Gratitude Day 3 - Family is everything

Family is the people you feel comfortable, love and feel being loved

My gratitude is I have so many families

My own family which I made starting more than 25 years ago - husband, daughters & son
My family from the birth - parents and brothers
My family in-laws - parents, brothers, nephew, niece, grandchildren
My extended families - Uncle, Aunt, cousins, nephew, niece, grandchildren
Above is my circle of personal life. I feel gratitude that I have them in my life. They are my support system starting my childhood.
They give me the tools to survive during my up and downs especially when I got 3 times miscarriage. My in-laws who are give me strength to continue my life and accept that I will not get my biological children. But now I have foster daughters & son who are actually my nephew & nieces. Their parents trust us to taking care them. And now all of them who are taking care me.

Other than my personal family I also have family at my professional life.
Family at school
Family at work
I said they are families because I feel that being loved by them with their caring and attention to me. They supported me during my professional life, started with teach me, train me, make me thrive at work until I could find my purpose & passion during this time.
For the family at work, they showed their lost when I decided to early retired from my professional life as the HR professional. Most of them are let me go with tears and nice word which I took the picture and posting in my social media to ensure that the memories stay forever.
For the last almost 30 years they are the family who get most of my time.

And now I feel grateful that I could focus to my family at home during stay at home. I could cook for them, taking care the house to be the beautiful place they could call home while I am doing my freelance job.
The time I do the early retirement is the right time if I may say because if I still at work now, I think they will afraid for my health.

So everything happen for a reason is my motto and proven in this time, again!

Gratitude Day 2 - Everything happen for a reason

Today I will write the gratitude about my career.

During my childhood, my dream to be a doctor ... cliche right?  Until now my favourite film TV is about hospital, doctor, EMT.  And when I enter Junior High School I would like to be a doctor and a policewoman and also until now my favourite film TV other than doctor is detective or police... SWAT is one of my favourite.😍

However the reality came upon my end of year in Senior High School. I realise that my parents already retired and old. My birth date is 1 month before my mother reach her 42 years old so by the time I finished my Senior High School my parents were 60 years old.
At that time to be a doctor you must studied for 7 years at the quickest. And if I would like to be a police on top of the doctor, I needed another 3 years so by the time I finished all the study and could take care my parents they already 70 years old.👵👴

Therefore I decided to change my dream to studied a major which could find the job quickly. I didn't like to be a secretary as per my mother's career however I realised it that is the job you could find easily so I joint 1 year secretary school and it's correct I got my first job only 1 month after I finish that school.😇

In my career life I always think that I will retire as the secretary however 12 years after I have the career as the secretary I have the opportunity to change my career as the HR Professional. And 27 years later I became HR Manager.💅I enjoy and feel that I find my purpose & passion in HR professional career.💗

If I saw my career journey, I am grateful that I decided to change the career dream because I only need 2 years to study after Senior High School and work afterward so I could taken care my parents and also married👰 before my parents reach 70 years old so they are still in good condition.
If I insist the career as the doctor and policewoman perhaps I could not taking care my parents as I need to be assigned outside town until several years later.😔

So I always believe that "everything happen for a reason"😗 as I already had that experience during my childhood up to now.

Gratitude Day 1 - Survive the day

During this tough day, I would like to make daily journal to show my gratitude and ✌positive vibe every day starting today.

I will start with story of my childhood.👶
I came from the middle lower family. My father was freelancer while my mother was a secretary in a government company. I am the youngest from 2 children from same mother. My brother is 6 years older.

The first gratitude is from my childhood. 👧
Although my mother 👩was working mom, she always prioritised the family. 👪
She choose to live in the company's house which in the same complex with her office so she could maximise her time with the children. I never feel less priority nor attention from her as she will start to accompany me to study in the afternoon after office hours.

With my mom is working mom, she also teach me to be the independent person. So below are my childhood experience :

Elementary school👼
- knitting
- cross stitch
- sew to repair my clothes

Junior High School💪
- Go to Wet Market by myself
- Cook for the family before school
- Wash for total family

Senior High School💃
- Make design for my own school uniform
- Sew school uniform by myself
- Sew my home dress

All above I did it in my free time during my childhood without disturb my study nor my social relationship💅. I am proud to say that my school performance 👍was not bad. I could be in the 5 top star class during Elementary & Junior High School.

I am very grateful that my mom teach me how to do the house chores from my young ages because I could survive💪 when I start my own marriage while I still do the chores for my parent's house without jeopardise my performance at work.

And this is my first gratitude that I have my supermom as my mom so I could survive in this difficult time as I enjoy my time at home to taking care the family and house chores.😍💕💋