Aunty Jo has been with us for 2 years, time flies without knowing.
To my two kids, she is their playmate and to me she has been a able helper.
She adores my 2 children and many times protective over them esp my son.
When she came, her luggage was just a small bag but now its two big luggages with multiple sea freight.
In order to cut cost, the recent box that she order for sea freight was much smaller ..... resulting in many stuff bring for the flight.
After packing her bag, i suspect that she will have excess baggage, had a hard time squeezing stuff into the bag.
How did she ended up with so much?? Who else but ME!!
Since i am leaving for Guangzhou, she inherited all my family old clothes, toys etc etc
At the airport, we queue for 1 hour before getting to check in ..... at the counter Aunty Jo has 30 kg excess!!!!
The excess baggage charge was $438!! for 1 international and domestic flight
The figure shocked the daylight out of me!!
At the end of the day, I paid ....
I have no heart to ask her to repack and queue again.
No time to arrange for sea freight ..... sigh
I made fun of her, telling her to pay for my family's airticket if we go and visit her!!
Anyway, I am very proud of her ....
she has really mature coming here from not knowing how to do housework to able to handle housework and my 2 active kids!!
I kept telling her, must grow up already!!
All of us were teary upon farewell
Deep inside me, i know Jo has learnt to "fish" through these 2 years
Now that she is leaving home, she has a fair amount of savings, bought a laptop, a nursing aide certification and tons of skills on homemanagement
Just realised, with teary farewell we had forgotten to take photo!!
Thank you Aunty Jo,
All the best will miss you
Now its time for me to stand on my own ... Jia you!!