When you think they don't even notice you, you're wrong!!!!

Athir's friend, daniella, main kerumah sore ini. Pas ngobrol2 sama emaknya daniella (namanya arnita), arnita bilang "the children will be super exciting when they go to the farm next week". Gw kaget karena kok athir ga kasi tau.

Setelah danielle pulang, gw tanya athir

"So, you're going to the farm next week ya? That's really cool!" But his respond was far away from my expectation.

"I don't want to join the trip, bubun"

"Why?"

"I don't like the farm"

"Really??? But u did enjoy at the peak district farm. Do u remember? We went to a farm before. And you're crazy about it" trus athir diem agak sedih.

"Yeah...but my teacher said that we need 7 money (maksudnya 7£ kali ya) to pay for the trip. That's banyak, bubun. Look! Dua tangan" sambil nunjukin 7 jari.

"So?!?"


"But we have to save the money to pay my school at pamulang. We don't have that much money because the school at pamulang is really2 much (maksudnya mungkin expensive, ya)"

And it hit me! Seminggu ini gw wanti2 athir bahwa di pamulang we're not gonna buy toy very often like we do here, and we're going to go on vacation as often as we do it here. Karena di pamulang kami harus bayar sekolah. Disini we can do vacation dan beli toys karena sekolah gratis. Jadi uang sekolahnya bisa buat jalan2 & beli mainan. Dan seminggu ini i spent my time whining around about how expensive uang sekolah anak2 dan worry bahwa gw pulang ga dapet kerja, ga bs punya cukup uang untuk sekolah anak2, bahwa gw harus kerja (athir beg me not to go to work, but we're have another story about that).

"Well, if we don't buy even a toy for this 2 weeks and you help me tidying your toys, probably we can save enough money for your trip"

Muka athir langsung penuh harap gitu.

"How about this: everday you do the tidy up, i'm going to give you a pound per day so you can save them for your trip money"

"Okay bubun!" Trus langsung pergi ke living room, tidying up the mess yang tadi dia bikin bareng daniella. Trus gw kasi uang 1£.


"Thank you bubun! Nanti i'm gonna tidy up again abis main knex ya!" Sambil ambil uang, dipegangin.

"Where you gonna put your money sampai nanti uangnya 7 thir?"

"In here" masukin uangnya ke saku celana.

"Lho...nanti klo athir playing, the money drop from your pocket gimana?"

"Then where should i put this bubun"

"Let's find somewhere upstairs"
Trus kami ke kamar tidur untuk cari tempat uang si athir. Sepanjang jalan dari dapur ke kamar, selama ditangga, uangnya diliatin terus. Hahahha

Sampai dikamar athir nyari2 tempat yang cocok untuk uangnya. Akhirya dia decided to put the money inside the christmas stocking he made the other day at school.

Trus kita decided to hang the stocking di kamar ayah so abe wouldn't be able to ruin it! Hahaha

Abis gw hang stockingnya, athir peluk gue sambil
Bilang "thank you bubun. I really want to see the big horse yang kayak kita liat waktu dulu di farm. I love farm. I hope we still have money for me to school at pamulang" trus dia main kebawah sama abe. Tersisa lah gw diatas bengong mau nangis campur malu. Ternyata selama ini anak 4th ini memperhatikan keluhan gue!!!! Dan dia sudah samgat bersyukur bahwa gw yg ga punya uang ini rela nabung unyul sekolah dia!!!!!





Yang lebih mengharukan lagi waktu athir lagi main, gw ikutan bantuin main knex, athir bilang:


"Look bubun, mainan ahir banyak banget ya. I don't want anymore toys. We keep the money for school at pamulang"




Kemudian gw memutuskan untuk menaruh cerita ini di blog gw. This scrap if story is too precious to let go.


My baby boy.... I love you!!! Alhamdulillah, i raised you well....masya allah :)