Chaos in Thailand

I haven't been following the national news for awhile but just now I've just read that the protesters in Bangkok and other provinces went all out with their demonstration starting Tuesday. They've been on the streets for many months now. These anti-government protestors want the Thai Prime Minister Samak to step down. The Thai political situation has really been unstable here since Thaksin was charged with corruption, forced to resign through people power. And now, some Thais are still discontented with Samak saying he's an ally of Thaksin and asking him to step down too. On Tuesday, they regained control of the Government House compund. And today they've shut down the 3 major airports in Thailand, Hatyai, Krabi and Phuket and caused the rail services to be suspended. Here in Hatyai, thousands for protesters prevented the passengers from reaching the airport thus causing a major jam and halted air traffic.

Oh, it's so messy out here.. I don't know how everything will end. Whether Samak will really be forced to step down (just as how Thaksin) did or not. If he does, then I wonder who would replace him? Then, I wonder if majority of the people will like that person..then if not, they have a demonstration and again and the cycle will just go on and on... I just hope and pray that everything will be resolved peaceful and no one will get hurt.

Movie Nights

Today is a Friday night here.. Here I am blogging and putting our lil boy to sleep while my Hubby is preparing our Li'l girl to sleep too. I could just remember that before our second baby, Friday Nights used to be movie nights. Hubby and I would wait for our Li'l girl to sleep and then prepare the movie we want to watch with all the snacks and etc. We don't have a home theater or satellite in wall home theater speakers but we were just satisfied with our 21 inch tv and dvd player. But it's fun!

Anyways, what happened to our movie nights then you might ask? Then when our 2nd baby was born, of course our whole routine has changed since our baby wakes up very often at night. We tried a few times to have our friday movie night again, but never succeeded to finish a whole movie without interruptions. But think his sleeping pattern is better and more predictable now. That reminds me to maybe get back to movie nights once again.

How to Raise A Prayerful Child

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I'm not an expert here but one of the things that I'm so blessed about our Li'l 4 year old girl is that she knows how to pray and believes in the power of God when we pray. She prays publicly for other people like for example healing and immediately asks, "Are you Okay, now?" That's the faith of a little child. We don't have to remind her to pray before her meals but immediately bows down her head and thanks God for her food. There were times that I overheard her even pray and thank God for the candy she was about to eat.. so cute! Just today my Hubby and I were talking and my Hubby said he's not feeling so well.. and immediately, she prayed for God to heal her Appa..and not only that she thanked God for having a handsome Appa! LOL!! Now that she's older, she just kneels down and pray by herself before going to sleep.. her prayer would usually be.." forgive me Lord for doing bad things.. help me do good things.."

How to raise a prayerful child then? This is just based on our experience and you may add your own steps.

1) Prayer starts even before the baby is born. When I was still pregnant, my Hubby never fails to "talk" to our baby and pray with her. Children are God's gifts and so everyday we must entrust them unto Him.

2) When they become toddlers, pray with them during meals and give them the 'task' to say AMEN. We did that with Tricia and she'll be so excited to say "Amen".. That was one of her first few words that she learned.. I think she was only 1 year and two months old that time.

3) Set an example for them by praying before meals, before going out of the house, before going to sleep and etc and at the same time teach them.

4) Read Bible Stories before they go to sleep. This will show them examples of people who prayed and showing them that God indeed answers when we pray.

5) As they grow older and when they are ready, ask them to lead the prayer before meals or before they sleep.

6) When God answers your prayers or their prayers, share this to them as a testimony that God indeed answers our prayers. And in our experience God has indeed answered our Li'l girls' prayer countless of times.. even when she prayed to have a wonderwoman doll or a van for our center.

That's all that I could think of now and I would just like to give Glory to God for His special gift to us and that is our daughter. DALAYGON ANG DIOS SA WALAY KATAPUSAN!

Are there any other things that you wish to share and add? Please do so..

HAVE A BLESSED WEEKEND!!