Some of us have social media accounts to remind us of what happened “this day last year” or a number of years ago. In recent days, mine has been telling me that around the Queen’s or King’s birthday long weekend, Kiddo and Mic and Tress and I got together. We’d trek up or they’d come down. This year, it’s the latter, and it’s the first for little Abby.
They got here last week, and poor little Abby was unwell when they boarded the aircraft that morning. So the first couple of nights, we could hear her sobs in the middle of the night, as she nursed her teething woes and fever. Her dad would cuddle her through the night and would then fall ill himself from sheer lack of sleep. From the second half of their stay however, both bub and dad recovered, and we had a wonderful time together.
We walked to the local playgrounds, they visited the Koorong bookshop as the crow flies, and we trekked into the city and spent a day at the Melbourne aquarium and walkabout the city laneways etc, savouring delicious Malaysian food. We played at home, ate at local eateries and generally enjoyed being together. Tress and I were just filled with warm cosy happiness throughout the week. After we left them at the airport yesterday arvo, we said to each other we’d like a future that includes us being nearer around them. They are a growing family and while I am so very contented with our lives here in Melbourne, being invited to be part of that growing family is not something I’d pass up. Tress has been in on it way earlier than me so when I brought up the topic in the car yesterday arvo, it became a “done deal”. The how’s and when’s will be details to be worked out I guess. It’d be the next chapter for us.
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