A Woman's Weekly

Last night when Cool Dad was leaving for prayer meeting, Miss D asked to come with. Dad said ‘Not tonight…’, and promised to take her and Miss Mel both to practice Thursday night instead.

Miss D then became very upset and made it known to her dad. She was still crying and kicking as Dad reversed the car out of the house.

I knew trying to calm her down at that point would be futile, so I gently suggested to her to join Miss Mel and me upstairs in the room with Baby Spunky.

She refused, and I proceeded to go upstairs with the other two.

A very short while later, she came up and burst into tears at the door. I opened my arms to her and said, “Mommy sayang you?”

To which she came willingly into my arms and cried some more. Hugging her tight, I explained that Dad will surely take her and Miss Mel out with him the next night.

After that, she calmed down and watched quietly as Miss Mel went about playing with her toys. Then as she saw Miss Mel doing something ‘wrong’ with one of her toys, she laughed a little bit. She began to see that Miss Mel was having ‘trouble’ with it, and so she came away from me and told Miss Mel, “Here, Che-Che help you.”

The rest of the night, everything went smoothly and without incident. It was as if Miss D was never upset.

As I was praying for Miss D while she slept, I realised that whilst it wasn’t that big of a deal with me that she was upset at Dad leaving, (because it happens a lot anyway…), my being there for her to receive comfort helped mend whatever negative feelings she was having at the time. I was soo glad that I had been there to offer comfort to her at such a time.

And then I prayed, may I always be there for my children when they need me. They may not always get the toy they want, or the barbie doll paraphernalia they want, or the latest movie they want; but may they always know and always remember that their Mom was there for them.

This was taken during our Perkasa Getaway.