Growing up too fast

She's now 14. Time for me to be nostalgic about everything. It was a "rewind" from the time she was born. How time flies! And adding to the fact that she's now 14 is the fact that she fell in love for the first time. Yup! Only at 14. Too early for my husband and I. But as I always say, who are we to stop her from making her own mistakes. For my husband and I believes that mistakes are learning experiences. And if we always say "no," to her or her siblings how will they find out what will happen next to their own decisions. So from time to time, to create balance, we say "yes," and as parents, we learn a lot in the process too.

Well, if you could just stop the time from moving and for them from growing up. If you could just hold them a little bit longer and never let them go, but we just can't.

As a parent, we can't own them. One day they will discover that they have wings and those wings can make them fly and take them places. One day, but not yet. 

This year so many changes will come our way but what ever those changes are, we as  parents wish that it's for their best.  We can only help and guide them walk that path of righteousness. Hoping that when they journey on their own each fall that they will face, teaches them to pick up themselves each time it happens, that each tears that fall, will make them stronger, that each mistakes that they will make will make them smarter, that each experiences, bad and good, will make them into a better person.

How lucky I am for she was my first born. She grew up to be a responsible daughter.  She help me a lot specially for the times that I can't fulfill my role as a mother or as a parent, she's there not to take my role or of his father, but just to be a sister to her siblings. She taught me all the first as a mother: how to hold, take care and love a child, how to endure and to enjoy, taught me the importance of creating wonderful memories, taught me everything a mother should learn. I might not show it to her every single day, but I am grateful for her. And the love I have her is unimaginable and unmeasurable. She was the one who taught me how to love without expecting anything in return.


We are lucky for our kids didn't grew up materialistic. Never did they asked for a gift for their birthdays. They only receive gifts from us during Christmas. So they are allowed to celebrate their birthday in anyway that they want. And she didn't even asked a lot, just to celebrate with some friends at Disney and that's it. (Don't get me wrong, you might think Disney cause a lot, it free for me, I work there, so it wouldn't also be an extra expense at all.)

And so for her 14th birthday, I wish her a clear path towards her destiny, wishing that her talents and potentials will one day fulfill her heart's desires, wishing her lots of blessings, wishing that she will create lasting memories of joy, friendship and love, blessing her with success in whatever endeavor that she pursue and most of all wishing all the happiness in the world for even at young age she deserves it. I wish her everything! We love you! I love you infinity times infinity!

NB: I hope one day, you'll read all these.