Blessings & jOys of being a Mother!















All I can say is what a blessing it is to be a mother..esp to baby Isaac. He's such an adorable boy and although he's only 7months old..he's actually very smart for his age. At this tender young age, he understands mandarin, cantonese & english - all from just listening to others. On thursday, we sent him off to the babysitter and as usual 'aunty' will say 'opposite meaning things' like you are a naughty boy when he actually was a good & obedient boy... well I can't quite understand the logic of speaking negative things to your kids in order to get a reverse effect on them. 

To me what Pastor Joshua shared about speaking the positive makes more sense.. but I'm not about to debate this issue with 'aunty'. We give her a lot of freedom & free hand to do things her way and to discipline Isaac if need be. So far I must say she has done a great job.. what a blessing to get a good babysitter. Oh so coming back to thursday, as we passed Isaac to aunty, she harshly said you are a naughty boy ya, aunty don't want you anymore. Immediately I see Isaac's face changed and he was almost in tears already... see he understands..which reminds us as adults to be extra careful what we say in front of him..he might pick it up. Isaac is getting more & more active each day.. he sits well..rolls over non-stop when we lie him on the bed, attempts to stand up on his own and does many other 'cheeky' tricks that make me both angry and amused at the same time.. such joy!...

*****

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Our Lim family's Chinese names

Image
It's not easy for an English educated Chinese banana like me to remember how to write our kids' Chinese names..(yeah of course I know how to write my own Chinese name). So I've actually prepared a powerpoint slide of all our Chinese names, as above, to help remind me how their names are to be written :p It's funny how we got Ivan's chinese name above... my parents didn't manage to provide chinese names that we like that rhymes with his English name - IVAN. Most of those that my dad shortlisted sounded abit like a girl's name. So one day what I did was to google for a translation website and used this website to translate "Wen" in english to Chinese character. After some browsing through, I've finally selected the above Chinese character to represent "Wen" which also has a very good meaning. It represents "stability, strength, strong foundation" which I find will be very good traits for a little boy. There is a Chinese sayin...
Read more

Our 2nd honeymoon to Turkey 8-17 June 2010

Image
In Ankara where it was almost towards the end of our honeymoon trip to Turkey , Sze Weng asked me “Dear, how would you rate this Turkey trip? Will you come back for more?” Without a doubt, I answered him “10/10 and YES will definitely come back, to cover Eastern Turkey !!” Turkey is such a beautiful country with majestic historical architecture dating back to Roman, Greek & Otoman empires, magnificent nature scenes and significantly rich culture, that even a rock at some hillside is at least 2 centuries’ old and superbly rich with stories. It was never our choice destination for our 2 nd honeymoon till I heard from my best friend, Joanne who came back from Turkey last year and sang praises about it. After some research through forums, we were captivated with the beauty & magnificence of the country that we decided we could NOT resist it. We traveled for 10 days throughout the Western side of Turkey ; from Istanbul to Pamukkale, then on to Cappadocia and Ankara and bac...
Read more

Respect for stay-at-home mothers..

A friend and his wife joined us at church today. They brought along their 5-month baby and felt immediately at ease with RLC's nursery area. She delivered her baby in March and has since left her job to be a full-time home-maker/mother/wife etc. Looking at her, I felt a strong sense of respect for her. I started asking myself "would I quit my job to take care of my 2 boys all by myself?" It's a question that I've asked myself during my 1st confinement after delivering Isaac. Then, my quick reply was NO. Financial limitation aside, I find it a really HUGE sacrifice for any working mums to take this bold step. I do not pride myself as being a workaholic... but to certain extend, I like my job & I like having my financial independence plus a strong social network which I've build across the last 10 years working in the media industry.  Confinement period/maternity leave is by far the closest I could get to being a stay-at-home mother. Not to say I do not en...
Read more