Family meal

Holding the decision to terminate the contract because the company went bankrupt, she felt like crying. So from now on, she became a time billionaire, she consoled herself: “I will stay at home and do housework to help my husband and children, as compensation for the time I spent working. I will not be unemployed, it will not affect my family, I will let the maid quit her job, I will spend time taking care of my husband and children, family meals will be better…”.

She just wanted to get home quickly to see her husband and children to ease her sobbing mood. However, when she got home, she waited until 8 pm to see her husband and children appear. Suddenly feeling hot inside, she shouted: "What are you and dad doing that you are only coming home at this hour?". Both father and son looked at her in surprise and then he said: "You come home at this time every day, because you always come home last, you don't eat family meals so you don't know."

She felt embarrassed and remembered that for a long time she had not cared about her husband and children's coming and going times, and had not participated in family meals, simply because she was always the last one home every day.

The next morning, she got up early and went to the kitchen to cook breakfast for the whole family.

- I love it! Having a housewife is different. The smell of food from early morning. From now on, the whole family can enjoy delicious family meals. But today I have a breakfast appointment with a client, you eat alone - her husband said.

When she brought breakfast to her child and said very lovingly:

- Mom made the dish that her daughter likes the most.

- Thanks mom but I have to go to school right now, I have an important presentation this morning, I have to come early to prepare the documents.

On the first day of being a housewife, she felt disappointed. She didn't even bother to eat breakfast alone. She wandered around the house and suddenly realized that the house was so big but so cold. She didn't expect the day to be so long. Her heart was pounding, waiting for her husband and children to come home. But the more she waited, the slower time seemed to go. He went out to entertain guests until 10pm and came home, kicking one leg over the other. After school, her daughter went shopping for gifts and attended a birthday party until 11pm.

It seemed like he also realized her mood, so the next morning while eating breakfast in a hurry, he said:

- I've been very busy lately. If you don't see me come home by now, just eat first. No need to wait.

Suddenly she got angry:

- A family without meals together is no longer a family...

Sitting around for a long time got boring. She couldn't help but miss her old workplace. She remembered the times when someone got a raise and the whole group went shopping and eating out. She called her colleagues, but after the flurry of greetings from her former employees, she felt the hypocrisy and blandness and her heart was filled with disappointment.

He loved his wife very much and understood her psychology, so he quietly asked an acquaintance to register her for a cooking class at the ward club. Right after the first cooking practice session, she was excited because her husband and children took the opportunity to come home to eat the meals she cooked. The special nature of the father and son did not allow her family to have a family meal every day.

Suddenly, her father-in-law passed away, and her mother-in-law became ill and needed someone to take care of her. Without being begged, she volunteered to cook three meals a day for her mother-in-law, even though her family lived separately. Although she was busy, she was very happy. Whenever her husband came home early, she would stop by to pick up her mother to eat at her house. It had been a long time since the whole family had felt together, a small happiness. A simple joy, she was busy, not having to wait for her father and son to come home from work like before.

Her house is quite close to her mother-in-law's house, she has to go back and forth three times a day to bring food. Her mother-in-law's house has two sons, both of whom are married and live on their own. She likes cleanliness, so whenever she goes to her mother-in-law's house, she cleans up any dirt. When there is a party at home, she is the one who cooks, when it's time to wash the dishes, she is also the one who washes them, her sister-in-law says she is busy taking care of her young son. Gradually, she feels helpless, not because she is lazy, but she feels sad and depressed every time she goes to her mother-in-law's house.

That day, she happened to stop by the house just as the lawyer was making a will according to her mother-in-law's wishes. After her mother-in-law died, the remaining assets would be divided largely among her family, and her mother also left all the jewelry to her eldest daughter-in-law. Her mother said: "My eldest daughter-in-law works hard every day to take care of her mother-in-law, and on holidays and death anniversaries, everything falls to her. This old body is lucky to have a daughter-in-law, but she and her husband do not have a son, so I leave her a larger portion, both to take responsibility for burning incense for the ancestors and to compensate her for her hard work for her husband's family. The second son and his wife probably do not dare to say anything."

Hearing her mother-in-law say that, she suddenly realized that her mother-in-law had always loved her, but because she was sick, she could not do anything for her. Suddenly, all the resentment she had felt for so long seemed to disappear. She realized: Family love was always the most sacred thing.