My son is growing

Last week, after I decided to put Jeremy at Chinesse Immersion School, they have orientation for kindergarten. That day, when we walked in the hall for registration, they gave Jeremy a name tag and take their picture with the name tag. I almost cry.....my baby is not a baby anymore. He is going to school soon. In 3 months he'll be at school all day.

It was a great battle for me. I was struggling a lot letting him go. As a mom I think I need to learn to let go my kids step by step. I know that time will coming. Altough it is hard I have to face it. ;p

I believe that God has His own purpose by placing him in that school. I hope he will do great at that school.

Fun Day in Philly

This is the second day of our stay in Philadelphia. We start our day by visiting Please Touch Museum. I really recommend this place for family that have young kids. This place is awesome. They can pretend whatever they want to be. Bus driver, construction worker, playing in Alice wonderland world, etc. They also have an area for babies, called barnyard babies. The babies can pretand plant some vegetables, also, there are a lot of animal's sounds. In Indonesia we have this place called Kidzania. Kidzania is more real and cool. But still, the kids will having so much fun in Please Touch. Jeremy and Nicole had a blast. Jeremy wanted to go back again so badly.

After that we went to National Constitution Center and The Bell. It was so great to learn about American History. The way they did the presentation was fantastic. I was so impressed! I wondering when our country actually realize how important it is to preserve their history and share it to the younger generation. On the second level they have the whole area where they tells us about their constitution article by article. Very informative.

It was a long day for us, well, specially for me. We walked around the downtown the whole afternoon. So tired, but worth it. The kids just enjoying the time we were together. Which is really great.

Dinner time is coming...guess where we go...? Yes, Indonesian food again....we went back to Indonesian restaurant. We order a lot of food again. That day they served pempek ( my gosh...you have no idea how happy I was!). I ordered Es Campur....yyyuuummmmyyyy......and again we ate gurame bakar, mie goreng jawa, kangkung terasi, and sate ayam. We definately satisfied....!

Time to go back to hotel and get some rest. It was a blast day. That day we were able to be together the whole time was priceless. We enjoyed it so much. We hope that we could do that again. Hopefully soon!!

Finally we get out!

Today the sky looks so beautiful. All I can see is blue with the white clouds spreading perfectly. It looks like someone actually draw that. It was a perfect day for a vacation. We finally decided to go to Philadelphia for couple days. The kids are having so much fun. Jeremy is very excited knowing that we are staying in the hotel. He said he wanted to stay for 100 days. ( I wish someone want to pay for that!) Thanks to Stanny that help us a lot to get a stay in Marriot.

We didn't do much today. We went to satisfied our craving for Indo food. Trust me, people will think we are crazy family. We ordered the food in panic mode! You name it.... Kangkung terasi, ikan goreng gurame (ala US), nasi cap cai, tahu telor, ayam panggang kalasan kecap. Hahaha....it's only the two of us that actually eat all the food. It was SO worth it...! Suddenly my nausea is gone. Haha..... We also visited some of Indonesian store that we couldn't find one in Maryland. Guess what we bought? Yes, a box of Indomie, a box of teh Sosro, srikaya.... I think again...I'm in my panic mode. Barang langka soalnya! hahaha......misses home so much.

This is the most relaxing day after all. We strolled to the Philly's down town just to enjoy the crowd. We stopped by at Rita's Ice cream. What a beautiful day. I don't have to think about what to eat today, no worries about cleaning, don't have to rush to work. Be able to get out from the routine is so nice. I hope we can do this again!!!

After we came back from all the places, we went down to the swimming pool. The 4 of us just enjoying the water in the hot day. It was so fun! I'm so glad all my kids are finally fall asleep and looking forward for what to do tomorrow. Hope we have a great day tomorrow!

Yey......!!!!

Long time ago friend

Two weeks ago, on mother's day...in the morning I've got a message from my friend. She is a friend from college. We haven't see each other for a loooooong time. I was surprised when I got her called. She said she is in the area and wondering if we can meet. I'm so excited.

So that afternoon, I drove to Washington DC. It was raining all day, nothing much we can do, we end up hang around in the Mariott hotel and having a dinner. We talked for hours. My gosh....trust me if the next day is holiday, we could end up staying up all night.

It was so fun. I'm so glad she called. We had a fantastic time catching up a lot of junks! ;p
She is so different now. Well, she always very mature, but since she just having a baby, she looks more mature than she used to be. Having baby is always life changing.

I got home at midnight. I'm glad we got a chance to meet. Hope to see you again friend.
I think we've been friend about 10 years now. How fast time goes. Unbelievable.

Use your time wisely so you never regret it.

It's hard to decide

It's been second night this week I sleep past midnite. My nausea still bothering me. It's killing me. But what can I do. I have to bear with all of this. Hopefully it will pass soon!

This past week was a very busy week. A lot of decisions to make. Gosh, life is so complicated. Never thought that deciding what is the best education for my son is so hard. For once I thought I'm 100% wanted to homeschool him, I'm still now,...it's just when I heard about immersion school, I'm kinda want to try that. It's a huge benefit for him to be able to speak another language. I said to my husband, since it's a lottery he might not get in, why don't we just try and see if he get in or not. In this county, the chinesse immersion program, we only have 2 schools. They only take 25 kids per school. so they are doing the lottery system.

After waiting for a while, I thought...well, he is probably not get in. I was about to fill up the homeschool application, ....until the next day when my husband came home and said....good news, Jeremy got accepted. I'm like......WHAT? that's unbelivable. He got number 24 out of 25. How lucky he is. Well, may be he is not lucky, it's just the way God has plan for him. I'm still struggle making decision. Finally today I called the school to re-enroll him and have the orientation on Friday. I can't believe I will be missing my boy for almost all day. It's hard to let him go.

I said to him, are you sure you wanted go to reguler school? He said...mom let's try it first, if I don't like it then we do homeschool. He always has this positive thinking and encouraging word to say. I said, well I'm gonna missed you. He said, you still have Nicole and soon the baby. Hahahaha....Yeah, I still have two at home. Still a lot of work to do. But having him at home is another joyous moment for me. It's still different without him.

Anyway, I hope we are making the right decision by putting him at that school. He just too smart to do kindergarten, another reason why I wanted to homeschool him, he is way too advanced for kindergarten. I'm worry he will get bored in the class coz he has to start learning everything all over again.

I believe that God is the one in control and He knows what's the best for my son. I just have to follow my heart and trust Him. It's not easy being parents yet it's an honor being parents.

I can't sleep

It's 3.10am, and my brain keep thinking about a lot of things. I think the main reason is because I'm nausea and not feeling really well. So I thought, well, rather than I just thinking about something, I better fulfill my desire to write a blog. Which is something that I wanted to do so badly, but I just have no time.

I'm 11 weeks pregnant. Some of my friends asked me to blog my pregnancy. I guess some people just love to read about pregnancy's experience, which I think it's funny because, it's actually yucky. Specially the first trisemester. Well, maybe for the first time mom it's very exciting, I can understand that. But for me the 4th pregnancy, .... not so much. Although I love baby so much. I'll do my best to write whatever I can share about my pregnancy. Also, I will try to write whatever in my mind. I bet it's a lot.

Tomorrow is my husband birthday and also mother's day. I feel bad because this time I didn't even get him a card. I never failed at that. This time I just couldn't help it. I'm just not feeling well for the last couple of weeks. He is ok though. We plan to celebrate it tomorrow with some friends at a steakhouse ... yum... I've been craving for a steak about a week now. Yey....we are going to get some.

I always enjoyed reading people's blog, eventhough it's just telling their story about what is going on in their life that day, I think it's fun. ;p Maybe someone else will find the same way too reading my story. How fun!!!

Anyway, I better try to go back to sleep. I have 2 kids to take care in the morning. I better get some sleep.

I hope you all have a nice weekend.

Adios!!