She may be 16, but this morning, all I wanted to do was make her sit on my lap and hug her.
She made a face that said, ‘What now?’, but she obliged.
It was me – I was the one who needed that hug & cuddle…. so I gave her one instead.
One of those days….
It was the most comfortable position I had sat in all week! With an almost 5’8 athletic teenage girl wrapped in my arms.
By evening, the littlest one was surprised to see me at home when he got back from school.
He tossed his school bag aside and covered my face with 12yo baby child kisses and said, ‘Mama, Can I give you a hug?’
I pushed back the laptop and gathered his soft cuddly body into my arms.
Then the 20yo called out for me…
To show me something on his laptop,
but I had to ‘wait for the right time’, he said, ‘Don’t look now!!’
For the video to start… and he wanted me to look at just the right start of the clip…
‘Mama, do you remember this??’
I peered into his laptop screen at some robot-like being sitting…
I couldn’t remember…so he reminded me with a sheepish / shy smile that reminded me of when he was 9 or 10…
‘It was that game you preordered for me in Dubai’, he said, ‘from Virgin Megastore… the other one you got from the US…’ he went on…
I couldn’t remember… but I smiled..
Edit: I later called him & asked him to give me a hug…
He smiled and said, ‘What’s wrong with you??!’
And enveloped me in his arms..
Not a small boy anymore…
A tall, muscular, broad-backed handsome child of mine…
Felt good…
The memories of their childhood… that I was a part of…
The memories of my motherhood…. that they are all a part of.
My heart is melting …
One of those days…
No, I am not PMS-ing (in the real sense) hahah… must be an anti-climax hormone flush…
First published on my Facebook on 10th February 2023
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