Isn´t she gorgeous?
My friend from France gave birth recently to a beautiful baby girl. She is so amazingly good-looking and cute and girly..... , I keep going to her blog to keep looking at her face! Hahaha. She´s half-Chinese and half-French. When I look at pictures of Eurasian babies and see my friends´kids (those Singaporeans married to Germans here), my maternal instincts start going haywire. I can´t help but wonder when will it be my turn to have kids?!
Truth of the matter is that Stephan and I would want to wait at least until his tax advisor´s exams are over - early 2009, before we might even consider starting a family. Age-wise, I guess I´d still be a pretty young mom even if I waited another 1 or 2 more years. However, with Stephan being almost 7 yrs older than me, it does make sense to start soon if he wants to be a young dad. On the other hand though, we both also want to travel more around Europe before introducing new family members. I guess there´s never a "perfect" time to have children, is there?
And of course, I´m not looking forward to the 4-hrs sleeping days, waking up in the night all the time, breastfeeding and having sore nipples ..... all mothers would know what I´m talking about. It´d be nice to have a nanny! Hahaha........ I´m so grateful that my in-laws stay around the corner and I think they will make such awesome grandparents (and my Dad too of course). My colleague told me "The job of a grandparent is to spoil the grandchildren"..... is that true?
Don´t get me wrong. I really enjoy my life right now and our couplehood. Stephan is such an awesome guy to be married to, that I never want to be married to anyone else. I believe that God has His best timing and plans. In this season of couplehood, I pray that He will mold and grow us spiritually, emotionally and mentally, to prepare us for new challenges and changes in our next season of life. And of course, I want to enjoy every season of my life too .....
Dunno why I´m so philosophical. Have I mentioned that I have a swollened upper eyelid - those type that you can hardly open one eye, cos the entire eyelid is red and thick? Plus the other eye has an infected lower eyelid. I´m like "What the heck is wrong with my eyes?" I can hardly see properly when I put the cream on both my eyes.......
2 comments:
Hey Pris, your kids will be beautiful too both inside n out cos it will be such a child of love and of God. Definitely enjoy this season of life a a young carefree couple first n travel, see the world before babies arrive on the scene. Dont worry abt Stephan being too old lah, JC was 38 when Luke arrived & now 40 with Leia. In fact I think they keep him young leh ;) Plus cos his career established already and cos he already had his share of fun in his 20s and early 30s, now he has more time for them. So dont worry yah, all in God's time. Ai ling n I will give u tips when yr turn comes and u v. welcome to come babysit in the meantime for us ;)
Thank God that my in-laws and some of my late wife siblings were able to take care of my first two babies until they were around 8 years old and had to hire a domestic helper to look after them..Wonderful that in Singapore, you could have a live-in domestic helper for a very reasonable sum of money (S$1,000/mth) including government tax, expenses etc. I have four children while I was doing my MBA while working at the same time and both of us were working at that time. Our domestic helper was so capable plus all the God given children are so well-behaved and lovable..Enjoyed my learning, with very strict, regimented schedule in balancing study, work and home...All in all, God is the center of our lives and we have been so blessed forevermore...We would have a fifth child if he/she had survived during the pregnancy stage...ha..ha...one too many perhaps?? but could not compare with my parents and my late wife parents who have 9 children each...though of catching up but 4 is just nice...
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