The reason I was busy past few days and still busy now ☺ Yes, family is everything!

Family is not an important thing. It is everything. ~Michael J.Fox

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I wish I could adhere to my commitment of posting at least once a day, but when my parents are here, it is a serious business. S.E.R.I.O.U.S. Believe it or not, I am so used to posting (quite) regularly here (be it photos or blogs) that I felt awkward to depart from it to give priority to my family. I literally had to persuade myself that "It is okay to not post everyday once a while and ditch your handphone aside for parents' sake".

Don't get me wrong. I love spending time with my family. Now that they no longer stay near with me, in fact they had to flew by plane to visit us (the siblings) here, make it an even serious business to put aside everything else for them. So I really spend lesser times past few days on Steemit. Until they fly off back home again, I will seize every opportunity to be with them. I count their wrinkles and their white hair, yes I do. They have aged and so do I.

I want to talk specifically about my parents. No parents are perfect (me myself is guilty at charge as I now know very well it is impossible to be perfect parents - parents can whine too, oh my what a shameful confession). But because of them, we are in this world. Because of them, we get to grow - whether it is a blissful upbringing or not - we grow. Whether with pain or without, we were raised up.

This is not going to be a lengthy post as I have a very packed schedule spending time with my mum and dad. It is a bliss to be "mothered" again after being a mother myself for 7 years now. I seriously don't mind to be a child again, lol. I enjoy this moment of not cooking anything and just savoring everything my mum cooks. She wants to do it although we told her we could just eat out. Mother's love.

I only remembered to take photos of the food she cooked today. Past few days I rarely touched my phone.

What used to be nagging to me, is now becoming melodious precious voices to me. I wish to hear them talk (or nag) forever. I wish I have nothing else to do but to chitchat with them everyday. Today my dad talked to me about his graduation from earth. He said if old people graduates, we ought to celebrate and not mourn. He was referring to his funeral. He said it must be a happy occasion because he graduated and not because of sudden mysterious death. So we should be happy knowing he has gone to a place of no worries. And then as usual, my mum and dad will fight over who should go first because if one goes first, he or she will be happier considering he or she does not need to look into the funeral procedures.

While they talked about all these, it caused me thinking that life is short for them now and I really want to spend more time with them. I miss them every single moment actually but I was also packed with many responsibilities. I secretly prayed they will live till 100 years healthy because I could not put myself to think of the day they will leave me. I just can't. Still processing what my dad told us earlier - to celebrate his departure with joy and not with mourning or crying.

Indeed, family is not just an important thing. It is everything. Some of us here may not have a proper biological family but we do have a family now after we got married, some of us here may be adopted into a family and THAT is a family too, some of us here may come from abusive family but now may or may not be reconciled, or we have found new family who takes care of us maybe our aunts or uncles or grandpa or grandma. Some friends have come together and regard each other as family because they have no one else. Some family may need some patching back and forgiveness from past hurts. So on and so forth. All these are our loved ones whom will be our everything.

With so many commitment and responsibilities in life, it is still essential to find a balance to spend time with loved ones before they are gone. Because family is everything.

This is my thoughts today as I join "Quote of the Day Challenge" by @theluvbug. You can check it out at @theluvbug.

p/s: Pardon me if any of my sharing above bring forth unnecessary emotions or heavy feeling in you, my dear readers. This is sharing of my thoughts and I don't mean to hurt anyone's feeling or offend any culture or philosophy. If it does, because I do not know what you are going through now nor do I know your background, please accept my apology. Perhaps, we can talk more too.

Once again, family is not an important thing. It is everything.

Thank you for reading. I will be back for more after my parents' visit..😊

_{Who am I? I am a mother of 2 sons (2nd one is battling CDH). I used to serve actively as a pastor and worship leader at my local church, but now I fully focus on taking care of my 2nd son and of course home and family. I love life and want to live my life with love. Why am I here? All the while I love blogging. So here, I can blog and share, at the same time earn some income to support medical needs for my CDH son. What do I blog about? I blog about life, family and practically anything under the sun that inspires me daily. I start to realise I love photography and freewriting. Most importantly, I want to have fun here blogging and connecting with people without stress. And do it with love and passion ❤}

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