More Snowy Places

As I've promised on the earlier post, here are some pictures of more snowy places...

The first two pictures were taken on early January 2008 after a snow storm in Montreal. The snow piling up on the road and pavement. Pedestrian needed to walk on the street together with cars and other vehicles since the pavement had not been cleared yet. For car owners it was not so nice way to exercise and build muscles.


Look at the white car covered by snow below...At that time, some cars got scratched by snow remover truck since they were not visible to the truck driver. It was not the driver's fault though..the car owner should move the car before the street was cleared out, but they did not do it.


The next four pictures were taken in Mississauga, ON during our Christmas holiday visit. It's at my in law's neighborhood.





It is spring time now in Montreal..however the weather is weird..two days ago we still had some flurries all day long. Fortunately it did not stay on the ground. We are expecting more warmer days and greenies to come...hopefully we are not going straightly to the next winter!

Our 2nd Baby

I have been feeling hungry and a bit of nausea since last Sunday. And the fact that I have not had my period for this month makes me think that I might be pregnant. However, another part of my heart says that it could not be since we managed to use the ovulation calendar for more than 6months and since my chiropractor on Saturday said that by doing the alignment treatment could interfere my cycle. By the way, I have had problem with my vertebrae which cause severe backpain, migrain and constipation, and I have visited chiropractor twice a week to do the treatment.

On Monday after seeing my dentist, I bought a home pregnancy test and tested right away. Strange..the result came invalid, there was no blue line as it expected in the control window nor in the test window, even after 10min waiting. So we just had dinner and talked about the weird test result. Christian said that I might not use enough urine to test.

The next morning, remembering what my husband said the night before, I urinated the stick again whilst the stick is supposed to be used once. The result came out positive. But since it is meant to be used once only, I doubted. Therefore I asked my husband to purchase another brand of home pregnancy test kit. Later that day, Christian came home with the kit and I tested eagerly. No more than 30seconds the result came out, and it was positive. I showed it to him and he responded by rubbing my tummy.

The baby dues on Sept 28, 2008 and he/she will be 1.5 year younger than Bianca. We are thankful for the God's blessing and for the opportunity and trust to nurture another kid.

Let it snow...

We did not get to play around with snow the other day, since Christian was not able to go home before it's too dark. Like I said, inventory could take up his time a lot and indeed he spent the whole day staying in the company.
The snow that we got in the last two weeks was nothing compared to what we have it now. We had snow storm on Sunday, Dec 16 '2007. Early morning on that day around 7.40am, I looked out through my window, and this was what I saw. Christian's bike was almost invisible. I could only see some part of its saddle. You may compare it with the picture I put on my previous post.


And if you take a closer look to the right of the bike, this is all snow, and it is not the whole pile. Since I was not able to shot the whole pile, I took two pictures separately. The picture below was the top of the snow pile. The top is higher than our balcony fences.



Next time I will post more snowy pictures in this blog. For now, let's enjoy what I have around our apartment.

Let it snow..let it snow..let it snow...!!

Bright White Monday

We've been having snow since two weeks ago. However, the initial snow from two weeks before does not stay long. Last night we started to get some more snow, and it gets really serious at this moment. The snow is just like white cotton candy shredded from the sky.

Most of elementary schools in Quebec is closed due to snow storm that we may experience today. Christian is doing inventory job at work, so he has to go to work no matter what. He called from work, telling me how high the pile of snow is out there. He thought that I did not see anything since I did not go out. In fact, I saw the bright white snow piling up every where. From my window, I saw some kids playing around outside our apartment too. They threw snow into each other and then giggled...what a nice view.

We are planning to go out and play outside if Christian could go home a bit early today. Well, not so sure though...coz inventory normally takes a lot of his time. Finger crossed then!
I will tell you if it really happens...okay? For now, I just stop here and show you the picture of Christian's bike at our balcony. Enjoy!

Inspired by You

It has been a long time since I wanted to create a blog. My first blog on Friendster is a lil messy, coz I was a beginner and am still.
There are some people that really inspire me in this blogging thingie. They are very productive that I can not imagine how they manage to balance between family, career, themselves and still have time to write. And it is not just writing, they produce great quality of publications that people can read and take the good out of it.

Mentioning names, first I want to say that I envy one of my good friends - I Made Andi Arsana. He is a very productive writer, you can find a lot of his article on the Jakarta Post, popular yet scientific articles. He published his book. Recently, he received two prestigious scholarships for doing his PhD, while he is away from home and his beloved family, he also produced a brilliant idea to be in touch with his students by distance teaching using sophisticated technology...what a WOW...!! I am inspired by him, indeed!
I am also inspired by two Dewi...Dewi Joris and Dewi Setiawati. The first Dewi is my good friend from my youth years. She is a busy woman, a mom of two kids, a working mother, runs a home business, yet she manages to write two blogs. The second Dewi is my new acquaintance who has become my little sister. We have similarity, we love to cook. She is young, busy with her study, job and of course social life, yet she organizes a group on Facebook.
I am also amazed of what Ayu Husodo has done. She is a mother of two, working in a store, living temporary overseas to accompany her husband, owning an online business and is also able to maintain blogs.
I could not imagine how they are all juggling between work, life, family and personal thingies..yet again they produce very inspiring writing.
My husband also inspires me, while he spends most of his days working in a company, when he gets home he takes time to play with our daughter, even though I know he is tired. He also tries to read news online every day. I remembered one day when I asked, he said that he wants to keep up with the world's situation.
So then...the envy pushed me to start up my blog with the hope that people might get the good out of it. Thank you for inspiring!! All the credits go for you...