or lunch, so when she wants to invite her for our outing, we have no problems with it. They do have so much fun when they go out and eat, they play together, they draw and color together and the kids knows only about having fun. I hope we can give Chloe a good childhood, unlike mine – that was filled with so much drama. So the least drama we have for Chloe the better it is. I’m very, very blessed because PB is the least drama person on earth.
We visited Grampie today even though we had loads of housework to do. Firstly, because we were away for 2 weekends and secondly – we wanted to make sure he was alright. It’s so strange not seeing Grammie around for the summer – I remembered how she was so worried about the garden one year – that even when I was in the hospital – she insisted on going back to help Grampie with the peas and getting the veggies ready for sale for the summer.
Grampie had hired someone to help him but of course, he is nothing like Grammie – afterall, Grammie and Grampie had their own momentum already after being married for so many years.
Grampie is doing the best he can – I’m hoping he will hang on – because people always say when you are marry for so long and one go first – the other tend to go soon too. I’m so worried and as much as I want to spend more time with Grampie – there is just so much work for us to do on our own too. *sigh*
We just came home from an awesome wedding in Moncton, New Brunswick and met up with PB’s extended family – they were a lovely bunch of people. This year we decided to go because Grammie is no longer with us – and I wished we had gone up to Moncton with her – in another wedding last year. Little did we know that she was so sick and would have left us so soon. Seeing PB’s extended family makes me realized more how important it is to be there for the family and know the extended family. I’ve always thought that we would be taking care of our in-laws when they grow old and need help with their daily care but we didn’t get a chance to do it for grammie – and even though it had been only 5 months since she left – I still cannot believe that she is really gone forever. So from now on – we will have to take care of grampie and buy all the home care products he will need in the future for him. I’m proud of Grampie because he is holding up so well – he is staying strong and busy. For those who have a chance to get to spend time and get to know their extended family – don’t take them for granted.
This vacation that we took to Moncton was a great bonding time for Chloe and us. We wanted to make sure that the vacation was about her – and we did try to make most stuff about her. Chloe had a great time swimming, playing games at Crystal Palace and going to Build-a Bear and build herself a new bear plus we bought lots of clothing for her from The Children’s Place in Moncton. I’m glad that PB was doing his best to make our vacation a good one. But I came back with a cold – darn!
We specially designed a t-shirt for Chloe a few weeks ago – just to see if it would catch the attention of the people on the street when she is out on a walk or in the park. But what we really want to do is to make some custom made shirts for everyone at the store including myself but mine has to be pretty funny and catchy of course. Thus far, Chloe loved her specially designed t-shirt – and everyone who she has met on the street commented on it – free publicity for the store of course.
I definitely want PB to get a few – and Gary to have a few too – and since it’s summer – pretty hot around here – just round collared t-shirts would be just fine for now. For the fall – they probably have to wear those collared ones – but we’ll see how much they cost before deciding on the fall shirts.
We are all Asians but come from different countries but yet – we met in the same place far away from Asia – away from home. How unique and how mysterious right? how the universe works and how God has plans for each one of us. I think it is no short of a miracle that we all met and we all get along so well – on one hand – it must be because we are all Asians and married to Canadians and long for home and a familiar sight. Migrating is not as fun as people think – it gets really lonely if you don’t have a supportive spouse. I’m very blessed and lucky – PB had thus far been great with me – he is my support 100%.
Yup! they are friends again ! and even though Nova was upset with Chloe the other day – they became friends again quickly and had forgotten why they were upset with each other. Now if only it was this simple with adults eh but I guess kids are so innocent and pure – they forgive and forget and know that it’s not right to be upset for too long – else no friends to play with. As for Chloe – she don’t even know why Nova was so upset over nothing the other day – but nevertheless she apologized – what a good kid.
It was raining hard yesterday and since Chloe had no school for the last 3 days – school marking days – she volunteered to mop the floor at the store and clean the store up. What a good kid I have eh! Sometimes, when she doesn’t clean up her mess, I forget that she is only 8 yrs old! I cannot ask for another better kid – I am truly blessed.