Mother's Day

Few days before the mother's day, I started to get panicked. I had not been thinking about what to do with the mothers. Not that I must do something, but somehow I thought they would expect something from me, even though they might say they don't want anything. But the mothers are really lack of NOTHING. They have everything they wanted.

I finally decided to send MIL for a spa treat. She had not tried it before, so I guessed it would be a new experience for her. I checked on the internet and found that the Aramsa Spa at Bishan Park II quite interesting. So I went down to recee the place. Hmmm, nice setup and atmosphere, I must try that one of these days. When MIL knew that I was trying to make some arrangement for her, she would say she doesn't want anything and told me not to waste $$$. After the spa, asked her if it was good, she would just say, for so much $$ spent, sure it got to be good. Why can't these people expressed out in a more passionate, appreciative and direct way.... Well, that's the traditional Chinese way of behaviour - everything is unspoken. Never mind, inside me, I know they enjoyed it.

My mum was the more headache one. She is too boney to enjoy the massage, she is only 37kg now. You can see the structure of her bones tracing out from every inch of her skin.

While I was still scratching my head about what to do for her, Alice, her god-daughter, my savior, came in at the right time. A lunch was arranged at a very last minute with some other mothers. At least, I got my mum out of the house, had lunch and went for shopping. I hardly go shopping with her nowadays, as she could hardly walk. She needs to find seats to rest her legs every couple of steps she made. So with this shopping trip, whatever she wanted to buy, I gladly paid for it, and conveniently said its the Mother's Day Treat.

As for myself, expectedly, I got my son's handicraft work which the teacher made them do in school. Though, nothing surprised me, but I still felt good receiving the little gift of arts from them.

What I got from my hubby was him flying off to Taipei on the Mother's Day itself. He would be away for 2 weeks. The whole family sent him off at the airport. Even though he traveled very often, but when the moment he walked into the departure hall, I still missed him. I could also sense his loneliness as he walked away.

In order to keep myself busy these 2 weeks, I booked a Genting trip for my boys and parents-in-law for the coming weekend. Hopefully, time will pass faster this way and I could see my hubby back home soon.