The Dress

I arrived a few days before Forest's "Bridge Ceremony" in school.  It was the main reason I went home.  I wouldn't miss it for the world.  It's a very important milestone not just for us for the entire family:  our little one is transitioning from kindergarten to grade school.

The first thing we did when I arrived then was to go and buy her dress. We actually ended up buying her "very interesting" shoes first but that's another story.  

So anyway, we bought the dress (and the shoes) and everything else and then went home.  There were a lot of dresses to choose from.  It should be white so the choices we had were from really simple ones to lacy, glittery frivolous one.  We opted for the former.  It was an eyelet number that comes with a tiny, white leather belt.  It was simple but expensive just the same.  So when we got home, I jokingly said, "I never had a dress this expensive when I was 6 years old!"  Then Forest's quick reply, "Kay wala man kuwarta imong Mama!" That made us all laugh including Mama.  It's more of how quickly she made the deduction and not the interpretation really.

When I sobered up, i realised I had to correct her. I told her Lola had a lot of money then but she chose to spend it wisely.  I told her, most of Lola's money went to Nanay's school.  Indeed.  Thank you, Ma!