my mama

my mama will be home in a month's time. it's been five years since she left the country for the land of milk and honey. she was petitioned by our eldest brother, the navy man.

she left her retirement pay here. my sister P manages her finances. she provides the daily allowances of a maid (who has been a part of the family ever since), a single brother (who has SSS pension but super duper kunat), and two sons (one has work and the other has no permanent work but with a family of his own). galing ano???!!!!

my mom is a generous person, when she got her retirement pay, relatives of my father came to borrow money, asked for 8 electric fans as donations to the church. some even asked for an amount of money for medications, etc.

as a prayerful person, she sends a seminarian to school. she has a quarterly pledge to a religious organizations who tend to make some people make their religous comeback.

when she asks us what we want, we give in. as my sister M says, yung iba nga hingi ng hingi kayo pa?

all she does these at the age of 68 because as she said, maraming umaasa sa kanya.
or i can't blame her, pinaasa niya rin.

that's part of the Filipino culture , if you have relatives abroad, they know, you can ask money from them and some relatives give in to their requests. what they don't know is... money is hard in the US. you have to give your best shot and work hard for it.

kaya nga i told them, kung saan siya maligaya doon siya. pera naman niya yoon eh and i love my mama!