James and I celebrated our fourth wedding anniversary yesterday.

The Sweet Seventeenth of July…

We had a simple dinner on Wed at Bakerzin before going for the GoForth mission conference. Oooo I had such a good spag vongole (clams) and the desserts were so yummy! I didn’t know that Bakerzin served such good food. I thought it was rather commercialized. But I really enjoyed it – good food and conversation.

Being at GoForth brought back good memories because we attended our first one together 6 years ago in 2002.

The speaker for the night ended his sermon on Spiritual Renewal for Missions with these words – he has been with the same woman for 52 years and how does he experience marriage renewal? He refers back to the scriptures – He who is in Christ is a new person/creation. He’ll ask the Lord to show him something new about his wife everyday since she is in Christ and she is constantly being renewed. I thought that was so apt! Esp in this age where everyone is looking for something new and changing partners because the old has gone. He added that it was the same for spiritual renewal for missions – to ask the Lord to show us new things in whatever He’s doing around the world.

The word about marriage really spoke to me. So timely. Sometimes it’s just so routined after a while esp when the kids come along. It takes a lot to venture out into the new. But I thank God that James is always on the forefront of things and that helps to keep our lives exciting and new constantly.

Yesterday, we went to the park with Sophie in the evening. It is not very often that we get to throw the ball around and eat "junk" food (not really junk but sandwiches and fruit for dinner) as a family at the park. I saw how James played with Sophie and it made me laugh so hard. James is just so funny sometimes. Sophie REALLY enjoyed herself. Seeing them lying on the grass, laughing and pointing to the clouds made my day.

I’m really thankful for the family God has given me. I pray that I will not take anything for granted.

Mon nite we had dinner at Prinsep St at a little Italian restaurant, Trattoria Lafiandra. Our initial plan was Wild Rocket at HangOut@Mt Emily but we went there and it was CLOSED! Argh… we had checked the website the night before and it was down. What a bummer… was quite disappointed coz I was really looking forward to that.

HangOut & Mt Emily holds lotsa good memories for us. We spent a few days at HangOut@Mt Emily (a nice little backpackers hotel) after we checked out of Merchant Court hotel (where we held our wedding dinner). He actually blindfolded me all the way to the room! I had no clue where we were going… the counter staff must have thought we were mad! These newlyweds!

We spent out childhood memories at Mt Emily, separately of course, coz we haven’t met then! I used to go jogging at Mt Emily for Physical Education lessons while in school and James used to go to that church at the foot of Mt Emily (Church of Christ Malaya). And we took our wedding pics at Mt Emily.

But dinner at the authentic Italian restaurant turned out very pleasant. The place was small, like 4-5 tables inside. But food was quite nice.

After that we held hands, took a little walk at the new Cathay and went home.

We spent Tues together with Sophie. Had brekkie at Botanical Gardens, lunch at Go Go Bambini (cafe cum baby gym) at Dempsey Road and then hair cut + wash at Yen’s Salon (Holland Shopping Center), came home, rested a bit and then dinner at Crystal Jade for dim sum.

So much to say…. not sure where to start. I’m just very thankful that we’re together and very happy.

Reminisce with us on this special day….

Pic: Walking together for rest of our lives

James and I celebrated our second anniversary on Monday 17th July 2006!
It’s been a wonderful two years… best years of our lives… I was so
contented just spending the day together. We didn’t have a fancy
dinner, neither did we give each other fancy gifts but it was really
nice just spending a whole day just the two of us. Actually three, plus
baby.

We started the day thanking the Lord and praying, had nice slow
breakfast at Ya kun, came back to rest and then it started to rain,
then we went down to chinatown to buy specs for each other, and ended
up at Bugis shopping for comics and had dinner at Pastamania. It was
simple but that’s what we love to do – spend time with each other. So
nice…