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One Year Later

I can't believe it, that one year ago, we were in MIOT Hospital in India anxious about baby gal's open heart surgery that had been scheduled for the 14th. I still remember the hardest thing for us was to hand over Samara to the nurse and wait for about 3 hours before seeing her. As we waited, we knew that indeed it is God who watches over us and our children because we could not go in there , all we could do was stay putt and wait. We felt the support of family and friends because there are moments in ones life that one can not pray and that particular period was one of them. Today, baby girl is fine, healthy and in school. She is a busy bee and very opinionated. She loves pink and is at that stage of saying what she wants to wear. The other day after her nap, we wanted to go for a walk and she insisted on wearing a pink dress and she felt really good about that. We do not miss those nasty comments about how small she is, or the times when she coughed and we had to rush to ho

Choosing My Battles

I think the greatest lesson I learned from my sister and friend Emma was" learn to choose your battles". She normally tells the story better but she once and many more times told me that we have to choose which battles to fight and which ones to let go off. When you go to the forest seeking to hunt down a bear, you should not lose your focus becasue on the way you may meet squirrels and other things that may distract you... Well I guess I have been a learning alot of late like 2 weeks ago, some pretense clients walked into our kids shop www.sasimpressions.com and my assistant was there alone and they managed to distract him and stole my laptop. He later called me and it was too late as he realised it was not they about half hour after they had left.  I think God just gave me grace because the laptop has been our major business tool since we started but at the time of being told, I realised there is more to life than a laptop or electronic equipment. Of course the next day