Caroleen’s Treasures

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mother’s out here! This is the second Mother’s Day that my mom is not here with us, hopefully we could visit her gravesite on her 2nd death anniversary on the 23rd.

This is our second Sunday here and I didn’t expect to have more kids in Sunday School! they are in different sizes! I have a 12 year-old and the youngest is 2! So this was a great challenge now for me…I must follow a curriculum but with the wide difference among ages, I think I have to ask for reinforcement Another teacher is needed to handle the older ones. We made Mother’s Day cards before we ended our class and they have enjoyed it. All materials compliments of Ella I am so glad she doesn’t complain. She was even more than willing to share everything she has. It was all from her “project” thingie…the papers, crayons and stickers.  After the worship service, there are 5 who were baptized by the river officiated by Donald. Ella was so excited when she heard the announcement that there will be baptismal. She said: “Mommy, sama tayo ha!!! May magpa-BACKTIZE!!!” (Mommy, let’s go with them!!! There will be people to be backtize!!!) That is our vocabulary of the day…

Ella’s vocabulary:

BACKTIZE-dipping of the body in the river to erase the sins and be called a Christian

She was asking her daddy soooo many question about baptismal…one after another…and we are surprised on how well she understood and of how eager she want to learn. They were like having a one on one bible study When she was satisfied with Donald’s answers, she announced she wanted to be baptized! Oh dear…that took us more time explaining to this little debator all the things she need to know. It was the first time I heard her say she wanted to grow fast! More often than not I would hear her say she don’t want to grow fast because of the house chores!

I stayed up the whole night and when I felt my eyes are shutting all by themselves I crawled to bed at 5:30am. Ella stayed.in.the.house.the.whole.day!!! That was a really great news! She kept her word Her colds is getting better and she just played in the house, napped in the afternoon and read her books before dinner. Maybe she was just so afraid of throwing up that’s why she didn’t insist on playing outside. She has been so afraid of throwing up since she was a baby. To her, it was like going to die! LOL So I have a great idea on how to keep her in.

Donald had a bible study with a family nearby. Same like yesterday, he studied the bible with a family too. Ella was making me crazy the whole afternoon about going to church. She keeps on telling me she want to go to church…..and I kept telling her that we will gather on Sundays to worship. She refused to listen, she just wanted to go to church right there and rthen and hear her Daddy deliver a message and sing her favorite church hymns “Send the Light” and “Beautiful”. And oh she was so sweet to tell me “I want to go to church because our class is very nice…you are our teacher…and the story is very good!!! Can Pooh be our story on Sunday?”

Oh and she has some reasons too why she wanted to go church…” Because I want to be with Daddy in the church…and because the church is just beside our house…and we won’t be late anymore like in Davao…and I will not be tired and fell asleep in the taxi….”

Well I agree! We won’t be late anymore!