Category: Family
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The necessity to address the present burnout
It’s easier to talk about most things if they are in the past. Granted it takes some courage and vulnerability to open up even then, and it’s easier if you are confident in your identity. Who you are and your worth is not defined by a season in life, a set of circumstances, how you…
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Coping mechanisms and temptation entering school age
When I was around 5 I visited with my grandmother an old grannie in the village. She was making carpets and other crafty things out of colorful threads. My grandmother was also a carpet maker and I helped her with that craft as a kid. That grannie had many spools of colorful thread. I remember…
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Lifestyle and schoolwork
We were watching a show in the evening when the teacher sent a text to the parents that she gave our kids their math test results back. And she encouraged everyone to check the kids homework and help them the best we can to practice math at home through homework. I turned to Jackie and…
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Being an author – International book day
Last week Conrad was invited to talk about being an author, how he started, what it entails, and how do authors make money. It was money week at the International school. Today is international book day and I was invited to Jackie’s class to share about my experience as a book author. This class loves…
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New challenges. New boundaries.
We have experienced first hand how addictive the iPhone can become. When we watched from the sideline the other families, how easily they gave in to kids’ demand of iPads and iPhones, we decided to have a proactive approach and implement boundaries for ourselves first. Conrad has an app limit which he abides by most often. …
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Reflecting
In the heat of the moment I may be witty, and have lots to say. It may be cathartic to dump my thought, to air them out. Alas, there is purpose in writing. I hope to look m back and glean the truth, have an authentic perspective over how things were, and how it happened.…
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Time
We can’t say we don’t have time for connection, for conversations and to read worthwhile literature. We have conversations. We have connection. We pray at meal time and at bedtime. But we never read the Bible together. I take the kids to church to Sunday school to Christian school and to Christian camps. I take…
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40 % battery
Adjusting expectations is a safe bet. I have an old Mac book air. Top of the line when I was working at Apple. But it’s now 10 years old. It still has a usb port that I need to connect to the timeless printer. Jackie writes some of her school projects on it. It’s slow…
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Valentine’s note from my 10 year old daughter
I love youYou make me talkI distinguish you asBeing very beautifulBecause you help mewith homework I love you.You’re magic. Not tragic.I’m glad you are magical Thank you.You make me be funnyYou are a heavenly gift,Mommy! Mama, you intuitively knowWhen fear grips meI love you, mama! Jaky
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About our beginning
I picked up another book to read. Ann voskamp’s last book. She starts with her beginning. And she is honest, and veiled and poetic, but brutally honest. And it inspires me. It’s marriage week and this reading and reflection is serendipitous. We also started naive, faithful, hopeful. Innocence is priceless. What we don’t know (a…
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On loan for a while
In a strange political context, where children belonged to the state, and the state took over the care and education (kids still benefit from free education and health insurance till they become adults no matter their familiar circumstances) from early stages. To gain double the workforce and educate the children according to its values, my…
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Naming that small fox
This weekend I got to read and be encouraged by a blog post and it made me reflect further on my own life. A wise woman builds her house, does not destroy it with her own hands. A seed of doubt was planted many seasons ago in my heart. In darkness and humidity, it sprouted…