I cried today...

Really i cried while watching television. Weird isn't it? Well I was watching "Renovate My Family" on channel 5 at 6.30 p.m just now.

The show is just like any makeover show, turn something that is run down and unkept into something fabulous and stunning. The show started showing a family, a mum, a dad, and 7 kids living together in a quaint little house, surviving on only 1 bathroom. Actually they are from 2 families but since the first mum passed away, the dad married another which accounts for how different some of the kids look.

Well, the whole family started to get all emotional when they tore down the house in front of them (who wouldn't be). Some of the kids were crying, it was sad.

They were then taken somewhere where they will undergo challenges while their house was built from scratch. They had a cooking lesson whereby the whole family took part preparing dinner for themselves. They had fun helping each other around with the cooking and managed to whip up a good meal. They then had a makeover (yup, for each one of them, even the cute 6 year old Christina!).

I wasn't sure how long it took for the construction crew to complete the project but I can tell you that the end product was absolutetly amazing, 2 storeys, 6 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms and a well-bonded family. Each of the bedrooms were designed specially to meet the expectations of each of the kids (well the oldest was 17). The bedrooms were cool; wished I had a bedroom like that too. But the coolest has to be the inbuilt television in the mirror of the bathroom so that one can watch TV while resting in the tub. And the appliances in the house are all controlled by a tablet (not the ones that you eat). Talk about futuristic housing!

The reason I cried was that one of the child still hasn't cope with the death of his mother but the father has a hard time talking to him personally about this. The host noticed this and suggested that the dad had a one to one talk with the sonad decided to make a special photo frame with a picture of his late wife with his son. He had a message recorded into the frame so that with a press of a button the message could be heard. The message was touching... I couldn't remember but both the father and the son hugged and cried while holding on to the picture frame. I was so touched by the sensitivity of the father. That was when I had tears in my eyes.

Not only has the family gotten a new home... they had each other and that is better then any home.