Tomorrow is Mother’s Day.
It is a day where it is virtually impossible for anyone to ignore. We all were given birth because of our mothers – so whether this relationship with your Mom is fulfilling or almost non-existent, Mother’s day will surely make you reminisce and reflect on it.
Mother’s Day also make us feel very grateful for all the things our mother endured. Today’s post are some of the things I would like to mention here about why I would always be thankful for my Mom.
1. Thank you for working so hard to send us to school. I still could not believe it but through your meager public school teacher’s salary, you solely put us through school.
2. Thank you for writing my speeches during my elementary school days.
3. Thank you for believing in what I can do.
4. During my freshman year in highschool , in one of the forms sent by the school, you described me as “tender-hearted”. I did not understand it then.. but I marveled now at how you were able to read me spot-on.
5. Thank you for making education really important. It became important to us as well.
6. Thank you for waking up at 4am to prepare our “baon” for school… and there were times when we ran out of money for stove fuel, that you would use wood to cook our meals.
7. Thank you that you dreamed bigger dreams for us.
8. Thank you for writing to me consistently while I was away in college for four years. I could not read everything because you used very thin papers that made the ink bled on the other side… I knew it was cathartic for you to write me all the things that were happening to us at that time.
9. Thank you for sewing the blanket I used during my freshman year in Ambassador College.
10. Thank you for writing me during the end of my freshman year where you really encouraged me to be honest with my feelings for this special girl…and I later married her!
11. Thank you for the wedding gift. I knew that you took it from your retirement money… and it meant a lot to me when you handed it to me as I was leaving our house. You placed the envelope in my hand and said “sana makatulong sa kasal…” I cried as I drove away.
12. Thank you for loving my wife. For respecting her and for always asking about her when I visit you.
13. Thank you for taking us to church as we were growing up. For taking us to Baguio for the Festivals even if we had so many luggages to carry and 4 children to tag along during the long bus commute to Baguio.
14. Thank you for wanting to be at my graduation at Ambassador College. It did not materialize because of the passing away of your friend who was also like a second mom to me. But it was you I fondly thought of as I was marching proudly through the sea of graduation gowns and caps amidst the festive music and cheers.
15. Thank you for the stories you told us about your childhood. My brother and I are piecing them together and will preserve them and pass them to the next generation.
16. Thank you for being strong and being so devoted during the turbulent months of 2001 when our family underwent severe challenge.
17. And again for your strength when our family relationship underwent deeper trials in December 2008 – January 2009.
18. Thank you Mom for giving birth to me… and enduring the ceasarian done on you so that I could live despite being a preemy baby.
19. Thank you Mom for your faith. For teaching us how to pray. For being strict with us growing up.
20 For all the stress you went through in providing for us… you were not perfect, but you did all what you could with what you have.
Thank you Mom.
I will forever be grateful.
