Whee~ she got in to a prestigious uni!

The good news sank in only hours later and we couldn't stop smiling and feeling proud of her offer getting into the uni of her choice. It's rather unbelievable, as we would have thought being rejected by another uni which is a lesser ranking, this higher ranking one would be surely no hope. But, she made it in, and we would surely support her though we had to forego the idea of buying and moving into a landed property for the moment.

Ah... I suppose the empty nest would not be so bad, she will be just an hour's flight away and I could relax not having to worry about her safety at all. With just around 2 months' away, we are mentally preparing ourselves for the move. Feelings are so mixed, sometimes I would think this is the part where they really leave the home and just come back for holidays. Just like me la. 

However, seeing how tense sometimes things could be between parents and children, I always advocate kids should leave home and go out explore the world when they are at this age. It's better for all of us. And from there on, I hope the relationship between parents and children would be better and stronger that way.

It will be just my hubs and me soon! My coping mechanism is thinking the places we could go and some new stuffs we could do during weekends, how exciting! 

A brief getaway to Phuket

 Quite a spontaneous buy during the early days of the pandemic, an offer for a 3nights stay at Anantara, for only a mere USD 149. Seeing validity of 3 years, why not, right? 

Couple with the FlyPass with MAS airlines which we need to utilise before July year, off we go to Phuket.

I was planning to just go with hubby, but hubby felt it is such a waste as the unit can stay up to 6 adults hence we asked the 2 kids if they wanna go, they said ok, so.. there we were!

I asked if any of them remembered the trips when they were so young, but they totally have no memories of them whatsoever. And I dug back the posts here on this blog to check them back out too. Seemed like there were 2 trips before and we did both the Phang Nga bays tour and the 3 islands Khau Nai, Nuk and Nui hopping tour in these 2 trips. Oh, how I smiled looking back at their happy faces back then. This time? Urgh! I rather go without them at all! 

Then again, what do I expect? At this age, I understand they rather be with their friends than with their own parents. That was what we did before too, ain't that right? Hubs ain't having it good, he is a really quite a family man. He does hope we would have a nice family vacation and though he never said it before, he so wanna have the warmth and love back in those days when the kids all dot around him. When this getaway ended, he finally gets that but I know how he is hurting deep inside. I told him, don't worry, his wife is right beside him haha. 

I really am more open to letting go. I have faith they would come back to us when they are older and wiser. They are really good kids. This is not the time to ask them to be us as of right now as children treating our own parents.