Today is the birthday of my mother. She’s 58 now. Parang kahapon lang.. Dati, lahat ng gusto namin, binibili ng nanay namin.. Now, lahat ng gusto nya, kami na bumibili! Madami nagbago, pero madami din bagay bagay ang hanggang ngayon eh ganun pa rin. She still calls her 3 boys from time to time, to check if they have eaten already. She still buys useless junk for us, tapos pag di namin ginamit, sa kanya din napupunta. Mautak eh noh? She still has this temper that most people are wary of. Wag na wag mo gagalitin ang nanay ko cos when she gets mad, it’s either she calls the dark spirits and curse you for life, or she calls her lawyer. Sa korte kayo mag-usap.

My mom won’t be reading this blog post (pag nabasa neto yun, papagalitan ako kase post ko pics nya sa net), and would probably never realize how she means to me, to us.. But I just want to greet the world’s most awesome mom on her birthday..

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MI!!

That’s what we call her.. Not “mommy”, not “mom”.. Just “MI”….

All of us in the family are very thankful that up to this day, she’s still with us. Year 2000, we thought she would be leaving us already. Both her kidneys failed, and it was that bad we thought she wouldn’t survive the treatment. Naalala ko pa, 3 times I went with her for her dialysis sessions, and one time she cried. I told her.. “Mi, wag ka umiyak, di yan masyado masakit”.. She smiled at me and said.. “Di ako umiiyak kase baka masakit, umiiyak ako kase baka mawala na ako, paano na kayo?”

That’s my mom. Lagi nya kami inuuna bago sarili nya. She will fight a thousand men with her bare hands to protect her children. She will bitch at anyone if she felt we were wronged. And she will spend her last cent to buy things that will make us happy… She has her flaws as a human being, she will admit to that. But as a mother, she’s perfect.

It’s 2006 now, 6 years and her kidney transplant is still ok. Ang taba na nga nya eh. We all undertook a complete medical check-up last year and surprisingly, sya ang pinaka-ok samen o di ba?

God never fails to answer our prayers. And I’m sure he will listen again this time..

“Lord, I humbly ask for your care, guidance and protection. Not for me, but for my mom. Give her strength when she feels tired and weary. Make her smile when things aren’t going right. Make her enjoy and spend the remaining years of her life, with her loving husband, children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren in joy”

And to you mom….

“Mi, you always tell us.. You are not afraid anymore because you have lived a good life… Let us repay you, by living good lives as well. I know when we are happy and content, you are happy too. Maligayang Kaarawan!”

Pero… Next year ka na bumalik dito ha? Di pa ako nakaka-recover sa shopping binge mo dati eh, taragis.

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