Questa è Enida

I let him play his Chop Chop Caveman game on my iPad for one afternoon to compensate for Kitreena’s hogging the computer. It wasn’t his first time, but he knows, and his sister knows that my iPad is not a toy. And Mommy is never that ‘generous’ with the things she works hard for. So, when the time was up — and that is 6pm every Sunday evening when Monchies’ playtime is over — he asked:

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Edrick: Mommy, could you give me your iPad when you die?

Mommy: Huh? *thinks that this could be a do-or-die question*

Edrick: Could you give me your iPad when you die?

Mommy: But I am not gonna die for a looong time yet.

Edrick: But Mommm… I really like your iPad. It’s so cool!

Mommy: Yeah, but by the time I die you’re gonna have a good-paying job and you’ll get something better than iPad.

Edrick: But Mom… *he looks at Mommy in a slightly longer pause than usual*

Mommy: Uhummm?

Edrick: But Mommm, when you die… we have to get rid of all your clothes, right?

Mommy: Nahhh! Don’t just get rid of them. Sell them, Monch. Make some money out of it.

Edrick: Oh, okay!

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I might be sending a not-so-nice message to me Monchies about money and death. But I believe that death is a part of life and the biggest lesson of letting go. Edrick remembers what I did with my Mom’s clothes two years ago. He was with me when KaCher and I sent those boxes to HUKM. He enjoyed sealing the boxes with packing tapes while I was busy sealing the memories with many many kisses.

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To heaven.

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Happy Sixth Birthday to My Six Million Dollar Little Big Man
on November 30, 2011.

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