Keeping in touch

I do envy husband

for his ability to regularly stay in touch with his family

be it with his sisters, parents and grandparents

it neve amazed me how often they are on phone,

SMS, skype, emails and met up

even when they are be staying near us

or at least in the same country

 

While for me,

I am guilty for not keeping close contact

with my family.

With the ease of whatspp, blog and facebook,

it is relatively easy to update with my brother and sister

however, i am terribly bad with keeping contact with my mother

frequently, i have many excuses for not keeping in touch

time differences

kids are around that we cant skype

my mum is not IT-savy

Expensive phone calls

but at the end of the day,

it boils down to me

I am not putting in enough efforts

I met enough foreigners in Paris

to know that most of them tries to skype or call

their family once a week

some even do so on daily basis 

Anyway yesterday was my mum's birthday

as usual, i whatsapp my sister

to help me wish my mum 

Whild i was casually telling husband that it was her birthday

husband asked whether i called her

i started to come up with the usual excuses

and i realized I didnt even called her on her birthday

is not as if a 5min phone call will make us bankrupt

so i decided to give her a call this morning

the call ended in less than a min

I cant believe how nervous i was before the call

-.-"

my mum was definitely surprised as well to answer my call

the first thing she asked was

"call all the way from there?"

after i wish her happy birthday

and she reminded me that she is going taiwan with my sister

she asked whether i wanted to speak to Shauna

which i declined and insisted i called for her

and not others

thereafter, we ended the call

i felt better calling my mum

but guilty that i should have done it more often

we are in the era where calls are so accessible

and cheap compared to 20 years ago

I cant continue to pretend that i cant give her regular phone calls

So, i am going to try to try call my mum

once a week

Thinking back,

my mum always called me while in Singapore

be it to ask whether im coming back for dinner

or whether im meeting them on weekends

and we do meet quite often in a month

i never needed to put in effort to contact her

and i guess i took it for granted

maybe we wont be used to the calling

and the phone calls will be short

but i guess is a small step to keeping in touch

with my mum