A Year After the Triple Wedding …

July 7, 2008 •

Can’t imagine that a year has passed since my sisters’ triple church wedding, that it’s been a year that my folks have left and gone back to where they are presently based …

Many things have happened in the last 366 days since the wedding last year … a lot of them happy, some a bit sad, a few embarrassing ones, too … and it all boils down to the fact that I just terribly miss them always … While I have my kids around, still, nothing beats having them physically around as well, to hug you, kiss you, talk to anytime you feel like it, and to take care of you when you are not feeling well …

Oh geez, perhaps that’s why I miss them all the more now … I had been nursing an on and off fever the past days, and I miss dad looking after my temperature every so often and making sure there always was an ice pack within reach to put on my head when needed, and then giving me those little massages in the head and back … I miss mom preparing me hot soup and cool sweet juice, sometimes giving me those sponge rubs and then brushing my hair after …

Of course I miss soul sistah, Sunday, and our never-ending, kahit paulit-ulit na chikahan, even her bossy nature of being overprotective of me as if siya ang "ate" ko … and those moments she had to pitch-in for the responsibilities that I couldn’t attend to because I felt sick … hehehe …

Sigh, sentimental journey … well, they say these moments really hit you more often once you reach 40 … but heck, I don’t think age has anything to do with this … maybe I just know that, as in every person, that child-like side of me is naturally craving for their presence … and the feeling is just more persistent now …

Well, good thing I got to spend the day with my other siblings who are here, joining in the dinner celebration of two of my three sisters’ first anniversaries … regardless of how ill I still feel; and never mind, too if they had other plans for themselves after that …

But you know, after all these fanfare and celebrations, all the more did I realize that at the end of the day … it is still those little, special moments with family that serve as the best antidote to my loneliness, to my longing for them … and than any of these flu drugs that I’ve been taking lately … Haha!