Excitement
to something that will happen is always greater than the thing itself you are
waiting for. Hopes are high and the
feeling is so indescribable.
We are
flying to the Philippines soon for our yearly family visit. With 2 kids to drag we tried our best to
explain to them what will happen, when it will happen and how we will go there.
With the help of the memories (and the photos) from our previous trip, its not
difficult to explain that we are going to Lolo and Lola (my parents) by
plane. What we will do there is simply
explained as seeing Lolo, Lola, Makayla (my sister’s daughter), Ninang Geli,
Ninong Danny, Tita Joy and Tito JM.
Niels knows that it’s warm in the Philippines so he also expected Beach
and Swimming pools!
But the
difficult subject to explain is the WHEN.
There were already a couple of incidents that Niels was sooooo excited
thinking it is already THE DAY! And one
of them was when he dressed up one morning to go to school, while he thought we
were already on the way to the airport.
He said
“Spannend he Mama?”
So I asked,
“Whats exciting about today?” and he answered “Wij gaan toch naar de Filippijnen vliegen vandaag?”
Oh and I
have to disappoint him “Its not today Niels. Today we are just going to school
and in 5 weeks we will go fly to the Philippines”
And seeing
how sad his face became…damn it! Why
didn’t I explain it better to him in the first place when we are leaving!
And Nina,
since we told her we were going to the Philippines, she kept on saying…”Kom,
wij gaan naar Filippijnen! Kom Mama!”
After a
week or 2, she stopped. I think she gave
up the idea that she is going there (just because she doesn’t have any sense of
time yet).
Soon, we
can excitingly countdown with them. And
hopefully they don’t count 2 times in 1 day to hasten everything up!
It will be
a very fast 3 weeks in the Philippines I bet, our agenda is already full and we
still want to do lots of things!
Anyways,
there is always a next year…
