Mom Home By Monday

My mom is coming home on Monday. Chief and I are picking her up at NAIA at 5am. Luckily, Monday is a holiday, Ninoy Aquino’s holiday.

Mom has been away for a few months, visiting my youngest sister, Minnie, in Edmonton, Canada. While in Canada, she continued to play the role of mother to my sister Minnie. She would cook meals for her (and even her other Pinay friends).

We are “sigurado” (sure) that she brings a lot of stories and “pasalubong” for Miguel at home.

Mom really wanted to go on this trip as she misses her apos, Carla, Geneve and Nicole, who are now in California. (Photo shpws mom wit her apos and their mom, Laly) For a few years, the 3 girls lived and stayed with her at our home in BF Paranaque, until Laly "petitioned" them to the States, where they have been living together since July 2005. Chief says she remembers that month, coz we returned back to Manila from Vietnam, afer our own "tour of duty" abroad.

At 70 years old, we were initially kind of worried about her taking a long-haul flight to the West Coast, getting her heavy bags from the conveyor belt and pushing (or pulling) these bags through a crowded airport. But she made it and is coming home on Monday.

Welcome home mom!