Caroleen’s Treasures

Looks like I am hooked on taking photos of Ella’s baby pictures! Crazy huh? Well, if most of you are printing the photos you have taken with your digital cameras, I am doing otherwise. I want all Ella’s pictures be uploaded in the computer for easy blogging and digiscrapping purposes. I discovered that it’s a lot easier to do it this way than to use the scanner. (Later you will know why). The only problem is I was so dumb to have cut the photos around the edges. I do have that kind of disorder…of cutting edges and turning a photo into hearts, circles and nameless shapes. Well I learned that I have this disorder (Julie, name that disorder….I know you have this too. *lol*) when I was still a kid back when I had cut every picture and turned my magnetic album into a scrapbook. I had no idea about the word “CROP” in photo enhancement and it’s just like an innate thing to get a pair of scissors and shape my pictures. I was in 6th grade then and I never heard anything from my mother which left me wondering if she’s proud of me or what.

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I was not able to blog yesterday because I was called for back up early. And since it was Saturday night is my shift on OHJ, I was coding until the worship service was about to start. I have more than a dozen kids yesterday on my Sunday School class and we continued on the story about Moses. It is good that kids from the neighborhood was here at last. Ella wore the dress I have sewn. Of course I feel so proud that I have sewn her a dress. But even it is the simplest design I have seen in the internet, I still had a very hard time figuring out what part to pass through the serger machine first

It was also our Meal Fellowship and a baptism of two more souls after lunch. It was just a simple fellowship and everyone enjoyed the food. I wa expecting to see frog on the table but there is none. I hope next fellowhip there will be “adobong tokak” (frog cooked in soy sauce, vinegar, pepper, onion, garlic, ginger and bay leaf with a little sugar).

Today a package from Australia arrived. My friend Kylie sent it and it was a big envelope with gifts for all of us three. I got….

Donald got….

And Ella was so happy to receive….

There is also some seeds but I will keep it and plant it in our own yard. We are planning to buy a lot near here and we pray God will bless our plan. It is nice to live here in the parsonage but it is better to have a place to call our own. Of course we will not buy an expensive lot. Got to go now, have to check on how to get a passport. Who knows we will need it someday