DATE : April 7, 2008
Early today my son told me, we're going to Manila Ma with father and Kriza. I would like YOU and FATHER to ease up a bit, enjoy, stroll. As we left the house, he said, "we're going to have breakfast first at Jolibee", I said "let's pass by adoration chapel first before having breakfast". That's just what we did go to church first then to Jolibee. As we entered and approached the counter he said "What do you like Ma?, Pa, what's yours." As we told him what we will have for breakfast, he said "OK, just find a table and I'll take care of everything, me and Kriza." He ordered the food, paid for it and brought it on our table, putting before us what we wanted for breakfast. I was all smiles as everything that was happening at that very moment, was the same things his father and I had done to him twenty six (26) years ago.
FUNNY don't you think? What attention we had given him, he returns to us, as if that is the natural thing to do, to happen. And I said, GOD, thank you, because not everyone, experiences the same kind of experience my husband and I am having right that moment. It almost brought tears to my eyes, but I have to abort it, I don't want to be teased and branded as BEST ACTRESS ka MA ha!! I was really so HAPPY that very moment. Still, as his age, her sister at 17, I still give them the same kind of attention, NO, let me say ATTENTION, LOVE and CARE much more than what we give them when they were younger, because NOW, the pressures of parenthood is much much lesser as they are now OLDER. I think, there will never come a time when I will get tired of giving myself to them, even when they are much older, because now I know, whatever I give them, returns to me doubly rewarding. As the saying goes, 'WHAT YOU SOW, YOU REAP", " WHAT YOU PLANT, YOU HARVEST". All of these, are product of my constant reminder to them to adopt "THE GOLDEN RULE" their motto in life.
Before I forget, of course, I told him "ANAK baliktad ano, kasi we use to do this to you, Now, you do it for us. And THANK YOU VERY MUCH".
APRIL 7, 2008, from MORNING till NIGHT TIME, the four of us were together, STROLLING here, there, everywhere, ENJOYING and SAVOURING the moment of being together.
This is the price of being a mother, a confidant, an adviser and most of all as a FRIEND to my children. I may not be their best friend, but I am the sincerest friend they have
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