Our Dec and Christmastime

Our trip to Singapore is coming to a close and I sit here to write my last blog entry from Singapore.
We had a wonderful and memorable trip here and to the other three countries. We have been so blessed to be here and also in the time we were able. Singapore is a great place and of course my parents were wonderful in helping this be the best time we could have had. I will leave with no regrets (except that we can't stay forever) and nothing but happy feelings and memories.

Christmas was great! We had a good church service Christmas Eve day and for dinner we decided to do something fun we read about and had "loaves and fishes" and read about that in the Bible. We read and agree that it is good to also talk about the life of Jesus at this time, not only his birth. The girls really liked that meal of fish sticks! ;) Then we watched a little movie, talked about why we give gifts and opened our Jammies! It was fun to have all matching jammies that I made! (with mom's help of course, and Sarah I will try to help you if you haven't made yours yet) The girls went to bed and we watched White Christmas and got things ready for the morning. It was a great day.

We didn't wake up until about 8:30, then sat in Mom and Dad's room to talk about Christmas and the story of Jesus. We had a lot of fun little stocking stuffers from 'Santa' and a few gifts exchanged among each other. The girls loved all their gifts and LOVED the candy and treats we got! We watched movies, made muffins, ate goodies, played games and ...went swimming!!Dad invited two people from work to dinner who were spending Christmas alone, Patrick, and Punam and they came bearing yummy food gifts. We were going to have a pork loin and a roast lamb, however the oven decided not to work, so we couldn't cook them. Luck for us Patrick brought a baked ham so we had that! It was a delicious meal and we had good conversation. We sang songs together and watched the Frog Song, which I meant to say is the official bedtime story here and we watched almost every night! It was a good comfortable day and we all enjoyed it! Punam told us that we can come back anytime and stay at her house and Mom and Dad will possibly stay for a few more years so who knows, maybe we will find ourselves in Singapore someday again.
Today Daddy had to be at work early and will be back late, we have a few things we need to do today have a LOT of packing and cleaning of mom's house! We leave very early in the morning and start our LONG trip back home. We have an 8 hour layover in Hong Kong and hope to take the girls a few places that we went to when we were there. The we have another 11 hour layover in Chicago, where we will see my aunt and uncle and sleep for a little bit before flying home early morning on the 28th!
It will be good to get home, but I am very sad to leave. We had wonderful weather, even with a lot of rain. We tried new foods and went to a lot of new places. The girls were great and learned new things and Miriam was really good at trying new things. The was the best experience and will stay with us forever.
THANK YOU NANA AND PAPA FOR A THE BLESSING OF THIS OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN AND GROW AND EXPERIENCE LIFE HERE WITH YOU. FOR THE FUN, THE MEMORIES AND THE LOVE! WE WILL MISS YOU AND REMEMBER THIS FOREVER!
WE LOVE YOU!