Piñata Chocolate Cake for my beloved daughter's birthday cake.




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Happy 18th my sweetie pie,
Today you celebrated your 18th... It feels like not too long ago, we celebrated your 1st birthday!
Those years flew like a speeding bullet filled with lots of love and bittersweet memories, a mixture of joy, happiness, frustration and exasperation.

I used to wonder what you would be like when you are 18!!!
How our 'mother-daughter' relationship would be like?
Will we bond?
Will we chat, share our feelings, thoughts, giggles like silly old friends...
Will we be the best of friends?
Will you come to me for anything and everything
or
Will you shut me out?

The time is here now...
As many have said and lots had been written about the inevitable rough rides that the mother-daughter will go through in their relationship, especially during the children's teenage years, we are no exceptions.

Whatever, wherever the rides may takes us in this life forward... just remember these... my sweetie pie,





I LOVE YOU
.... my eyes adored you the minute I set eyes on you 18 years ago...
.... you tugged my heart and I will love you till my last breath. I prayed for you the 9 months that no harm would come to you...  I have not stopped since and I make my du'a to the Al-Mighty everyday that I will live long enough to see you blossom into a beautiful person that you are...

Yes... my sweetie pie, you are BEAUTIFUL inside out...don’t let others made you feel any less.

Sweetie Pie,
I hope, dad and I have raised and taught you well of our family values...
Whatever I said or did... perhaps, I might have sounded harsh at times...
All because, I was worried for you, worried that the big bad wolves that are roaming the earth might have just swallow you up whole, because you are so trusting and only see the good in people. There are some bad apples around too, my sweetie pie.

My dell...
I am so not looking forward to any changes...but changes is inevitable as you are blossoming into a lovely young woman. I dread the day when I am no longer your numero uno... no longer the person you look up to with full admiration...
Your admiration and your centre of universe will be shifted to that special someone who will pull strings at your heart, making your heart skip a bit... makes your head spin and feeling dizzy in love.

Sweetie pie... that special someone will have to pass muster... (hmmm... I'm imagining interrogation room scenario...;P) not that I don’t trust you but because I love you! I want the best for my one and only girl.
Treat yourself with respect, my du’a is that you will meet that awesome guy who will loves you like your daddio loves me, the person who will respect and take care of you, and makes you happy. (LOL... beware of guys who has an obsession with their looks or with mirror, and gazing into any mirror at every opportunity...more that you do ;P...hahaha... remember the song? You’re so vain)





Sweetie Pie,
Remember the countless time, your dilly-dally antics, trying to stretch time... with ‘Mom, come lie with me’ as soon as you open your eyes.... or just your simple gesture of patting the pillow next to you, or at times...’Don’t leave me’...

In no time, we'll be playing the reversal role...with me wanting to stretch our time a little longer. My heart yearn to say... “Please don’t go, stay a little longer...”
... but rest assured my sweet, I will NOT be a drama queen, I promise... I will not make a scene :D...
I will just hug you tight, with a kiss on your forehead and whisper ‘I love you...and may ALLAH be with you and protect you'... for I know you have a long journey in front of you. You need to spread your wings and fly.
I wish I could stop time, so I could hold your hand a little longer ...but


HAPPY BIRTHDAY... my sweetie pie