Long time didn't blog. Feli's exams are finally over 2 days ago. The girls are on holiday since yesterday till next Wed for PSLE marking. It's only the 2nd day at home and the girls are already bored! What shall I do with them?
Anyway, Tiffy's birthday party went pretty well. 6 classmates came out of 11 that were invited. They were Andrea, Cassandria, Hannah, Deanna, Claire and Kimberly. They are all very sweet and nice girls. Poor Tiffany fell at the exercise park and hit the back of her neck on the rung of the metal ladder. We didn't know till after the bbq when she told us about it. No wonder she was so quiet during the dinner.
My mum, Bert and I had great fun bbqing the food. We realised that my mum is a great cook. She knows exactly when the food is ready. As the group was small and the replies came in so late, I decided to season the food myself. We had variety but all in small portions. We had grilled prawns, sotong, corn on the hob, porkchop, chicken wings, sausages, chicken and beef satay and of course, the kids favourite, toasted marshmallows. The girls came to toast whilst we were still cooking the last few batches of food, so my mum ended up cooking some of the marshmallows for them. And Tiffany told me that ma-ma toasted the marshmellows just right...melted just right to be stringy.
Unfortunately, only 1 girl brought her swimming costume, so I had to scrape 1 game. Luckily I still had 3 land games to play. Surprisingly, 12 year olds still love games, and are excited about getting prizes too! The last few 12 year old birthday parties I had attended with Tiffany didn't have any or much party games and hardly any prizes. I just thought of arranging some at the last minute, just to add some fun, and the girls enjoyed themselves.
Now that Tiffy and her classmates/friends would be split up next year, I decided to allow her to go out with her clique of friends. I had seen them and some of their parents, so I think, as Tiffy said, to not be so controlling. I guess when the kids get older, we must learn to let go and let them grow. It can be painful and worrying for us as parents, but like the story of the butterfly emerging from the cocoon...if we help the butterfly by tearing up the cocoon, the butterfly would be stunted and cannot function normally. The emerging process is important to squeeze out the water in the body and wings of the butterfly otherwise the wings would be shriveled and its body too heavy to fly.
On a side point, I was saddened when my mum told me my dad couldn't sleep last night. It seemed he was perhaps sad that my mum was sad that they are growing old. She then patted him to sleep and asked him to pray to Mother Mary and Jesus and always think of them. When I told this to Feli and asked her why we must die? You know what she said? She told her it's because Jesus is lonely in heaven and wants us to be with him. She also said not to be sad as one day we will be with kong-kong in heaven after all of us are gone. I believe God speaks to us through the mouth of babes.
Love Theresa
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