This morning, as we were preparing for school, Mauch came down the stairs and said to me: " Mommy our India-house is totally taklu" (bald).
He speaks of Mumbai often is very preoccupied with the state of the house. Always wondering if there is someone else living in it and who that would be. When he cannot find a toy he would say that it is probably still in his India house. He still mentions his friends - of course - even though it may not be on a daily basis anymore. But on unexpected moments especially Anne, Kees and Hudson are brought up as if he just saw them yesterday. Then many days go by without any remarks and suddenly yesterday he said to me he wanted to go back to his India house because this house was too cold.
Anyway, this morning, there I was, not knowing what so say, but I said: Yes, Mauch, I think it is taklu. It is probably still totally empty.
At that exact moment our cleaning lady arrives and overhears our conversation. She says: "I knew he was missing India, didn't I tell you! (at this point I was a little annoyed since the lady does not know Maurits at all and of course it is none of her business anyway, so I did not reply and she went about her business).
Mauch waited for her to move on and then whispered to me in my ear: " I do not miss Rosy at all, Mommy".
Of course
we all know
this
is
a
lie
