Hello dear friends! Hope everyone had a blast celebrating! As for me, we are anxiously counting the days for the new school term to start on January 2...

My little Bubbles is going to the primary school for the first time!! Geez! How fast they grow up…. She’s very excited about going to a new school just like her older sisters. Well, all three of them are always excited about going to school. I never had any problem getting the girls to school for the first time. They’re always so excited. While most of their peers seem to be scared, crying, screaming, kicking & holding tights to their parents, my girls simply forget all about their parents the moment they steps into the school gate!

Most Year One parents normally wait for their children at the school until the teachers finally chased them away after a week. But me, I just need to accompany them on the first day of school. On the second day.…. I still remember the day I sent my Buttercup on the second day. She immediately forgot all about me the moment she saw her new friends. And me, still having problem to let her go, hide somewhere outside the class while watching her from far, at the back of other parents whose children cried & screamed in the class if they were not in view! I thought I’ll wait until recess time & see if she needed any help getting around the canteen. But to my amazement, when the bell rang she simply walked passed me with her new found friends to the canteen & they happily ate together, while I hide behind a pillar and cried!!! Yes, cried! Because it really hurts when it finally hit you that, for the first time ever, the child that you’ve been protecting since birth has gained her first independence; for the first time ever, they don’t need you by their side anymore; for the first time ever, they’re exposed to the whole wide world & you can’t be there….. Ah! Just reminiscing this has made me all teary and there are still a few days yet!

So for the past month, in between other things, we’ve been busy shopping for the things that the girls will need; new books, new shoes, new uniforms, new stationeries, you name it. I had a bad experience last year when my dear beloved hubby decided to go back to his hometown towards the end of the year and only came back a day before school open! So I had only a day to complete the shopping for everything!!! It was fine with him because he just went to work! We couldn’t get much in his hometown because it’s just a small town. No doubt the things available there are a lot cheaper than in the city but it is also of inferior quality which I doubt can last very long with my girls!!

Sharing here is a favourite photo of my three precious girls in our traditional dress ‘baju kurung’ during Eid ul-Fitr last year.

So, there goes another one of my ramblings…..

Take care & Hope you have a wonderful Wednesday!

Ta Ta For Now!