my mom & aunt, who is currently visiting from korea, decided to make a girls weekend and came up to the city to spend some time with my sister and me recently.
it was nice having them in the city -- doing things you normally do on your own are just that much better with people you love. my favorite cupcakes taste a little sweeter, cab rides become a little funnier. food tastes that much better. it was just, nice.
we went to woodbury commons on saturday and my sister's boyfriend sungmin, whom i didn't necessarily get off with the right foot initially (see previous post tagged new boyfriend), kindly offered to drive us there. the car ride was definitely a bonding moment for all of us, and seeing my (still) baby sister dote on a guy for the first time like she does made me smile. she seemed so grown up all of the sudden, but she is still my baby sister. i haven't seen her in a while, and seeing her in such bright spirits made me really happy. made me miss my boyfriend, who also makes me really happy (:
we ended the night at del frisco's and had the waitstaff pull out a cake and candles because it was sungmin's birthday. sungmin's parents live in korea and he's lived apart from them since he was in elementary school, so it touched my heart a little when my sister texted my mom, aunt and me at the end of the night saying that she was thankful that we were so sweet to him, and that he really had the best birthday. happy belated, sungmin!
nights in were the best, because my mom would share stories that i would hear for the first time. she would tell me about how at one point she feared that i would not love her, my own mother, because there was a time my paternal grandparents raised me in korea while my mom & dad were in the states and i would only cry at the mere sight of her. she shared feelings of regret towards her own mother who passed away when she was a freshman in college, and painful memories of how she felt so selfish and young. hearing my own mother, who i only view as perfect, describe herself the way she did pulled on my heart, because it made me realize that without the love of my father, without the love that grew when she became a mother, she could not possibly have become the angel that she is today. it just makes me love her even more, and it also gives me so much to look forward to in my own lifetime.
they were only here for three days, but when they left, i will say that i felt incredibly lonely and a little sad.
guess it only an indicator of how good the weekend really was.
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
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