New Siblings and Other Things

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Last night, Nazzim told me that his current best friend just had a new baby sister. The eleventh child in the family as of now. Then he dropped the bombshell.

“Why did you and Mama only have me and Adik? You don’t want many children?”

Now, how do you answer a question like that?

“Well, we do want more children but none were forthcoming after Adik.”

That was the best and most frequent answer both Lina and I offered was that our rezeki was just to have the two of them.

“But then if Mama and Papa have more children, we’d have to get an MPV, don’t we? You’d like that, don’t you?” He just smiled. We are thinking of getting a better car for Lina and both Sofia and Nazzim wants us to get an MPV.

“No, we are not getting an MPV. There are only two of you now and even with a car you get a window each. But yet you managed to find fault with each other wherever we go. So, no MPV.”

“Well, I’d like to have someone like Sarah around,” he’d say. Sarah is his two year-old cousin. Both Nazzim and Sofia loves having her around.

“And then you’d have a reason to buy an MPV”, one of them would pipe in.

Yeah, right, three children is not enough of a reason to buy an MPV, I thought. We don’t need an MPV. Three children would be nice, four would be fantastic and maybe five would be the outer limit but definitely not a soccer team. Then we’d need two MPV’s.

OK, we’ll get to see Sarah this weekend when we go to Mama Wan’s house. Not a bad deal. No younger brother, no younger sister, no MPV but we get to see Sarah. Not a bad deal.

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