29 March 2014

Khane says goodbye to pre-school

Today, Khane finally said goodbye to pre-school in a 'moving-up ceremony' held at the Adonai Integrated Montessori (AIM).

Owing to his 'working' mother and father, Khane was almost born to grow in pre-schools. At less than 1 year old, he started going to a ninka hoikuen (public daycare/nursery) in Japan where he learned to take off his shoes before entering their room and put it in a hole with pigeon picture, learned to eat by himself with spoon and fork, learned to say arigato. When he was 2 to going 3 yrs old, he went to PhilRice daycare for an hour or so just playing, coloring, drawing lines etc. When he was 3 going 4 yrs and  4 going 5 yrs old, he entered the JCLGF Little Lamb Foundational Learning Center as nursery, and kinder, respectively. Before turning 6, he entered the preparatory class of the Adonai Integrated Montessori. Such a busy pre-school life all because his mother cannot take care of him full time. Or maybe it is also because it's the common route for children these days.

Now able to read and comprehend, write, add, subtract, multiply a little and divide a little, the system says he is ready for Grade 1.

His comment: "yehey, gagraduate na ako, bakasyon na forever... joke lang".

God bless you son.



  





19 March 2014

Live according to God's abounding grace

(To celebrate our 7th wedding anniversary, we visited our ninong who recently suffered a bad stroke that caused him to go from a journey of coma, to a battery of medical procedures, to now almost normal condition except for motor skills. While we went there hopefully to encourage, we were the ones tremendously encouraged. Following are his random counsel:
 
**What does it mean to live according to God's abounding grace?

C - commit to serve
L - love God
I - inspire people
N - no negative thoughts
G - give time to our family

**Love your wife

L - less of me, more of you
O - overcome selfishness
V - verify everything before you argue
E - empower her through prayers

**Submit

S - elfless act
U - use time wisely with your family
B - be courteous
M - maximize your effort to maintain your relationship
I - intentionally date
T - thank him/ for every effort exerted


(Thank you Ptr. Clave and Ninang Andrea for living the gospel, and encouraging us and many others in the process.)