Hi! And welcome to Ferreira & Co Designs.
It's a small seed at the moment. It was probably always there as far as I can try to remember. I've always had ideas and then nothing ever came of it.
There are many reasons this idea never surfaced. Life moved at a rollercoaster pace and I just tried to stay on the ride. At first it was school, studies, my first job as a primary school teacher in Cambodia. Then returning to South Africa, getting married and moving back to Asia. Our first home as a married couple was in Vietnam and then we moved to Singapore in 2020. A global pandemic hit. Everything changed. Drastically.
In the last couple of years we grew into a family of five. All kinds of crazy all at the same time. Our eldest son was six months old when we got the news that we were expecting twins. We realised that three boys under two in big city Singapore wasn't going to work. Not with our budget, or with tiny spaces and public transport. I imagined having to go to the shops with three babies on the train. How was that even going to work? How was I going to manage with a double pram and baby carrier plus a shopping cart. Small stuff, I know. But so many thoughts of "How will we logistically take three babies out of the house?" kept spinning in my head.
Thus, we packed our bags (and for the first time ever a small container) to return to South Africa, Pretoria. Our origin point.
We bought a kombi from my mom, found a house with many rooms and bit by bit found a support network. All of it by the grace of God alone.
The twins are now basically 18 months old. And as a baby mom, I finally feel like I am seeing light at the end of the tunnel. Slowly but surely all of the babies are starting to need me less and less for basic life support.
Now, my new baby, Ferreira & Co Designs, officially gets to come out of the deep dark underground that it's been residing at for many decades.
The seed has been planted. And slowly but surely a thin green sliver of life is submerging from underneath the surface.
It's small. Its new. It's just beginning.
Watch this space, follow along and journey alongside me as I figure out how to nurture and grow this tiny seed into something that will bring glory to our good, good Father.
Hopefully I can engourage and inspire you to start watering the seed planted in your heart.
Till next time,
Lorinda