All About Your Child

My boys enjoyed the extra time they spent with their cousins, even though their “new playground” is = the Wake.

The kids loved their many ‘first time experiences’ over the past 5 days as everyone else mourned over the sudden death of Allan’s Auntie:

1. First time being so near to a coffin.
2. First time seeing a corpse.
3. First time involved in a Wake.
4. First time going through the chanting proceedings and activities
5. First time having fun at a nearby playground for as long as they want.
6. First time having a ten cent coin everyday, which was meant to be spent at the end of the day.
7. First time having a red string tied around their finger everyday, which was meant to be thrown away at the end of the day.
8. First time snacking so much that no one bothered to stop them.
9. First time holding a joss stick for so long, their fingers turned pink!
10. First time walking in a public area with just socks.
11. First time using a portable metallic toilet, which they had problem flushing.
12. First time circling and bowing so many times to a corpse, they thought they were going to do it forever.
13. First time (Keatkeat) could not resist dancing to the beat of the chanting and ended up chanting it himself. *faint*

Yes, funeral was all good fun for the kids but extremely tiring for the adults….

Today is the first time my boys experience the real deal. They had an understanding about death when they were 4 and 2 years old: Read Post here

Allan’s mother’s brother’s wife passed away this morning. She was already in the Intensive Care Unit on the eve on Chinese New Year. Respiratory difficulty.

The family is handling the wake details as I am typing this post now. We will be off to meet them once everything is done.

A time to celebrate has became a time to mourn…. *sigh*