How it all started.....

Many, many months back
Rachel: Eh, blog lah
Me: No time la.

A couple of months back
Me: I have got so much to tell you.
Rachel: Blog lah
Me: Alright. I will start blogging as soon as I found a great name for my blog

So here I am, finally found the name (and time) that I love for my blog- Amazing GRACE. It is such a common name and it is everywhere (song, movie, book title etc.), yet it has such significance in my life. I love and cherish it with all my heart.

Ashley-Joan is one of the reason to start off this love affair I have with Amazing Grace. Whenever I look at her, I am reminded of what a wonderful miracle she is. We almost lost her at birth due to entanglement of the cord around her neck not once but twice. Her right lung didn't expand and Tex (hubby) said she didn't cry at first when the doctor took her out of the womb. She was put into the incubator and the pediatrician told us that if her lung still didn't expand by morning, we might have to transfer her to an infant ICU. All the time the drama was going on, my wonderful hubby kept the news to himself because he knew what a worry freak I was and still am. Praise God, after 5 hours in the incubator, Ashley's lung expanded and she was breathing normally. I still remember the first time the doctor carried her to me while I was being stitched and she was crying by then. I called her name and immediately she stopped crying and opened her eyes to look at me. The first impression I had was "Wow, she is gorgeous!". She had deep double eyelid, dark brown eyes and hair, a cute sharp nose and dimples just like her dad's.

Today she is a very active and cheeky 16 months old girl. Still ever so gorgeous in my eyes (ask the boys who "fight" to play with her in playgroup and church or her grandparents or her aunts & uncles or her kaimas........you get the idea?). She is smart and is always surprising us with the things she can do. She is a constant joy and a great entertainer. We love her heaps. Muax.

"Thank you Lord for Ashley-Joan Ting. What more can I say but....thank you for Your Amazing GRACE. Amen."