"For the first time in forever"

Our bumper crop of passion fruits have finally arrived. Can't get over the satisfaction...for the first time in forever. On a side note, don't you just love the movie "Frozen" haha

They Just Love Snow...don’t we All:)

While Daddy was away in his meetings in Seoul, mommy took the kids off to tiny adventures. We were really thankful to engage a great travel company that provided a personal guide from start to finish. And the guide, whom we called Uncle Jeff spoke pristine English as he is a translator by profession. But of course, he was a guide, porter, ski trainer, photographer and playmate all rolled up in one. I can’t say enough good things about our guide because we would have been lost in Seoul, not understanding a word of Korean - saved for “Bibimbap” and “Bulgolgi". 

We headed to a lesser known resort, Jisan because it was only 1.5 hours drive from Seoul. We were all poised and excited to start our ski experience [don’t we all look the part]....no one told us it was hard work! From renting our ski clothes, to choosing our shoes and fitting our skis on. And we haven’t even started. We were glad there were only three of us - can’t imagine doing this with an entire busload of people. 

But Uncle Jeff was great - he taught us the basics and we tried our little slopes and it was not too bad:) Sarah is a natural, she was already able to remove her skis and put them on all on her own [even that needed training], make her way up a tiny slope [that was more difficult than I imagine] and come down on her own. 

After two hours, mommy was still diligently trying to master her beginning stages, determined to make the best out of this trip. But the impatience of Sarah and Sammy was very apparent. Sammy started making excuses that his shoes were too tight. Haha...all they wanted to do was to get rid of anything standing in between them and their wonderful soft snow. 

Finally, when they had a chance to yank away all the unnatural equipment, the first thing they did was to fall on their backs and make snow angels. haha! I love that about them. 

Then it was snowballs, snowman, snowball fights.

We did finally end the day with a two full hour of sledding. It would have been longer. Thanks to Uncle Jeff who went back to a store to borrow sleds and found some abandon slopes for them to play. 

It was so blissful just watching Sarah and Samuel climb up the snow slopes with their sleds and laugh and play so uninhibitedly. They did everything imaginable because they knew snow wouldn’t hurt them. Their propensity to enjoy snow to the fullest made me chuckle many times - and I realize it was pretty infectious. That’s what kids do very well. After an hour of their play, many other snow seekers came over with their sleds and joined them. 

The joys of nature and what God has given. So blessed. 

My kids having the snow slopes all to themselves.