From Dawn Till Dusk

I could hardly move my legs the night of Saturday. They were aching as I pressed my hands through my legs’ muscles with a gel-based pain reliever. Ouch! This was what I got after spending the entire day relentlessly trotting the Mall with my Mom.  Actually, we didn’t planned going to the Mall that day.  It was just incidental that I need to pay some of our due utility bills (as Jun was out accompanying our pahinantes in the business) and Mom, (who made a brief visit in our home to hand the shorts and sandos she bought for her apo from a maglalako near my parents’ home in Morong), needs to buy something for herself, so off we went to the Mall for a purpose.  But then we knew that a Mall-wide sale in on going, so Mom and I didn’t mind at all scavenging and hunting for some good finds.  Knowing Mom as a bargain hunter and an addict for items on sale, I’d expected that we’ll be going home late as she would have the tendency to do boutique hopping from one to another.  And I was right, she did.

That now explains my somewhat sprained aching legs.  But I didn’t mind it so much as I knew Mom and I enjoyed the entire day together.  While slacked in front of the TV watching PBB late Saturday night (with my aching legs reclined above the arms of our sofa), I enjoyed reminiscing in between commercials the “date” that Mom and I had the whole day.  It was indeed a “rare” bonding moment with Mommy that I’d like to forever remember in my heart.  I’d say “rare” because it was only that day again, after so many years, that the two of us went out.  You see, most often than not, we go out as a family, either with my Dad, my brother, with my sister and her 4-year old daughter, or with Nico, and Jun or even with our Yaya.  And most of the time, our companions are such KJ (kill joy) when it comes to pag-gagala. We never had a chance to go for some Mommy-daughter day out since I got married and had my own family.  Only last Saturday. Continue Reading »