Viva La Vibing

I have a few special rituals I share with my babies. 

Some of them have been set aside over the years as they change and grow. 

This ritual, for lack of a better name, I will call school holiday Fridays. 

During the school term, I aim to spend my Fridays off on doing things for myself, such as lunch dates with hubby, coffee catch ups with friends, reading, watching classic films or just lazing around. Sometimes household d chores, paperwork and errands creep in. But I try my best to keep those Fridays off sacred for myself. 

During the school holidays though, when my babies are home, I try to do something with just the two of them when hubby is in a work meeting or at the office. 

I can't remember exactly how this ritual started, but it would usually always start with stopping by Asian bakery Breadtop (probably because hubby is not a fan of bread but we three love any kind of bread). We enjoyed taking our time to choose an item or two from the display of Asian baked items with so many topping choices. After paying, we would drive to the 'big playground' and sit at one of the picnic benches to enjoy our sweet or savoury buns. 

As we munched our bread, we would chat about this or that. Sometimes we'd read aloud a chapter or two from one of the books we were currently reading together. Then they would dash off for a play on the playground equipment.

Toward the end of last year, we carved out some time on one of my Fridays off to revisit this little ritual.

On the surface, things looked so different as I sat sandwiched between my two 'big' children, listening to them share their maturing views and perspectives on different topics of conversation. And this time after finishing their snacks, instead of dashing off to the playground, they had brought a volleyball to practice their spikes and jumps.

Underneath, much of it felt the same. The sweetness of their presence, the inside jokes and affectionate jabs, and just talk, talk, talking about everything under the sun... what Nathan would refer to as 'vibing'.

So here we are... then and now... still vibing.