Too busy for a walk with the children?

'Pulling away from the television and taking your children on a walk may put you behind on housework...' - my reflections on this devotion - guilty.


Joy was asking me couple of nights back, 'Mom, why are you always busy and have no time to teach me how to play the black-and-white-seed game (Reversi)?' I thought my reply was indignant, 'Because I have to cook, clean the house and wash the clothes, etc. etc. Who will do all these if mommy doesn't?' She said thoughtfully, 'Mmm...because there's no ayi in Singapore.' Guess I should still keep reminding myself to relax in some things.


Routine and order is necessary in a household, but what matters to the children still matters a lot to me - doing things together. A blessing for me that they enjoy play as much as participating in household chores with me. Think I might encourage them to finish up household chores with me so that we have more time to play together when work is done. :)

School for Parenting?

Having both been raised by single parents. or rather, fostered out for the larger part of our childhood lives, I've always said to my husband, 'There is no school to teach anyone how to be good parents.'

I say that to comfort and help us forgive ourselves so we could pick-up quickly whenever we face difficult situations in parenting. After that, we'd turn to God and the Bible for 'further instructions'. I forgot -- as Christians, we do have a 'school for parenting' by God's grace! Amen! :)

Thanks for the sharing and reminder!

Our Homeschool Curriculum Came Through...FINALLY!!!

Our homeschool curriculum finally arrived at our doorstep this morning -- unexpected! The duties we have to pay was reduced from an expected RMB500+ to RMB160! My mind instantly exploded with 'PRAISE THE LORD!' fireworks!!! Friends of ours here who has followed the story would testify the same for us -- this could only be God's work.

Just yesterday, Andrew and I surrendered to God the curriculum, which was then still held at the customs for almost 3 weeks. We knew that only God could be in control and that if the curriculum couldn't come through eventually, then this is the curriculum He didn't want us to do.

Hallelujah! OUR GOD REIGNS!!!