Caroleen’s Treasures

Tomorrow’s laundry day and my ritual begins with soaking it overnight. So tonight I have segregated all the laundry in different tubs but I wasn’t happy because there’s only two baskets full of laundry. I am not used to washing small loads and this won’t make the clothes line so colorful. But anyway, Donald is the one who will be smiling because he won’t spend hours hanging clothes.

I also rearranged the living-dining room. Since we moved here without any furnitures, the only furniture we had is Ella’s study table plus the long and tall table that as here before we moved in. We used it as our dining table. A week ago, we moved inside the small table from the shade in the backyard and put it on the corner as Donald and my table and I put two plastic book shelves on the side of the wall. So we just imagine our house with three tables and no chairs at all. Ella has a wooden chair that goes with her study table and we got plastic ones that we borrow from the chapel and carry it back before the worship service on Sundays.

Since Ella was not allowed to go to the neighbor’s house except to her Lolo Iting and Lola Sinta’s house which is just beside our house, whenever she saw a kid passing by the house she will call whoever it was. One time a girl was with her when we asked her to buy something at the store. I have not seen this girl before. Ella introduced me to her saying, “Mommy, this is Joy-Joy. Joy, this is my Mommy Carol.” I was doing the dishes that time and overheard their conversation.

Ella: When were you born?
Joy: I don’t know.
Ella: What!!!! You are not born? You are just found and picked from the garbage?

I was about to faint.