Happy 1st Birthday to this Blog!

I actually missed this by a week from all the stuff that's going on and preventing me from blogging. This is my 236th post in one year (which averages out to, what, 2 posts in 3 days?) 

But yes! It has been one year since I started blogging and what an adventure it has been.

I was initially very repelled by the idea of "blogging", believe it or not. Blogging was too fad-ish for me to even think about getting into. Until I got this vision of using a blog to help folks answer the question, what is homeschooling in Singapore all about? that I thought, maybe I could use a blog to do that- answer questions. So I talk about our homeschooling life, talk about life as a parent of four little ones, record stuff we do, do comparisons now and then with the public schools, praise God for guiding us, teaching us and helping us grow... stuff like that.

I meant it to be a place where Singaporean parents can find out more, ask questions, express their views.. And I'm sooo glad that in this year and through this humble blog, I've met the acquaintance of several moms who are exploring the homeschooling option for their kids or are already homeschooling. Thank you, dear readers (you know who you are)! Your internet friendship has brightened up my life!

Along the way, I even made it to a family magazine due to this blog! I was asked in the e-interview for that magazine, why blogging is so popular among parents. Well, I think the answer has crystallized for me. I get to talk and think as "me" on my blog. Not "mommy" talking to the kids all day. Of course, I write about my mommy adventures, but it's my voice, my personality.

Also, in writing about what happened or is happening in our lives, I see more clearly God's hand in our lives, actively shaping us, moulding us to who He wants us to be. That's been the greatest blessing I've received from blogging it down. Weird, huh, how God works? I've been trying to give thanks in everything and truly, there is so much to give thanks for.

Thanks for sharing this journey with us. Please do write if there's anything topic of interest (or something bugging you) pertaining to homeschooling, parenting that I can launch into... been kinda (literarily) dry recently. :OP

Blessings!

Comments

[Yi Huey]

Hi, just want to encourage you for doing such a fantastic job with the blog!

Just to share an incident at the playground yesterday that made me really wonder if I should send my daughter to regular school where she may pick up undesirable actions/words. A few older children were demonstrating how to climb up a slide instead of sliding down, jumping down from tall places etc, all very dangerous acts. My two yr old, being young and impresionable, wanted to follow suit. I told her not to follow them because she may fall and hurt herself. But the bigger lesson is that she should not follow people who do silly and dangerous things.

Somehow this incident reminded me that I would not be there forever for her, so during her growing years, I need to teach and inculcate these values in her so she may make wise decisions herself when I am not by her side.

[Suwei]

Hi Yi Huey! Thanks for posting! ;O)

I totally agree with you that we only have a very small window of time to be there with our children to teach them, train their character, and nurture them physically, emotionally, intellectually and spiritually.

Time flies! All too soon, time will be up and they'll be living lives as adults we have trained (or not trained) them to be.

blessings,
Suwei