Lebaran Angpaw

Lebaran had always been a wonderful moment for me since I was a kid. So many kinds of food, so many family and relatives to be visited, and so many angpaw (money as a gift) that would be received. At lebaran day all of my big family gathered in my granny’s house. Mom and my aunt cooked so many kinds of food. We shoke hand and forgive everyone’s fault. As a kid, I and my cousins got the angpaw from the adults. Such tradition is still exist now. In every lebaran day my children got the angpaw from their grannies, uncles and aunties. I said to my children use the money efficiently or save it in the bank. Sometimes they shopped toys, shoes or books with the angpaw. The rest of the angpaw was saved in the bank. I showed to Lia and Akbar that I had used the angpaw to add their saving at the bank. As a kindergarten kid Salman didn’t know this yet. When his granny visited us and asked him what the angpaw for, he replied, ‘ I bought two small power ranger robots and mommy kept the rest of the angpaw. She used it all to buy the rice, vegetables and tofu. So would you please give me another angpaw, granny, I want to buy new robot…’. My mother in law looked at me and smiled widely. I was very ashamed but speechless…….