With Olivia being invited to two birthday parties this weekend, we agreed for me to leave work directly and pick up some presents for her friends today. While I was out, I ended up making the most of my opportunity to shop alone and started checking out a couple of my favorite stores at the mall.
I lost track of the time along the way and didn’t hear my cell phone ring until I had shopped for a while. It was Olivia asking me whether I got the gifts she had told me her friends liked and complaining that I didn’t pick up her earlier calls. “Mom, I called you five times already! One at your work and four on your cell phone!”
On my way to the parking lot, I started to listen to my voice mails and they were all from Olivia. The third one went like this: “Mommy, you don’t know how many times I have called you. I am getting really serious now. I am! I am really frustrated. I want you to reply to my messages and I am serious!”
The next and last voice mail from her: “Mom! I’ve called you five times! Please answer this message…Okay?!...All right…I really miss you.”
Awww…, she is so sweet and sounded so cute on the phone. I am really sorry that I have missed almost all her calls tonight :(.
