Birthday Celebration

Our princess is turning 4 this May! We wouldn’t be throwing a birthday party but the Mummy is already thinking about the different mini celebrations with the different group of people. Exciting!

Excitement bubbles filled my head as the date draws nearer and I am all geared to celebrate her birthday in school. I assumed that she will be as excited as I am about the school celebration. Well, I am escalated at the thought so she must be as well, right? Which kid doesn’t like to have his/ her birthday celebrated?

I was trying to get down to organizing the celebration, looking out for goody bags, cakes and all, reminiscing about how her happy she was when we went to her school to celebrate her 3rd birthday. Lalalalala… I was on cloud 9 until my baby girl threw me the bomb. Nope, she doesn’t want mummy to celebrate for her in school!!!!! What????? It can’t be, I must be hard of hearing. I must have misunderstood her. Or maybe I didn’t get my point clearly across to her. So, I asked her on 2 other occasions and she gave me the same “no”... and I can hear it echoing in my head. Boo! She only wanted the cupcakes and goody bags, mummy is in excess and can be done without. -.o” Daddy Lim has to rub salt on my wound, teasing me that I must be an embarrassment to Lil Shauna. NOOOOOO!!!!! My baby girl is 4, not 14. She loves me to bits. She adores me. Pui!

To make sure that she’s firm, I asked her a final time. She’s such a nice girl and finally agreed to let mummy celebrates her birthday for her in school. I bet she can see my broken heart and hear the thud when the broken pieces fell onto the floor. But she still opted for the goody bags and cupcakes (without mummy) when given a choice. So it shall be. There will be no mummy. *sulk*

We don’t know why she wanted no celebration. She couldn’t tell us a reason but agreed when we suggested if it is bcos none of her classmate celebrated their birthday in school. I called up the school to ask about the make-up of the class and the administrator (or maybe it was the teacher that I spoke to) commented that Lil Shauna is generally shy and maybe that was why. She also agreed that there was no birthday celebration thus far for her class.

It is ok.. breathe… we will have plenty of opportunities in the future. We can have other celebrations outside of school. Breathe…

Mummy Lim