Life comes just once so let’s make the most of it.
Yes, now we always see each other. When I arrived home from work and you would great me different kinds of greetings each night. – The feeling is great. I am happy with that. You see me not only as a Father but also as a friend.
Some of our neighbors envied me because you are all polite. Yours sentences is always punctuated by “po” and “opo”. Anyone of you would smile and greet them upon bumping or seeing them. You always stay home not like other children who are always in the street or in gimmicks.
You have all grown up and I have this feeling of pride and admiration for all of you because you are all responsible in your own ways. There are times that I got mad when you forgot to do what was asked of you. I see it as part of your growing up. You tend to focus more on your watching T.V., computer games, friendster and yahoo messenger than what is being told of you. I hate it when I had to declare”no computer” as punishment especially when you start blaming who is the culprit. There were bad time, miss understanding, conflicts like all ordinary family but those makes our bonding stronger.
Remember when you do you school project and I would insist on helping you out (It is because I didn’t do my school project when I am studying, now you know). Kuya Nilo always helps me.
We always laugh…
We are a happy family that it seems to me we are making fun of everything. Your Tita Nora always complains that when I arrive home the surroundings becomes noisy. It is because of you and not me.When you ask for your “baon” to be increase but I told you that I would ask my Boss first to give me a raise.
When you are late in going home from school and your mother always calls you on your cell phone. You would tell me each time, and then we would make fun of your mother.
When during dinner time and someone in you will be at the mercy of his/ her joke. We do it all together.
While viewing boxing matches in our T.V screen and all your eyes are on me because of my gestures as if I am in the ring. I really hate it but we laugh about it.
While viewing Jacky Chan movies because, anybody will say the next dialogue because we have memorized all the lines.
When your mother will insist in viewing an old FPJ (Fernando Poe JR.) movie and we will leave her. Not until she would protest of being left out, then we would all comebacks.
We have this uncanny sense of communication that by only looking at one another we could understand each other whether to start laughing or have to do something.When your mother would give instruction and will clarify, repeat it and pass to the nearest person until it gets back to her.
When you are with me in every provincial assignment (during Christmas and School break) and I would cook never heard recipe I just learned in that place.
In us, no occasion is needed in order to give the other a gift or something we think the other one needed (not wanted, remember!).Even without telling us that you have a problem, I always feel it and I would tell your mother about my intuition. We can feel each other worries and happiness.
When one by one, each three of you would loose your cell phone in different circumstances; I would shrug it off and told you that it is replaceable but not your life. Then you would tell me that your classmates say I am “Cool” for that attitude. You just didn’t know that I cried when I went upstairs! So you would not see the “pain” it cause in my wallet!
I really appreciate all those things that we have been doing. I enjoyed every minute that we are together.
Let us enjoy life and show one another the love and care that we have for each other and to the people around us.
God didn’t give us everything to enjoy life but HE gave us life to enjoy everything.
I Love You Guys…
posted 12/11/2008 Part of my missing file
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