LITTLE R was so excited about moving. He wanted to help me fix the boxes, do the taping, and move stuffs here and there. But, I am not so excited about it.
Mama: (at 10:30 pm) Little R, moving is not fun…it’s a lot of work!
Yes, I killed his joy, because indeed it was late in the night and he still needs to drink his milk, change into his pajamas, do his Kumon homework, brush his teeth, and go to bed.
In the next hour, he was more cooperative: He even did his homework by himself, while daddy was dead tired napping on Little R’s bed and I was cleaning the dogs out in the corridor. After I finished with the chores, I was surprised to see him sitting so still and quiet at his desk doodling an airplane on his Kumon homework.
Mama: “Good baby, well done!”
I wasn’t thrilled about moving: Our home is messy in the process and I have to do a lot of cleaning/dusting, reevaluating, sorting, and packing on every piece of stuffs (books, documents, souvenirs) that I have accumulated over the 10 years that I had moved back to Hong Kong (together with the paper “treasures” that I collected from my 13 years living in the States), the six years that my husband and I have been married, and the four years that we have had a baby boy.
While I cleaned each and every book that has sat on my dusty shelf (which I have over seven bookcases of them), I started to feel what a blessing that is to move! If I were not to move, I would not even TOUCH these book shelves and DISCOVER these wonderful literary treasures that I owned over the years.
So, I set aside a few books that I said to myself that once I have moved into the new place, I will read them on my new massage recliner in my quiet time. I felt that it is God’s blessings for me to recount my memories and stuffs of what used to interest me in my past young adult’s life. Now that I have become a middle-age mother and a part-time housewife and a full-time mother and wife, I feel like the chores that I need to do (particularly when we get rid of the helper) have overwhelmed me.
This moving will help me rekindle my spirit and my first passion: A called life in the ministry of our Lord. I shall continue to brush up on my books and my spiritual life. Truly, I want to be a godly mother, a godly wife, a godly citizen, and a godly teacher.
Please continue to help me, Lord!
(at 4 years 3 months 13 days)
rockamama
