Tuesday 18 May 2010

My Bee @ Keukenhof

I’m loving the Month of May, we have four holidays this month and then that is it, the next public holiday that we’re waiting for will be Easter next year. This year is not at all great when it comes to holidays. Last week, honey and I only worked for three days, Thursday was a holiday and Friday, we took the day off. Thursday was devoted for shopping stuff for Bee, specially the things that we’ll need now that she is about to eat solids and Friday, well Friday became a pleasant surprise.

Initially, honey and I were planning to go to Den Hague to get Bee’s passport, which finally arrived after one and half months of application. However, came Thursday evening, we received a call from a friend giving us free tickets to Keukenhof, who were we to say no. We had to go on Friday though coz the garden is only open till Sunday and our schedule is really full for the weekend. We hit two birds with one stone, we went to the embassy very early and had a quick lunch then went to Keukenhof in the afternoon. The weather was glorious and the garden, as I remember it, spectacular.

This is the second time to visit Keukenhof and Bee’s first. The garden never fails to impress. I wasn’t expecting that the garden would still be that stunning now that its almost the end of spring, normally the flowers would have already withered by now, that is why they were already scheduled to close that coming Sunday.

The array of flowers in display was just amazing. The colours were so vibrant, the smell was heavenly and the afternoon we spent there was simply divine.

I'll let the pictures speak of how beautiful the garden is

Our Little Family in the Orchidarium

I just love those Colors



I would really like to have this plant at home



Look at how happy our little one is

Tulips, Tulips and more Tulips


My Honey and my Bee

Loving the smile

this is so unique







Looking forward to the next visit

Sunday 9 May 2010

A special day for that special woman


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In less than two weeks our little baby Bee will turn six months old and I’m so excited! I still can’t believe how wonderful these past months have been. I once read a quote (I forgot from whom) which says “You’ll never know how much love your heart can hold till someone calls you mother”. Now that I am one, I completely understand what she means, I have never imagined that I could love someone this much. Now that I have a child of my own, I have a more profound appreciation and love for my mom, oh what I would give just to be able to tell her that now.

Being a new mom and all, its inevitable that people would give me, more often than not unsolicited, advice about how they think I should raise my kid and I remember telling honey, “you know what, I appreciate some of the advices that I receive but it pains me that I couldn’t get the guidance from that single person whose opinion weighs more to me than all other advices combined.” This special day makes me miss my mom more than ever, this is the last special day I have celebrated with her.

I know that Bee missed much coz she didn’t meet her Mama, coz special could not even begin to describe how wonderful she is but I know that she looks after Bee and sends her love to her granddaughter in her own special way.

And to all the special ladies, for whom this day has been dedicated to, you are all heroes in my book and the world is a much better and loving place because of all of you.

Happy Mother’s Day Mama! I miss you so much!

Happy Mother’s Day to all the special women out there!

Tuesday 4 May 2010

Great Gift Idea

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Two Christmases ago, I gave Honey an IPhone and I can see he loves it to bits. He surfs the net with it, downloads videos and games with it. He tells me it’s very handy. For me, I only use my mobile to call, rarely send text messages and alarm in the morning . However, it frustrates me to no end when I couldn’t reach honey through his mobile because his used up all it’s battery.

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Saturday 1 May 2010

Queen's Day 2010

One of my favorite holidays here is the Queen's Day. Every year, hubby would always stash coins in anticipation for this event. You see, during Queens day, there are Carnivals (Kermis) and flee markets. Honey and I love in the booths of the Kermis and normally honey would win me lots of stuffed toys!

This year it was more special as this is Bee's first Queen's day. And perhaps because honey is more inspired this year, he won a record breaking 9 stuffed toys! I tell you, Bee's room is getting crowded and so is our guest room :-). if we go on at this rate, there will be no more room for other things but stuffed toys in our rooms haha. My favorites from among the stuffed toys honey got this year are the characters from Winnie the Pooh cartoons, they are so cute plus I've learned of a Winnie the Pooh character I have never heard of before.... Heffalumps! He is a cute elephant.

I'm already looking forward to the next Queen's day, i'm even more thrilled coz I know that by that time, Bee would can already enjoy some of the rides in the carnival so we'll be having much more fun! yey!