Officially a teenager

She's thirteen. How time fly so fast that sometimes I can't find any way to catch it and just hold it a little longer inside my palm so everything will be just the same as before. But life is like that, the only thing that we can't control in this world is time.

It's a school day so we didn't have a chance to celebrate it in the morning. But I let her blow a candle so that she'll be reminded that we didn't forget and that she's officially a teenager.

Well she had her thirteen birthday on the thirteen day of June, a Friday the thirteen. A good-luck day for our family ever since. As usual she wanted to celebrate her birthday with her friends just like her wish the year before and the year before that and so on and so forth, but since it was as I said a school day, we can't celebrate it just like she wanted it to be so we opted to celebrate it in simplicity.

She had lunch at home with her selected school mates and friends (during their lunch break at that). Luckily one their professor was absent so they went home an hour early. And luckily for me, I prepared everything early too.

My husband set the Lasagna the night before (which he pre-cooked after his work, meaning one in the morning) and I just re-heated it. And I just added Burritos, chocolate chip muffins and ice cream (vanilla and strawberry cream flavor) for the dessert and some drinks. It was simple yet they had fun and ate a lot. As in a lot as if it was a big feast. But I was happy to see that they are all having fun. Just like little ladies, talking about anything under the sun.

After their lunch, they went back to school for their afternoon classes. And as soon as their class is over, we (my son, my youngest daughter and me) waited for my eldest daughter so that she can blow her thirteen candles. We love to do it based on our own family-made-tradition: a home-baked-mom-made-with-love-cake and blowing it together with her siblings.