Celebrating Mother’s Day

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Tomorrow, it'll be Mother's Day. For me, it's one of the most important celebrations of the year. Why? Because it's a time when I get to honor the most important person in my life - my Nanay.

I may not have written about her as much as I'd love to on this blog. But, I can never put into words how much I appreciate her and how proud I am that I'm a daughter of someone who's kind, generous and capable of loving so unconditionally that she can sacrifice her happiness for the sake of keeping our family intact and sane. I know, some may say that how I described my appreciation of her is such a cliché already, but don’t judge ‘til you hear about everything she’s done for us. So far, only my close friends know the whole story.

I’m proud to have her as a mother ‘cause with her example, her love for us, my brother and I grew up to be respectful and generous human beings towards others.

No, she's not perfect. My nanay has her flaws just like everyone else. But, it's her flaws that make her uniquely the best mother in the world for us. Read on.

 

She's a good listener. I know we try to not tell her everything about our lives 'cause we don't want to cause her any more stress than she's already getting from her work, but she always wants to know what's going on with us. After a day's work, she'll stay here at my shop to ask how my business is doing and some personal issues. She does the same thing with my bro.

I feel guilty that there are times I’d ignore or dismiss her when she asks me how I’m doing. I sometimes don’t like talking about my problems with anyone ‘cause I’m used to dealing with them myself. I know my faults and I promise to not do that again.

She's an understanding mother. No, she's not the kind who'll tolerate our craziness or wrongdoings. But, she's understanding enough to let us do whatever we want so we can decide which path to follow. She, in her own ways, made us independent.

With the wild and crazy lifestyles my bro and I lived years ago, she managed to be so patient with us and accepted us for who we are. I know, we hurt her a lot of times in the past with all our wrong choices and decisions in life. But, she patiently waited (with a li’l nagging here and there) ‘til the time we came to realization of our mistakes. Because of that, I believe my bro and I have matured and became wiser. In short, she let us fall so we’d know how to stand on our own.

 

She's a generous woman. Her accomplishments as a Public Health Nurse are enough proof of how willing she is to help others. Yeah, you’d say it’s part of her job. But, she goes out of her way to help people. And, sometimes, we have to "scold" her so she'd know her limits.

I hate seeing her hurt by the same people she helped, so we try to make her realize there are bad people out there, just like what she did for us when we were younger. I guess her genuine intentions to help sometimes blinds her from seeing the bad in people. Oh, now I realize that's where my bro got his naivety.

 My nanay discussing about Family Planning at their health center.

She's hardworking and a good provider. She sent me and my brother to good schools. We both went to a private school from kindergarten up to high school. She financed our education up to college ALL BY HERSELF. She may have a li'l help from me back when I was still working, but it was mainly her sending my bro to college.

We sometimes wonder how she did all that. We’d usually both laugh about all the business ventures she tried to bring food to our table while sending us to really good schools.

We had to sell our home in Navotas because of some debts we had to pay off, but we managed to survive all that. Now, I can say we're doing better financially.

She's sending my bro to culinary school this July. Though it hurts her to see all her hard work of sending my bro to nursing school go to waste, she accepted the fact that my bro's passion is really in culinary.

She also helped finance half of the expenses of having to buy new computers for my business. I'm really hoping I can pay her off or make it up to her by doing everything we can to make her happy. She loves travelling so my bro and I are really determined to help fulfill her dreams of traveling around the world.

 

She's a cool mom. Anyone who's met her can attest to that. We got our fun-loving nature from her. Imagine this - she wants to watch Rihanna's concert when she comes back here in Manila. Hahahah. She loves to dance, sing and get-together with friends. She also ends up being the host at parties. Now, doesn't that sound familiar?! Hehehe.

Okay, if you didn’t get that, I love hosting parties or get-together too so… :)

My nanay dancing at their Christmas party last year. Cool outfit, ‘Nay! :))
I hope she won’t kill me for posting this hahahaha.

I’d dare you to stay with us for at least a week and, trust me, afterwards, you’d want us to adopt you. LOL. My bro and I are glad that our nanay is also our friend. :)

 

She's a strong woman. Imagine everything I mentioned in the previous paragraphs, having to support our family financially all by herself, the stress she’s getting from her job and from us (LOL), and how she managed to keep her head up high even after being financially and emotionally mistreated for being so kind and being an adopted child by her own relatives. And that’s just half of what she managed to survive.

I know she appreciates how much my bro and I support and love her. She knows we’ve got her back and we’d kill and die for her (Okay, I’m getting a li’l teary-eyed here). I know my bro and I played a big part in helping her survive all the trials she experienced in her life, but I still admire her for being strong. My bro and I got that from her. And we’re very much thankful.

I can go on and on about everything I love about my Nanay. All I can say is we're so blessed to have her in our lives. I can't thank her ENOUGH. But, I do hope my bro and I can, in the near future, take her around the world. I know that's what she wants 'cause we know she's already happy with how we turned out to be, even though it’s not what she really wanted for us.  She’s got our back.

Now, about this coming Mother's Day celebration, honestly, my bro and I have nothing planned yet. We're not really good in giving gifts. But, I know a simple celebration will make our nanay happy. I guess I'd have to talk to my bro about this.

Okay, we’ve finalized our plans. We’re going to “treat” her and the rest of our family to early dinner tomorrow. They want to finish the Pacquiao-Mosley fight first so… LOL. It’s going to be the first time we’re going out together, all four of us, without dropping off anyone at the airport afterwards. ^_^

I just want to share this "award" I gave her from years back when we celebrated Mother's Day.

I didn’t just give this certificate to her. I also treated her along with my whole family and we gave that in front of friends. Hehehe. Too corny. But, I know she appreciated it. She still even has that displayed at our living room.

That's how I usually do it before. I resort to poster printing or giving her personalized Mother's Day cards. I love designing customized cards, posters, etc. But, I know I've already said everything I need to say in the past through those cards so this year, I want to do something new and special for her. When I told her that I want us to go out for a celebration tomorrow, she got excited. We’ve got Php 2,000 worth of gift certificates so that’s more than enough for the 4 of us. Woot! :)

How are you celebrating Mother's Day this year?
Kindly share at the comments section, aight!?