About Me

I'm an almost 50-year old South African woman. I'm happily married and we have 4 children, two 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 studying fulltime and thus also still living with us. I homeschool the younger two.

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 and homeschooled my 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.

Almost five years ago, in 2018, when I was almost 44, 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, but I keep all the old entries for now, as it could still be valuable to someone finding themselves in the same boat as we were, all those years ago.

Mr N (His road with epilepsy.)

Boeboe (Her road with an Occult Tethered Cord.)

Monkeyman (His road with Pulmonary Hypertension.)

Since our 4th is our only child who doesn't have any special needs, there is no page for her. :-)

Here is for those who just want a quick update on them (as it used to be about them):

My children are doing extremely well, though they all have their daily battles with their different special needs. 

Mr N did so well in his A-level exams that he received in-house training at a company, and afterwards he 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 20 years later today he is! He never, ever wavered from that path. He's now also busy studying part-time for his degree in it. He passed his first year's subjects with flying colours. His health is stable, but not great. He is still on his medication at this point, at somewhat higher doses. Fortunately, it's working well.

He is still the kind, quiet, sweet boy of old. He has made many friends through his high school, and they have formed a tight "clique" of people playing games and socialising online every night of every day. Typical of a bunch of nerds. :-) His collegues always give profoundly good reviews, as does the students in his classes. Like always, he's still the one that quietly helps everyone understand and do better.

Boeboe is doing very well too! She has matured beautifully, more than we could ever hope or foresee. She's now an adult in all senses of the word, and a beautiful and kind one at that. She did her matric from home even months before her peers, so our worries in that regard was never warranted! She's currently studying full-time for a diploma in Graphic Design and has turned into an absolutely amazing artist (and no, we don't know where that comes from! Certainly not from her mom!). 

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 autism is a lifestyle, not a childhood disease you can recover from. Mostly though, she is now just a normal student who passed her first year extremely well, even with some distinctions. God truly is great!

Monkeyman is the least stable of the three. His life is severely curtailed by the ever-present tiredness. He's still pale, still unable to do much. He could only last until grade 4 in a private school, where after we've started to homeschool. We do very little, as everything tires him out and affect his heart rhythm. He still gets tachy- and bradycardia. And it seems to go downwards ever so slowly these days. The harder school and academics become, the worst his condition. 

Apart from that, he's turning into an awesome young man. Still love to laughs, still very attached to his older sister, still empathetic and kind like his siblings. 

Peanut is healthy! She's 10 and hasn't been to a doctor yet, apart from the specialists for her GERD and teeth when she was little. 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. No defects. No therapy visits. No appointments. No medications. No surgeries (apart from teeth once). And no worries at all.

School is easy, 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, everyone just adore their baby sister. She's obviously spoiled rotten by all!