A girls' afternoon (En/ Es)

Today I share with you a very special moment with my daughter (I have 3 treasures), she is the middle one, she is 16 years old. Of my 3 children, she is the one with the personality: strong, strong-willed, creative. She looks like an old lady of 80 years old in many things, maybe because she had to live difficult times, along with the whole family in difficult times in our country, even though we tried to make her live her childhood like every child, but being very observant, she matured in many facets of life quickly. In fact, she learned to cook since she was 11 years old, on her own initiative. Nowadays she can cook almost anything and desserts, not to mention, they are excellent, and it is not because I am her mother, but I must admit that it is so; that fills me with pride, because she is also an excellent student.

And although she has her things like every teenager and there are days that I feel like putting her back in my belly, ha, ha, ha, yes, but I am more proud to see the woman she is becoming, in the midst of all her routines. During these vacations she decided on her own to take a pharmaceutical course and also to prepare herself as a recreationalist (she did this long before the vacations started) and by the time the vacations started she could already experience what she had learned in a vacation plan; she had the opportunity to do it, with her own instructors, for a company as a recreationalist and work for a week.

During that week, she experienced what it was like to work for the first time. Her dad and I laughed every time we saw her arrive, tired to the point of exhaustion but happy. At the end of her work week, with her first paycheck, she gave us all ice cream at home and invited me to the movies. At first I did not want to accept her invitation, so she could save her money if she wanted and I encouraged her to buy something she wanted, but she did not want to, because she wanted to take me to a new movie theater called “Cinepic” located in the Sambil shopping mall, located in the parish of La Candelaria in Caracas, Venezuela. There we decided to watch the movie “Breaking the Circle”. I must say that I felt strange watching her buying her movie tickets, the combo of cotufas for her and for me with their corresponding candy, all purchased by her. Seeing her so independent, made me feel so proud.

And although I tried to help her with something, she did not allow me to do so, because she told me that she had invited me and that I deserved that and more... at that moment, I felt like a huge helium balloon about to burst, but from love and emotion, because my daughter is not one of those girls who express her feelings at every moment, she is rather reserved with her feelings and the simple fact that she told me those words, added to everything else, was the best of my afternoon. At that moment I said like Will Smith in his movie “The Pursuit of Happyness”; this part of my life, I call it happiness....

We enjoyed our girl's afternoon, we laughed and shared our time together. It has been a long time since we shared just us. I think it is important to dedicate some time to each of our children and much more, when they are the ones who want to do it with you as a mother, in this case. At that moment, I thought: I'm doing it right and I felt so happy, that's why I wanted to immortalize this afternoon in my blog and share it with all of you, greetings friends!

Durante esa semana, experimento lo que es trabajar por vez primera. Su papá y yo nos reíamos cada vez que le veíamos llegar, cansada hasta más no poder pero feliz. Al terminar su semana de trabajo, con su primer sueldo, nos brindó helados a todos en casa y me invitó a mí al cine. Al principio no quería aceptarle la invitación, para que ahorrara su dinero si quería y la anime a comprarse alguna cosa que quisiera, pero no quiso, pues ella quería llevarme a una nueva sala de cine llamada "Cinepic" ubicada en el centro comercial Sambil, ubicado en la parroquia La Candelaria en Caracas, Venezuela. Allí decidimos ver la película "Romper el Círculo". Debo decir que me sentí extraña viendo cómo ella compraba sus tickets del cine, el combo de cotufas para ella y para mí con sus correspondientes chucherías, todo adquirido por ella. Verla tan independiente, me hizo sentir tan orgullosa.

Y aunque intente ayudarla en algo, no me lo permitió, pues me dijo que ella me había invitado y que yo me merecía eso y más… en ese momento, me sentí como un globo inmenso de helio a punto de estallar, pero del amor y la emoción, pues mi hija no es de estas niñas que a cada instante expresan sus sentimientos, ella es más bien reservada, con sus sentimientos y el simple hecho de que me haya dicho esas palabras, sumado a todo lo demás, fue lo mejor de mi tarde. En ese momento yo dije como Will Smith en su película "En Busca de la felicidad"; esta parte de mi vida, la llamo felicidad...

Disfrutamos de nuestra tarde de chicas, nos reímos y compartimos nuestro tiempo juntas. Hace bastante que no compartíamos solamente nosotras. Pienso que es importante dedicar un tiempo a cada uno de nuestros hijos y mucho más, cuando son estos quienes desean hacerlo contigo como madre, en este caso. En ese instante, pensé: lo estoy haciendo bien y me sentí tan feliz, por eso quise inmortalizar esta tarde en mi blog y compartirla con todos ustedes, saludos amigos!