Walkathon

4/23/10, Ha and Hee's school had their annual walkathon to raise money for the school.

Hee's class started walking and running at 9:30am, and after we helped the kids change the walkathon T-shirt, they got ready on the track. Hee and his good friend Jeffrey were partners, and they held hands from the start to the end. These two were relaxing kids, and most of the time, they were taking slow walks around the track ，感覺很像在逛夜市。Their class walked for an hour, and Hee only walked 8 laps. Each kindergartener got a otterpop and 2 raffle tickets.

Ha's class started walking at 10:30am. Ha was determined to run well in order to  raise more money for the school. My job assignment was to punch the holds on kids' ticket when they finished one lap. I had an opportunity to remind Ha to drink more water and get otterpops and raffle tickets. For 2nd graders, they could get a raffle ticket or an otterpop every five laps. Ha wasn't very interested in getting these, but he drank a lot of water.

At the end, Ha walked/ran 39 laps. He ran faster and faster every year. In Kindergarten, he ran 11 laps; in 1st grade, he ran 25 (20+, I couldn't remember)laps, and this year, 39! Not bad at all. When Ha determined to do something, he would try hard to do it well.

However, the next day (Saturday), Ha's legs were very sore. He could only walk slowly, but he kept comfort himself by saying: "my muscle is getting stronger now, so it sores" (That's what I told him, but I wasn't sure if it's true though.)

倒垃圾

明天垃圾車要來，勤勞的妻子趕在老公下班之前把垃圾打理好，3個垃圾箱推到馬路旁。
勤勞的老公下班回家，以為垃圾已經收了，便把垃圾箱推回家。

S: 我剛剛做了一件烏龍事，把垃圾箱又推回家了。
Y: 你沒有覺得有點重嗎？
S: 我一開始推Recycle的那一個，不重；後來推垃圾的那一個才覺得重。
Y: 你一定以為垃圾車沒來收吧？
S: 對。（知夫莫若妻）
Y: 後來呢？你怎麼發現的？
S: 後來發現鄰居的也都還在外面才想到是明天。

勤勞夫妻常發生不同的烏龍事件，但這也增加了我們生活的趣味。

99歲牧師的來信

前幾天，接到一封我以前教會一位牧師的來信。我們雖不常連絡，但一，兩年總會寫封信問安。這次，他寫："...我因年事已高，在中華民國元年出生，忽已99歲了。近百歲的人，一切都不行了，舉步維艱，行動不便，手不離拐杖。但每週二松柏團契查經，我仍擔當。作神的工才有精神，若不作神的工恐怕就要病倒了！......"

看了他的信，我真的看到什麽叫做"一生被主使用，完全獻上”， 也看到“忠心又良善的僕人”的代表。

他另外又寫了“近來， 戴紹曾院長80多歲去世了，林道亮99歲去世了，鄭果牧師93歲去世了，于力工牧師91歲也去世了。神所重用的僕人一個一個都去世了，但願主興起人來，積極傳福音，歡迎主回來。這是信徒的盼望。您們年輕力壯，願主重用！”

這是老牧師對我們這一代人的託負！他們服事神，直到生命的最後，還是要服事。然而，棒子總是要交下去，可是看看我周圍的基督徒，終日所談的不外乎工作，房子，孩子，股票，一有服事的邀請，卻是互相推託。當然，也有忠心愛主的弟兄姐妹，不過，似乎不佔“大多數”。真是希望我們不辜負老牧師的託負，也不辜負主的託負。

我自己在想，99歲的心情是怎麽樣？每一天都可能是最後的一天，但若確信死後會去哪裡，心中便有平安。可以想像當牧師回想他這一生，能坦然無懼的說：「那美好的仗我已經打過了，當跑的路我已經跑盡了，所信的道我已經守住了。從此之後，有公義的冠冕為我存留。」（提摩太後書4:7-8 上）他就算回天家見主，也是無比美好，因為知道神豐富的獎賞正等待著他，神必親自微笑迎接他。其實，話說回來，99歲是離最後的日子不遠沒錯，但35歲，28歲，45歲，60歲，甚至12歲呢？有誰敢說今天一定不是我們的最後一天？Anything could happen! 可是我們像他一樣的預備好了嗎？一有服事找上門就說No的人見到神該如何自處？十天半個月沒去團契或主日敬拜的人見到神怎麽抬得起頭來？更別說獎賞了，當然是兩手空空！地上有幾億的錢財，幾十棟房子，對於死後的永生來說，只是糞土，神完全不care, 唯有為主所作的工將永遠被紀念，能得冠冕。

地震的消息沒幾天就有一個，以往覺得超大的6，7級地震似乎已不稀奇。火山，淹水，地鐵爆炸...，更是層出不窮。我沒有讀過佛經可蘭經，不知道它們有沒有談到這些，但聖經卻寫得清楚明白：“他們問他說、夫子、甚麼時候有這事（將來日子，末世）呢。這事將到的時候、有甚麼豫兆呢。耶穌說、你們要謹慎、不要受迷惑、因為將來有好些人冒我的名來、說、我是基督、又說時候近了、你們不要跟從他們。你們聽見打仗和擾亂的事、不要驚惶、因為這些事必須先有。只是末期不能立時就到。當時耶穌對他們說、民要攻打民、國要攻打國。地要大大震動、多處必有饑荒瘟疫。又有可怕的異象、和大神蹟從天上顯現。”

我們該怎麼預備呢？ “耶穌又設比喻對他們說、們們看無花果樹、和各樣的樹。他發芽的時候你們一看見自然曉得夏天近了。這樣你們看見這些事漸漸的成就、也該曉得上帝的國近了。我實在告訴你們、這世代還沒有過去、這些事都要成就。天地要廢去、我的話卻不能廢去。你們要謹慎、恐怕因貪食醉酒並今生的思慮、累住你們的心、那日子就如同網羅忽然臨到你們。因為那日子要這樣臨到全地上一切居住的人。你們要時時儆醒、常常祈求、使你們能逃避這一切要來的事、得以站立在人子面前。”

Birthday Party for SF and Le

On 4/15, we celebrated Sophia and Lele's birthday at Jennifer's house. Actually, we had dinner at Jen's house 2 nights in a row because kids liked to play together, and as they grow older, there are less and less opportunities for them to be together because everyone has some different activities on week days or weekends.

We had a nice dinner, opened the gifts, had an ice cream cake, and thought that it's a wonderful party. When we were ready to go back to my parents house to take a bath, Roro asked: "how about the rice crispy treats?" "Rice crispy treats"? Right, we told her the day before that we would make the treats on the party, and she was still waiting for it. Whoever has kids knows that if we don't fulfill our promise, it's not easy to have the peace for the rest of the night, so we all agreed that we should make the treats before we left.

I was glad that we made the treats because kids had a fun time and a beautiful memory of the process. Personally, I thought that it tasted good.

放春假

這星期Ha and Hee放春假,Sophia and Xin也結束了他們的北京之旅回加州一周,前二天天氣不太好,我們也有點感冒,所以大家待在我家.昨天開始,感冒好轉,天氣也好轉,所以我們一起到阿媽家玩.

昨晚去了Jennifer家,孩子們玩在一起很高興,一起看電視也更高興.他們都喜歡QUBO台,最喜歡Rescue Heros.很奇怪,這些小朋友平常住得很遠,可是喜歡的東西居然不謀而合,吃的也是,都差不多.

好了,要帶他們去playground走走了.

Lunch at 順峰

Grandpa helped Ha to do the egg project.

A Happy Week 3/26/10-4/1/10

今天早上作了很多有意義的事，所以現在可以update一下blog，輕鬆一下。

Why was it a happy week? Because Sophia's family and my parents were in my house for about a week long, and we had a great time together.

3/26 Friday night, Stephen and I went to the church for a special program; Ha, Hee and my Mom were at home waiting for the guests; and my Dad went to SFO to pick up Sophia's family.

By the time we came back from the church (around 9:40pm), our living room had turned to the camp ground. Hee fell asleep already, and the other 3 kids and my Dad were still laughing and exciting about camping in the living room. We have 2 Queen size airbeds, and my Mom brought 2 twin size airbeds, so we had plenty of space for each one. We even had an empty bed in one of the bedroom.

Before going to bed, Sophia and I took turns to read them the bedtime stories.

They read together. 他們兩個都是 Sparky, 也都背完了整本AWANA書，所以一起review.

Play together. For some reason,哈哈這次成為了大受弟妹歡迎的人物。愛和信平常喜歡和嘻嘻玩，但到了睡覺或吃飯時間，就喜歡在哈哈旁邊。哈哈也有點“大表哥”的架勢了。

And doing their works together. 這一張真是令人欣慰的畫面。每一個小朋友做著自己的事：有的寫數學，有的寫英文，有的寫中文，有的畫圖 even though 幾分鐘之前大家還打成一團。

這次大家來主要是慶祝爸媽結婚40年。媽媽來了，每天主廚就變成她了，我只是打雜。

Jennifer's family was here for a short while, too. They were watching the photos that we just took on TV.

JF, next time, you may come to join our camping, too.

Ran taught Haha many things about computer and airplane. Haha liked to learn from him.

One afternoon, we went to Chuk E Cheeses to have fun. kids spent little time playing with the machines that needed token, but they spent most of the time playing in the playing structure which was free. They enjoyed it so much, and all of them were sweating like crazy.

Ai's birthday was on 4/6, so we threw her an early birthday party. Ha and I made an e-card and decorated the kitchen with balloons and birthday banners. Sophia and Ran bought a cake, I baked pizza and spring roll, and mom cooked some dish. After cake, kids had ice cream and sorbet. We added some coke to ice cream, not bad.

Let's have another birthday photo because I was in it.

I couldn't believe that 我們居然沒有壽星全家合照，那就星爸星媽代表吧。

全家福

為了慶祝爸媽結婚40周年，上周六我們4個家庭一起去照了團體照，Here they are:

嘻嘻也會換氣了

天氣一暖，哈哈自動早早把功課作完，因為兩個小朋友都想晚上去游泳。

嘻嘻本來會悶氣，游一段要站起來換氣，結果昨天和今天教了他一下，現在他可以在水裡換氣，從游泳池的一邊游到另一邊（橫的）都不需要站起來了。哈哈也有進步，已經差不多可以從直的一邊游到另一邊。只是兩個人都還是狗爬式，真的很像狗掉到水裡的樣子。

祝爸媽結婚40周年快樂 （附照片）

看我這腦筋，連這麼重要的日子都忘了；幸好看了J 和S的 blog 。 先送上祝福，等下再去找些勁爆的照片登上來。祝爸媽靠著主永遠恩愛 （已經白頭攜老了！）

勁爆的照片不多，還是來個懷舊版吧！我翻拍技術不佳，下次應該用scan的。

1970年3月23日

我一歲













由於是翻拍自奶奶的相片，旁邊的註解都是她寫的。

Bubee 保溫便當

Kids started the whole day school from the 1st grade, and I bought a thermo lunch box for Ha in case that he wanted to eat something hot for lunch. However, it's not working very well (it's not very warm in 4 hours), and I've been looking for a better one. In January, when we went to Stephen's college classmate reunion, I talked to few moms, and they recommended Bubee. They got Bubee from Taiwan, so when we went to Taiwan, I tried to look for it, but I didn't find it. Last week, when I was in Marina Supermarket, I found that it's on sale, so I bought one. Ha brought clam chowder yesterday and Ravioli today, and he said that both of them were still good and warm (not hot but not cold) on lunch time. I don't like its cap because it's not too easy for kids to open it, but I may still buy one for Hee when he's on the 1st grade.

Ha orderred school hot lunch few times, but he didn't like it because the line was too long, and by the time they got the hot lunch, the lunch time was almost over. He's a slow eater, so he never finished the hot lunch. Tomorrow, he orderred the 炒飯from me, and we'll see how Bubee works with his favorite lunch item.