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I just thought I would bid farewell to 2012 with one last post before the clock hits midnight. Goodbyes are not always the easiest things to do. Sometimes its difficult to let go and accept that the season has come to an end. Yet its important to let go of what has passed so you can lay hold of what is in the future. Before moving onto 2013 I want to say goodbye to 2012 by counting the blessings I have enjoyed in this year. Family, friendship and companionship. I am also grateful for the not so great moments because in them we are tested and our character is built up. As I look back at 2012 I carry with me to 2013 the joy I experienced, the pride and sense of accomplishment savored during victories and the realisation that  I am stronger, better and ready for the new season. In 2012 I started this blog making a promise to myself that this would be my best year yet. Starting this blog was a big step a great moment where I chose to dive in, conquer the fear...

Hello! Hello! Hello! I was looking at the goals I set out for myself at the beginning of the year. 2012 was supposed to be my greatest year yet. To a certain extent it has been a fabulous year. I got the privilege to travel to Scotland and present my work at a conference there. I found a good work rhythm and my work is going great finally. It has also been a really difficult year, I came so close to throwing in the towel with my PhD. I thought I just wasn't cut out for it because I was not getting anything right. I kept missing deadlines time and again. It felt like I had gone way too deep than I could handle and I was drowning.  Like I told you in my other post  what goes in will come out , I had to make changes in the way I was doing things. I decided to read and follow academic blogs and that has made all the difference. I have found a community of other people studying similarly to me and we share resources which is really great. There is one good lesson to ta...

Have I told you that I am a notebook junkie? I love buying pretty little notepads and fancy diaries. Well look what I unearthed from one of my notebooks. A poem I wrote about 10 years ago. Interestingly enough, then I was reminiscing about my childhood. Now that its ten years old maybe I should write something about those not so adult years of my life, my twenties. Anyway back to today’s business this is a poem about the stuff I did growing up. I am not so sure if I still think those were the simple lovely wonderful years that I make them out to be in the poem, but they were fun and make me the person I am today. In a way I guess.  How many of you played with mud (real mud), cooked, baked and entertained visitor in make do homes serving mud cakes etc. Did you make your own dolls from rags and cars from soft wire? I wonder sometimes if my son will have as much fun as I did while growing up. I remember climbing trees (and yes I am and was a girl back then), pushing old tyres and ...

Spring is here! So glad the cold winter season is officially over. I wonder what everyone got up to this weekend. I had a superb Saturday, we organised a surprise baby welcome for one of my girlfriends. The plan was perfect and she was one pleasantly surprised momma! Sunday was picnic day with my little big family. Fun! Fun! Weekend did Monday have to come? Well it did and it’s back to serious work for this lady.  I have been frustrated a lot lately by my lack of progress in my academic work. This was caused mostly by challenges in writing, so I went for a writing retreat. The four nights away from home were a great eye opener. I was waking up each morning with nothing else on my mind except just to write and was pleasantly surprised by the progress I made. So I realised that I needed a lot more time to be able to write well academically.  Before the retreat I had been frustrated because I found it so easy to write for my blog and not my academic work. At a certain point I...

I celebrated my birthday this month,  more than three decades of being on earth.  This  pin  summarizes how I feel about my age.  I  didn't  have the big exciting feeling I had last year when I turned thirty. I  didn't  feel up to a big celebration. I just wanted a quiet day without the pressure of doing anything. I spent the day silently counting my blessing and planning this blog. I meant to write the blog and post it the evening of my birthday but I got tired and had to pack for my trip (I spent five nights away from home at a writing retreat). So anyway here is a list of what I am thankful for,  I have just selected a few things from my list.  God Who loves me and continues to lavish me with his undeserved grace and favour My husband The great friendship we have, your gentle heart towards me and for believing that my dreams are possible. My son For making me realise I don’t have to be perfect, and lo...

Today for the first time I went to drop off a friend at the airport. My husband is the one who does those kinds of chores in our household.   He did not want to wake up early so I volunteered to take our friend to the airport. As I thought about what I had volunteered to do, I began to doubt myself and I almost chickened out. I thought what if I oversleep? Well, morning came and as my alarm went off, I got up, got dressed and was ready before my friend arrived. As she got to our gate and rung me my husband asked if I was going to be ok. I wanted to tell him the truth that I was afraid but instead I told him I was going to be okay.   I drove my friend to the airport and came back home in one piece. You might be asking yourself what is the big deal about driving someone to the airport? Now that I have done it, it is no big deal really. The airport has the same road signs and traffic rules as the rest of the country. The roads are the same too. I know this because I hav...

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I was just playing around with my phone as usual taking lots of pictures of my gorgeous lil man! This was the result. I can't say it enough. I am blessed to be his mommy. He is a piece of heaven dropped into our lil big family at just the right time. ....and this is where he gets it all from. Mommy& daddy!

So I promised to tell you about what has been happening in my life.  I have good news and bad news. I just said that because many tv shows always say that. I heard someone say there is no bad weather only bad clothing. I guess in the same way we could say there is no bad news only bad thinking or interpretation of a situation but the jury is still out on that one. My faith has been put to the test recently and I am still reeling in the shock of some events that have happened. I am not sure where to begin so I will just start in the middle. I have a nephew who was shot in a car hijacking incident. He fought for his life for about three months and  died in mid-June this year. For a while my life came to a standstill as I just could not imagine losing him. Like I said in my last post, I prayed and gave God instructions that He could not allow him to die.  I wondered if God cared about the pain I felt and carried with me as I prayed and asked him to heal my nephew. I wond...

I am so stocked to let you all know that this blog was featured at gloriamarie.com on 25 July 2012. Thank you Gloria for the opportunity, you inspire me in more ways than you will know! I Kings 18-19  Psalm 23 I am always encouraged when I find that Bible heroes are in many ways similar to us mere mortals.  Ever read the story of Elijah. I am sure that some of you can recite it like a nursery rhyme. God has recently been ministering to me from the story of Elijah. To those who are not familiar with the story, Elijah was a prophet of God who was taken up to Heaven in a whirlwind. So he didn’t actually die and neither was he buried because he went directly to Heaven without tasting death. An interesting snippet from his life that I want to focus on is when he called all of Israel to Mt Carmel and challenged the prophets of Baal to pray to their god to come down and consume their sacrifices. The prophets of Baal spent the whole day  calling on their god but he ...

Luke 1:38   And Mary said, "Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word." And the angel departed from her. The past few months have been tough for me. I found myself swinging between wild, exhilarating happy emotions and sadness mingled with pain. If you know me, you will know that I am a happy clappy kind of person. I don’t take too well to being sad and depressed. I like to solve my problems quickly so that I can return to my happy state. These past few weeks I have faced situations that have been totally out of my control. I have faced a lot of uncertainties and hated not knowing what would happen next. I felt for a long time that God was saying I should surrender to Him and let Him be God but the thought of not being in control really scared me. Strangely I knew that I did not have the power to change my circumstances yet I didn’t want to entrust them into His hands and allow His will to be done. I wanted God to do exactly as I instr...

So we've been parents for a whole year. It has been one of the most adventurous things I've ever done. I didn't depend as much on the parenting books as I thought I was going to be pouring over them. Parenting is one of those things nobody teaches you but everyday you feel like you are the best parent ever! Because you have the most awesome cute happy chubby face that screams in honest delight when it sees you!

I read somewhere that when a child is born so is a mother. This month last year I too became a mother.  One of the most heart rending stories in the Bible is that of a mother, Hannah. She was barren and shared her husband with a woman who taunted her for this. I am glad that the story doesn’t end there but finishes with her giving birth to Samuel, who became a great man of God and a prophet, she had other children too. Hannah is my hero because she made a vow to God and said “give me a child and I’ll give him back to you.” Her sacrifice of Samuel has a different meaning for me now that I am a mother. Salute to my hero Hannah! I pray I am that kind of a mother who will give her child back to God.  Motherhood and parenthood have been the most amazing journey. Motherhood makes you celebrate the tiniest of things. I remember how we would celebrate our son’s burp when he was a few days old. Believe me it’s so hard to get that wind out of them  yet that act mak...

Partners!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the best gift from heaven! our little big family!

Here is to a fabulous February, it’s one of those beautiful months for me, two men that have great significance in my life were born in February, my dad turns a glorious seventy-nine years today! On the 15 th my husband celebrates his birthday! And On the 14 th my husband and I celebrate our dating anniversary! Its truly the month of LOVE for me! I promised to tell you about the beginning of the year ritual so here goes…… This year after a very long time I have gone back to making resolutions. This blog is a result of one of my resolutions. I have always had a dream to be a creative writer and this year have made the resolution to do something about that dream. I do hope that a few years from now I will look back to 2012 as the year I turned my writing career around and launched into the land of living my dreams. I know it sounds all cliché to be making New year’s resolutions because its so easy to make them with the excitement of a new year but really hard to keep your re...

We are in the middle of January already, I haven't quite finished my new year ritual which I should add I have just adopted this year! As they say if you want different results, do things differently! So this year 2012, I have resolved will be the year i look back on and reference it as the year my life changed for the better! I have good life, don't get me wrong, I have a great  husband and son who make me count my blessings all the time, they are the best family I couldn't have asked heaven for any more but I believe I can do more and this year I want to do more, I want to achieve great things. I have decided to pick my dreams dust them off and start running with them. Writing this blog is one of my dreams and  I plan to put up something new at least once each month and maybe it will be more than once but my minimum is to write a blog once each month but I hope to be back before this month ends to update you ...