Natsu-chan, today is your birthday. Mom can't be with you, and not only that, but Mom doesn't even have the courage to call your grandma and talk to you. Mom doesn't dare to express her thoughts about you through layers of prying eyes, but Mom can feel the way you express your thoughts. Your immature emotions, my mother thinks she can perceive them. In the past, when your mother called, you would refuse to talk to your mother, you would not look at your mother, you would pout, and you would look unhappy. Xiao Xia, when your mother sees you like this, she knows that you have been aware that your mother has been around for a long time. Mom wants to hug you right away and tell you that Mom will always love you, make you believe in yourself, and believe that you are worthy of everyone's love for you.

Xiao Xia, mom is very cowardly, mom is a mom who didn't do anything for you, mom didn't fight with the whole world to get you. On the contrary, Mom is always comforting herself, comforting herself that you are doing well now, comforting yourself that you are with Grandma, just like you used to, which is better for you, and the family around you loves you very much, maybe in a different way than Mom, but you can still get a lot of love.

But my mother is often skeptical and hesitant, is this choice the right one? Xiaoxia, you're happy, aren't you? Mom wants you to get everything you want in life without Mom. Only in this way will my mother's lifelong escape be lonely and at ease.

Natsu, you're three years old today. Mom wants to give you a story as a birthday present on this day. The protagonists of the story are you and your mother. At least in the story, mom holds your hand and can be with you all the time. Let mom accompany you in the story and give you a gift in the story.

The story begins.

Xiao Xia sat on the sofa, her father had just moved out, and her mother was cleaning up the cabinets in the house alone. Most of the cabinets were empty, and my mother cleaned up an entire wall of lattice cabinets, saying that she would put toys for Xiao Xia. On the other wall, there is a lattice cabinet that my mother has filled with books. From this day on, Xiao Xia and her mother started a new life. On this day, Xiao Xia was exactly three years old.

The sun outside was shining, the room was neither hot nor dry, there was a feeling of early summer, everywhere was bright, and the air seemed to be floating with clouds on a sunny day. After being born, Xiao Xia rarely stayed alone with her mother, there were always grandparents around, and her mother used to appear with her father, but now there are only the two of them, Xiao Xia is a little worried, what will this life be like?

Mom, what are we going to do today? Xiao Xia asked. Xiao Xia has a birthday today, we have to eat a big cake together, and we have to make a wish together, okay? Mom said. Xiao Xia nodded, and she looked at her mother. Today's sun is so dazzling, shining from behind her mother, Xiao Xia squinted her eyes, and couldn't see her mother's face clearly. Mom wears a yellow-pink apron and her hair is coiled. Xiao Xia could see that her mother was smiling.

After her mother finished speaking, she got down the ladder and went to the kitchen to make a cup of gardenia tea and gave it to Xiao Xia, and the fragrance of tea filled the whole room. Xiao Xia held the teacup, the cup was not hot, nor cold, warm, the same temperature as her mother's hand over the cup. Mom stepped back into the ladder and continued to pack the cabinet. Xiao Xia looked at her mother and suddenly wanted to ask a question, Mom, when can we be with grandma? Mom, where is Dad going to live? Mom, will we all be together in the future? Mom, I want to go back to where I used to live. Before the last question was finished, the corners of Xiao Xia's mouth sank, and she suddenly wanted to cry, but she didn't know why. Mom looked back and saw her face a little uncomfortable, so she slowly walked down the ladder. Mom wiped her hands, sat next to Xiao Xia, and put her hand around Xiao Xia's shoulder.

Xiao Xia, Mom knows that you want to go back to the original familiar environment, and you want Grandma and Dad. Don't worry, after we finish eating the cake, Mom will take you to see them. The things you used to like, the familiar environment and people, will always be yours. And now, you are embarking on an adventure with your mother, we are going to see more new things, to find more people and things you like, to experience more different feelings. If you need these, your mother will accompany you, and if you need your father, your mother will also take you to him. It's going to be a lot of fun. As she spoke, her mother hugged Xiao Xia's shoulders and took Xiao Xia into her arms.

No, I want grandma, I want dad. Natsu began to cry.

Mom hugged Xiao Xia, okay, let's go to grandma and dad after eating the cake. You drink the flower tea, Mom finishes cleaning up the lattice cabinet, and we eat the cake right away.

Natsu wants to see what the lattice cabinet looks like when it's full of toys and what the Snow White cake her mother bought looks like. He cried and nodded.

Mom hugged Xiao Xia for a while, got up and went back to the ladder, and put the toys into the lattice cabinet little by little. Before putting one out, she turned around and asked Xiao Xia, can this little dinosaur live next door to the elephant? It was Natsu who had to nod before her mother put the toy in.

It's all set up in no time. In the sun, a whole wall is as colorful as a rainbow, and all kinds of toys are located in their own small grids, Xiao Xia looks at his territory and feels much better. The gardenia tea has been drunk before you know it.

Mom put away the ladder, washed her hands, and returned to Natsu. Mom grabbed Natsu's shoulders. Let's eat cake or not. Xiao Xia nodded. The sun was even more intense than it had just been. The dining room table was so bright that I couldn't see where the table was, and the whole room seemed to be on a cloud, completely illuminated by the sun. Mom went into the kitchen, opened the refrigerator, and brought out a cake half a person tall from inside, and Mom's chin was covered by the top of the cake. Xiao Xia happily ran down from the sofa and came to the dining table.

The dining table leaned against a window, the window shone like a lamp, and Natsu stood on tiptoe and leaned on the edge of the table as she looked at the big tall cake, which had five layers, and on top there was a beautiful little princess, who danced in circles. Xiao Xia felt that the air was full of sweet cream.

Does Natsu want to sit in her own chair today, or sit in an adult's chair? Mom asked with a smile.

Chair for adults.

Okay, Xiao Xia has grown up, so can you sit here and your mother sit across from you?

Natsu walked across the table and sat down on the adult's chair, holding the table with her hands and tilting her head over to go around the cake to see her mother on the other side. Mom tilted her head too, and the two of them laughed through the big cake.

Xiao Xia, after eating the cake, let's go to Dad and Grandma, okay?

Well, let's go to them in a hot air balloon, shall we? Xiao Xia said.

As soon as the words fell, outside the window, in the bright white sunlight, several colorful balloons suddenly appeared from under the window, floated to the top of the window, and flew into the distant sky. Xiao Xia's attention was immediately attracted, and look, there are a lot of balloons.

Yes, Mom smiled and said that in a while we would take a hot air balloon ride to find Dad and Grandma. Mother said as she put three candles on top of the cake, next to the little princess.

Let's light a candle and close our eyes and make a wish, shall we?

Xiao Xia nodded. She closed her eyes, her mother closed her eyes too, and both of them made a wish in their hearts.

When she opened her eyes, Xiao Xia already had a triangular rainbow-colored cake in front of her, and the dancing little princess was still placed next to the cake.

Natsu found that the window was crowded with colorful balloons, and her mother changed into a skirt and stood on the edge of the table, her hair falling down, and gently holding the back of Natsu's chair with her hand. The whole house is colorful.

Xiao Xia felt a breeze blowing in from the window, as if it was a little salty, which made her feel very cool. She took a bite of the cake, the aroma of the cream washing through her breath.

Mom, I want to bring cake to my dad and grandma.

All right. Let's take the cake to the hot air balloon.

Mom closed the kitchen door, opened the window, and pulled all the colored balloons into the house until the whole roof was covered with colorful balloons. Mom went back to the cabinet full of toys and pulled a handle from the side of the cabinet. She pulled the cabinet with ease and surrounded the dining table with a lattice cabinet. Now it's a lot smaller. The dining room has two walls, one window, one lattice cabinet, a dining table in the middle, and the roof is full of colorful balloons.

Mom pulled the balloon string in the middle of the roof. With a bang, the space enclosed by the lattice cabinet completely broke away from the house, off the ground, and floated into the sky. Xiao Xia looked out the window, the buildings next to her had become shorter, and from a distance, she seemed to be able to see the sea.

Natsu, let's take the cake and go to Daddy and Grandma. Mom said with a smile.

Xiao Xia took her mother's hand, closed her eyes happily, took a deep breath, and thought that today with a cake, sitting in a hot air balloon-like house, to find her father and grandmother, this plan is really good.

Xiao Xia, Mom is now walking alone on the brick road with dazzling sunlight, thinking about what the day you were born was today, a few years ago. And two days have passed today, which is the wedding anniversary that Mom and Dad have cut off. A year before you were born, Mom and Dad said to each other on that day that they would be together for the rest of their lives.

You see, sometimes life is like this, we can't control what will happen in the future. There are so many unknowns, it's like running in the dark, one foot deep and one foot shallow, you can't see clearly and can't predict it, you can only run forward.

But that's also the beauty of life. I think no matter how sad and helpless a person is, at the moment of death, he should feel that the twists and turns of these experiences are precious.

So Xiao Xia, mom can't be with you forever like in the story, and she can't do whatever she wants at any time. But my mother thought, maybe this is how life is, unsatisfactory, but it will bring a lot of thoughts and fantasies. These mental illusions, these undesirable situations, may be as valuable as another real situation.

Xiaoxia, mom thinks about you all the time, mom loves you, mom wishes you a happy birthday.