Month: July 2007

Praise the Lord!

By God’s grace and mercy, He has blessed Darling and I this little being that has been growing in me 7 months ago. We went through a tough time last year and through that, God had taught us to be more faithful to Him.

Darling has been extra supportive, loving and caring during my pregnancy. He is already a supportive, loving and caring husband and now adding the extras. So you can imagine how much he sacrifices for me and baby emotionally, physically and financially.

God is really good to me. Besides the backache, heartburn and indigestion, Darling and I don’t have to go through the nightmare of morning sickness. Zero MC so far which makes me a proud employee. 🙂 I had loss of appetite initially but my appetite came back in the 4th month of pregnancy which resulted in weight gain after that. My gynae always say, “Watch out your weight!”. Oh my, what can I do? The food is so tempting. 😀

Month by month, we sees how the baby has grown. My stomach is getting bigger, belly button has pop up, I am much heavier each weeks and my movement is getting slower. And of course baby is growing well in the “comfort zone”. I can feel baby’s movement more intense each day. It has been a good progress so far. We continue to pray that our gracious God will see us through this pregnancy until we meet our baby eye-to-eye.

It has always been my dream/ambition to be a SAHM and I have confidence that I won’t turn back to the marketplace until my children is old enough to take care of themselves. Darling is quite supportive about me being a SAHM to take care of the children and household but he is also quite worried that I will like a “ah sam” or bored. He allows me to be a SAHM provided that I must have a group of friends to socialise with and involve in meaningful activities (not just shopping and gossiping of course) such as handicraft, cooking, church, etc.

Recently people has been debating about SAHM, PTWM or FTWM. Each have their own reasons. And recently, Darling was promoted to a managerial position and has extra responsibilities. Worse still, he has to clean up his ex-colleagues “rubbish” which puts more pressure to his work. Yesterday he told me that he wanted to let go and go back to programming.

What he had shared with me makes me reevaluate my dream/ambition to be a SAHM. He too has an ambition to having his own business or work from home. It is not fair for him being alone fighting in the war for the family. If I were a SAHM, it is not enough by just giving him the emotional and mental support when he feels down at work. If I can contribute to part of the household income, then he don’t have to climb the career ladder just for the sake of the family’s financial. Even if both of us are working, I believe that by God’s grace, both of us can still nuture our children to walk in the ways of God. Things will be perfect as long as we are one in the bond of love and faithful to Him.

Let the Lord guide and give us the wisdom to make the wise choice.