BLESSINGS OF LOVE
After Oma leaves

After Oma left for good, Opa Jonas also plans to return to Manado.

Seven days after Oma died, the family gathered to pray together, praying for Oma to have a proper place on the side of the Almighty.

After praying, each one told each other about the impression and beautiful experience when with Oma Elisabeth.

Opa Jonas recounted their childhood in Manado first, at that time Oma Elisabeth always took care of herself even always put her sister first if she had good food.

Then Papih Hansen also told me that Oma Elisabeth used to be very supportive of Opa Henry in building a furniture business in Jakarta.

Starting from zero, starting from eating only a plate of rice divided by three for Opa Henry, Oma Elisabeth and Papih Hansen who was then a child.

Oma Elisabeth was a strong woman, never complaining despite being brought to life by Opa Henry when he moved to Jakarta, until finally it could be successful as it is now.

Papih Hansen only just continue the business that has been pioneered by Opa Henry and Oma Elisabeth.

For Mamih Regina also the figure of Oma Elisabeth is a very good in-law and very wise.

Never once did Oma scold her daughter-in-law, even Mamih Regina who was not at all good at cooking until finally adept at cooking Manado cuisine is because of the patience of Oma Elisabeth when she used to teach her cooking.

Robert and Rosalinda's turn, because Robert is not good at talking, the wife is talking.

"If we really feel all this time we've been happy enough Oma. Moreover, Bang Robert, all this time medicine and others all from whom".

"We both come to Oma's house to bring Oma's cake or delicious food, so we are not too sorry about Oma's departure because we have given our best for Oma all this time".

Robert and Rosalinda smiled at each other, both of them proud because they had treated Oma very special according to their versions.

But all the people in the room were silent and no one praised or commented on them.

Mario looked at Soraya, because now it was their turn to convey a beautiful impression with Oma.

"We both do not need to talk much, because everyone must also know that we are united in addition to the will of God, also because of the intervention of Oma so that we can both be happy to this day," mario said very calmly.

"We did not give much to Oma, because we also still have a lot of needs. But the two of us could only pay attention and prayers to Oma all this time".

"And most importantly we both have realized Oma's desire and we have promised to love each other even though Oma is no longer with us. Whatever people say about us, but we will keep that promise," Soraya looked at her husband's face with great sadness.

It was amazing that Mario said so calmly and steadily, so that everyone in the room looked at him.

"Good Mario, of course Papih also Mamih very happy to hear what you just said. Show that you will truly hold fast to the message of Oma" Papih Hansen gave

attention to what Mario just said.

Because as long as the Maliangkay family, especially Robert and Rosalinda always feel doubt to Mario, and always assume that when Oma is uncertain Soraya will also be crushed.

Then the last one was Jimmy's turn, when Mamih Regina called his name it turned out Jimmy was soundly sleeping on the carpet.

Indeed, from that moment Jimmy took a position lying on the carpet and finally fell asleep with pleasure.

"Already Regina, you don't have to wake him up. You better take Opa now to the airport, because Opa has also been awaited by your relatives in Manado there," Opa Jonas told Papih Hansen and Mamih Regina.

Robert and Rosalinda also came home, as did Mario and Soraya. Meanwhile, Papih Hansen and Mamih Regina immediately deliver Opa Jonas to the airport.

Jimmy slept well because last night he was up late completing the task of drawing the building plan.

Understandably he majored in Architecture at one of the famous campuses, of course many tasks that he had to complete.

Almost two hours he slept well and when he opened his eyes, it turned out that the family room was empty.

"Bik...Where the hell is it? it was a prayer for Oma" asked Jimmy while still sleepy.

"Den Jimmy is weird, everybody's praying and sleeping. Now Mamih and Papih are going to take Opa Jonas to the airport. Then Bang Robert and Bang Mario went home, respectively," said Bik Tati at the time was washing the fruits he had just bought.

"That means I slept a long time too yeah, Bik?".

"Yes dong, there are two hours anyway.Bibik people had time to shop this fruit to the fruit stalls in the back village. When I got back, Den Jimmy was still slitting on the carpet".

"HOOAAAMMM.gitu well, make instant dong noodles with eggs, hungry Bik," pinta Jimmy while yawning because he was still sleepy.

"OK..mie instant one pack or two packs?" ask Bik Tati.

"Two well Bik..makasih yah.. later deliver to the front sofa well.I want bobo again while waiting for his noodles," said Jimmy who is still spoiled when he is next year will be twenty-one years old.

Bik Tati just assented while shaking his head to see the behavior of his youngest employer, has grown up also still spoiled and sometimes ignorant also nosy.

"Don't I want to talk to you about something, can I?" soraya asked in the afternoon at the rental house they still live in.

"What the hell is it, seriously?"Mario asked back because he felt strange.

"But Bang Rio don't be mad yah".

Mario who was typing something on the laptop, immediately stopped when his wife asked and said like that.

"What's up Aya? whether I'm angry or not, I haven't heard what you're talking about".

Soraya fell silent and sat in front of Mario while looking at her husband's face.

Then Soraya ventured to say slowly while still looking at her husband.

"Yesterday Nania his wife, pastor Yosep, who was also my best friend when I was a child, told me that there was a job vacancy to become an English teacher at the school where he taught, " soraya said while carefully telling her husband.

"Teaching in Junior High, because the English teacher who will now resign because she will join her husband moved out of town".

Mario listened to his wife while staring deeply and asked Soraya.

"You teach, then who is Maya? you used to say you didn't want to use a nanny".

"Hmmm.I've been thinking about that, later every morning I send Maya to the house of mama and noon I take her home again".

"And the school is not far from the house of the mother, so every day can leave Maya in the mother, because teaching at school, home along with students. So that during the day I can go home with Maya," Soraya expressed her argument.

Mario stared intently and said firmly, "You want to teach at the school it's okay, I'm welcome, but....NO..!!!".

Soraya is surprised to hear Mario's answer, but she doesn't dare to refute him.

"Just think about what's best for Maya, a ten-month-old baby is taken away every day. How sick is it?".

"I don't want to know, you're looking for a way to keep Maya home safe. You want to teach anywhere please. Only I don't want our child to be a victim, sick or how because of the trip here and there every day," Mario said as he returned to work facing his laptop.

While Soraya became upset, she wanted the knowledge she mastered to be useful.

The opportunity to teach at a private school given by his best friend, certainly makes him very excited.

Her husband did not forbid, only Mario did not want their baby to be taken to Wongso's mother's house every day.

It also makes sense because from her current residence to Wongso's mother's house takes half an hour.

The school entered at seven in the morning, so Soraya had to leave the house at six in the morning while carrying her baby.

And return home by late afternoon, because there is no way students go home and the teacher also comes home soon. Because there will definitely be test results or tests that must be checked.

In the afternoon Soraya was feeding her son Maya in the front yard of her house, the boy could not walk but could not stand still.

Because the neighbors around who have baby children the age of Maya are always fed while traveling around the housing by sitting her child on a special push wheel. So Mario also bought yesterday a wheel push like that so Soraya could easily feed his son.

"Maya is beautiful, smart child again what is the love?", Tina next door neighbor immediately hunted the fat baby while pinching his cheeks.

Little Maya seems to understand Tina's mother who likes to be called Beautiful Mama, because their child is named Chantika.

"There's a beautiful Mama, let's open her mouth smartly. Love to see the beautiful Mama if your child is smart to eat it," Soraya said as she immediately put a spoonful of baby porridge into her child's mouth.

"Hore...smart....!!!"tina exclaimed while clapping which of course made the baby happy too.

"Soraya, how are you teaching at that school, Mario sir has agreed?" tanya Tina who understands that Soraya's husband is a bit strange.

"By the way it is, only my husband doesn't give me permission if Maya is taken to my mom's house every day. It makes sense the reason is because he is afraid his son is sick because of colds or others" said Soraya lethargic.

Work is complicated but can be done without the need for an annual employment contract. Only a few weeks or a few months work contract while taking care of the household as well.

"Yes, Tina knows for herself that her Papa Maya is difficult to guess. If the wind is good, then anything can be. If the wind is not bad, yes it is definitely only angry and sniffling that comes out of his mouth," complained Soraya while continuing to feed his son.

"Sayer Soraya, there will definitely be a way out. Eh...if the mother who likes to help you clean the house is indeed unable to take care of your baby?" tina asked who remembered that Soraya had a housekeeper who came home during the day after her task was done.

"I've asked, he can't because he came home from my house and then to another house across the street".

"Actually I can also clean the house myself, but my husband insisted to take the services of a housekeeper call so," Soraya said again finishing the remaining porridge one more small spoon into his son's mouth.

"It's nice to see Maya eating, Chantika used to have a hard time eating Maya's time. Fortunately now it has started to eat a bit more," said Tina who was very anxious to see her son Soraya.

"Thankfully my son is fat, if thin like Chantika surely I have been scolded every day by my husband. hahaha.", said Soraya while imagining Maya as thin as Chantika.

"Hahahah.That's a good thing my husband Soni's mas isn't as weird as Mr. Mario. If only his nature was so of course I had run away a long time ago.hahahaha," said Tina as well so they both laughed amusedly with their own claws.

"Are the young mothers laughing well once, again what the hell is discussed? can follow dong," suddenly Mother Sunaryo whose house is right across from Soraya's house came over.

Sunaryo's mother was a retired wife of a soldier, her husband Mr. Sunaryo used to serve in the Navy but now after retirement they only garden while occasionally babysitting his grandchildren.

"This is Oma's granddaughter is smart, the fat one makes me anxious," said Sunaryo's mother when she saw Maya who was laughing when she saw her mother laughing.

"Come ma'am, here sit on the terrace, this is Tina joking from earlier," said Soraya while still laughing amusedly.

Then Soraya, Tina and Ms. Sunaryo told me about housing and also about everyday life.

While occasionally invite Maya to talk because the baby began to fuss if not spoken to.

"If your husband doesn't give you permission to take Maya to your mom's house, he'll leave it with me. My people are the same Mr. Sunaryo at home just alone there is no busyness, so there Maya can make us have a busy life," Mother Sunaryo gave way to Soraya.

"But how well, I'm not feeling good about Sunaryo's mother" Soraya said with a deep sigh.

"Don't hesitate, in the morning you bring Maya to my house. Prepare her clothes and milk and food, do not forget all the baby's needs such as wet tissue, diapers and. Later after the new teaching you take to our house," Ms. Sunaryo confirmed with a big smile.

Soraya still seemed upset that she could not answer anything directly to Mother Sunaryo, seeing that it seemed like Mother Sunaryo understood, maybe Soraya thought about the payment for her.

"Soraya, you don't have to think about how much to pay me, if you have a fortune, you can give me your seikhlas and deservedly. For me with you believe that leaving Maya to me has become a happiness in itself," said Sunaryo's mother when she saw Soraya who still looks upset.

"I have to thank you before, but I will talk to my husband. Because I don't dare to make my own decisions" Soraya said with a smile but still seemed agitated.

Sure enough when the night Soraya conveyed the issue of childcare to her husband, then she was even damprat by Mario.

"You are stupid or what the hell?!!, Sunaryo's mother is old, then you leave our child to them. Where's your brain?!!!"mario looked so annoyed at Soraya.

"Taapppiii...".

"Shut up!!! look...!!! one of the reasons I didn't want Maya to be taken to your mom's house is because she's old. I also don't want Maya tipped off to Mamih. He's our son, and I want us to take care of him".

"You want to teach please, but our son must be kept properly," Mario kicked the table hard, then entered the room and slammed the door very hard.

GABBRRRUUUKKK !!!!

"Youngpam...uwaaaaa....!!!" Maya is heard crying from inside the room.

The boy was sleeping, probably hearing his father shut the door so hard that he woke up in shock.

Soraya immediately rushed into the room, but Mario was hugging his son and petting him to go back to sleep.

Mario's hand signals Soraya to leave the room, because she wants to be alone with the baby.

Soraya slept on the carpet under their bed, as there was no way she could sleep on the bed as Mario's legs extended across the bed.

Midnight as usual Maya will cry because of thirst and her diaper is full so must immediately change diapers and breastfed by Soraya.

Finish changing clothes, changing diapers and breastfed, then little Maya sleeps again. Soraya placed her son slowly beside her husband.

As he was about to sleep on the carpet, Mario said, "Foolish wife, sleep right on top. Your son will cry again if not near his mother".

Soraya stared at her shifting husband giving her room to sleep near their baby.

With a sigh Soraya inched closer to her son and lay between her son and her husband.

Mario is a person who is difficult to guess, even though he speaks spicy but he really cares for his family especially to his son.

Soraya glanced at Mario's back, which seemed to have been breathing regularly, and then glanced at his little baby who was getting bigger and harder when covered with a blanket.

Fucked his child's forehead while stroked his head, sometimes bad thoughts flashed.

If only he had no children, and Oma died yesterday, of course now he has run away from Mario.

But maybe God has other plans, because now there is Natalia Mayana Maliangkay with them.

There's no way she can run away from Mario, because this baby is their child and her husband loves her more than anything.

In the morning Mario as usual brings Maya sunbathing in the front yard of his house.

Mr. Sunaryo and Ms. Sunaryo came to him who was carrying his child.

"Good morning, Mario, we're thrilled to hear Maya finally being pinned to us. During this time we were alone, children and grandchildren came to visit for a long time. If later Maya accompanied the two of us, of course, made us very happy," Mr. Sunaryo poured his joy because he knew that Maya would be entrusted to his wife when Soraya would start teaching.

"Yes right son Mario, yesterday the father to clean our child's cot first. It has not been worn since our eight-year-old granddaughter wore it. But it's still good, because in the past we bought the best quality," Mother Sunaryo was also no less happy she was very happy there would be Maya with them.

Mario of course was silent, because last night he was angry with his wife about child care for the elderly Sunaryo Mother.

But apparently Mario was wrong, Sunaryo's mother included an old mother who was still agile and energetic. So he was very enthusiastic when asking to take care of Maya if Soraya taught.

Sunaryo's mother put her hands up to hold Maya, and the baby who had known her would of course just move from her father's sling to Sunaryo's mother's arms without crying even a little look happy.

Mario can not say anything more than having to smile even though in his heart he still feels unwilling.

The two old men cheerfully brought Maya into their home.

Soraya left the house while carrying a small bowl of soup porridge for her son and water in a small drinking bottle.

"Bang Rio, where's Maya?" soraya asked in shock because her husband was sitting alone not with his son.

Mario got up from the porch chair to the inside and said, "You take care of it well, Maya is at Sunaryo's mother's house. I'm just asking not to let Maya get sick while she's in someone else's hands".

Soraya just kept quiet still feeling confused, then immediately followed Maya to the house of Sunaryo's mother. And it looks like his son was laughing because he was teased by Mr. Sunaryo who turned out to have many toys little children had their grandchildren when they were little first.

Little Maya looks very comfortable because in the house there is one corner of the room with a thick carpet for children.

Many toys for small children that sound and move so that his eyes sparkle happy with the atmosphere of the house of Mr and Mrs Sunaryo.

Eating also became more and more voracious because he was happy with the many toys in the house.

After finishing eating, Maya is taken home first to be bathed. Soraya told Mario about the atmosphere at Mr. Sunaryo's house, while Mario just listened without expression.

After breakfast Mario immediately departs for his office, while Soraya breastfeeds Maya who looks to be getting sleepy.

Maya falls asleep and Soraya contacts Nania saying that she is ready to teach at the school tomorrow.

Nania of course was happy to hear it and had Soraya prepare some documents that should be brought tomorrow when coming to school.

While Maya sleeps, Soraya immediately prepares all the personal documents requested by Nania to be brought tomorrow.

Tonight Soraya also permission to Mario if tomorrow he will soon teach at the private school.

Mario just nods without any comment coming out of his mouth, as the wife actually wants to get support from the husband but another reality.

In the heart can only pray to God, hopefully teaching this will be a good start for his career.

Soraya honestly does not want to be too dependent on her husband, she wants to be independent.

In the deepest heart always tucked feeling that someday Mario might leave him with his son.