Friday, January 01, 2010

Putting It Back Together, January 2010

Two weeks since my wife came back from rehab and things feel like they are slowly falling back in to place. Most days are still long and tiring for me since my wife isn't really able to help very much yet. Her condition is holding, but progress is painfully slow and it hurts just to watch her suffer. There's nothing I can do for her condition.

A small blessing is that Little Nio doesn't appear to be affected by what's going on. Perhaps there may be some effect later on, but we can only hope for now and then deal with things later on. Well at least his appetite hasn't been affected.

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Little Nio really likes fried chicken and he makes no bones about it. He dives straight into the drumstick with real passion. Almost makes one afraid to be a chicken.

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Here's Little Nio with breakfast. A nice bowl of fruit loops cereal. He's not very enthusiastic about this particular breakfast. I guess he's not much of a morning person. Either that or he's not a fan of cereals.

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Posing with his Mommy at our swing bench in front of our home. He's got a great big smile and is really happy that Mommy is back home with us.

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Lunch at Greyhound at Major Avenue. Little Nio is finishing off a big bowl of spaghetti and fried corned beef. This dish was actually for his Daddy, but after he finished off his own food, Little Nio though that Daddy's food looked yummy and decided that he should help out.

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Our Christmas tree is still up on New Year's eve and Little Nio thinks it would be a great idea to herald in the coming year with some fanfare from his little trumpet.

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Our last dinner of 2009. We all went out to have a family meal together at Sizzlers at The Mall Ngamwongwan, which isn't too far from our home. Little Nio always enjoys the quails eggs and the noodles from the salad bar. It's always very nice to go out together as a family.

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Little Nio's Mommy enjoying dinner before our New Year's celebration.

We don't light fireworks at New Year, instead we fill our pockets with money and put coins in cooking pots. When the clock strikes midnight we shake and rattle the coins in the pots to make a tremendous noise to drive out all the bad things from the last year and make sure our home is clean and ready for all the good things from the coming year. We go through all the rooms in our house, all three of us shaking pots filled with coins at every nook and corner, making sure that nothing but prosperity and good luck fills our home.

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A simple breakfast on the first day of the New Year. Still a bit sleepy from the night before, I didn't have much energy to prepare a proper breakfast, but Little Nio looks perfectly happy with a peanut butter and jam sandwich.