Patience of My Husband

Study again

After breakfast I helped mbok Imah clean the tableware and also the food on the dining table. While papa, mama, and Arka after breakfast they went to the backyard to talk.

"Non, let's just fix it. Don't just sit there, let's not get tired"

Mbok Imah took the dirty plate that was in my hand. But I quickly pulled my hand so she wouldn't take it.

"Nothing mbok, just gini doang can not be tired. The one who was washing the dishes. Let me take care of the dinner table" I said.

"But non..."

"Mbok, don't argue, even though I'm not living here, continue now mbok don't consider me as a master anymore"

My eyes glared a little so that she would be afraid and let me help her.

"Ma-sorry non. I-iya please do not clean up let mbok nyuci "

"Well that's dong" a smile was created on my lips.

Maybe mbok Imah thinks I'm gonna have trouble doing this homework. Considering I used to be a girl who didn't understand homework at all, all I knew was clubing and hangouts.

But ever since I started accepting Arka, I slowly began to learn to do the work that a wife should be doing.

At first it was difficult but slowly I was able to do it, especially at the beginning of the marriage there was a mother-in-law who was very patient and understood my circumstances.

"Bok, where will this be stored?"

I asked while showing the rest of the sambal and also tempe bacem.

"This is non, let mbok save"

Mbok Imah who was washing dishes immediately rinsed his hands and rubbed on the apron he was wearing. Then take the plate in my hand.

"Don't throw it away" I said.

"No, let me eat"

Mbok Imah put the leftovers into a special shelf of food storage.

"Mbok" I approached Mbok Imah who was closing the food rack.

"Yes non"

"This makes mbok yes, do not refuse, do not ask much. Just take it."

I slipped five hundred thousand into the hand of the wrinkled Mbok Imah. Mbok Imah opened his palm, and like he wanted to reveal something. But he locked it up.

As I asked, mbok Imah did not ask nor did she refuse. His old eyes looked at me wryly, and his old eyes began to condense.

"Non, thank you so much, non. May non-rejection, may non-given good health and also given a happy life. Aamiin's"

Sincere prayers were said from the lips of mbok Imah, the housekeeper who took care of me since childhood. I really loved him, because he was my place to complain, a place to complain.

"Yes, I'm staying first. Join papa mama"

I also left Mbok Imah who was still standing in the kitchen. She wiped the rest of her tears using the sleeves of the clothes she was wearing.

***

"Darling, you came home late in the afternoon?" Mama said.

"Why ma?" Much

"Mama wants to take you to a complex study, it's two o'clock"

Mama looked at me expectantly.

"Truly studying?" Ask me again

"Arisan again. Udah deh ma, do not need to join the ranks, mending follow positive activities only"

I also showed my frustration to my mother.

"Darling with mom first. This is different from other arisan. So every study on Sunday, there is a charity that pays only fifty thousand, there is also a kind of funeral money. Pay five thousand. Later every study is shaken, the next study at the member's house whose name matches the results of the shuffle. And for this rally, the money can be made to use buy consumption right. that's the loh "

Mama explained at length. I still have doubts about my mother's explanation. There was a price that paid only fifty thousand. While in this complex includes people who make money.

"If the study is usually like that baby, so you should not be surprised. Tomorrow, if you are already in our environmental studies. You'll know for yourself. Or let you know, you can join the study mama. So the lecture arisan is different from the sequence as you know"

Arka commented. Well I'll go with mama, I'll prove that what I think is not right at all.

"Who's home study?"

Papa who daritadi just silently listened finally opened his voice.

"In the house of Bu Risma, whose house is in block C. All her seven-monthly event, her son is very pregnant pa. He said his future grandchildren were twins. Wah seneng yes once brojol directly double"

Mama also felt happy when telling about the pregnancy of twins. That's true what Mom said. Once brojol, can his directly double.

I rubbed my stomach gently. 'Healthy hold my dear, well in my inner mama's belly.

"Okay ma, I'll come. All you want to know what pregnant twins Segede".

"Please baby, but before we go we buy a gift first"

"Who's gift to you?" Much

"Make her son Miss Risma."

***

"Assalamualaikum" Mama and I said hello together.

"Waalaikumsalam, Eh Bu Hendra has arrived. Let's go in, ma'am"

The owner of the house named Bu Risma looks very friendly to welcome our arrival.

Inside there were already some mothers who had come first, they smiled kindly when they saw our arrival.

"Here Mom, let's have a chat" One of them called to sit next to her.

There's nothing conspicuous here, sitting on a carpeted floor, some fruit and pastries.

"Yes Ma'am, just a moment" Mama approached Ms. Risma to give her a gift she had bought before coming here.

"Mr Risma, please accept this. Make a child Miss Risma" said Mama.

"Mom Hendra, why bring all the souvenirs? "

"Nothing"

Then Mama took her to sit on the carpet.

In a short time other mothers came. And before the show started to look like a young woman, maybe her age was still below mine. Walk very carefully. He sat in the chair that was provided. We smile at each other when our eyes look at each other.

His stomach looks very big, but mama said he had just set foot seven months. What may be because it contains twins, so the size of the stomach is larger in pregnancy in general.

The school event soon began. It begins with the recitation of prayers and the short surah of the Quran. Everyone followed closely as well as me.

After the prayer recitation, it continues with the practice of bathing the corpse. There is a human-shaped mannequin that will be used for the practice of bathing the corpse.

It turns out that it is true, by attending studies like this will get new knowledge that has never been obtained before. So more eager to follow the study again.