The Time Family Graduation Series Part 2✨ March 13th, where my eldest daughter at vocational school connected me to various people💓

Good morning☁️ It's Time😊 I returned home last night😆 I gave my second son a Quaxly smartphone ring from Pokémon as a souvenir, and he was genuinely happy🤣 I was also very satisfied to be able to buy Kama-ei fish cakes😁 Today's question is

What is the original landscape that is still clearly etched in your mind?

When I was about 3 years old, I went shopping with my mother and younger brother. My brother was on the back of my mother's bicycle, and I was running while clutching the Licca-chan gum I had been bought. The sunset at that time was incredible😳 Even though it's been over 40 years, I remember it clearly🌇 This is definitely the original landscape in my memory.

The Time family is having a triple graduation this year🌸 Yesterday was the second part, and I went to my eldest daughter's vocational school graduation ceremony😆

When my eldest son graduated on March 2nd, there weren't even 50 graduates, but since my eldest daughter's was a joint graduation ceremony for six affiliated vocational schools, there were over 400 graduates😳 80% of the girls were wearing hakama, so if you didn't know, it felt like a Coming of Age ceremony.

The graduation ceremony itself was simple. Just as my eldest daughter said, 'We just stand up and sit down, so there's no emotion at all,' the school representative received the certificate, excellent students were awarded, and for her, who has no connection to such things, her turn was really just standing up and sitting down🤣

However, there are things that were made possible thanks to this graduation ceremony.

I reunited with my aunt, who turns 80 this year, for the first time in two years.

It was the first time I had seen her since the entrance ceremony, when my eldest daughter was boarding with her. She had become quite small and her walking seemed unsteady, but we went to eat yakiniku together and she had 3 mugs of beer🍻 Even after we got home, she opened three 500ml cans of beer😅 I was surprised that she could drink so much even at nearly 80! And the biggest thing was

Talking to my ex-husband in person for the first time in 5 years🗣️

He said he would drive us to the graduation venue, so my eldest daughter and I got into the car. First of all, that in itself was a long time, and something I never would have imagined until now💦

I thought his stubborn attitude had softened since I broke my bone last December, but I never imagined we would be in the same car and talking😳

He called me by my name without any honorifics. My current partner always adds '-chan' to 'Time-chan,' so it's been a while since I've been called by my name without one. And I also thought that I don't like being called that now😫 lol

He was trying to assert dominance at key points, and when we talked about my eldest son's driver's license, he made a very reluctant face saying, 'Huh? Can he get it?'😅 But strangely, I didn't feel angry.

If we could have talked like this when we were married, maybe something would have been different🤔

Since we divorced, he only emailed me about necessary things, and of course meeting up was out of the question, but I was very happy to be able to talk even a little bit on the big stage of my eldest daughter's graduation ceremony💓

I fell asleep during the graduation ceremony Time😴 But I was able to meet my aunt, talk a lot, and have a good time, and above all, being able to talk to my ex-husband for the first time in 5 years was something that wouldn't have happened if there hadn't been a ceremony, so now I'm just grateful to my eldest daughter🙏

Novel bright-Awesome Life
【Official Music Video】

Literally translated, it means 'Wonderful Life✨' It's a perfect title for a bright new beginning😆

There are times when I realize that my ex-husband and I are living on completely different timelines. This time, I went away for one night to attend the graduation ceremony, leaving my eldest and second sons at home. When the topic came up, he asked, "Are the eldest and second sons being looked after at the Time family home?"

As I replied that they were staying home by themselves, I realized that in his mind, they are still the first-year middle schooler and fourth-year elementary schooler they were when we divorced five years ago. After all, they are already 18 and 15. They have school, and they are at an age where they can manage on their own without being left at my parents' house.

I suppose getting a divorce also means you can no longer share the process of your children growing up.🤔

That was what I was thinking about on Wednesday morning. And this weekend is the grand finale for the Time family: my second son's graduation ceremony✨ Today, I'll take it easy, relax, and treat myself well.💓