I’m totally looking forward to 2015. Not sure what God has in store for MSKSL but know that He has gone ahead and said that all is good. A year of restoration- when men restore, it’s never the same, but God’s restoration is always greater in quality and quantity.
1) Restoration of years.
2) Restoration of souls, minds and emotions
3) Restoration of health.
2015. A year loaded with His restoration.
Since the middle of December, after my help left for her almost 1-month home leave, I took on her role together with daddy M and a part-time maid. My daily schedule revolved mostly around L, feeding, putting her to sleep, cooking, washing and more washing! It has been tiring but precious! S was also skipped school here and there to be at home. However the job was made harder when L was struck by stomach infection ie. constant messy poo, which doubled the need for washing.
Not sure I can do this for long (without a help). There’s a big difference between SAHM with help and without. One without help usually has no time to shower, let alone any rest. Maybe I am an amateur trying-to-be one. Seasoned SAHM would probably has things under controlled.
It’s my last 2 days staying at home as we eagerly counting down to the return of our super helper. I am sure I’ll miss this but am super glad that I get to experience it!
L was a sleep-through baby since 2 months old, ie, last feed at 9.30-10pm and she would only wake up after 5a.m. I was a proud mama when someone asked me of her sleep pattern. However after her recent jabs, the pattern started to change and she would wake up a few times during the night, fussing.
As we’re trying to figure out ways to make her resume her perfect sleep pattern (and ours), I came across an article in Proverbs 31 Ministries, with a revelation from Ecclesiastes 3:11- There is an occasion for everything and a time for every activity.
We are blessed with a baby. And a baby is a BABY, with sleep pattern that is different from adults! That’s a fact. Instead of grumbling and complaining, I should attempt to take it easy and enjoy every single moment that L needs me.
This is the season for us – caring for a baby and raising a pre-school-er... At some point in my life later, I will miss the two girls ‘needing’ me … They will outgrow their cribs to big beds and not wanting to sleep with us. They may tuck away baby dolls and focus on fashion and make-up. They will leave behind pre-school and enter the scary primary / secondary school…
I should treasure the current season of parenting, rather than mourning over my sleep because, after all, every moment with our children is a blessing.
In the journey of parenting and in life, there are times to plant and uproot. Times to cry, laugh, grieve and dance. Times to embrace and turn away. Times to speak and to keep quiet. Times to keep and to let go.
I ask God to give me the wisdom, not only to make it through the seasons, but to appreciate them as gifts from God.
Traits:
I’m 5.2kg.
I have a serious look.
I’m a cooing machine.
I like to be carried.
I’m often being mistaken as a boy.
I have started to sleep through the night.
One quarter of the year is almost gone for me to realise that I have not penned down pastor’s vision for 2014 – a year of GREATER GLORY.
Isaiah 60:
Arise, shine;
For your light has come!
And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you.
2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth,
And deep darkness the people;
But the Lord will arise over you,
And His glory will be seen upon you.
3 The Gentiles shall come to your light,
And kings to the brightness of your rising.
By faith, I know that this shall be the best year (yet) of my life. As a mother of two. As a wife. As a daughter. As an employee. As a friend. As a Rock Kidz teacher.
I am not sure what darkness there might be in the world, although for now, Ukraine unrest could just be one of them, but I know for sure that God’s hand is upon my household and His protection and favour shall reign in the family.
I wanted to try something different with this baby and this maternity leave. So we decided to fly back to Penang for CNY, bringing the entire troop. Bb L was a good traveller who slept through the short flights to and fro.
The kids and I spent a whooping 15 days in Penang, with daddy M leaving for Sg first.
It took me about a week to get accustomed to my hometown – how ironic. With only a handful of friends left and the new roads, new shopping places, I felt a little out of place at first. But home is home. Our original plan was for me and the kids to stay 7 days but what the heck, since I’m on maternity leave, why not just extend? So we did! From 7, I changed our tickets to 10 and further extended to 15 days!
It was a blast for S because everyday = play, play and play.
With so much time on hand, I ventureed new places with S, doing the touristy thing – art walls, reservoir, fishermen village, butterfly farm (though she refused to go in!), pasar malam and of course playgroundS! I also had more time with friends whom I have not seen for years…
It was a good break and a change out of the routine in Singapore. It was also my longest stay in Penang since 2001. There were fleeting thoughts on how my life would have been had I not left Penang for Singapore 14 years ago. One thing for sure, my walk with God would have been very different. How about daddy M? S? L? No regrets. As I said, only fleeting thoughts.
