BACIB part 8: Did I jinx it?

Hey everyone,

How have you all been? It’s been long since I wrote a BACIB, I know.  Today I wanted to share something that really made me think and happy at the same time! Recently a lot of things have been going well for me.. I have been doing quite well in school, in church I’ve been asked to sing in the worship team multiple times, the choir has been doing well, everyone is healthy, the page views of the blog have been increasing, it feels like everything has been going well for me. I can’t complain at all.. Still if I say everything has been going well, won’t I jinx it? I don’t know.. I had a feeling that if I’d say everything is well: that my next report card will be bad or that the next performance won’t go well and I’ll forget lines or that I won’t be asked to sing again,... Is that really how life goes though? Is it really that if life goes well and you start to become happy, that there will be something that will come and ruin it all?
Yes it is true, or shall I say that’s what I used to think and that is what used to happen to me all the time, lol. Whenever I would be happy about something or feel confident, after a few weeks things would go downhill.. But honestly is that how the rest of my life is going to be? Are the bad things that come after the good things really because I was too happy? Should I really be careful when I get happy? Should I start thinking twice before I get excited?
Of course not. Honestly when things are going well in life, enjoy them. When bad things come after that, it isn’t because you enjoyed the good things. There is nothing like “jinxing” your good luck or happiness. I thought my exams went well this time and I came out of almost every exam saying it went well and people would ask me: “aren’t you jinxing it, I said no and I was right.. My report card came out and my grades were okay, so I was quite satisfied.. It’s not the grades I was aiming for, but hey at least I didn’t fail, right?

Sometimes It’s good to have faith in what you’re doing and in who you are. God didn’t just put you here with no plan and His promises weren’t just words.. He meant what he said..

Psalm 20:7

“Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.”

Thanks to God’s promise we can achieve everything we want. Thanks to Him we have strength and can do all things..

Philippians 4:13
”I can do all this through him who gives me strength.”

And when something good happens, be happy and praise Him for the blessing instead of talking about luck..

Exodus 23:25

Worship the Lord your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you.

🎶  Song of today 🎶

There is power in the name of Jesus,

there is power in the name of Jesus,

to break every chain, 

break every chain, 

break every chain..

Break every chain ~ Tasha Cobbs 

God bless you all,

~Musa 

Black and yellow...

Hey everyone, how have u been? I hope you all had a nice New Year!! 

Today we’re going to get a little more personal, I'm going to tell you a story!

A few weeks ago my youngest sister, 

who is 4 years old now asked my mum: “Mummy, why am I brown? I’m even close to black you know, why am I black?”

My mum replied:
“you are the most beautiful princess in the world and black is a very beautiful colour.”

My sister then said in an angry tone: “Mummy, you can’t say that, ea!
Everyone is beautiful, you can’t just say that I am the most beautiful princess in the world.” 

(Although she did believe what my mum said and agreed with her, hahaha!)

Now before I continue with this story I’m going to tell you a little more about my sister.

Let me start with this: 

she isn’t normal at all, haha. She is just too smart. 

I can’t believe she realizes things that other age mates don't realize or simply can't. 

She is someone who loves to play, dance and draw a lot and she loves being very childish (lol she is 4) ,
but when she asks you a question or gives you a reason for something, 

she becomes the most serious person ever and if you try to joke with her she'll get angry
(It’s quite funny, because to her it all makes sense, even if some things don’t make sense at all, I mean she is 4.)

Another thing I want to let you know is that she loves crisps,

especially the salty ones, okay to be honest, only the salty ones.

Now let me continue...

After she told my mum off for calling her the most beautiful princess in the world,

she went silent for a minute, then she asked: “but mum crisps is also very nice and it’s white,

so why am I not white?” My mum laughed and said: “are you a crisp?”

My sister knew that mum got her and burst out laughing!

A day later my mum came home from work and found my younger sister’s drawing on the dining table.

I don’t know is any of you know the nick jr. program Ni Hao, Kai Lan? 

So my sister had coloured Kai Lan (the lead character of the show), 

but the way she coloured her in, wasn't the way Kai Lan looks like.. 

    

Now she believed that black is very beautiful, but she also knew that everyone is beautiful! It doesn't matter which color you are, 

❤ YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL!! ❤

YEARBOOK 2016 !!!

Soooo, I hope everyone is having a happy holiday !! We're only a few minutes / hours before the new year. How exciting is that ! Because it is the end of the year we decided to make a year , you know to look back on everything we've done this year and we wanted to share our year with you guys! I hope you guys can look back too and smile about it all !

We wish everyone a happy and blessed 2017 !!

March 2016
We're starting in March, because in January and February nothing special really happened. In March I, Musa went back to my homecountry: Zambia. I spent 3,5 weeks. It was really refreshing to see my family and friends again after 12 years.

 I visited a lot of different places with huge gardens and my aunt tought me how to plant vegetables.

April 2016

So our journey together begins with Paris.. In the beginning of this year we went on a 4-day trip to Paris with school. We had so much fun. We walked a lot so we were also pretty exhausted in the evenings. In Paris we really became more exposed.

      

💗💗VERSAILLES💗💗

With Katherine, our little bestie !! She hates pics, but we managed to convince her to pose and smile for this pic, jeeej mission complete !😉

(Day) The Eiffel tower (Night)

Somewhere in the middle of Paris ( can't remember the name tho, it was a very cool place)

OMG do some of you know the K-Drama DOTS??? If u do, you will know why this picture was taken like this. For the people who don't know: DOTS is a shortcut for Descendants Of The Sun, a Korean Drama that came out at the beginning of this year. It is about a soldier and a doctor who do a lot of interesting and exciting stuff. If you want to know more you can look it up and watch it online. This pose is one of the famous poses in the drama..

 When u ask the squad to pose for a quick pic

In Musee d'orsay, we wanted to look cool and copy the statue of liberty, after trying a couple of times we finally managed to take a good picture.

It  was such a nice time with these people in Paris ! Since Paris this group has become so close and they are really amazingly cool people to be around love them lots !! 💓

 On the last day we had the opportunity to have a drink with the whole class !We weren't allowed to have alcohol, so non-alcoholic coctails it is ! 

April vacation
Mita's grandfather and grandmother from her mother's side visited Europe for the first time, so she went to a lot of places with them during the short break.

Their first visit was in Spain, Her uncle lives there so he showed them a lot of different places. They only spent four days there but they had a lot of fun !









Her grandfather poses for the pic !😎😎


Her next visit with her grandparents was in Belgium itself. They went to a lot of places and visited many relatives, but she lost a lot of her pics because her phone broke a month ago, so these are the only pics we have. These pics are  from Waterloo.

For their last visit, they went to Holland to look at all the beautiful flowers in Keukenhof !

Her grandparents are so hip with their poses ! 

Mita didn't deny that she requested them to do the DOTS pose for the last picture !

May 2016
Our next stop is Antwerp:

In May we went to Antwerp with our class, yes, last academic year we went to quite a lot of places with school. In Antwerp we were allowed to walk around freely and explore the town..
 

Stadhuis Antwerpen   

                         Begijnhof Antwerpen -->

Then summer vacation came.. The big adventure began.. We started our blog.. I remember the first post we posted, we had soo much fun !! After that we started doing photo shoots and got together to write blog posts ! It was an amazing experience. Starting a blog really brought us closer together.. Although we were already quite close we got even closer..

We also worked at a kids daycare. If you want to know what happened there u can check out  Working with kids for a week. We had so much fun this past summer...

We started our summer vacation with a campfire at a friends' place.. We were celebrating her 15th birthday !!

The second of July we finally uploaded our first blog post !! It was called "My fight against time"

It was deleted from the Blog due to personal reasons..

First pic of Mita without braces ! 

 

 Our very first photo shoot.. Musa didn't know how to dab back then, so it was sloppy !! 

Here are some other pics we took for the first photoshoot ! 😄

August 2016

Mita had another grandparent visit Belgium for the second time. This time she was from her father's side. She couldn't walk for a long time so she didn't go to as many places as the other grandparents, but here's a pic of a place she did visit with Mita. The Atomium in Brussels.

Our second photo shoot ever ! We really had a lot of fun doing it all !! 😀

Even at chuch we had a lot of fun ! I (Musa) became closer to them during this summer, we strenghened each other when we had problems and helped each other growing in faith.

September 2016

Then school started.. Life got busier and more complicated.. But we kept going, we tried our best to keep up with posting, but it got hard to post regularly...

School had started but Mita was still in a festive mood ! These are photos taken at the traditinal Nepali festival called Teej. She also had a mini photoshoot with her Nepali friends. She tried a lot of poses from the hindi movies she watched when she was little !

October

In October we had a friends' birthday ! She turned 17. All the girls were invited for a sleepover, we had sooo much fun and no sleep lol !

The Girls Gang

😎😎😎

We also went on a 3-day trip with school called "bezinning". It was really an awesome experience and we had a lot of fun !!!😂

November 2016

In November Mita had another traditional festival called Tihar. It's a festival to show your love for your siblings with gifts and flowers. Her brother didn't want her to post his photo so here's a photo of her alone. 😋

December 2016

December is a very festive month for everyone. We have school vacation, Christmas, New Year's Eve and also Mita's birthday. December is obviously her favorite month, specially because everything is decorated with lights and it's all so pretty ! We HAD to do another photo shoot with our city being lightened up so much !

We hope everyone had a great Christmas this year ! We hope Santa gave you what you had wished for !😊💗 Musa and Mita spent Christmas together this year and it was very exciting because it was the first time we spent it together !

Mita spent her birthday in Antwerp with her sisters from another mother !

They had a lot of fun together !

Another year has ended yet again, and we begin a new year. Every year has been a blessing for us, but this one was special because we started our blog this year and we got to meet some of you guys through social media. It is very exciting for us to meet you guys so don't be afraid to approach us through whatever source you can ! We thank you all for your support we've received this year and all the other years to come. We hope you can all welcome the new year with a smile on your face, wherever you may be, because we will be smiling with you too. :)

~Meli-Mita-Musa