My Family, My Best Friends

Poor Big Bee had to go to school on her birthday, so I brought her for lunch in MacDonald's after school, together with a nice ice-cream session in another cafe. We then had a merry cake-cutting session with a delectable blackforest cake in the evening.

Being with a big girl is really wonderful - it felt like we are friends, and recently, we had been gossiping a whole lot. During our alone-time during my Saturday enrichment class cum lunch with her. During her little birthday lunch with me. At home in her bedroom. And she would gabble on about her friends, politics in class, teachers and the little pressures she faces in her studies. It felt just....marvelous that I had reached this amazing stage in my life when all I could do was sit back, relax with my daughter and just yak about everything under the sun.

Little Bee is fast approaching that stage too - she is now beginning to tell me more things about her school life and friends, being the chatty little girl that she is. But they are still child-like narratives - nothing like the 2-way conversations that Big Bee and I have. However, on one hand, I am faithfully counting down to the day when I could gossip with both my girls, yet, on the other hand, Hubby and I are reluctant to see Little Bee, our youngest baby, grow up. Life is full of strange, bittersweet dilemmas, isn't it?

With the Bees being big girls and able to chill out on their own, Hubby and I had been taking brief 15 to 20 minutes walk in the evenings, so we could hang out with each other, have a little private time and get in touch with ourselves again. What was most heartening in one of the walks was when he uttered that I am his best friend :)


Daughters - my good buddies. Hubby - my best friend. I hope this heartwarming stage of life will be perpetual...