Happy Mother's Day 2023

To celebrate Mother's Day, we had simple dinner at Jurong Point with our kids.

Thank you Lord for the gift and blessings to us.

Happy Mother's Day 2022

"Being a mother is learning about the strengths that you didn't know you had"

On Sunday, we had lunch at Seorae Korean BBQ with the kids. It's first time for them to try Korean BBQ.

Happy Mother's Day 2021 !

This year Mother's Day is rather special, there are many celebrations line up since Friday until Wednesday eventhough the actual day is on Sunday.

On Friday, mama celebrated Mother's day with other supermoms at Eleven Strands. 

On Saturday, we had dimsum fiesta at home, ordering from SweeChoon. Everyone loved it.

On Sunday, our helper cooked nasi tumpeng with the side dishes, it's our favourite food for special occasion.

Happy Mother's Day 2020

We celebrate Mother's Day at home by cooking homemade siomay and batagor.

It's rich in fish meat and flavour and the kids love them.

Happy Mother's Day 2019

This is the artwork that Tromson created for Mother's Day 2019

Happy Mother's Day 2018

This year we celebrated Mother's Day a day earlier on Saturday, 12 May 2018
We had family brunch at hidden cafe at the foot of Fort Canning Hill - The Fabulous Baker Boy.

We ordered big breakfast, granola oat with yoghurt and pancake with chocolate chips.
The food were delicious and we all love it.

Happy Mother's Day

When he came back from school, he told me, mommy I got heart
Then I asked him, what heart ?
It's rainbow heart for you

Happy Mother's Day (10 May 2015)

On Sunday, we celebrated Mother's Day at Swensens.
Thank you Tromson for making me to become a mother

 

Mother's Day 2014 - Reflection Women who fears the Lord

This year Mother's Day is very special for mommy.
After papa came back from retreat Pria Sejati Katolik, he had full of positive energy and radiance
Papa wants to commit to become "Imam, Nabi, Raja" for family.
Papa wants to be fully responsible for leading our little family to fear God, becoming God's messenger to our family and leading our family behaviour day by day
It's tough tasks, but he's willingly to do it by God's strength.

It's really a special gift and blessing for mommy that money can't buy

That's why as a life partner who's promise in front of Altar, mommy also wants to help papa to accomplish the mission to raise Godly Children and let our family fears and serves God

Since Tromson still depends fully on mommy's breastfeeding, mommy can't go for retreat Wanita Bijak yet until he's weaning.

That's why starting today, mommy commits to spend a time for daily prayer again after it's abandoned after Tromson was born.

And today, mommy gets the beautiful message of
Proverb 31 : 10 - 31  Women who fears the Lord
It's a beautiful poem and messages for mommy

¹⁰ Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

This "virtuous or an excellent woman" is a woman of high morals who is upright in all her ways.

This is just saying that her worth cannot be measured in earthly things, such as rare stones (rubies). She does exist, but is very hard to find.

¹¹ The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.

This woman is totally faithful to her husband. He can have confidence in her, because she will not let him down. His wife will always be faithful to him in every situation. She will not even give the appearance of evil.

He does not maintain jealous guard over her or keep his valuables locked up so that she cannot access them as was a common ancient practice in a house of distrust. She demonstrates impeccable loyalty to her husband, and her thrift and industry will add to his wealth.

¹² She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

She is on his side. She is beside him helping in everything. She loves to please him. She respects him and builds him up when he is down. She does not tear him down, but instills confidence in him.

¹³ She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.

She is industrious and helps him produce for the family. She is not lazy. She works willingly, because she wants to help.

Excellent women gathered the material for making cloths as we’ll see in verse 19.

¹⁴ She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.

We see, here, that she goes forth wherever the food for her house is and brings it home. Excellent women would go far to secure the best food for their families.

¹⁵ She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.

She is not a sleepy-head. She gets up early and sees that her family and her maidens are fed. Her first concern is the welfare of her family.

In order to have the food prepared for the family each day, she had to rise before dawn to begin the work, which she would do gladly.

¹⁶ She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.

I believe this is an indication that she is a business woman. She takes on responsibility in buying the land. She works outside the house when she plants the vineyard.

She was resourceful and entrepreneurial in her investing and reinvesting.

She doesn't say to the husband that making the money for the family is his job. She helps him in this, too, when she can.

¹⁷ She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.

We see, here, that hard work makes her very strong.

Such women were not soft, but by virtue of rigorous work, strong

¹⁸ She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.

That which she produced for the family of clothing, food and wealth was good and profitable.

Candle or lamp is to be understood literally. She planted the vineyard during the day and wove late at night. She rose early before dawn to prepare the food, thus keeping a before sunrise to after dark schedule to care for her household, which was the foremost priority of her life.

She protects what is her own. She appreciates her husband and her family and works to keep them.

¹⁹ She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.

We see here, again, that she looks for useful work to do. She is not lazy, as we said before.

These tools are used to turn wool into thread for making clothing.

²⁰ She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

She is not selfish, but shares with the less fortunate. She is generous in helping the poor and needy. She has a big, giving heart.

²¹ She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.

She has seen to it that her whole family has warm, comfortable garments, even for snowy weather.

Snow indicates the cold that occurs in the high altitudes of Palestine. Her labors anticipated her family’s need for warm clothing in such cold places and seasons

²² She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.

She looks nice for her family. She takes care of herself, as we read earlier, and dresses nice so her husband will be proud to tell people that she is his wife.

The efforts she makes to honor others are rewarded to her. These silk and purple garments are expensive evidences of the blessings returned to her by God’s grace

²³ Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.

She builds her husband up, and he has respect in the town. She never does things to make him ashamed.

This woman made a significant contribution to her husband’s position in the community and to his success. His domestic comfort promoted his advancement in public honor. A man’s good reputation begins with his home and thus the virtue of his wife.

²⁴ She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.

Here, again, we see her making money away from the home to help her husband. "Fine linen", of course, means righteousness spiritually.

With all her other responsibilities faithfully discharged, she took time to make items of clothing for the purposes of trade. 

²⁵ Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.

These words describe the character of the woman who fears the Lord. Her inward clothing displays divine wisdom, giving her confidence to face the future with its unexpected challenges.

This woman is upright in all of her ways, and the Lord will reward her. She will be among those who will hear Him say, "Well done thy good and faithful servant". She is well covered in the spiritual things of righteousness.

²⁶ She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.

Her teaching of wisdom and the law is tempered with mercy.

Her speech conveys her wisdom and kindness. Her words build up and don't tear down. She is not a gossip or a slanderer. When she speaks, it is to help. Her wisdom instructs her children.

²⁷ She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

We said before, she is industrious; and her first thought is for the well being of the members of her own house.

She was a skilled manager of the home. The “bread of Idleness” literally means “eyes looking everywhere” as in the lazy man in 6:6 & 9; of who the same root word is used.

²⁸ Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

Her husband and her children (who know her best) see her unselfishness, love, and care that she has for all of them. They are proud of her. She is a good mother and wife, and they let her know it.

She is greatly respected because she has earned the praise of her family. There can be no higher joy for a mother than for her children to grow up to praise her as the source of the wisdom that made them godly

²⁹ Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.

This is saying that many women are faithful to their husbands, but fall short in some of these other areas; but she has done the best of all toward her family and God.

This was her husbands superlative praise (v.28) which was well deserved, in which he used the same word for “excellent” found in v.10.

³⁰ Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.

Here, we see that doing favors’ can be good. To have a wife who is attractive to look at is nice, but the very best you can do is to have a wife who fears God and keeps His commandments; and she will have all of these other things as an extra.

True holiness and virtue command permanent respect and affection, far more than charm and beauty of face and form.

She is to be praised, because she has chosen the best: salvation through the Lord. Proverbs end where it began with a reference to the fear of the Lord.

³¹ Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.

Her works speak for themselves. She has earned her praise. We see in this, the Lord is pleased with her, because she has done His will in her life.

While she receives material reward (v.22), the praise and success she labored to bring to her family and community will be her praise. The result of all her efforts is her best eulogy.