Mother's Day is a day to honor mothers, celebrate motherhood and maternal bonds, and acknowledge the influence and role of mothers in society. Mother's Day here in the Philippines is celebrated every second Sunday of May. (That's this coming Sunday. Yay!!!) Filipinos consider mothers as the Light of the Household (Ilaw ng Tahanan). Traditional Filipino families usually celebrate Mother's Day by treating mothers to lunch or dinner out, letting mothers go on a shopping spree, seeing a movie with mothers, giving mothers some time for self-pampering, creating handcrafted tokens such as greeting cards or just simply letting mothers take a day off of household chores that they routinely do.
Today, I mailed a Mother's Day greeting card addressed to my Muder in Nueva Ecija. With the trend these days and all the ease and convenience of communication through texts and emails, I see mails sent through post as extra special. They are like a true and unconditional love, because they're rare.
Like a mother's love for her children. Nothing compares to that. Everyone agrees with me on that, yes? A mother can give up and at the same time, do everything for her children. A woman who has children and cannot do that for them is not a mother. What's she called? I don't know. Because motherhood is not a stage, not a phase. It is lifetime responsibility and opportunity. And for that I feel pride in being a mother. I feel blessed to have been given this chance to celebrate motherhood.
If not for my daughters, I won't be celebrating Mother's Day. They have given me a reason to be part of Mother's Day celebration every year. I owe them the opportunity of motherhood.
Nikki and Calli,
I know I don't have to be perfect to be a perfect mother to you. You make me feel special whenever I feel that to you, I am Wonder Woman. You make me feel important whenever I feel that I am so much needed by you.
Thank you for driving me crazy and keeping my sanity at the same time. I love you much mga Anak.
Hugs, Mommy
Ciao! ♥
nakakaiyak naman,seriously. Advanced Happy Mother's Day!
ReplyDeleteHappy Mother's Day Carmina. ---> Oliver
ReplyDeleteApol, advanced Happy Mother's Day, too! ^_^
ReplyDeleteOliver, thank you. Advanced Happy Mother's Day to your mom. ^_^
Happy Mother's Day Momma Mina. I hope your daughters will be able to read your message for them. Sana my mother is also a blogger too. :)
ReplyDeleteThank you! I, too, hope na when they grow up, they get to read this blog (and not laugh at it). ^_^
ReplyDeleteLovely kids! Happy mother's day to you and your mom!
ReplyDeleteThank you. Happy Mother's Day to your mom too. ^_^
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