haha cleared out half my shed today....was interesting to find all these things.

I really thought everything in there was just all these scraps we'd been keeping for years, but it was interesting to find all these things...things which bring me down memory lane.

1) My toys
2) My beloved, and most remembered letter from "Santa!" (..yeah, it was actually from my sister, I even found the writing pad she used to write the letter today too)
3) About 10 Christmas cards from my primary school friends. (Was so sad to know there was actually someone I didn't know, some I wasn't in contact with for a million years, and some I'm no longer close with because we've all gone our different ways)

and all these other things!

It really does takes reminiscing and remembering the past to remind us of just how abundantly the Lord has provided and kept us hey. In that year I received that "santa" letter, I remember I got this awesome scooter, a digimon tamagotchi like thing, and so much other stuff which I as a kid wanted soo much! And these things weren't cheap okay, the scooter would've costed probably $50-100, the digimon alone about $20-30, and all the other stuff so much more. Yet at a time when my family was very poor ($3 happy meals were too expensive for us - I'd always cry and cry because I could barely ever get one no matter how much I wanted it) my parents and sisters would sacrifice their money to make Christmas special for me...even though they knew that some imaginary person would end up getting the credit instead.

And so again, I thank God for such family.

Oh, and I don't know why...I think really because I just missed this whole family thing so much, I got my dad to say grace for dinner. It was so fun and interesting, because ever since we were young, we never really ate ANY of our meals together as a family (we'd just eat by ourselves whenever we were hungry), so we'd always say grace by ourselves, and it carried on as a habit even when we did eat with other people. So...I thought it'd be nice to just be able to spend a time of prayer with my dad for once, even if it is just saying grace!

I was just like
"Hey dad, you pray for the food later okay?"
" Huh, why does the food need to be prayed for?"
"I meant just say grace >_>"
"You're gonna pray?"
"You pray lahh"
"I cannot pray..."
"Yeah you can, just say it in indo if you have to"

So before dinner he prayed "Dear Jesus, thank you for this wonderful food you have given us, may you bless it to our body and our mind. Thank you" and had a little chuckle. haha. funny :p

Ahh well we shall see hopefully we can cultivate this someday (: