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The Gift for Mom on Mother’s Day
Natisha lived at Burrow street with
her mother and Nindy, her young sister. Her father had died three years ago, so
her mother worked as a seamstress. Nindy was a student in high school, and
therefore Natisha worked as a waitress at a restaurant to help his mother to
pay for Nindy’s school fees.
One day Natisha’s mother was sitting
and massaging her feet in front of her manual sewing machine. Suddenly Natisha
came to her mother, then she massaged her mother’s feet and said, “The manual
sewing machine make your feet sore, isn’t it?”
“No, I’m just a little tired,” her
mother said.
“Don’t lie to me, Mom,” Natisha said,
“I promise that I’ll buy an electric sewing machine for you, Mom.”
“You don’t need to do it, dear,” her
mother said, “It will be better if you use your money to meet your necessities
and Nindy’s necessities.”
Natisha smiled and nodded, but she
promised in her heart that she would buy electric sewing machine for her
mother. She hoped that she can buy it and give it as a gift for her mother on
Mother’s Day on December 22nd.
Natisha went into her room, she saw
the calendar and counted the days. She only had time for two months to raise
money, but her money still half the price of an electric sewing machine. She
looked up in prayer, “Oh God, I hope that I can buy an electric sewing machine
for my mother, give me ease, please. Amen.”
Natisha worked hard to raise the
money, she got a new job as a cashier in a minimarket at night. So she worked
as a waitress in the morning until noon and worked as a cashier in the night.
Time passed, two days before Mother’s
Day, Natisha counted her money that she got from her hard work, but her money
was still not enough. Suddenly Nindy gave Natisha a little money, she smiled
and said, “It’s money to increase your money to buy an electric sewing machine.
Is it enough?”
Natisha took the money and counted
it. She then said, “Yes, this is more than enough, but where did you get this
money?”
“I saved a little money in my pocket
and worked as a typist in a small office when I got home from school,” Nindy
said.
“Oh, my dear,” Natisha said, “You
shouldn’t do it. Your job is to learn not to work.”
“I also want to make our mother
happy, after all, I only worked there for a month.”
The next day, Natisha and Nindy went
to the sewing machine store and bought an electric sewing machine. Natisha told
to the seller to deliver it to the house of Natisha’s mother tomorrow.
Mother’s Day arrived, when Natisha,
Nindy, and their mother was eating their breakfast, someone knocked on the door
of their home. Natisha and Nindy pretended that they didn’t hear it, so their
mother moved from his seat and went to open the door. When the door was opened
by their mother, there was someone who drove an electric sewing machine at
door.
“Excuse me, is this house of Mrs.
Natisha’s mother?” he said, “Mrs. Natisha said, ‘Please give my mother this
electric sewing machine on Mother’s Day at Burrow street,’ when she bought it
with her young sister yesterday.”
Suddenly Natisha and Nindy came to
their mother and hugged her.
“Happy Mother’s
Day, Mom!” said Nindy.
“We wish you
always be happy, Mom!” said Natisha.
Their mother smiled and said, “Thanks my dears, I’m
grateful to have you all.”
