I'm a 50-something South African woman, happily married with 4 children, three of them adults now. All four are still living with us. The eldest is working, but studying part-time, so he lodges with us. While the second eldest is working part time and thus also still living with us. The third will start studying in 2026 and I home school the youngest.
I grew up in the Northern Cape. I was born to the Afrikaner nation, but grew up amongst Boere in a small farming community. Thereafter I studied my B.Sc. in Computer Science in Gauteng where I met my husband. I worked as a programmer, but became a full-time mother for 14 years when my eldest was born. Thereafter I was a teacher in Math's and Computer Science for 4 years. After which I stayed home again to home school my own children.
I started this blog when we suspected my daughter of having an extremely rare condition, called an Occult Tethered Cord. Something basically only 60 people in our country most likely have. This journaled our road to her diagnosis, operation, recovery and improvement. It evolved to include my son, when he too was diagnosed with an extremely rare heart condition, Pulmonary Hypertension and his road. Around 2016, I felt the story has been told, the final diagnoses reached, and I stopped blogging, but left it here for other mommies to find in their journeys.
Now I have started to revive it, but for a very different journey. I have been a Christian all of my life. I was first called when I was age 5, and shown how I will play a role in times to come. When I was 26, I was again called and shown some things, as well as given an assignment.
In 2017 I was called again, and in 2018 I was physically visited by the Angel of the Lord. From then on, I have been in His fulltime service. I have been sent to the wilderness, and have been given intense training and preparation, a time of severe testing, teaching and equipping.
Again I was given some assignments. One of it was to collect and organize Words and prophecies God has given in His mercy for the times coming over the world and our country. He has now requested that I use this blog to share some of this with whomever He will send here. I first had to write my own testimony, then I shared prophecies spoken over my country South Africa. Eventually, I will share all the rest, as I am lead to put it up here. My testimony and the different prophecies can be accessed through the Menu underneath the homepage picture.
For those who came here to read about the paths of my children, here is the old links that used to be in the menu. This blog will not be about them anymore and since almost all of them are now adults, I have taken the part of the blog that used to be about them, mostly down. Almost all the medical information, the day-to-day struggles and all the photo's. It's not my stories to share anymore, it's now theirs. This blog will now be dedicated to my path with my God only.
For those who just want a quick update on them out of interest (as it used to be about them): My children are doing extremely well.
Mr N did so well in his A-level exams that he received in-house training at a company, and afterwards was employed full time by them as a developer. For all those who told us a 3-year old can't decide what he will do, you were wrong! ;-) He told us at age 2-3 already that he's going to be a programmer like his dad and we believed him, and almost 25 years later today he is! He never, ever wavered from that path. He's also busy studying part-time for his degree in it. He has one year left of the 5-year degree (part time). He passed with flying colours so far! And is doing absolutely great in the company where he has been employed for 6 years now.
He is still the kind, quiet, sweet boy of old. A source of strength for our family. With an insatiable curiosity to learn and study new things all the time. He still loves to read as much as his mom, and is a homebody like all of us.
Boeboe is also doing very well! She has matured beautifully, more than we could ever hope or foresee. She did her matric from home, then studied full-time for a diploma in Graphic Design and has turned into an absolutely amazing artist. She completed her qualification with honours and the highest marks in her class group. We couldn't be prouder!
She's still the kindest, sweetest, most empathetic person on this planet (biased mom, I know). Her condition (the tethered cord) has stabilized throughout high school, though she is on some medication. And of course, dealing with all die other added diagnoses she received is a lifestyle, not a childhood disease you can recover from. She is working from home currently, gaining valuable experience.
Monkeyman finished his matric online from home as well this past year. With flying colours! He will start studying full time next year, but online from home as his heart condition curtail his activities and energy level quite a bit still. He has turned into a wonderful young man. Still loves to laughs, still very attached to his older siblings, still empathetic and kind. Still like the quiet, deep, peaceful river that flows gently through our lives.
Peanut is still Peanut! The same little thing she has always been. So healthy! She's a teen now and hasn't been to a doctor yet, apart from the specialists for her GERD. She hasn't been on a/b's apart from for her teeth! When she gets a cold, flu or gastro, she's over it within a day or 2. Her immune system is absolutely amazing. She has no major health problems like her siblings. Except for migraines. No defects. No therapy visits. No appointments. No medications. No surgeries (apart from teeth once). And no worries at all. Such a huge difference compared with the others.
She has started with horse riding as a hobby and is an absolute natural at it! Doing beautifully and loving every single moment of it. School is easy for her, socializing is easy, communicating is easy, life is easy for her. She's a happy, easy-going child who just accepts what life gives her. It's as if God took the hardships of all the other 3, and turned it into blessings for her. Not that anyone mind.
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