"There's no small egg, Tio!"

Mom requested that I cook "pork giniling", a Filipino dish consisting of ground pork, diced potatoes, carrot cubes, corn kernels, green peas and tomato sauce. As an added ingredient, I always put quail eggs (my niece, Nini, loves it). 

Unfortunately, when I checked our kitchen supplies, there were no quail eggs available. I decided to add regular eggs instead. 

So during dinner, when the dish was served, Nini kept on looking at it and then eventually came to me and said.."there's no small egg Tio"

I had to explained to her that we ran out of quail eggs and she should try the big egg, instead. I took the egg and sliced it to small pieces and gave it to her. 

She ate it, silently and without looking at me.  I asked her if she likes it and she just nodded her head. 

I felt bad that I disappointed my niece with the dish.  I then reminded our helper to always buy quail eggs. . 

After dinner, I assisted my twin sister Zia in washing the dishes before helping Mom with Dad. Nini then went inside the room with her Dad to say good night to her grandparents. She went near me and hug me and said, thank you Tio. I asked her if she's not happy because there's no small eggs on the food and she said "I like it Tio" then hugged me again. So I thought everything is already okay

But then when she was leaving the room before closing the door, she looked at me and said, "next time, don't forget the small egg Tio" 

I just made a thumps up! 

Love you Nini!