Count Your Blessings
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vlim:
Ya... I also find him very sweet. :love:
becontented..your ds is so sweet... :love:BeContented:
DS has been out last 2 days after school playing with friends, enjoying his post PSLE freedom.
Was supposed to eat lunch with him, but since his friends were with him, I din.
Just now he said 'Mommy, how did you settle your lunch? Why din you come in McD & join me as planned? I'm perfectly ok to have you join my friends. Tomorrow, I'll eat lunch with you first before meeting my friends.'
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Becontended, yr son is so sweet!! Didn’t know son also can be so sweet!
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GLORYmum:
I feel blessed because every morning, my ds will kiss my cheeks, hugs me and says he loves me before getting out of bed.
Woo... so nice of your DS. I wonder will last into what age? My DS gives me good night kisses, but not the morning ones. -
peapot:
Becontended, yr son is so sweet!! Didn't know son also can be so sweet!
Haha. Have to agree, DS is quite sweet & tender in nature since young, quite 懂事. Hope he will be blessed & not get hen-pecked in future :rotflmao: -
PSLE 2012 is just over and already we've parent(s) fretting over S1. Perhaps we can learn something from this brave lady and see how she persevered after much of her life was cruelly taken from her.
Her story reminded me to count my blessings.
http://www.yourhealth.com.sg/content/paralysed-after-car-crash-she-turns-life-around
Wednesday, Oct 10, 2012
The New Paper
By Benita Aw Yeong
This primary school teacher's life changed in a second when her husband crashed their car - while trying to swat a housefly - nine years ago. Paralysed from the shoulder down, Madam Zhang Kaini did not give up on herself.
She raises her two young girls, trains her maids to cook and sew, uses the laptop to update Facebook and even paints for charity
SINGAPORE - A buzzing housefly changed her life.
Madam Zhang Kaini says she can remember the car accident which paralysed her from the shoulder down \"vividly, like it was yesterday\".
It was a Sunday morning in December nine years ago, and she and her husband, Mr Vincent Tong, were driving to have breakfast at a cafe near their Bishan home.
Annoyed by a housefly that had entered the car, Mr Tong reached out with one hand to swat it away, leaving the other on the steering wheel as he manoeuvred a turn.
But he lost control and crashed the car into a lamp post.
\"We weren't going fast at all. We had just left the HDB carpark, so he was at about 40kmh at the maximum,\" she recalls.
She felt a sharp pain in her neck, and realised that the other parts of her body had gone numb. \"I couldn't feel the rest of my body, and somehow, in that moment, I kind of knew that I might be paralysed,\" she says.
Her mind immediately raced to her children.
\"The first thing I told my husband was to call the helper and tell her that we wouldn't be home so soon and to ask her to take care of the children,\" she says.
Her elder daughter was two years old then, and her younger, four months.
Madam Zhang spent the next six months at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, out of which 11/2 months were spent in the intensive care unit. She was hooked onto tubes and machines which helped her to breathe.
She also underwent two operations to realign her collarbone to her spine.
\"I remember a doctor telling me that I need to be prepared, that I may have to be bedridden the rest of my life,\" she says. -
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Tho I not fretting over S1, whatever I'm fretting over sure is trivial when compared. Yes, we do need to take a step back & count our blessings. :love: -
BeContented:
Yah, fretting over which CO to accept is certainly very headache. Muahaha!:oops:
Tho I not fretting over S1, whatever I'm fretting over sure is trivial when compared. Yes, we do need to take a step back & count our blessings. :love: -
FQW:
Ha ha....so true too.
Yah, fretting over which CO to accept is certainly very headache. Muahaha!BeContented:
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Tho I not fretting over S1, whatever I'm fretting over sure is trivial when compared. Yes, we do need to take a step back & count our blessings. :love:
I have already decided (or rather DH had).....it's the convincing of our son that requires some work. But hey, I never whine or unhappy leh....just in confused state.... :rotflmao:
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Oh wow!! She is really courageous!! Thanks for putting up this article!
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peapot:
Oh wow!! She is really courageous!! Thanks for putting up this article!
I don't think I'll be able to display the kind of courage that she exhibits. Puts all my niggling worries into perspective.
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