It's Celebration time!!!!

I am so going to celebrate my victorious 5 years being a full time home-maker. Wow...time flies.

I've always wanted to be a wife and a mother. I knew I was the marrying type since I was in secondary school when I literally grew up in a small church full of young families. This is where I learnt to baby sit in the nursery even infants as young as a few months old and learnt to cope with the tonnes of saliva and screamed for the respective mothers when their kids pooed or vomited.

Then I moved on to the children ministry where I had to relate bible stories, make props for "theatre" and lots of art and craft including painting a whole mural on a church wall- Jesus loves the little children. Wish I had taken a picture of it to show rachel now. *sigh* I wouldn't say I enjoy every minute of this ministry but the brain-storming, the decision making and letting my creativie juices flowing. A big YES!!!! I even made "passports" and help the children aged 4-10 "travel internationally -where we stopped over at France, visited the Effiel Tower, sampled "red wine" (ribena) and ate crossiants. Other countries included Japan, China, Italy, Korea???? and Singapore (home). Being a peace loving person, I must say the one thing I HATE about dealing with many children is the NOISE. I get a bad headache and become rather frustrated within afterwards. Noise of any type gets on my nerves, probably the main reason why I prefer only ONE kid. PEACE =HAPPINESS

Later I counselled teenagers, which was not easy since I was quite a busy and goody one and in my early twenties was only a few years older than them. I find it hard to understand their anger, their rebellion, negativity and sexual promiscuity. Then I occured to me, most felt neglected by parents and had dysfunctional homes and though I was not a 100% on good terms with my parents then, I had the vision to excel in school, to do well in work and to help others - to become a better person all the time etc for myself, because life is short, I always want to live it well. Unfortunately, most youth I dealt with thought very short term and suffered much from low esteem, especially so when their parents were absent and they were brought up by maids. This is why I prefer to be a hands on mother to my only child.

The only ministry that I felt a calling towards and derived much satisfaction from was the worship ministry. I love to sing and pounce on the stage, ya...I actually had been performing on stage since my kindergarten days for school anniversaries, concerts and of course getting the various academic achievement awards. I sort of miss the "mike", the "lights" and the "dark audience". HAHAHA. Well, I will return to serve in this fashion which I did for almost 7 years if the Lord wanted me to.

In the meantime, I feel even more drawn towards music-making. I don't know why but I want to learn to play my favourite chopin pieces before I exit from the world. There is this huge dimension in music that I need to explore and grow in for the rest of my life. Nothing is impossible with God. Who knows... I may end up a music teacher or performer. BUT, the more important thing is the sheer satisfaction of making music and the process of learning to do it well



So, here I am, not working for any corporate bitches and in the process slowing becoming one myself. I am living a fuller life nurturing rachel, taking care of the family-meals included, and learning music which is what I wanted to study and excel for the glory of God.