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Are you a Soccer Mum? Have you noticed that most of your time was spent taking your school-age children to soccer games?

Which mum are you at the field?

1. Are you the quiet one and just observing everybody?
2. Are you the enthusiastic one that if it’s your way you would want to be the coach or maybe you are one now?
3. Well, maybe you are the manager – who does other jobs for the team and the club and sometimes ends up as an assistant coach.
4. Sadly, sometimes our enthusiasm gets out of hand, and we lose our sanity and reality of what should be. I hope you are not one of that kind, that the player would wish you were not the mum. 😊
5. Are you a mum who most likely needs another cabinet to store your child’s trophies?
6. Are you a mum who keeps taking photos or videos of your child, but you often miss the important ones because of your excitement, especially if they score a goal?
7. Or are you the most enthusiastic mum, whose voice is often heard cheering the players and having a big heart for them?

Whichever soccer mum are you. Good on you! Enjoy being a soccer mum while you can!

Today my heart goes to the last one on the list. One lovely soccer mum I know has just lost one of her lovely soccer players to cancer. The boy has been battling cancer for years. I was surprised that he managed to finish primary school. The last time I saw him he was already in a wheelchair and already legally blind. This week, we found out, his battle with cancer was over.

The boy was so lovely and so was his mum. His mum is a bunch of joy and happiness even though you know at the back of those smiles hide struggles that we never knew. Her husband died when her children were still very young.

Why am I writing about this? I guess I am mourning too on my own and I can feel the heavy loss of this mum, but I also know how lovely she is and that the Lord will keep her comforted in the days to come, I pray.

Can you relate to number 6 mum? Sometimes, I am so immersed in watching that I would go home without a photo, or worst of all, my photos were so far away that you could hardly see the players. And you would say, I only took the photo of the soccer field. 😉

Cheers to all soccer mums! I hope you’ll have a lovely match this weekend.

Life keeps going no matter what. That is just how God created our world. In the last few days, while the world was collecting medals and celebrating the Olympics, I was busy editing our book, Strawberry Coins.

This was published as an e-book 2 years ago, but I didn’t realize that I failed to complete the technicalities needed to publish it online, when I found this out, 2 years had passed.  

I looked at the book again and have made some improvements. Hopefully, this will be published online and as paperback.

Watch out for it. It is our lockdown story in 2021. We managed to plant strawberry seedlings and sell them too. The narrator of the book is our son Josh.

The book is a recommended reading for primary school students from year 1 to parent/caregiver and/or teacher. It can be read as a bedtime storybook and educational book on how to plant strawberries and profit from it.

Wishing everyone good health and may you all have a lovely day!