Photo Frames Done!

Holidays is the time when I have more time to take stock of what has been.... not be caught up by the mad rush during term time. It's also a time when I can spend hours thinking about the simple things in life and be reminded of those same simple things that bring joy into our lives. Here's another one....

Finished liao! Our photo frames! Though there are 4, they are our very own Limited Editions... Ha! Ha! These are the products after days of punching, sticking, spraying and printing. In between which we did things like visiting old folks home, clearing Rainbow's cupboard, fixing up Molly's Christmas tree, dinners out, wall painting, hanging out, walk the pasar malam, clearing the lawn, etc. etc... The frames were bought months and months ago!

Yup! Memories.... fond memories with Haridas & Prabha, Lohs, Tings, Molly... John is missed here. 8( From shadow boxing, Uncle John's way of dealing with the boys whenever they quarreled, motorbike rides and cycling trips to the paddy fields, midnight conversations on the road while the kids cycled, late night carom games accompanied by coffee and cempedak, trips of fair-skinned kids accompanied by 2 dark-skinned adults - never failed to draw stares from people..... those years when our houses where just a stone's throw away, when the fences between the Lohs' and our house were all but opened up, when the kids would all jump into this little fish pond behind our house to swim, when sometimes they in their pajamas would pull their blankets and pillows and troop to our house for a sleepover or over to Haridas' & Prabha's, the kids had more than one home, one would imagine.... yup....these are the memories that we carry with us.

Son and Huan were only in kindergarten then.... the girls were only slightly older. And our lives were rather simple then too. They are all now knocking on the doors of adulthood.

How time flies! How they've grown. And the littlest one now is Rainbow... John, no longer with us. All of us sport more gray hairs now.... Memories are all that we carry with us....fond ones. This meeting of lives is indeed a blessing, one that has enriched each one of our lives. So, this Christmas...this was our project. And I've the girls to thank for!