Happy Mother’s Day Mama And To All Moms Out There

Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a mother.

While Mother’s Day is celebrated on a wide range of days and months globally, in the Philippines, it is celebrated on the 2nd Sunday of May. So today, we want to take a moment to reflect on how mothers around the world inspire each of us to take action every single day.

To my dearest mama, Neth/ Nits/ Tanet/ Tanits/ Pato:

• Thank you for being the most wonderful mother and a “walking miracle” to us: me, ella, duday and Papu, and being mamu to our baby Yousef.
• Thank you for having a LARGE HEART — a heart so large that everybody’s joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.
• Thank you for being there every day with just the love I needed. Right from the start, you were the one who nurtured me, prayed over me, worried about me, guided me and supported me in every pursuit.
• YOU and papa are my GREATEST TEACHERS, teachers of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is as sweet as a flower, then you are that sweetest flower of love.
• Thank you for being the TRUEST FRIEND I ever have. When trials are heavy and suddenly fall upon me, when adversity takes the place of prosperity, when friends leave, when trouble thickens around me, YOU are always there to remove the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to my heart. <3
• YOU are everything to me. My anchor, someone I always go to when I need to talk to someone.

Please always remember, what an amazing woman you are!
I love you, WE love you.. always & forever. 🙂

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To my sister, Ella/ Ells/ Ellapot (polotipot):

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

S.L.

• Thank you for being a mother to my cutest nephew. Even if you aren’t out there every day beside him… I know he will understand why you are here, building and planning a better future for him. Though being miles away from him and missing him a lot play a big part of your sacrifice. We salute YOU!
• YOU are his Wonderwoman, his Darna, his saviour. You are one of a kind mama. YOU are very lucky to have him and a husband and in-laws who loves and supports you all the way. Cheers to that!
• Being a mother, is indeed the hardest job. Having a child puts the whole world into a different perspective. Everything else just disappears.
• But don’t you worry! WE are here to support and guide you on taking every milestone of your life.

Just always remember that YOU are never alone, we love you!

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To my cousins, aunts, grandmothers/lolas, cousins, friends who are all kicking life as a mother:

You sacrificed for us. You’re the real MVP.

K.D

• God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. YOU are all wonderful persons, wonderful nurturers and above all, wonderful MOMS.

For all you’ve done, we should make every day Mother’s Day!

Happy Mother’s Day and may God bless you and grant you all your heartfelt desires. A mother like you after all deserves the best. Happy Mother’s day and hope have a fantastic day!!!

Now, I would like to dedicate this poem for all of you…

Mother, A Cradle to Hold Me
– By Maya Angelou

It is true
I was created in you.
It is also true
That you were created for me.
I owned your voice.
It was shaped and tuned to soothe me.

Your arms were molded
Into a cradle to hold me, to rock me.
The scent of your body was the air
Perfumed for me to breathe.
Mother, during those early, dearest days I did not dream that you had
A large life which included me,
For I had a life
Which was only you.

Time passed steadily and drew us apart.
I was unwilling.
I feared if I let you go
You would leave me eternally.
You smiled at my fears, saying
I could not stay in your lap forever.
That one day you would have to stand
And where would I be?
You smiled again.
I did not.

Without warning, you left me,
But you returned immediately.
You left again and returned,
I admit, quickly,
But relief did not rest with me easily.
You left again but again returned.
You left again but again returned.
Each time you reentered my world
You brought assurance.
Slowly I gained confidence.

You thought you know me,
But I did know you,
You thought you were watching me,
But I did hold you securely in my sight,
Recording every moment,
Memorizing your smiles, tracing your frowns.
In your absence
I rehearsed you,
The way you had of singing
On a breeze,
While a sob lay
At the root of your song.

The way you posed your head
So that the light could caress your face
When you put your fingers on my hand
And your hand on my arm,
I was blessed with a sense of health,
Of strength and very good fortune.

You were always
the heart of happiness to me,
Bringing nougats of glee,
Sweets of open laughter.

I loved you even during the years
When you knew nothing
And I knew everything, I loved you still. Condescendingly of course,
From my high perch
Of teenage wisdom.
I spoke sharply of you, often
Because you were slow to understand.
I grew older and
Was stunned to find
How much knowledge you had gleaned.
And so quickly.

Mother, I have learned enough now
To know I have learned nearly nothing.
On this day
When mothers are being honored,
Let me thank you
That my selfishness, ignorance, and mockery
Did not bring you to
Discard me like a broken doll
Which had lost its favor?
I thank you that
You still find something in me
To cherish, to admire and to love.

I thank you, Mother.
I love you.

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