While many of you are off having a siesta what with today being our 13th Agung’s installation, I’m at the office ‘working’. It’s been a rather quiet day [Duh!!!] and I’m hardly getting any calls coming in and the roads in town is pretty deserted. With that much time in my hands, I had a fair bit of  time to blog-hop to many new sites and even managed to add a few nic ones to Kecik’s blog.

One particular blog really caught my attention – it’s called Joyful Chaos. Basically it’s a blog written by a Catholic mother of 8-going on-9 kids. At first I thought that it was insane to have that many kids in this age and time but the more I read her blog I realised that it’s always so filled with joy and happiness and not to mention abundance of love!! It’s such a wonderful feeling looking at the pictures she has taken of her kids playing and helping out around the house that whatever hardships [which I'm sure there are] that her family might face with such a large family, they seem relatively happy.

When Ted and I started talking about having a family, he always and still mentions that he wants a big family – ‘I want my own football team’. Yea, right! As for me, I’d be happy with a pair [a boy and a girl] but wouldn’t mind if #3 comes along. That would be an added bonus. But after reading this blog, it got me thinking….both Ted and I have a family of four ie. mum, dad, brother/sister and us. Sis and I had only each other to rely on to amuse ourselves while we were growing up and most of the time, it was me doing bullying. Not too sure how it was with Ted but I think he got the shorter end of the stick too being the younger sibling. But in the case of an uncle of mine, he has 5 kids and it must have been quite a handful but the difference is, their family gatherings are always the best ever! For me, it’s just sis and me [very quiet] but when we have our big family reunions, my mum’s siblings all get together and there are like 7 of them here in Peninsula Malaysia and lemme tell you, it’s like such a happening party!! Each family has on the average 3 kids and at this age, most of the kids themselves already have kids of their own so you can just do some simple maths and realise that your extended family is so huge, it’s like a freaking circus and it’s just SO fun!

Reading Lisbet’s blog made me think that perhaps it isn’t such a bad idea to have a slightly larger than average family because I value family ties and reunions a lot, and I especially enjoy the get-togethers. I’m so used to having such a huge extended family that I feel by having a small family myself, I’d be depriving myself and my kids of that chance to enjoy the joys of having superb family get-togethers in the future and the feeling of being apart of something big. The true meaning of ‘family’, so to speak – at least they would have more than one sibling to bully! However, I do realise that it’s not all fun and play for with big families, you will be bogged down with heavier responsibilies ie financially and education wise especially toward your kids future. One has to also be mentally prepared and emotionally stable too coz a bunch of screaming kids could really drive any sane person insane! Thank God Ted’s got the patience of a fisherman[?]! But I believe that kids are God’s gift and if He wants us to have more kids, then He will also provide us accordingly. Some of you may think it as BS but I have never doubted the good Lord for He has yet to fail me and I doubt He ever will.

One thing’s for sure, if Ted reads this post, I’m very sure that he’ll be beaming from ear to ear and most likely go over to Lisbet’s blog and thank her for this eye-opener! Hats off to Lisbet for she is indeed one VERY successful mom….and I think I just found a new role model. *grins happily*

Ps. I know that this is way early to think of more kids coz Kecik has yet to arrive but I think it would be good to set the mind straight eh? By the way, this is a re-post from Kecik’s blog.