My Family Blog & Life Story

Final Regrets  For many years and on many occasions I would regret things I had said and done. After I sold my first car (1978 Ford Cortina 1.6L ), I regretted it cos I absolutely adored that car and it was so reliable. During January 1999, my mom let our little doggie out for a wee and he got run over by a car and was killed. We got another puppy(Snoekie) in that same week and during the next six years I had abused this little doggie in a most horrendous way by hitting him with the vacuum cleaner pipe whenever he was naughty. In February - March 2006 he was diagnosed with distemper which in most cases are fatal. As a result he had a stroke, was blind and had suffered some brain damage. I was forced to make a decision and have him put to sleep on 6 March 2006. I suffered severe depression and tremendous guilt as a result. God spoke very clearly to my hart and told me that He cannot allow me to have another pet of any kind.  The emotional pain I felt was so overwhelming. For ye...

TRIBUTE TO MY MOM & DAD My dad was born Adolf Jakobus DeFlamingh on 23 December 1928 and passed away on April 7th, 1995 at the age of 66 (I had just turned 24 at the end of that month April 29,1995). He was buried on 12 April 1995. My mom was born Christina Jacoba Hitchcock in Tanzania on 18 February 1940 and passed away at the age of 79, on April 28th, 2019 and I turned 48 just the following day. My mom was buried on 9 May 2019. It was my calling to be here on earth to look after my parents should they become ill, frail or reach their "golden years" to be there until God called them home to His kingdom to be in the safety of His care. I love my parents and I will never stop loving them as if they were still living here on earth and I being by their side but instead, they are now by my side and guarding me while they are up in Heaven, in the Kingdom of God. Approx. a month before my mom died, I had told my mom "you know that I love you, hey" and she was take...