A WISH TO REUNITE WITH MY FAMILY AT OUR HOME
It’s another Manic Monday and I’m feeling kinda low today. I got a lot of baggage of sadness after witnessing grays yesterday. I just came from my parent’s home in Morong yesterday, as it was the town fiesta there. Unlike the past fiesta celebrations we had, our home didn’t have that festive ambiance anymore. It was just like there’s plenty of food in the dining table, but it’s just like those ordinary, usual, lazy days. No other people in the home but my Mom, who greeted me with seemingly a harassed face, still on her ragged/duster clothes when Nico and I arrived at 11AM. “Hay, buti na lang at nandito na ang poging apo ng Lola. O teka’t ako muna’y maliligo, kain na muna kayo,” Mom said then heading off to the bathroom for a quick bath.
While Mom was briefly fixing herself up, I took the chance to wonder around the house that looked so blunt and lonely. I couldn’t help but take deep breathes of sigh seeing and feeling the emptiness in the house. It was not a usual scenario especially when its the Morong Town Fiesta. Mom used to decorate the home so elegant, in quite a theme that she was even known by many (and we are all proud of it) to be a certified homemaker with an incline to interior design. But that was before. Continue Reading »

