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CHAPTER 15 Thanksgiving

After cooking Rehan mas mature, and all are neatly arranged on the dining table.

There is fried rice complete with sausages, eggs, and vegetables, and there is warm sweet tea, also not to forget crackers.

We started eating together, Rehan started bribing me. At first I hesitated to open my mouth, but I had to appreciate the effort.

It tastes good, a little salty but indeed Rehan mas likes savory salty dishes, whereas I prefer spicy sweet.

Although different tastes, I adjust my tongue with the tongue of Rehan mas, because if the cooking is made according to his taste, he will eat a lot and I feel proud because I can make my husband satisfied with my cooking.

Not feeling my gestational age is now 4 months old, we plan to hold a simple thanksgiving.

"Sir, what day is it?" Rehan

"What day is it?"

"That's a loh, your 4th monthly show, baby." Rehan

"Oh, 2 more days mas, is that not so the word mamah, not all handled equally mama, we want the show here not in my village mas."

"Emm. yes, later Mas tanya again to mamah, Mas left first, assalamu'alaikum" Rehan

"Wa'alaikumsalam mas."

I was so happy to get through my first trimester of pregnancy, now my stomach has begun to grow, sometimes I feel subtle movements from within, although faint I feel but I am happy, she said, I don't know if it's real my fetal movements or my excessive feelings.

I gave thanks at my in-laws' house, who were invited by the neighbors around here, the money used was Rehan's cash from his salary. My mother-in-law will manage it, cook it and organize it all.

I am grateful to have good in-laws, and not a calculation of money or energy. I don't know why I always feel like there's a distance between me and him.

Maybe I am so quiet that I just talk as necessary, making it difficult to socialize with neighbors, even my mother-in-law.

"Mom.2 more days I want to give thanks mom."

"Yes, hopefully smoothly, you're healthy until the birth later, forgive me for not being able to come, I don't have money for Mel's round-trip fare, besides your sister also has to go to school." My mother

"Yes, aamiin, it's okay ma'am. Sorry Mel also can not give more money to mother."

"Nothing son, hearing you there is fine and just enough mom is happy, I don't want to ask for money from you, because mom is also not able to give a lot of things to you just yet, forgive mom yes. Good luck with the show, assalamu'alaikum." My mom

"Aamiin, thank you ma'am. Wa'alaikumsalam."

Every time I have a chat or video call with my mother, it always ends in tears that I can't stop.

After I migrate, I will only meet my family in B city when Lebaran arrives.

Because I also do not have more money to go home and bring various souvenirs.

People say, if a daughter is married, then she will be the right of her husband.

But if a boy is married, then he is still the right of his mother.

After I got married, I felt like I was far away from my mother.

Thanksgiving was finally done, held at my in-laws' house. Mas Rehan even took time off work, Rehan was so busy preparing everything, taking cake orders, even joining me in wrapping rice boxes for later distribution.

We didn't order ready-made meals, we and our family cooked at home before school, even uncles and aunts helped out, events like this can sometimes gather one large family that was busy and difficult to meet.

Thank God everything went well. I should start saving for the labor costs later.

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The account of the walimatul haml can be seen in the hadith of Muhammad Ismail al-Bukhari in Sahih al-Bukhari (Beirut: Dar al-Fikr, 1422), juz IV, p. 111, hadith number 3208 follows:

“Verily every one of you gathered his creation in the belly of his mother forty days in the form of a nutfah, 

Then it becomes a lump of blood, (forty days later), and then a lump of flesh for as long as it does (40 days later). 

Then the angel sent to him, and breathed a spirit upon him and was commanded to write down four things; the provisions of his fortune, the provisions of his death, the provisions of his charity, and the provisions of his wretchedness or happiness .

In this 4th month, Allah SWT sent an angel to blow the soul into the fetus contained in the mother's womb.

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When I helped clean the living room that had been used for recitation, I accidentally fell because I tripped on a carpet that was partially lifted, My stomach was cramping.

 "Sir... deck , are you okay?" Rehan

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