I’m 40!

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Today, I turn 40. Yes finally 🙂

And it really isn’t a big deal. Truly. 

I still haven’t gotten any profound revelation🙂 I’m just glad I am not having a midlife crisis. But then a friend once told me that she started her midlife crisis when she turned 41!

So why am I blogging when I have got nothing to share? Well, generally the average lifespan of a woman is 80, give or take a few years. So that means I am at the mid-point of my life. And I should at least be doing a “what-have-I-achieved” stock take if nothing else.

So here goes…

Family

At the age of 40 the good Lord has chosen to bless me with 7 living children (all birthed naturally) and He has called me to keep them home with me and homeschool them till it is time to release them. And in the process, I have learnt so much about myself – good and bad. If you had read Why So Many Children?, you would know that I never started out wanting children and if a push came to a shove, just 2 and only because 1 is too lonely 🙂 But the Lord has other plans and I need to be obedient.

As a wife, I would like to think that I have matured and grown a little more submissive – oh! stop laughing!!! At least I try – unlike before. But I know I definitely have been able to hold my tongue more than I used to be able to.

As a mother, I think I am a lot more patient now than when I was a young mom. And definitely more laid back and less anal about many things. But in this case, having 7 children probably played a greater part than growing older! Lol!

Homemaking

At the age of 40 I can cook way better than when I was 20 (I couldn’t cook then. Didn’t even know how to cook rice in a rice cooker!). I can also run our home much better than when I first got married. Who would have thought that messy me would now be able to dispense advice to others about home organisation! God certainly has a sense of humour 😀

Spiritually

If you read My Story on How I Became A Christian, you will know how I was saved and am now still working out my salvation daily and sometimes, painfully. Although the work the good Lord has done in my life has been tremendous, He has waaay lot more to do before I can radiate Christ unblemished! I am certainly glad that “He who began a good work in (me) will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” Philippians 1:6

If it was a struggle before to spend time with the Lord, it is now even more challenging. I have also learnt not to judge others’ spirituality – who am I to do that? The Pharisee in me is slowly and painfully being chiselled away as I walk the walk of faith. It is far easier to look holy than to be holy.

If nothing else, growing older has certainly increased my need for my Jesus.

Physically

The invincibility of youth has long been quashed. And I certainly feel it now more than ever. While I won’t say it is downnhill all the way from now 🙂 I’ll just say that things that I used to take for granted don’t come by so easily anymore. Like what? Well, I used to be able to stay up late and still wake up earlier than the kids. Now? They should be so lucky to have a coherent mom at 8am in the morning! Thank God dh is available most mornings when I am still comatose.

Oh and losing weight is definitely more of a challenge at 40 than at 30! Lol!

So here I am, having completed 40 years of living on earth and wondering what God has in store for me. Be merciful, O Lord! 🙂 My prayer is that I do not waste time focusing too much on earthly things and forgetting to look up and fix my eyes on Jesus. That I would heed the words of Paul in Ephesians 5:15-17, to

walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

So if you ask me what I would like to achieve in the next 40 years, God willing, I would say – to walk in obedience to His call on my life and to radiate Christ in my life – in everything I do, from housework to homeschooling and from being a helpmeet to being a mother. And to be able to sleep for 8 straight uninterrupted hours, drink coffee and go back to my ballet class 😀

And if are wondering what I did on my birthday, I started the day by stuffing myself with Bak Kut Hay Mee (Pork Rib Prawn Noodles) for breakfast at Verdun Road and then brought the kids to the Bishan library. Then we went down to Plaza Singapura to upgrade my handphone and had dinner at Crystal Jade Kitchen followed by my free Firehouse Birthday Ice Cream at Swenson’s*. But I did not eat it all up – just most of it since I had to share it with dh:). Then the day’s feasting ended with takeaway sashimi when the kids were in bed. Burp! 😀

Oh and I got a beautiful photo book from dh.

* In case you didn’t know, you get a free Firehouse treat courtesy of Swenson’s on your birthday.

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