Pregnancy at 28 is different from pregnancy at 39! A first pregnancy is different from a 7th pregnancy. The nausea (non-existent in my 1st pregnancy) has gotten worse with each subsequent pregnancy. The backache (non-existent in my 1st pregnancy) has gotten worse with each pregnancy. The energy I had with my 1st pregnancy is non-existent […] Read more…
Letting Go and Trusting God When You Have a Large Family
Letting go and trusting God is not about trusting God with our family size. But it is about one of the biggest lessons learnt as a mother of many. About how I had to learn that letting go and trusting God is the only way when one has a large family. Many times we say we trust God but do we really? Read more…
31 Days of Living Life in a Large Homeschooling Family
So, I have decided to be brave and take on the Write 31 Challenge this year. I had heard about it late last year when the challenge had already ended so I just put my name down to be notified when the 2017 challenge came on. And so, a few weeks back I received the email that […] Read more…
Struggles of new moms
For every new mom who survives the confinement period without tears and depression, there are probably 10 moms who didn’t 🙁 Being a new mom is a terribly frightening experience. Now, there’s a helpless human being who looks to you for answers and help. But you don’t have all the answers. Most times you are too […] Read more…
The Burden of Being A Mother
When a child misbehaves, there’s a Chinese comment that is literally translated as, “Mother didn’t teach”. I don’t know if there’s an equivalent in English or any other language. But with that one comment, the onus seems to be placed solely on the mother : to teach values and morals, amongst other things. So if […] Read more…
News Flash!
This is a reminder that you will have to bookmark our new url in view of the administrative and technical problems I am having with my domain host 🙁 This is the new url http://www.BuildingUpMoms.WordPress.com I don’t think it would affect those who have subscribed to FeedBurner for updates but I can’t be sure. If it does, […] Read more…
Myths : Conclusion
And so we have come to end of the 10 common myths associated with our larger than normal family. The purpose of debunking these assumptions people have of our family is to share that we truly are a normal average family that happens to have more children than most people. We are no superheroes nor […] Read more…
Another musical extravaganza!
Well not really but it will be a great time of worship and praise come 17th October 2008! My dear husband, or Brother Henson as most of you know him as, will be presenting a musical testimony of God’s faithfulness and goodness in a 2hr long session with his own originally composed songs. More details can […] Read more…
Yes, that’s our family in the Sunday Times
And yes, we are expecting our 7th child. 🙂 In case you missed the article, it is at the moment still available online at : http://www.straitstimes.com/News/Home/Story/STIStory_271316.html I am not sure how long this link is for though. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ […] Read more…